When the Adventist work among Blacks took hold in the Edgefield Junction community, just north of Nashville, Tenn., people would travel from miles around to join in the Sabbath worship services. The Allison family came from Clarksville, Tenn., with their children, Thomas, Jonathan, Florence, and a foster son by the name of Samuel Thompson. Samuel J. Thompson became one of the first of sixteen students who enrolled at Oakwood Industrial School on its opening day, November 16, 1896.
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