“I feel profoundly grateful to you, and your family, for the interest manifested in the little yellow boy from near Horse Shoe Bend. “I have traveled from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from Lake Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico, and I have been treated with respect wherever I have gone. [Illustration: Rev. John William Carr, Savannah, Ga.] “I am at present pastor of the First African Baptist Church of Savannah. It was organized in 1788. The membership is 5,000, and the value of the church property, $100,000.00. This church has had only six pastors during its existence of 119 years; I am its sixth. “The race riot in Atlanta a few months ago, has in no way changed my opinion of the South, as being the proper home of the negro. “I am glad you visited my mother, and took down in writing some interesting incidents of her life. “My parents were unlettered it is true, for their sphere was limited, but our Heavenly Father can be glorified in little things as well as great things. “It matters not how small the deed of kindness done, it is the motive that dignifies the action. “Providence permitting, I hope to visit Port Royal next fall, and meet once more in the flesh my friends and kindred there. If I come I will preach a sermon or two at Mount Zion. It is a dear old church to me, and the quiet spot near by, in which sleeps the dust of my father and two brothers, is dearer still. “May God’s richest blessings rest on your household, is the prayer of, Your obedient servant, J. W. CARR.” * * * * * In three months after the above letter was written, Rev. William Carr was stricken with fever and died. The news of his death was telegraphed to his only surviving brother, Horace Carr, of District No. 1, Montgomery county, Tenn. Immediately following this, memorial services were held in several Middle Tennessee and Southern Kentucky churches in which he had preached before making Savannah his home. Deceased was twice married. His second wife and several children survive him. Apropos of Rev. William Carr’s reference to the First African Baptist Church at Savannah, I quote the following from an article in the _Informer_, written by Wm. L. Craft (col.), Field Secretary of the National B. Y. P. U. Board, Nashville, Tennessee: “The colored Baptists of the United States have cause to feel proud of the results of their distinctive organic church work within the past 120 years. “And to the State of Georgia we owe it, to call her the Mother State of negro organic church life. “It was in Savannah, January 20, 1788, that the first negro Baptist church was organized by Rev. Andrew Bryan, and numerous other slaves converted under his earnest preaching.