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Old Tim Singers In Coffee County
A revival of singing schools in
Coffee county has set me to thinking.
The “All-day Sing and Dinner on the
Grounds” is doing untold good to our
young people. They are singing out
the frolic and singing in a better day.
I bid them all God speed.
But the singing school is not a new
thing in Coffee county. We had them
in the “Days of long ago.” The first
name that comes to my mind is J.
M. Wilcox, of precious memory. He
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taught me some of the first songs I
learned to sing. He loved to sing
and was a successful teacher. He
had a sad sweet voice. He loved to
sing minor pieces, with sweet sad
sentiments and often wept as he sang.
He told me that he was saved by
music and it happened in this way:
His parents were not religious and
he spent most of his Sundays in the
river swamp. But when he learned
music he left the swamp and spent
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his Sundays at church and other
places where he could sing. His life
was a blessing to Coffee county and
whil* he sings above, we who loved
hirnjcontinue to sing here below.
Another one of the old time sing
ers was little Hiram Sears. He was
a student of music. He took a peri
odical called “Musicla Million,” and
contributed many articles to its col
umns.
|The first sing I attended was taught
41 years ago by William Stewart at
od Bethel church near the homes of
John Lott, Mark Wilcox, Dunk Doug
hs and others. I tried to have a re
nion of this old class at our conven
;on, but they were so badly scatter
ed I could not get them together.
In the early seventies several of
Monroe Wilcox’s students taught sing
ing schools. I remember Joe Day,
John Solomons, L. Passmore, and may
be some others whose names I do not
now recall.
About 1875 Tom Davis, “Singing
Tom,” as he was called, came to this
county from Montgomery county and
taught several schools. He was a
live wire. He generally taught in
some country school house. He would
take four long seats and make a
pen. He stood in the center with the
tenor on one seat, the base on anoth
er, the alto on another, and the treb
ble on another. He gave the key
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note sound all around, and then as
they sang he walked round and round.
When a part, like the bass, for in
stance, seemed weak, he would jump
like a cat to the bass seat and join
in with the bass and pull them out
of their trouble, and so on with all
the parts. The writer of this article
is largely a bi-product of the teach
ings of “Singing Tom.”
A little later Marcus A. Pafford ap
peared on the scene as teacher, and
now the woods are full of them and
all good singers. Our county conven
tion was a demonstration of what the
singing school will do for the child
and young people. The devil will
never get them while they sing. There
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will be no singing in the bad world.
All the singing is “Up yonder” when
the roll s called.
And now a note of warning. Do
not neglect the “Old Time Songs.”
It is alright to sing the other kind,
but teach the children a few old tunes
with the metres so they can start the
tune in church and prayer meeting
when called upon to do so.
And now as you all join in the
chorus I will say good bye for this
time. W. P.
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