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June 27, 1950. Gift of money. Donor, Harry Lee.
August 13, 1950. Gift $25.00. Donor, Carlyle Ward.
November 11, 1951. Parsonage lot in Gates. Donors, Mr. and Mrs. H.C. Eason.
December 9, 1951. Gift $25.00. Donor, Carlyle Ward.
July 12, 1953. Gift $25.00. Donor, Carlyle Ward.
January 7, 1955. Gift $25.00. Donor, Carlyle Ward.
January 9, 1959. $200.00. Donor, Carlyle Ward.
December 13, 1959. Bulletin board. Donor, Jack Spivey.
April 8, 1960. Funds for memograph machine. Donor, T. Beaurie Parker.
July 19, 1971. Water cooler. Donor, Union Camp. Carl Ray Eason responsible for obtaining this.
December 22, 1974. Communion service in memory of Ernestine Parker Eure. Donor, Charles R. Eure, husband - Allen and Mildred, children.
January 3, 1976. $2,000.00 for cementary fund. Donor, Carlyle Ward.
Compiled from church minutes Vol. II, III, IV, V, and W.M.U. records.
Gifts for new Sanctuary (1956)
Memorial Windows: Given in Memory of:
Rev. T.L. Brown and Carrie H. Brown Rev. Willie B. Waff and Willie T. Waff Mills P. Ellis and Nina E. Edwards John A. Freeman and Henrietta J. Freeman
Elbert R. Eure and Linda R. Eure John W. Parker and Emily O. Parker Ernest L. Smith and Lillie W. Smith Timothy E. Parker and Hortense R. Parker
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John A. Edwards and Elizabeth G. Edwards James E. Hayes and Emily P. Hayes Maxie H. Harrell and Minnie P. Harrell C.T. White, Sr. and Eva D. White
Pews
John C. Eure and Mary Goodman Eure Walter Derby and Willie B. Derby H.C. Eason and Ethel S. Eason Sally M. Jenkins by Ella F. Rawls Benjamin J. Freeman by family James Oran Evans and Rebecca F. Evans Samuel Smith and Cornelia B. Smith George W. Holland and Mary E. Holland by Signa Holland Eure
Noah B. Winslow, Murray Winslow, Norah H. Winslow Joseph R. Freeman, Sr., Virginia P. Freeman
J. Tom Carter, Amanda W. Carter Edward R. Lane, Addie M. Lane Zacharty T. Williams and Mary E. Williams Viola H. Bunch, T.G. Bunch, M.T. Bunch L.B. Powell, Martha Powell, Hilda P. Powell J.T. Matthews, Donnie S. Matthews Charlie E. Eure, Lillie B. Eure W.P. Lowe, Mollie G. Lowe E.S.A. Ellenor, Mary K. Ellenor, Maude Ellenor Dr. W.O.P. Lee, Florence Lee
H.T. Taylor, Bessie V. Taylor, M.R. Taylor Oscar L. Austin, Corrie H. Austin Mills J. Lawrence, Ida H. Lawrence T. Beaurie Parker, Lillie Waff S. Parker I.A. Hines, Ella B. Hines
Bible
Memory of Grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas T. Pittman, Mr. and Mrs. Edmund J. Freeman. Donor, Joseph Ray Freeman, Jr.
Chairs and Fern Stands
In memory of Mother Maggie E. Smith. Donor, H.B. and Anne Smith.
Pulpit
In honor of Rev. and Mrs. O.S. Edmonds. Donor, The Woman's Missionary Society.
Pulpit Chairs
Emma D. and Tom B. Parker. Donor, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Parker. Mr. and Mrs. H.N. Stephenson.
Bapistry
Fresco Painting, Artist
Draperies for Bapistry
Mr. Presley's Sister, Mrs. James A. Barnett.
