![]() ![]() Gann was not sure he wanted to become a minister, but studying the Bible was certainly easier than working in the cotton fields, as was his father’s wish. His mother, a very religious person, encouraged him to read the Bible at a very early age, and in fact, wanted him to become a minister. Gann was raised in a very strict Methodist church family. He grew up around the cotton warehouses in Angelina County where cotton was king. This part of Texas is a cotton country and Gann’s parents lived on a Neches River bottom cotton ranch near Lufkin. Lufkin is midway between Houston and Texarkana. Gann, immigrants to Texas from the British Isles. ![]() William Delbert Gann was born June 6, 1878, in Lufkin, Texas, to Sam H.
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