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Lower Smyrna
Church & School House
Madison
County, Arkansas
This
school house is located 5 miles north of Huntsville. North on
Hwy 23 about 4 miles from Huntsville, past the Holman Creek and
Smyrna Creek Bridges,
The Little Log
Church
(by the Side of the Road)
There's a little log church by the side of the road, in a place
where time has stood still;
down in Madison County, Arkansas,
round a bend and over a hill it stands as it has for many long
years,
and the sight of it makes my heart sing;
and I thank the Dear Lord, that this place has not changed in a
world where progress is King.
I first saw the church by the side of road,
back in nineteen and fifty-four.
It was Christmas, and I remember so well
how the season meant so much more.
There were services simple, yet so sincere,
as from church to church we would go;
but my favorite of all was the little log church on that
Christmas so long ago.
Just a little log church by the side of the road,
but it hold many mem'ries you see,
and I keep going back, for there's no place on earth like Lower
Smyrna to me.
You can keep your cathedrals and temples so fine,
with the trappings some folks think are grand....
I'll take the log church by the side of the road,
nestled there in the palm of God's hand.
- Nancy Rai Miller -
October 1984
Dedicated to the memory of: Dear Friends, Elmer and Lola Warren,
their children, Marlo and Linda, Mrs. Ann Burnett, my Arkansas
Sunday School Teacher, and to my own dear mother, Mable Lee
Grimm Miller, who loved this place as much as I do.
Re-dedicated: June, 1995,l to include Lola Warren, as promised.
This little log
structure was built in the 1860's by Grave Bowlin Kennedy and
has served both as a Church and School House for the local
community.
Loren and his
grandson Bradley Collins
Thelma King, Opall
Herrington Collins, Marie Keck, Elsie Mae Brown Jett, Taken
Sumer of 1925. Please note, I may be a little off on the
names as they were hard to read. Please send corrections
to
ArkansasTies@gmail.com.
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