Shadow box cabinet in vestibule In honor of Mrs. Virginia Elizabeth Pittman Freeman on her 81st birthday, July 23, 1976. Donors: her children Edith Holmes Freeman Seiling, Joseph Ray Freeman, Jr., Julian Pittman Freeman, Anita Thomas Freeman Godwin
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General Julius Franklin Howell
Much of the information contained in this history can be attributed to letters written by Julius Howell to his Gates County relatives. His father was a charter member of Piney Grove and the second church pastor. Julius himself played an important role in the early church history. Thus, it is befitting that his biographical information be included.
Julius Franklin Howell, son of Edward and Sarah Barnes Howell, was born January 17, 1846, in Nansemond County, Virginia. Julius and John J. Gatling were two of the students who entered Chowan Reynoldson Seminary the first day it opened as a school in September, 1855. They remained students here until the Civil War forced the school to close her doors on March 22, 1862.1
Julius enlisted in the Confederate Army at the age of 16. He followed the Stars and Bars with a Cavalry unit. "Near the end of the war, he was taken prisoner and held captive for three months at Point Lookout, Maryland."2 Here he received his discharge after taking the oath of loyalty to the United States.
Julius joined Piney Grove Baptist Church by letter on December 12, 1864. He remained a member until July 16, 1873, when he requested a letter of dismission. While a member of Piney Grove, he served the church in various capacities such as deacon and Sunday School superintendent.3 Upon his return to the Piney Grove Community he purchased the Reynoldson School and became principal and teacher here. He married Ida Benton of Gates County. In the Fall of 1870, they moved into an apartment in the school to begin housekeeping. While they were living here, they were blessed with the births of two children. Finley, their eldest child, died of diphtheria and was the first person to be enterred in Reynoldson Cemetery.4
Mr. Howell ran the school for four years. The funds he received for teaching were insufficient to support his family and it became necessary for him to sell the school. He then moved to Lonoke, Arkansas where he taught college.
General Howell and his wife had nine children. Seven of them were living in 1933 when he wrote to Gates County relatives. "Our seven living children are quite scattered; the oldest, Willey, named for the Willey family is in his fifty-ninth year; he is a retired Army officer and resides in California. Our eldest daughter Carrie, and two of our sons, Edward and Barnes live in Oklahoma. Our third son, Elmo, lives in Ohio near Cleveland; Esme, our youngest and our second daughter, Jewel, lives here in Bristol. All have living children except Willey and Edward."5
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He left Arkansas to return east to Bristol, Tennessee where he was president of Virginia Intermont College, a Baptist Institution. After serving as president, he served on the Board of Trustees for the college. He served as chairman of the Board of Trustees until he requested a release when he was 98 years old.
In 1945, at age 99, General Howell was one of the few remaining wearers of the gray uniform of the Confederacy. He was "still vigorous, able to go to his office daily, retain remarkable clarity of memory for names, faces and events, and vitally interested in present day developments in the fields of politics, science, government, and especially the war news."6
He was honored on his one hundredth birthday, January 17, 1946, with a tea in the Hotel Bristol. Some of his relatives from this area attended this occasion. Reynoldson W.M.U. remembered this event by sending him a picture of Reynoldson Church.7
The First Baptist Church of Bristol, where he had served as Sunday School teacher, deacon, and trustee, paid special tribute to him by offering the following resolution:
RESOLUTIONS OF THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, BRISTOL, TENNESSEE
HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY OF GENERAL J.F. HOWELL
General Howell departed this life in 1950 at the age of one hundred and four. He had lived a long and useful life.
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Pictured on the next three pages are homes of some of the Piney Grove-Reynoldson mem- bers prior to 1900. These homes are still standing in 1977. Six of them - Goodman, Savage, Hayes, Freeman and Langston - are inhabited by their descendents. Most of them are still members at Reynoldson.
Lemuel F. Goodman (Ben Goodman) homeplace.
Home of former members, the Story Brothers.
Jonathan Rogers (Milton Eure) house built in 1814.
Dr. W.O.P. Lee home.
