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Isaiah L. Kephart to Horace Kephart, September 2, 1888, page 5

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  • -ed. My father told me that when he was a little boy he lived one whole year with his grandfather, Nicholas Kephart, and learned to talk dutch with him; but I do not know what part of Switzer- land he came from. I shall be glad to aid you in any way I can in establishing the genealogy of our family. But I must tell you of my visit to “old Clearfield Co. Pa.” On the 20th inst, I received a telegram from the Bigler Campmeeting Association asking me to come and preach for them on the 26th , , They agreeing to pay my expenses. So I started on Thursday the 23rd at 11.30 A.M., and on Friday at 9 P.M. landed at Bigler, which is near Woodland, Pa., (the place where we visited years ago (and you was with us) and I got the laurell cane.) It is within 8 miles where I was born and raised, right in the pine regions. Saturday I strolled through a forest of native pine, and had interesting chats with old friends. Mr. Conly (Harry Albert’s broth- er-in-law) had a cottage there. He lives at Woodland, where we visited him when I got the cane. Sunday there were fully 10,000 people present at the meeting. I preached in my very best style, morning and even- ing, and received a perfect ovation, and met many of my cousins, and distant relatives and former acquaintances – also uncle Richard Hughes and aunt Nancy, and aunt Hannah Goss and uncl aunt Sarah Goss. It was a great treat for me. On Monday I left camp and on Tuesday I landed at Homer City, visited “Aunt Betsey” and “Uncle Billie Sowers,” and in the evening walked up to “Ed Mur -phey’s.” Wednesday morning I mounted a three-year-old colt, rode out to Jim Dicks, took dinner with them; in the afternoon I rode down to Grandpa Sowers, and in the evening I rode back to Homer, and stayed over night with
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