The Wootten Family - Music from the Sacred Harp [Sacred Harp]

Sacred harp music by the Wootten Family recorded in the Sand Mountain region at the Antioch Church of Henegar, Alabama. 00:00 Sherburne 02:38 Willie 05:17 Exhortation 07:54 Corinth 09:35 Morning 12:18 Love At Home 16:23 Jesus Died For Me 18:29 Sardis 20:44 Pray On 22:58 Jesus Is Mine 25:47 Idumea 28:09 Ortonville 30:42 Prayer by Postel Wootten Excerpt from back cover: WOOTTEN FAMILY Thomas Marion Wootten was born in Gordon County Georgia on the 28 Feb. 1849 and lived there until after the Civil War when be moved to Dekalb County Alabama. His parents, Jeremiah and Elizabeth Kiker Wootten, came to Georgia from South Carolina about the time the Cherokee Indians were removed to lands west of the Mississippi River, Thomas Marion Wootten married first Mary Ann McQuinn and they had six children. After Mary Ann Wootten's death, Thomas Marion Wootten married Frances Armanda Hill and to this union were born four children: Jesse McDonald Wootten, Josey M. Wootten, Armanda P. Wootten, and Sarepta Wootten. About 1874 Thomas Marion Wootten along with his parents and brother George Wootten and his brother-in-law Robert Oliver Norwood moved to Arkansas but only stayed a little over a year. Suffering the hardships of travel in wagons and of establishing new homes on the more western frontier, they grew homesick for the life they had enjoyed on Sand Mountain with relatives and friends. They longed for the past times of fellowship and singing of the four note songs of their church service or "Meetin" as it was so often called. So return, they did, to their old home places and the kind of life they held dear and enjoyed so much. Jesse McDonald Wootten, who was born and lived his entire life on Sand Mountain in Alabama, married Beulah Haynes and to them were born seven children: Gertha Wootten Parker, Chester Wootten, Postelle Wootten, McDonald "Mack" Wootten, Carnice Wootten, Freeman Wootten, and Olivia Wootten Moore. These seven brothers and sisters and their children and grandchildren are today the largest known family who still sing the four note songs together as a group. The history of the Wootten Family continues onward each passing day as the descendents of these early settlers still remain in the same general area and enjoy the same songs at all day singings and decorations of the cemeteries where their ancestors lie buried. Elwanda Lassetter Potect, Ringold, Ga.