Caleb Savage home built in 1820.
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J.E. Hayes home. The child is George Earl Eure.
Home of former deacon, Gilbert Fanny.
Home of Bettie and John A. Edwards.
Lee Riddick home.
John Langston, Wilmer Pittman, B. A. Owens home.
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John Anthony March (Sally Lawrence) house stands abandoned.
T.T. Pittman home.
J.R. Langston home, built in 1825.
E.J. Freeman home. A section of this house was standing w hen Byrd surveyed the N.C. - Va. line in 1727.
Home of Mac Goodman, w hose slaves were some of the earliest members.
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J.E. Hayes, librarian and sexton.
Mrs. E. Curle, G.A. leader.
EARLY MEMBERS
T.J. Jessup, deacon.
Charles R. Eure, deacon.
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EARLY MEMBERS
Gretchen C. Ellis, W.M.U. treasurer for 25 years.
W.M.U. President, Mrs. Daught C. Powell and George Ellis.
I.A. Hines, deacon.
Blackwell M. Eure, deacon.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
An Accompaniment of Mitchell's Reference and Distance Map of the United States. Philadephia: Mitchell and Hinnon, 1834.
Ariel Baptist Church (Gates County, N.C.) Minutes of Church Conference, 1885-1916.
Armstrong, O.K., and Armstrong, Marjorie M. Indominable Baptist. Garden City, N.Y .: Doubleday and Company, 1967.
Baker, Mrs. Foy, Telephone interview, October, 1977.
Baptist Training Union, Minutes of Region 1, April, 1958.
Baptist Training Union, Program of N.C. Training Union Convention, Region 1, April, 1958. Chowan Baptist Association (N.C.) Minutes of Association Meetings. 1830, 1844, 1848, 1850, 1869, 1877, 1900-1902, 1907, 1941, 1953-1977.
Clark, Walter, ed., State Records of North Carolina, Vols XX and XXII, M.I. and J.C. Stewart, 1805.
Cobb, J. Sidney, Jr., Letter, September 3, 1977.
Conner, R.D.W., North Carolina: Rebuilding an Ancient Commonwealth 1584-1925. Vol. 1. New York: American Historical Society, Inc., 1929.
Cook, Richard B. The Story of Baptists In All Ages and Countries. Baltimore: R.H. Woodward and Company, 1888.
Delke, James A. History of Chowan Baptist Association. Raleigh, N.C .: Edward Broughton and Company, 1882.
Edmonds, Rev. Oscar S., Letter, August, 1977.
Edwards, Elizabeth Goodman, Bible Records.
Eure, George R., Bill to Reynoldson Conference, August, 1899.
Eure, Robbie Hayes, Interview, First Youth Sunday, 1977.
First Baptist Church, Bristol, Virginia. 100th Birthday of Julius Franklin Howell, December 26, 1945.
Freeman, Edith A., Private Papers, 1930-1936.
Freeman, Edith V. Langston, Private Papers, 1861.
Freeman, Joseph, Private Papers, 1806, 1814, 1828, 1829.
Freeman, Martha, Private Papers, 1857.
Freeman, Virginia Pittman, Interview and personal papers, July, 1977.
Gates County Index, February, 1933, February, 1954.
Gates County Book of Deeds, Books 6, 21, 33.
Gates County Book of Wills, Books A, B, 3.
Gates County Marriage Bonds.
Gatling, John J. "Sketch History of Reynoldson Institute", unpublished manuscript, n.d. Goodman, Charity Lee, Bible Records.
Goodman, Jethro D., Bible Records.
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Harrell, Isaac, History of Gates County, Gatesvile, N.C .: Gates County Arts Council, 1976. Holy Bible, King James Version, Philadelphia, Pa .: A.J. Holloman, Co., 1957.
Howell, Julius, Letter to Edith Freeman, March, 1939.
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Jones, Ruben, History of the Virginia Portsmouth Baptist Association. Raleigh, N.C .: Edwards and Broughton, 1881.
