Pride of the past, hope for the future, 1827-1977 : a history of Reynoldson Baptist Church written in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the church, Part 20

Author: Seiling, Edith H. Freeman; Freeman, Virginia E. Pittman; Lefler, Margaret Seiling
Publication date: 1977
Publisher: Ahoskie, N.C. : Pierce Print. Co.
Number of Pages: 294


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2Delke, p. 80.


3Piney Grove Church, Vol. 1, Minutes from December 14, 1829-January 1, 1829. 4Ibid., June, 1829.


5 Harrell, p. 10.


6Ibid., p. 12.


7Piney Grove Church, Vol. 1, Minutes of January 21, 1832. 8Ibid., July, 1831.


9Ibid., April 27, 1850.


10Ibid., June 22, 1850.


11 Ibid., April 21, 1860. 12 Ibid.


13Ibid., December 27, 1862.


14Delke, p. 86.


15Piney Grove Church, Vol. 1, Minutes of August 26, 1865.


16Ibid., May, 1866.


17 Ibid., November, 1866.


18 Ibid., June 22, 1866.


19Letter, Julius Howell to Edith V. Freeman, March, 1939.


20Piney Grove Church, Vol. 1, Minutes of November 26, 1870.


21Ibid., February, 1893.


CHRISTIAN LIFE Members hip


1Piney Grove Minutes, Rules of Decorum.


2Piney Grove, Vol. I, Minutes of 1830.


3Ibid., Vol. I, April 23, 1836.


4Ibid., Vol. I, January, 1867.


5Ibid., Vol. I, July, 1851. 6Ibid., Vol. I, November, 1869.


7Reynoldson, Vol. II, June, 1880.


8Ibid., Vol. II, January, 1893.


9Piney Grove, Vol. I, October 25, 1851. 10 Ibid., Vol. I, June 26, 1852.


11Reynoldson, Vol. II, January, 1888.


12 Ibid., Vol, II, January, 1888. 13 Ibid., Vol. II, January, 1911.


14 Ibid., Vol. II, December, 1900. 15 Ibid., Vol. III, March, 1937. 16Ibid., Vol. IV, October, 1943. 17 Ibid., Vol. IV, April, 1945.


18Ibid., Vol. V, October 8, 1954. 19Ibid., Vol. V, June, 1963.


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1Reynoldson, Minutes of December, 1936.


2Ibid., September, 1940.


3Ibid.


4Ibid., July 14, 1946.


5Ibid., July 11, 1948.


6Ibid., April 17, 1961.


7Piney Grove, September, 1831.


8Ibid., December, 1834.


5Ibid., June, 1834.


6Ibid., September, 1834.


7Ibid., July, 1863.


8Ibid., April, 1829.


9Ibid., September, 1830.


10Ibid., June, 1831.


11 Ibid., May, 1837.


12Ibid., September, 1834.


13Ibid., September, 1834.


14Ibid., January, 1836.


15 Ibid., June, 1841.


16Ibid., November, 1843.


17 Ibid., June, 1872.


18 Ibid., February, 1877.


19Ibid., March, 1865.


20Ibid., February, 1860.


21 Ibid., January, 1864.


22 Ibid., March, 1856.


23 Ibid., February, 1861.


24 Ibid., June, 1866.


25 Ibid., October, 1855.


26 Ibid. November, 1844.


27 Ibid., October, 1855.


28Ibid., March, 1878. 29Ibid., April, 1870. 30Ibid., March, 1878.


31 Ibid., September, 1878.


32 Ibid., September, 1878.


33 Ibid., March, 1878.


34Delke, p. 90-95.


35Piney Grove, April 21, 1849.


36 Ibid., August 25, 1855.


37 Ibid., July 25, 1849.


38 Ibid., November 25, 1865.


39Reynoldson, September, 1878.


40 Ibid., October, 1903.


41 Ibid., April, 1917.


42 Ibid., May, 1918.


43 Ibid., October, 1918.


44 Ibid., July, 1942.


45 Ibid., August, 1942.


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46Ibid., January 10, 1954. 47 Piney Grove, July 22, 1871. 48 Ibid., February, 1926. 49 Ibid., October, 1887. 50Ibid., March, 1955. 51 Ibid., October, 1963. 52 Ibid., January, 1959. 53Ibid., July, 1962.


