ALEXANDRIA, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A more than two-hundred-year-old tale about a circuit-riding preacher named John Shrock proves that some Americans in the Red River Valley during the early 1800s had the ...

In looking through reams of collectibles, I re-discovered something I’d been asked to read in 1984 at Homestead United Methodist Church as part of their bicentennial celebration. Enter the life story ...

A circuit-riding preacher from Clintonville risked it all to help out escaped slaves. The Underground Railroad was a secret system that helped escaped slaves find freedom in the North, and the dangers ...

But Boyd had clearly come the farthest — from Benton, Kan. — and traveled the slowest — on horseback — while fulfilling his mission as the “Last Circuit Riding Preacher.” “I’ve always wanted to ride ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ALEXANDRIA, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A more than ...