A coincidence which seldom comes to man and wife was celebrated here last Friday when Rev. and Mrs. W. F. West celebrated their birthday. While not the same age, their birthday comes on the same day and the members of his church, learning of this event, helped them celebrate by presenting them with a beautiful electric lamp for their reading room, while the members of the B.Y.P.U. presented a birthday cake, but they did not put the usual candle for each year, substituting a question mark.
Mr. and Mrs. West have been here a little less than one year, but they are universally popular, both with his own congregation and the people generally. They are both of pleasing personalities and make friends wherever they are known, and Mr. West is decidedly one of the strongest men in the pulpit the church has ever had. The Roxboro people consider themselves extremely fortunate in bringing these good folks to our town.
From the front page of The Roxboro Courier, Wednesday evening, October 27, 1926
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