Conduct Unbecoming a Christian


1Chowan Baptist Association, Minutes of May, 1830.


2Taylor, Church at Cashie, p. 29.


3Ibid., p. 30.


4Piney Grove Baptist Church, Minutes of May, 1830.


5Ibid., January, 1843. 6Ibid., August, 1850.


7 Ibid., September, 1854.


8Ibid., June, 1831.


9Ibid., December, 1832.


10Ibid., July, 1850.


11 Ibid., October, 1864.


12 Ibid., September, 1851.


13Ibid., December, 1846.


14 Ibid., September, 1851.


15 Ibid., April, 1861. 16Ibid., June, 1860.


17 Ibid., January, 1831.


18Ibid., January, 1876.


19Ibid., April, 1876. 20Ibid., June, 1833.


21 Ibid., July, 1851.


22 Ibid., July, 1850.


23 Ibid., December, 1857.


24 Ibid., December, 1850.


25 Ibid., May, 1833.


26 Ibid., October, 1861.


27 Ibid., July, 1831.


28Ibid., December, 1832.


29 Ibid., May, 1833. 30 Ibid., 1851.


31Ibid., January, 1870.


32 Ibid., May, 1873.


33Ibid., September, 1884.


34Taylor, p. 37.


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CHURCH ORDINANCES


Baptism


1Delke, p. 17.


2Matthew 28:19, (Good News for Modern Man) 3Delke, p. 19. 4Ibid., p. 20.


5Ibid., p. 272.


6Piney Grove Church, Minutes of Feb., 1828.


7Ibid., Aug., 1854. 8Ibid., Sept., 1871; Oct., 1875. 9Reynoldson Church, Minutes of Oct., 1878; Sept., 1887. 10Piney Grove, 1847.


11 Ibid., Sept., 1887. 12 Ibid., Sept., 1887. 13Ibid., June, 1889. 14 Ibid., Aug., 1899.


15Ibid., 1899. 16 Ibid., Vol. III, July, 1927. 17 Ibid., Vol. V, Sept. 9, 1956.


Lord's Supper


1Cook, Richard B., The Story of the Baptists in all Ages and Countries. (Baltimore: R.H. Woodward and Co., 1888), p. 272.


2Ibid., p. 273. 3Piney Grove Baptist Church, Vol. 1, Minutes of 1832.


4 Ibid., June, 1843. 5Ibid., Sept., 1843. 6Ibid., Sept., 1853. 7 Ibid., Oct., 1853. 8Ibid., Mar., 1855. 9Ibid., June, 1866. 10 Ibid., Jan., 1867. 11 Ibid., Jan., 1868. 12Ibid., Jan., 1869. 13Ibid., April, 1868. 14 Ibid., Vol. III, Feb., 1933. 15 Ibid., Vol. IV, Oct. 13, 1946. 16Ibid., Vol. II, Oct., 1880. 17 Ibid., Feb., 1922. 18Ibid., Vol. IV, Jan., 1975.


Ordination of Pastors


1Piney Grove Church, Vol. I, Minutes of 1833.


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2Ibid., August 27, 1858.


3Ibid., October 22, 1858.


4 Ibid., August 25, 1860.


5Ibid., April, 1864.


6Ibid., June 14, 1863.


7Ibid., March, 1865.


8Reynoldson, Vol. II, Minutes of Jan., 1885.


9Reynoldson, Vol. II, Minutes of August, 1895.


10Program - Dedication Reynoldson, May, 1925.


11Reynoldson, Vol. II, Sept., 1895.


12Reynoldson, Vol. I, March 27, 1960.


13Ibid., March 15, 1964.


14Chowan Baptist, Minutes of May, 1854.


15Reynoldson, Vol. II, Minutes March, 1884.


MISSIONS Early Missions


1Cook, p. 322.


2Ibid., p. 323. 3Ibid., p. 324


4Ibid., p. 325.


5Ibid., p. 325. 6Ibid., p. 327.


7Delke, p. 70. 8Ibid., p. 67. 9Ibid., p. 70.


10Ibid., p. 70.


