"My grandfather [Baron DeKalb] Williams was also a Confederate soldier and he was also wounded. He got shot in the arm and it was amputated midway between the elbow and shoulder. He was not very old when he died and he left young children.
Several years after his death, his widow married again. She was a God fearing woman and brought up all her children to love and serve the Lord. We believed that she saved my brothers' life. He [Thomas Baron Gibson] is five years younger than I, and even though I was a small boy at the time, I can still remember what happened. My brother had started having convulsions, one after the other. The doctor came and I can still recall the sound of his peg leg as it thumped, thumped, thumped across the floor. He had done all that he knew to do, but it had not stopped the convulsions. Then my mother turned to my daddy and told him, 'Go get Mamma and bring her here. Tell her the baby is sick and we need her.'
When grandmother [Louisiana Motley Williams] got there, mother met her at the door, 'Mamma, pray for this baby. He is going to die, Mamma, if you don't.'
Grandmother knelt by the bed with her hand on my brother's head and began to pray, 'Lord, save this child. Save him for Yourself. Maybe he will be worth something to you, Lord.'
The convulsions stopped right then, and I just knew that it was her prayer that saved him. The doctor and Mamma had been working with him for a long time, but he quit having convulsions when she put her hand on his head and began to pray to the Lord to save him. She was praying that he be saved to do the Lord's work, not for us. She did not pray a selfish prayer, so I just believe that grandmother's prayer was answered by the Lord.
When he grew to be six or seven years old, they would ask him what he was going to do when he grew up and he would reply, 'I'm going to be a preacher.' And he certainly did. When he was about eighteen years old, he was ordained for the ministry."
From I Remember When, by Dr. Edward Lee Gibson.