Kesler, M.L. Personal letter, December 28, 1914.
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McCall, Vernon. Letter, July, 1977.
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Presley, Billy P., Sermon, "Twelve Down and Counting", March, 1976.
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Reynoldson Baptist Church Committee, "In Memory, T.L. Brown." Biblical Recorder, (April 30, 1941), p. 24.
Reynoldson Baptist Church (Gates, N.C.) Library Records, 1963-1965.
Reynoldson Baptist Church (Gates, N.C.) Minutes of Church Conference, Vols. II, III, IV, V, VI, 1878-1977.
Reynoldson Baptist Church (Gates, N.C.) Minutes of the Woman's Missionary Society, 1908- 1977.
Reynoldson Baptist Church (Gates, N.C.) Program of Dedication, May, 1925, May, 196 ?. Reynoldson Baptist Church (Gates, N.C.) Sunbeam Minutes, 1919-1965.
Reynoldson Baptist Church (Gates, N.C.) Sunday School Records, 1883-1893.
Reynoldson Baptist Church (Gates, N.C.) Treasurer's Books, 1897-1917.
Reynoldson Baptist Church (Gates, N.C.) "The W.M.U. of Reynoldson Baptist Church," Unpublished Manuscript, February, 1951.
Reynoldson Baptist Church (Gates, N.C.) Woman's Missionary Union Treasurer's Book, 1889-1891.
Royal Service, February, 1973.
Smith, Lillie Waff, "History of Reynoldson Institute," Unpublished High School Graduation Address, 1916.
Speight, J.A. "Brief History of Middle Swamp Baptist Church," Unpublished manuscript, July, 1906.
Staples, Mamie Waff, Letter to Lucy Costen, February 20, 1965.
Taylor, Raymond Hargus, The Baptist Church at Cashie 1770-1970. Ahoskie, N.C. Gatling and Pierce, 1970.
Taylor, Raymond Hargus, "John Lee Carrick," Unpublished manuscript, 1977.
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"200th Year For Church," Virginian Pilot, March 1, 1975.
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FOOTNOTES EARLY BEGINNING Land Gifts
1Issac S. Harrell, Gates County to 1860, in History of Gates County (Gatesville, N.C .: Gates County Arts Council, 1976), p. 5.
2 Ibid., p. 6.
3Ibid., p. 7.
4 Ibid., p. 7.
5An Accompaniment to Mitchell's Reference and Distance Map of the United States (Philadelphia: Mitchell and Hennon, 1834), p. 263.
6Ibid., p. 264.
7Walter Clark, ed., State of North Carolina, Vol. 22. (M.I. and J.C. Stewart, 1805), p. 74.
8Ibid., Vol. 22, p. 359.
9Ibid., Vol. 22, p. 122.
10 Ibid., Vol. 20, p. 1074.
11 Ibid., Vol. 20, p. 195.
12 Harrell, p. 7.
13Gates County Book of Wills, Book B, p. 91.
14Gates County Book of Deeds, Book 6, p. 352.
15 Gates County Book of Wills, Book 3, p. 18.
16Gates County Marriage Bonds, p. 66.
17 Gates County Book of Deeds
18Gates County Book of Wills, Book 3, p. 27.
19Private Papers of Joseph Freeman, 1806-1814.
20Private Papers of Joseph Freeman, 1829.
21 Book of Deeds, Book 33, p. 267, March, 1882.
22Piney Grove Church, Minutes of March, 1882.
23Deeds, Book 33, pp. 267-268.
Founding
1"200th Year For Church," Virginian-Pilot, March 1, 1975.
2Harrell, p. 20.
3Piney Grove Church, Minutes of Dec. 14, 1827.
4 Harrell, p. 20.
5J.A. Speight, "Brief History of Middle Swamp Baptist Church" (unpublished address, July, 1906), p. 6.