IlPiney Grove, Vol. I., Minutes of Dec. 24, 1836. 12Ibid., Sept., 1839. 13Ibid., Nov., 1844. 14Ibid., 1846. 15 Ibid., Nov., 1852. 16Ibid., Sept., 1857. 17 Ibid., Oct., 1859. 18 Ibid., April, 1864. 19 Ibid., June, 1867. 20 Ibid., April, 1869.


21 Ibid., Jan., 1875. 22 Ibid., Jan., 1879.


23Reynoldson, Vol. II., Minutes of May, 1885. 24 Ibid., August, 1899. 25 Ibid., March, 1887. 26 Ibid., Nov., 1914. 27 Ibid., May, 1903. 28Chowan Baptist Association, Minutes of May, 1900.


29Reynoldson, Vol. II, Minutes of Nov., 1914. 30 Ibid., May, 1885.


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Mission Churches


1Piney Grove, Vol. I, Nov., 1870.


2Ibid., May, 1866.


3Ariel, Minutes of Aug., 1885.


+Ibid., Sept., 1918.


5Reynoldson, Vol. II, May, 1917.


6 Ariel, Sept., 1918.


7Ariel, Aug., 1885.


8Reynoldson, Vol. II, Sept., 1885. 9Ariel, Sept., 1885.


10Ibid., Oct., 1885.


11Ibid., Aug., 1885.


12Ibid., Oct., 1889.


13Ibid., July, 1890.


14Ibid.


15Ibid., Sept., 1918.


16Reynoldson, Vol. V, p. 297.


Mission Organizations Woman's Missionary Union


1Reynoldson, Vol. II, Minutes of May, 1885.


2 Alma Hunt, History of Woman's Missionary Union (Nashville, Tenn .: Cenvention Press, 1964), p. 18.


3"The W.M.U. of Reynoldson Baptist Church" (unpublished manuscript, February, 1951), p. 1. 4 Ibid.


5WMU Treasurer's Book, 1889-1891.


6Reynoldson, II, February, 1898.


History WMU, 1951.


8Chowan Baptist Association, Minutes of May, 1906.


9Ibid., May, 1912, p. 17.


10History WMU, 1951.


11 Ibid. 12Ibid.


13M.L. Kesler, personal letter, December 28, 1914.


14W.M.U. Minutes, October, 1919.


15 Ibid., May, 1922.


16 Ibid., May, 1924.


17 Ibid., April, 1925.


18 Ibid., October, 1923.


19 Ibid., February, 1927.


20 Ibid.,March, 1927.


21 Ibid., October, 1930.


22 Ibid., April, 1922.


23 Ibid., April, 1925.


24Ibid. November, 1925.


25 Ibid. September, 1920.


26Ibid., December, 1923.


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27 Ibid., March, 1924. 28Hunt, p. 103. 29 Ibid. 30Ibid., p. 104. 31 Ibid. 32 Ibid.


33W.M.U. Minutes,


34Proverbs 22:6.


35 Hunt, p. 118.


36Ibid.


38WMU, Minutes, April, 1929. 39 Ibid., June, 1932.


40Ibid., August, 1945.


+1Ibid., March, 1937.


42 Ibid., March, 1948.


+3WMU History, p. 3. 44W.M.U., Minute, July, 1944. 45 Ibid. 46 Ibid.


47WMU Minutes, August, 1952.


48WMU History, p. 3.


49Gates County Index, February, 1954.


50Reynoldson, Vol. 5, Minutes of March, 1955.


51 Ibid., October, 1955.


52WMU, Minutes November, 1955.


53Ibid., November, 1956.


54Ibid., February, 1957.


55 Ibid., September, 1959.


56Ibid., February, 1962.


57 Ibid., August, 1961.


58Ibid., October, 1967.


59Ibid., December, 1956. 60Hunt, p. 181.


62Mrs. J. R. Freeman, personal notes.


62W.M.U., Minutes October, 1973.


63W.M.U., Permanent Watchword, I Corinthians 3:9.


Sunbeams


1Reynoldson


2Sunday School Record Book, April 8, 1888. Willie Jones to Edith Freeman, June 23, 1936.


3Sunbeam Minutes, November, 1919.


