"Flow Gently, Sweet Afton"
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YoSam.
N 38° 05.452 W 088° 09.734
16S E 398083 N 4216534
Brothers, one wrote music, the other brought Presbytery to Illinois.
Waymark Code: WM3CEK
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 03/15/2008
Views: 11
Marker Erected by: The White County Historical Society and The Illinois State Historical Society.
Marker Text:
"FLOW GENTLY,
SWEET AFTON
The music for the song was composed by Jonathan Edwards Spillman in 1836. He entered the ministry in 1858 and became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in 1881. This church had been organized by his brother Benjamin F. Spillman on November 25, 1827, and was the first church in Carmi.
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