6Chowan Baptist Association, Minutes of May, 1884, p. 21.
7Speight, p. 6.
8Private papers of Edith V. Freeman, 1930.
9Chowan Baptist Association, Minutes of May, 1848, p. 21.
10Piney Grove, Minutes of Dec. 14, 1827.
11 Ibid. 12 Ibid.
13O.K. Armstrong and Marjorie M. Armstrong, Indominable Baptists, (Garden City: N.Y .: Doubleday Co., 1967), p. 132.
14Piney Grove, Minutes of Dec. 25, 1827.
15Ibid., Dec. 25, 1827.
16Ibid., Covenant.
17 Ibid., Rules of Decorum.
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18Ibid., Dec. 14, 1827 to Jan., 1829. 19Piney Grove, Minutes of Sept., 1829.
Name
1Reynoldson Baptist Church, Minutes of August, 1903.
2Ibid., September, 1904. 3Ibid., January, 1905.
4Chowan Baptist Association, Minutes of May, 1866. 5 Ibid., Vol. II, January, 1885.
6John W. Moore, "Early Baptist Laymen in N.C.," (unpublished manuscript, n.d.), p. 182. 7Reuben Jones, History of the Virginia Portsmouth Baptist Association (Raleigh, N.C .:
Edwards and Broughton, 1881), p. 275.
8Moore, p. 182.
9Jones, p. 275.
10 Ibid.
11 Ibid.
12 Ibid.
13 Ibid.
14 Ibid.
15 Ibid.
16Moore, p. 192.
17 Chowan Baptist Association, Minutes of May, 1850.
18Ibid., May, 1856.
19Jones, p. 276.
20General Association Minutes of Virginia, Minutes of June 4, 1854, p. 11.
BUILDINGS
(1827-1877)
1Chowan Baptist Association, Minutes of May, 1848.
2Piney Grove Church, Vol. 1. Minutes of September, 1827. 3Ibid., January, 1834.
4Ibid.,October, 1844.
5Ibid.,January, 1848.
6Ibid.
7Ibid., July, 1848.
8Ibid., January, 1849.
9Ibid., January, 1845.
10Ibid., February, 1845.
11Ibid., August, 1849.
12 Ibid.
13Ibid., November, 1847.
14 Ibid., January, 1855. 15 Ibid.
16Private papers of Martha Freeman, October 11, 1857.
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17 Piney Grove Church, Minutes of August, 1860. 18 Ibid., November, 1860. 19 Ibid., September, 1860. 20Ibid., May, 1862. 21 Ibid., November, 1865. 22 Ibid., December, 1865.
(1877-1927)
1Reynoldson Baptist Church, Vol. II. November, 1878.
2Ibid., June, 1882.
3Ibid., May, 1884.
4 Ibid., March, 1883.
5Ibid., November, 1884.
6Ibid., October, 1888.
7Ibid., January, 1890.
8Ibid., July, 1894. 9Ibid., October, 1905.
10Ibid., February, 1913.
11Ibid., March, 1913.
12Gates County Book of Deeds.
13Reynoldson, Vol. II. June, 1913.
14Ibid., August, 1913.
15Ibid., December, 1913.
16Ibid., May, 1914.
17 Ibid., July, 1914.
18 Ibid., May, 1915.
19Ibid., January, 1918.
20Ibid., November, 1916.
21 Ibid., December, 1918.
22 Ibid., April, 1919.
23 Ibid., May, 1919.
24 Ibid., June, 1919.
25 Ibid., June, 1919.
26Virginia E. Freeman, private interview held in Gates, N.C., July, 1977.
27Reynoldson, April, 1920.
28Ibid., December, 1923.
29Ibid., March, 1925.
30Ibid., March, 1925.
(1927-1977)
1Reynoldson Baptist Church, Vol. III. Minutes of July, 1933.
2Ibid., August, 1933.
3Ibid., November, 1933.
4Ibid., November 1940.