4Sunbeam Minutes, 1920.


5W.M.U. Minutes, March, 1932.


6W.M.U. Minutes, June, 1961. 7Royal Service, February, 1973, p. 23.


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G.A.'s & R.A.'s


1W.M.U., Minutes, 1924.


2 Ibid., Dec., 1928.


3Ibid., Jan., 1950.


4Ibid., Sept., 1953.


5Reynoldson, Vol. 5, Minutes of April, 1961. 6W.M.U., Oct., 1962.


7Ibid., 1932. 8Ibid., Nov., 1959.


9Robbie Hayes Eure, interview at Gates, N.C., 1977.


10Reynoldson, April, 1963.


YWA


1Reynoldson, Vol. IV, December, 1941.


2W.M.U., Minutes of September, 1955.


3Ibid., July, 1957.


4Ibid., February, 1962.


Brotherhood


1Louise Pittman, interview held in Gates, N.C., Summer, 1977.


2Reynoldson, Vol. V, Minutes of Jan. 7, 1955.


3Ibid., February, 1955.


4Ibid., April, 1955.


5Ibid., April, 1961.


6Ibid., July, 1957. 7Ibid., April, 1957.


CEMETERY


1Piney Grove Baptist Church, Minutes of March 22, 1834.


2Howell letter, 1939.


3Piney Grove, April 6, 1876.


4Reynoldson, Vol. II, June, 1883.


5Ibid., February, 1887.


6Ibid., April, 1901.


7Ibid., April, 1912.


8Ibid., September, 1913.


9Ibid., Vol. III, August, 1921.


10 Ibid., Vol. IV, 1948.


11 Ibid., May 28, 1950.


12 Ibid., July 23, 1950.


13 Ibid., Vol. V, January 11, 1957.


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14 Ibid., April 4, 1958. 15 Ibid., January 9, 1959. 16Ibid., July 19, 1971. 17 Ibid., Vol. IV, April 8, 1945. 18Ibid., Vol. V, April 23, 1950. 19 Ibid., April 27, 1952.


20 Ibid., May 8, 1960.


EPILOGUE


1Billy P. Presley, Sr., sermon "Twelve Down and Counting," March, 1976.


APPENDIXES Church Officers Pastors


Elder John Harrell


1Speight, p. 6.


2"South Quay Baptist 200th Year for Church", Virginian-Pilot, March, 1975. 3Chowan Baptist Association, Minutes of 1848, p. 21.


4Speight., John Harrell.


5Speight, John Harrell.


6Piney Grove Church, Vol. I, Minutes of Feb. 25, 1842. 7 Ibid., November 25, 1843.


8Ibid., December 25, 1843. 9Ibid., November 1844.


Elder Edward Harvell


1Julius F. Howell, personal letter.


2Piney Grove Church, Vol, I, Minutes of Dec. 14, 1827; Nov. 23 1833; Feb. 22, 1842; Oct. 22, 1842; Sept. 25, 1858; and Jan, 1860. 3Chowan Baptist Association, Minutes of May, 1882.


4 Ibid., March, 1829. 5Ibid., April, 1829. 6Ibid., Nov., 1833. 7 Ibid., Dec., 1845. 8Ibid., Dec., 1846. 9Ibid., Oct., 1846. 10Chowan, May, 1882.


11 Piney Grove, Vol. I, November, 1851.


12Ibid., Oct., 1855. 13Ibid., Feb., 1856. 14Ibid., Jan., 1860. 15 Ibid., 1861. 16Ibid., 1866.


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.


17 Ibid., Nov., 1868. 18Bettie Goodman Edwards, personal records. 19Chowan, May, 1882.


W.W. Kone


1Reynoldson, Minutes of 1856-1859.


C.T. Bailey


1Speight, p. 7.


T.W. Bobb


1 Piney Grove Baptist Church, Minutes of April, 1864.


2Ibid., March, 1865.


3Ibid., 1867.


+Ibid., October 23, 1869.


5Ibid., October 8, 1975.


6Ibid.


7Chowan Baptist Association, Minutes of May 22, 1877. 8Piney Grove, July, 1878.


9Ibid., February and March, 1880.


