rthy named him John; and Sam Amos said he reckoned it was for John
the Babtist. But it wasn't; it was for Marthy's twin brother that died
when he was jest three months old. Twins run in the Crawford family.
Amos had him babtized in infancy jest like he said he would, and such
a hollerin' and squallin' never was heard in Goshen church. The next
day Sally Ann says to me, says she, 'That child must 'a' been a
Babtist, Jane; for he didn't appear to favor infant babtism.'

"Well, Marthy had her say-so about the next child--that one was a boy,
too, and they named him Amos for his father--and young Amos wasn't
babtized in infancy; he was 'laid aside for immersion,' as Sam Amos
said. Then it was Amos' time to have his way, and so they went on till
young Amos was about fifteen years old and Marthy got him converted
and ready to be immersed. The Babtists had a big meetin' that spring,
and there was a dozen or more converts to be babtized when it was
over. We'd been havin' mighty pleasant weather that March; I ricollect
me and Abram planted our potatoes the first week in March, and I would
put in some peas. Abram said it was too early, and sure enough the
frost got 'em when they was about two inches high. It turned off real
cold about the last o' March; and when the day for the babtizin' come,
there was a pretty keen east wind, and Kittle Creek was mighty high
and muddy, owin' to the rains they'd had further up. There was some
talk o' puttin' off the babtizin' till better weather, but Brother
Gyardner, he says: 'The colder the water, the warmer your faith,
brethren; Christ never put off any babtizin' on account of the
weather.'

"Sam Amos asked him if he didn't reckon there was some difference
between the climate o' Kentucky and the climate o' Palestine. Sam was
always a great hand to joke with the preachers. But the way things
went that day the weather didn't make much difference anyhow to young
Sam.

"The whole neighborhood turned out Sunday evenin' and went over to
Kittle Creek to see the big babtizin'. Marthy and Amos and all the
children was there, and Marthy looked like she'd had a big streak o'
good luck. Sam Amos says to me, 'Well, Aunt Jane, Marthy's waited a
long time, but she'll have her innin's now.'

"Bush Elrod was the first one to go under the water; and when two or
three more had been babtized, it was young Amos' time. I saw Marthy
pushin' him forward and beckonin' to Brother Gyardner like she
couldn't wait an