5Ibid., October, 1949.
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6Ibid., November, 1949. "Ibid., Vol. IV, December, 1941. 8Ibid., Maren, 1951. 9Ibid., October, 1951. 10Ibid., October, 1951. 11Ibid., November, 1951.
12 Ibid., December, 1951.
13Ibid., February, 1952.
14 Ibid., June, 1952.
15 Ibid., March, 1952.
161bid., April, 1952.
17Ibid., August, 1952.
18 Ibid., May, 1955.
19Ibid., January, 1954.
20Ibid., December, 1954.
21Ibid., July, 1955. 22 Ibid., March, 1956.
23Ibid., January, 1956.
24 Ibid., January, 1962.
25Ibid., April, 1966.
26Ibid., April, 1968.
27 Ibid., June, 1968. 28Ibid., October, 1968.
29Ibid., April, 1969.
30Ibid., April, 1971. 31 Ibid., July, 1971.
RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLIES
Union Meetings
1Delke, History Chowan Association, 1806-1881; (Raleigh, N.C .: Edwards, Broughton & Co. 1882), p. 38.
2Ibid., p. 38. 31bid., p. 39. 4 Ibid. 51bid.
6Piney Grove Church, Minutes of March, 1828.
7Delke, p. 40.
8Piney Grove Church, Minutes of March, 1846. 9Ibid., Aug. 21, 1852.
10Ibid., Sept. 26, 1852.
11Ibid., Jan., 1860. 12 Ibid., Mar., 1873.
13Ibid., Jan., 1875. 14Ibid., Oct., 1876.
15Reynoldson Church, Vol. IV, Minutes of May, 1936.
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Chowan Association
1Delke, p. 7. 2Ibid., p. 9. 3Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5Ibid., p. 7.
6Piney Grove Church, Minutes of 1828.
7Chowan Baptist Association, Minutes of 1830.
8Piney Grove, June, 1831.
9Delke, p. 26.
10Chowan Baptist Association, Minutes of 1844.
IlPiney Grove, April, 1849.
12Ibid., April, 1851.
13Chowan Baptist, May, 1852.
14Piney Grove, April, 1852.
15Delke, p. 28.
16Chowan Baptist Association, Minutes of May, 1867.
17Reynoldson, Vol. II, Minutes of May, 1900.
18Ibid., May, 1901.
19Chowan Baptist Association, Minutes of May, 1901.
20Reynoldson, Vol. III, August, 1930.
21 Ibid., Sept., 1930. 22 Ibid., Vol. V., Oct., 1954. 23 Ibid., Vol. V., Jan. 16, 1967.
Baptist State Convention
1Delke, p. 65.
2Piney Grove, Minutes of September, 1846.
3Ibid., September, 1850.
4 Ibid., Vol. I, November, 1851.
5Delke, P. 66. 6Piney Grove, October, 1864.
7Ibid., October, 1875.
8Reynoldson, Vol. II, Minutes of November, 1900, 1901, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1912. 9Ibid., Vol. IV, Minutes of 1951.
10Ibid., Vol. V, Minutes of 1952.
11 Ibid., Minutes of April, 1953.
12 Ibid., Minutes of May 17, 1965.
13R. Hargus Taylor, The Baptist Church at Cashie 1770-1970 (Ahoskie, N.C .: Gatling and Pierce, 1970), p. 72.
Revival
1Delke, p. 75. 2Piney Grove Church, Vol. I, Minutes of June 26, 1958. 3Ibid., Sept. 24, 1870.
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4Reynoldson Church, Vol. II, Minutes of Sept., 1883.
5Ibid., July, 1902. 6Ibid., Aug., 1902. 7Ibid., Aug., 1897. 8Ibid., July, 1903. 9Ibid., Vol. III, Feb., 1917.
10Ibid., May, 1918.
11 Ibid., Jan., 1934.
12 Ibid., Vol. IV, Aug., 1944.
13Letter, Bettie Burke to Edith V. Langston, August 30, 1861, private papers.
