George Went Hensley, born in Scott County, Virginia, was one of the first, if not the first, preacher, to adopt the practice of snake handling in his church after seeing the practice at a revival in a coal camp near Big Stone Gap. He was a complicated man whose life of service to God also included making moonshine, marrying women (four of them) and fathering 13 children.
Today we tell his story.
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