Samuel T. Reneau graduated from Greens Academy in 1822 and became a school teacher and Methodist minister. His first school house and church was in a log cabin which his father, William Thomas "Hatter Bill" Reneau, had constructed as a sort of bunk house for trappers who arrived the last of November and remained until February when furs were no longer prime. Samuel converted it into a church with crude pews and held singings and church services there. It was sort of a community meeting place and was also the only polling place for Straight Mountain until after the Civil War.
Samuel T. Reneau graduated from Greens Academy in 1822 and became a school teacher and Methodist minister. His first school house and church was in a log cabin which his father, William Thomas "Hatter Bill" Reneau, had constructed as a sort of bunk house for trappers who arrived the last of November and remained until February when furs were no longer prime. Samuel converted it into a church with crude pews and held singings and church services there. It was sort of a community meeting place and was also the only polling place for Straight Mountain until after the Civil War.
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