Posted by snoopnc on January 21, 2012 at 06:38:51 from (67.213.33.32):
There is a story included in a family history book written by an aunt of mine in the early 1970's about a little girl named Mary Angell...sickly with tuberclosus and it very closely parallels the 57 cent story. The time setting is the mid/late 1700's and from Rhode Island and the "founding preacher" was my 4th GG Gf.He was also a BAPTIST preacher.
He was up in Rhode Island...from North Carolina...for a prolonged visit. Mary's 38 cents was used in the first payment, box that had contained the money was placed in the cornerstone, etc.
I'm neither confirming nor denying either story, but find them both to be a heart warming story that could well be used from the pulpit to illustrate some point the speaker was trying to make.
I'm not going to belabor either story, but I kinda/sorta find them both suspect to some degree.
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