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BACK IN TIME â Wayman Chapel A.M.E. Church at North Apperson and East Havens dates its history to 1851 in Ervin Township, when Mrs. Aliff Henley, a free woman of color who was once enslaved in North Carolina, deeded part of her land in the Rush Settlement to start the A.M.E. church in Howard County.
Gil Porter