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-LSB- Illustration : _ Cane Ridge Meeting-house . _ -RSB- The third Sunday in October was the regular once-a-month meeting-day at Cane Ridge Church . Early in the morning a note of preparation was sounded throughout the Rogers domain , and by nine o'clock the entire household was en route for the place of worship . On chairs in the wagon drawn by two stout farm horses sat Mr. and Mrs. Rogers and the four youngest children , while young Dudley , Henry and Susan rode horseback . Uncle Tony , by reason of age , and Aunt Dink , by reason of flesh , instead of walking with the other negroes , were allowed to sit on the straw-covered floor of the wagon behind the white occupants . As the cavalcade neared the church , a big , weather-stained log structure , they saw that , early as it was , a crowd had preceded them .