EDUCATION Classical
Reynoldson Institute
1Private papers of Joseph Freeman, March 23, 1809.
2Ibid., July 3, 1813.
3Ibid., 1826.
4Ibid., December 16, 1829.
5Delke, p. 50.
6Ibid., p. 51.
7Piney Grove Baptist Church, Minutes of February 26, 1853.
8Ibid., March 26, 1853.
9Delke, p. 52.
10Ibid., p. 60.
11 Ibid., p. 61.
12Chowan Baptist Association, Minutes of May, 1853.
13Smith, Lillie (Parker), "History of Reynoldson Institute," (unpublished manuscript, 1916), p. 1.
14Delke, p. 61.
15Gatling, John J. "Sketch History of Reynoldson" (unpublished manuscript, n.d.), p. 1. 16 Ibid., p. 2.
17Smith, p. 2.
18 Ibid.
19Delke, p. 61.
20Gates County Deed Book 21, Page 334.
20Smith, p. 2.
21Letter, Mamie Waff Staples to Lucy Costen, February 10, 1965, private papers. 22Smith, p. 2.
23Delke, p. 62.
24 Ibid. 25 Ibid.
26 Moore, p. 192.
27 Chowan Baptist Association, Minutes of May 15, 1856, Appendix B.
28 Ibid., May, 1857.
29 Ibid., May, 1858.
30Piney Grove Baptist Church, Minutes of December 25, 1858.
31Smith, p. 3.
32Chowan Baptist Association, Minutes of May 14-16, 1861.
33Piney Grove, Minutes of October, 1861.
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34 Delke, p. 84.
35Smith, p. 3.
36Gates County Index, February, 1933.
37 Piney Grove, Minutes of April, 1862.
38Delke, p. 63.
39Chowan Baptist Association, Minutes of May 13, 1863.
40 Piney Grove, Minutes of May 21, 1870.
41 Ibid. 42 Ibid.
43Chowan Baptist Association, Minutes of May 16, 1866.
44"Gates County Lady has 80th birthday: Mrs. Edith Virginia Freeman Recalls her early life in the county," Gates County Index, February, 1933.
45Private papers of Joseph Freeman, 1866.
46Chowan Baptist Association, Minutes of May 16, 1867.
47 Ibid., May 13, 1868.
48 Piney Grove, Minutes of October 23, 1867.
49Chowan Baptist Association, Minutes of May 13, 1868.
50Ibid., May 21, 1870.
51Chowan Baptist Association, Minutes of May, 1869.
52Smith, p. 4.
53Staples letter, 1965.
54Smith, p. 4. 55 Ibid., p. 4-5.
Religious
Sunday School
1Chowan Baptist Association, Minutes of May, 1830.
2Delke, p. 44.
3Piney Grove Baptist Church, Vol. I, Minutes of Feb. 25, 1842.
4Ibid., Vol. I, June 23, 1860.
5 Ibid., Vol. I, March 23, 1861.
6Ibid., Vol. I, May, 1865.
7Ibid., Vol. I, March, 1867. 8Ibid., Vol. I, March, 1858. 9 Ibid., Vol. I, March, 1867.
10 Ibid., Vol. I, March, 1867.
11 Delke, p. 45.
12Chowan Baptist Association, Minutes of May, 1894.
13Reynoldson Baptist Church, Minutes of March, 1886.
14 Ibid., Vol. II, October, 1889.
15 Ibid., Vol. II, June, 1904.
16 Ibid., Vol. II, October, 1899.
17Gates County Index, June 4, 1933, p. 7.
18Reynoldson, Minutes of Vol. IV, February 28, 1951.
19 Ibid., Vol. II, August, 1898.
20Chowan Baptist Association, Minutes of May, 1902. 21 Ibid.
22Reynoldson, Vol. II, June, 1903.
