Article: Group plans to restore historic Valley church.

Byline: Holly Hollman

Oct. 23--VETO -- Doug Gates grew up in the shadow of Veto Methodist Church. It's white painted poplar walls and steeple were a stark contrast to the maroon splotches of sumac on the roadsides and olive-toned foliage of the Tennessee hills. As a child, Gates and his family went before services and lit the gas heater. Then Gates would yank a rope that made the church bell peal throughout the countryside.

A Methodist-Episcopal South congregation located the church under an oak tree off what is now Bob Coffman Road after buying that property in February 1886, Gates said. Methodists in the South formed that denomination before ...

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