He attended church every Sunday with his parents and as he listened to 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 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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