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COLVIN, Delmer {I3026} (b. 1905)

Given Name: Delmer

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BRIGHT, Elinas {I3027} (b. 26 MAR 1800)

Given Name: Elinas

Note: This Elinas Bright, son of David Bright b.1777, was baptised on 26October 1800 in Augusta Co VA Per Harold Bright and records ofAugusta Co Baptismal records.

Baptism: 26 OCT 1800 Augusta Co., VA

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SAPP, Tressie {I3028} (b. )

Given Name: Tressie

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SAPP, Ray {I3029} (b. )

Given Name: Ray

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SAPP, Willard {I3030} (b. )

Given Name: Willard

Note: Article on Willard "Sappo" Sapp who worked with former presidentRonald Regan:

"Sapp, now 78, wonders if Ronald Reagan, a sportscaster on WHOradio in the mid-1930's, would remember when they worked together inDes Moines, Iowa. In those days, Sapp was called "Sappo" and Reaganwas called "Dutch".
Even before he was 10, Sapp was proficient on several musicalinstruments, including the violin, guitar, banjo, and piano. And whenhe was 21, he was recruited for a band that performed on radio stationWJJD in Chicago, where he worked for a few months before moving to WHOabout the same time that Ronald Reagan started working there.
Those were the grand days of radio. Gene Autry and SmileyBurnette, lula Belle and Scotty, and Salty Dog Holmes, were singingand making jokes on WLS in Chicago. And on down the road at WHO, Sapp,a member of a band known as Perkey and His Huskers, was one of dozensof performers on the two-hour "Saturday Night Barn Dance".
"We broadcast the Barn Dance from the 8th Street theater, a bigplaces that held about 7,000 or 8,000 people, " said Sapp. "And wepacked it every time too". It was usually when they performed iin theWHO studio that they bumped into Reagan.
"Most of the time, when we were in town, we'd broadcast out ofthe studio that he was in", Sapp explained. "Old Ronnie would besitting over there with his ticker-tape machine, you know, just ayoung, skinny-like fellow. We'd pass a few words. He'd look up andholler at us, and we'd holler "Dutch"!
Working different jobs and hardly seeing each other, he never gotto now Reagan very well, Sapp said. 'He was no big cut-up. He was aserious fellow. We often said that one day he was really going to dosomething. Everybody thought a lot of him there. I can tell youthat. He was very intelligent, a firm-type fellow, a nice boy with agood smile. But you could tell that he really meant business,whatever he was doing.
"Just to look at him, I never thought he would turn out to be amovie star. Then I was really shocked when I heard he was running forpresident. But I knew that he was such a nice fellow, I didn't seehow he could go wrong."
Sapp grew tired of the rigors of show-business,left WHO andreturned to Kentucky about 1935. He worked with his brother in thefurniture business for many years and later owned Willard SappFurniture Company on Market Street in Louisville. He still playsocccasionally, in a band that he and some friends have organized, andhe is often asked to perform at churches and nursing homes.
His violin is the same one he played at WHO more than 50 yearsago--when he was "Sappo", the jumpin' jack fiddler, and Ronald Reaganwas "Dutch".

Another article by Byron Crawford The Courier-Journal Louisville, KY

Louisvillian Knew Reagan as a Young Broadcaster by Byron Crawford

Several times, Willard Sapp of Louisville, has thought of
writing RonaldReagan to see if the former president rememberswhen they worked together at WHO radio in Des Moines, Iowa.
"One day I think I'm going to sit down and write him...but
while he was president, I didn't want to interfere withanything", said
Sapp. "I knew a lot of people who wrote to him, but sometimes itjust
doesn't suit too well".
Reagan was "right there in the studio many a day when we
advertised all this old stuff, told all those people up in Iowaabout the Big Yank shirt, how it felt, out in the cornfield--whata breeze would come around your waist when you put that shirt on.How it kept you
cool when you were shucking corn," Sapp recalled.
In those days, Reagan was known as "Dutch" and Sapp went
by the nickname "Sappo", to many of their co-workers at the 50,000 watt clear channel station with a signal that was heardalmost nationwide.
From 1933 through 1937, Reagan was a sports announcer
who sat at WHO studio microphone beside a Western Union tickerand
recreated Chicago Cubs games based on the descriptions sent overthe
wire. Sapp was the station's "Saturday Night Barn Dance Frolic"and traveled all over the midwest in shows that the stationco-produced with some of their sponsers.
Reagan and Sapp, who are both 78, were in their early 20'sthen. Reagan had grown up in a small town in Illinois; Sapp on theRolling Fork of the Salt River, not far from Lebanon in Marion County,
Kentucky where his father operated a country store.... END

{As a little girl, in the mid-1950's, I went to the small grocerystore, mentioned above, in Lebanon every Saturday with my parents toget groceries for the week. By this time, Howard Sapp, brother ofWillard, was running the store and it was called Howard Sapp'sGrocery. He always gave me candy and cokes or popsicles...and I justloved him. I didn't know we were quite closely related. WesleyDaugherty, who later became owner of large grocery in Lebanon, andRobert Allen, worked for Howard in his grocery at that time.}

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SAPP, Robbie {I3031} (b. )

Given Name: Robbie

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SAPP, Zennie Florence {I3032} (b. 28 JUN 1883, d. 19 JAN 1932)

Given Name: Zennie Florence

Death: 19 JAN 1932 Muldraugh Hill Bapt Ch Cem, Marion Co., KY

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SAPP, William Perry {I3033} (b. 21 OCT 1847, d. 25 OCT 1930)

Given Name: William Perry

Note: William Perry Sapp, my great-greatgrandfather, helped his fatherNathan Sapp, build by hand, the church of Muldraugh's Hill in 1874.His father, Nathan, had donated the land on which they built thechurch with hand-hewn logs.

William P.'s obituary said he was one of the oldest members at thetime of his death. Further it reads, "Brother Sapp was born and rearedin sight of this church and will now be laid to rest on a part of hishome place where he spent his life."
Source: One Hundredth Anniversary Book of the Muldraugh Hill BaptistChurch.