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23 Ibid., Vol. II, July, 1912. 24 Ibid., Vol. II, April, 1912. 25 Ibid., Vol. III, July, 1933. 26 Ibid., Vol. III, January, 1935. 27 Ibid., Vol. IV, July, 1942. 28 Ibid., Vol. V, April 19, 1965. 29 Ibid., Vol. V, September 17, 1961. 30 Ibid., Vol. V, October, 1961. 31 Ibid., Vol. VI, October, 1976.
Baptist Training Union
1Edith Freeman, "Why Have a B.Y.P.U.," private papers, 1923.
2Reynoldson, Vol. III, Minutes of April, 1923.
3Ibid., April, 1928.
4Gates County Index, January 4, 1933, p. 7.
5Reynoldson, Vol. V, Minutes of November, 1953.
6North Carolina Training Union Convention Program, Region I, April, 1958.
7Region I, B.T.U., Minutes of April, 1958.
8Reynoldson, Vol. V, January, 1963.
9 Ibid., July, 1969.
Library
1Reynoldson Sunday School, Minutes of October 14, 1883. 2 Ibid., 1889.
3Reynoldson, Vol. II, Minutes of December, 1903.
4 Ibid., December, 1907.
5Ibid., December, 1915.
6Reynoldson, Vol. V, Minutes of January, 1962.
7 Ibid., April, 1962.
8Library Records, 1963. 9Library Records, 1965.
Music
1Piney Grove Baptist Church, Vol. I, Minutes of December 22, 1866.
2Ibid., January 24, 1874.
3Ibid., March, 1884.
4Reynoldson, Vol. II, Minutes January, 1898.
5Ibid., February, 1898. 6Ibid., August, 1909.
7 Ibid., December, 1914. 8Ibid., 1916. 9Reynoldson, Vol. III, November, 1917. 10Ibid., August, 1923. 11 Ibid., December, 1928.
12Reynoldson, Vol. II, June, 1950.
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FINANCES
1Taylor, Church at Cashie, p. 60.
2Piney Grove Church, Vol. I, Minutes of Dec., 1827.
3Ibid., December, 1831.
4Ibid., September, 1836.
5Ibid., May, 1844.
6Ibid., Feb., 1849.
7Ibid., 1855.
8Ibid., Dec., 1856. 9Ibid., Jan., 1864.
10 Ibid., Nov., 1865.
11 Ibid., April 21, 1866.
12 Ibid., Jan., 1867.
13Ibid., April, 1868.
14Taylor, p. 63. 15Piney Grove, Vol. I, Jan., 1869.
16Ibid., Jan., 1869.
17 Ibid., Dec., 1869. 18 Ibid.
19 Ibid., Nov., 1875.
20 Ibid., Dec., 1875.
21 Ibid., Jan., 1875.
22Reynoldson, Vol. II, Dec., 1880.
23 Ibid., Feb., 1882.
24 Ibid., Dec., 1892. 25 Ibid., Jan., 1888. 26 Ibid. 27 Ibid., Dec., 1898. 28 Ibid.
29 Ibid., Jan., 1912. 30 Ibid., Vol. III, Nov., 1921.
31 Ibid., Vol. III, 1934.
32 Ibid., March, 1937.
33 Ibid., Vol. IV, Nov., 1942.
34Ibid., Vol. IV, Oct., 1942. 35Ibid., Vol. IV, Sept., 1943. 36 Ibid., Vol. IV, Jan., 1945. 37 Ibid., Vol. IV, Oct., 1944. 38Ibid., Vol. IV, Nov., 1948. 39 Ibid., Vol. IV, May, 1950. 40Ibid., Vol. IV, Dec., 1950. 41 Ibid., Vol. V, Jan., 1957.
42Holy Bible, Psalms 126:3.
43Reynoldson, Vol. V, Dec., 1959.
44 Ibid., Vol. VI., Budget, 1977.
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1 (New York: American Historical Society, Inc., 1929), p. 184.
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