Lewis County History
Churches & Cemeteries

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The church spire of Heselton Baptist Church on Big Salt Lick in Lewis County. This spire with a star and crescent is unique.

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The ancient tombstones in the Marshall family cemetery. (Photo by William Florence) 

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The Revolutionary War marker for Col. Thomas Marshall. (Photo by William Florence)

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Luman/Lewman Family lot at Wallingford Cemetery.

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Wallingford Church.

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High Street in Concord in 1910.

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High Street in Concord today.

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Concord Cemetery.

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Shepherds Chapel at Clarksburg.

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Bedinger obelisks in family cemetery at Carrs.

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Mars Hill Church of Christ at St. Paul, VBS children and teachers in 1951. In the back row, left to right, are Kay or Margie Sammons, Gwyneth Blaine, Trula Brooks (a teacher), and Mrs. Duffy, wife of the minister; second row, left to right, Lois Greene, Donald Walters, Ralph Sammons (with Ronald Sammons in front of him), and Ronald Greene; third row, left to right, Edna Karol Bivens, next unidentified, unidentified, unidentified, and Dale Greene; fourth row, left to right, Hildreth Blaine, Janie Brooks, unidentified, Carol Walters; others at the bottom of the photo (not in any order) are Lorna Kay Brooks, Betty Walters,Judy Felty, Ronald Veach, a Duffy boy, Gary Blaine, Ray Felty, Shirley Bivens, Garnet Sammons, Sharon(?) Floyd, Marilyn and Caroline Brooks (twins), Linda Armstrong, and others not identified. The picture was taken by Bro. Duffy, the minister at the time. Photo provided Hildreth Blaine Polston of St. Paul.

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More than 70 years after the murder of three-year-old Mary Magdalen Pitts, her grave in Greenup County continues to be decorated with flowers and toys. (Photo by William Florence)

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One of the baby gravestones in the graveyard at the old Liles-McCally farm above the Tannery Bottoms. (Photo by William Florence)

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These dozen or so graves in the McCally Cemetery appear to be infants or small children. Names on the stones are Hook, Armstrong and Harding. This gives us an idea of the rate of infant mortality in times past. (Photo by William Florence)

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Phyllis Harrell has sent us an undated picture of Heselton Baptist Church near Glen Springs and a group of people who were probably attending some program there. We have concluded that, considering the way the people are dressed, it would have been taken in the 1920s or 1930s. An interesting feature of this photo is that several people are holding umbrellas and at the far right is somebody's white dog with only the derriere of the dog shown.

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The graves of Elder T.P. Degman (November 6, 1847 - April 25, 1913) and his wife, Mary A. (November 22, 1848 - September 1, 1929), are in the Bethany Church Cemetery.

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The Peter Taylor Chapel as it appeared some time in the 1930s. The church building incorporated some unusual architectural features and it was in very good condition when it was razed. Among the famlies buried there were Stouts, Hillearys, Henrys and others. (Photo provided by Doris Thomas Callihan.)

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This little church at Poplar Flat looks out over the gentle rolling valley where we think Oke Hendrickson settled with his family in the 1790s.

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The Bald Point Church of Jesus Christ which is located on the site of the old school where John Fowler taught in 1898. (Photo by Jerry D. Brown)

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The church and former Odd Fellows Hall (upstairs) at Harris. This is the place where Marion Dyer is reported to have been shot and killed in November of 1918. (Photo by Jerry D. Brown)

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In a recent visit to the Laurel Point Cemetery we came across the gravestone of a member of the IORM: Charles W. Pell (1871-1913).

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This Pentecostal Church at Mosby stands on the site of the old Mosby School which was in existence as early as the 1870s. (Photo by Bill Florence)

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The cemetery beside the Mosby Church. Every grave, both old and new, had been remembered with flowers by a family member. (Photo by Bill Florence)

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This recently remodeled building was once the Armstrong School, later the place of worship of the Church of Christ, and now administered by the Armstrong Independent Church. Bro. Killen is the minister. (Photo by Bill Florence)

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The gravestone of Henry "Jaybird" Liles buried in the Armstrong Cemetery on the hill above the church. He was a brother of the famous Larkin Liles. (Photo by William Talley)

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A front and side view of the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church built in 1877. (William Florence)

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A side view of the Bethany Christian Church and its cemetery. (William Florence)

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Old Union Church on the west side of Garrison. (Photo by William Florence)

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Garrison United Methodist Church established in 1906. (Photo by William Florence)

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The front steps of the former Mars Hill Church of Christ and some gravestones beside the church. (Photo by William Florence)

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The Alexander Bruce family monument at the Mars Hills Church Cemetery. (Photo by William Florence)

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Sand Hill Christian Church, built in 1860, as it looks today. (Photo by William Florence)

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Trinity Methodist Church sets in a serene setting near the confluence of Cabin Creek and Crooked Creek. It was built in 1875. (Photo by William Florence)

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Wesley Chapel, built in 1880, stands on the lot where an earlier church once stood, on Cabin Creek. (Photo by William Florence)

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Concord Christian Church, built in 1897, as it stands today. (Photo by William Florence)

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East Fork Christian Church, one of the oldest congregations in the county, sets at the entrance to the ancient cemetery. (Photo by William Florence)

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Burtonville Methodist Church organized in the 1890s. (Photo by William Florence)

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Heselton Baptist Church near Glen Springs was built in 1913. (Photo by William Florence)

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Oak Ridge Baptist Church organized around 1877. (Photo by William Florence)

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Mt. Tabor Church at Ribolt was built in 1859. (Photo by William Florence)

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Vanceburg Methodist Episcopal Church South as it appears today. (Photo by William Florence)

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Lower Holly School and Church, built about 1877. (Photo by Bill Florence)

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The gravestone of Aunt Caroline and Lewis Bowles at Cedar Grove. (Photo by Bill Florence)

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Cedar Grove Church, constructed in 1899, known as Holly Hill School, and rebuilt in 1924. (Photo by Bill Florence)

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Valley Presbyterian Church, built sometime between 1873 and 1877. Land was donated by the Bertram family. (Photo by Bill Florence)

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Side view of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church on Glen Springs-Esculapia Road near Charters. (Photo by Bill Florence)

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Inside view of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church. (Photo by Bill Florence)

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The gravestone of Maj. Thomas H. Hamrick, who was murdered by a band of Rebels in June of 1863. (Photo by Bill Florence)

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Hattie Bell Florence's tombstone at Wallingford Cemetery. (Photo by Bill Florence)

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Lizzie Harris Walter's tombstone at Laurel Cemetery.

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Vernon Tolle shares this old photo of the Vanceburg Christian Church on Front Street in Vanceburg.

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