The Private Thoughts of a Traveling Preacher's Wife - Crowder, Jack
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"Louisa Foster came to Texas as a child with the Old Three Hundred, the first settlers brought to Texas by Stephen F. Austin. She married a young traveling preacher from Tennessee, the Rev. Finis Foster. Unlike many women at this time, Louisa was educated and well read. During this period, discussions and critical views of religion were the domains of the men. Louisa, however, voiced her views freely and believed that women should be allowed to do so. Having turned to religion for consolation following multiple deaths in her family, Louisa organized and led her own prayer group that met weekly…mehr

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"Louisa Foster came to Texas as a child with the Old Three Hundred, the first settlers brought to Texas by Stephen F. Austin. She married a young traveling preacher from Tennessee, the Rev. Finis Foster. Unlike many women at this time, Louisa was educated and well read. During this period, discussions and critical views of religion were the domains of the men. Louisa, however, voiced her views freely and believed that women should be allowed to do so. Having turned to religion for consolation following multiple deaths in her family, Louisa organized and led her own prayer group that met weekly and was one of the few women to actively try to convert both men and women to her church. In these eleven journals, from 1847 to 1870, Louisa recounts the difficult weather conditions, the Civil War, religion, conflicting views on slavery, the prices of goods, disease, and medicine, and raising a family on the frontier in Central Texas. The Private Thoughts of a Traveling Preacher's Wife also includes three journals from Louisa's youngest son, John Collier Foster, which vividly describe his social life in town and his impressions of seeing the first electric light and the first telephone"--
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Jack Crowder is a retired teacher and administrator with more than years in the classroom. He received a B.A. and Master's from Texas Christian University. He has written numerous books on the American Revolution and given presentations on the Revolutionary War to many organizations in DFW.