 Hensley left the Baptist church in 1901 , the year he married Amanda <unk> . The couple moved to her brother 's 400 @-@ acre ( 1 @.@ 6 km2 ) farm in Ooltewah , where they lived in a shack . Hensley worked in local ore mines , helped in his brother @-@ in @-@ law 's lumber business , and was involved in making moonshine , a common practice in the region . Hensley experienced a conversion while attending a Holiness Pentecostal Church of God service in Ooltewah , led by an evangelist 's teenage son . He forsook alcohol , tobacco , and friendships with those he deemed " worldly " . 