10 Ibid., May, 1881.


11 Ibid., February, 1882.


12 Ibid., February, 1884.


13 Ariel Baptist Church, Minutes of July 23, 1890.


W.B. Waff


IGates County Index, Vol. I, April 11, 1933, p. 1. 2Reynoldson, Vol. III, Minutes of June, 1933.


3Gates County Index, p. 1.


A.C. McCall


1Reynoldson, Vol. II, Minutes of January, 1918-1922. 2Vernon McCall, letter, July, 1977.


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GENEALOGICAL CHART


1 .


CARROLL Jack(m) TYLER, Frances CARROLL Robert(W) WILLEY Ada ELLIS, John C (M) PITTMAN, Sarah Ei M . 4 111-1944


ELLIS, Jarvis (M) SAVAGE, Rachel M 8-18-1941


M 12 - 21- 1945 -


IM 7-19-1941 .


2) Jarvis 1) John (Jack) 2) Robert Jenkins


1) John Carroll


6 1 - 20 18 .12


6. 9-28 1:36


6. 10-18-1949 2. 13.1953 CARROLL John E(W) CROSS Vennie Lee b 9-27-1903 : d 3 8 -1976


CARROLL Gretchen (M) ELLIS, Georged +2 1. M 5 - 19 - 1710


M. 8-17-1921


1) John


2) Gretchen


0. 2-16-1870 : d. 4.18-1982


EDWARDS, Nina Estelle (M) CARROLL John Holmes (m) ELLIS Mills P. d. 9-24-1944 M 2-15-1891


m. 1 - - - 1706


1) William Franklin Clifton 2) Ning Estelle 3) Julian Henry. 4) Sally -


- b 5-29-1841 GOODMAN Elizabeth C. (M) EDWARDS, John Allen 8.4- 6-1923 b. 1- 31-1831 . · d. 4-13-1913 1 ***


- - (Betty) M 12-19-1865


1) William Hillary Lee 2) Mary Edith 3 ) Indiana M O. + ) . Elizabeth Charity 5 ) Margaret 6 ) Richard H . b. 11-12-1812 GOODMAN Jethro (M) WILLEY Pininah b. 9-13-1811 4-12-31-1848


d.


M- 2- 12 - 1834


1. Baby 2 ) Henry Lee 3) Jethro Darden 4) Edith 5) Mary Elizabeth


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6. 10-19 1800 b. 2-22-1880


:b 12-23 - 1790 b. 11-10-1782 id 8-21-1868 LEE Charity(M) GOODMAN William (Son of Henry) d. 10-24-1841 IM. 9-24-1807 1


1) Mary 2) Isaac 3) Sarah 4) Martha 5) John 6) Richard 7) Nancy 8) Margaret 9) Charity 10) Permelia 10William (2) Elizabeth 1 b .__ 1746 * PIPKIN Elizabeth(M) LEE, Henry 2. 1806 · d. 9-24-1839 b. 1745


*


M-11-9-1779


1'John 2) Isaac 3) Margaret 4) Elizabeth 5>Mary Ann 6) Charity 7) Sarah


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PIPKIN Isaac (M) Charity


KEY


b born; d died; M. married, ". Married; Capitals Surname * Charter Members Piney Grove Organized 1827 1. Church Lineage ** Built First Church A. First Treasurer Among the Ladies


*** Gave Deed for Land


**** Chairman of Deacons 1953 O KM J. Treas 25 yrs ***** Descendent of Charter Member Charity Goodman who is a Reynoldson Member 1177


PIPKIN


Jack Carroll is the only decendent of the Jethro Goodman family who is a member of Reynoldson in 1977.


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6-9-13-1903 1 2) Mary Helen


LEE Phyllis (M) PATTERSON, James 0; I Tb 1-12-1904 : 5 - 25 - 1959 !


1) Harry Pipkin


3) Eunice wins


vins 4) Phyllis,


ib 8-29-1850 1 10 4- 7-1915


LEE W.O.P. (M) DOUGHTIE, Florence T. M- 4 - 15 - 1886


b- 4-20-1871 d. 1- 19- 1924


1


1) William Oscar Pipkin


2) Lavenia 3) Robert Edward


4) Ester 5) Rosa 6) Myrtle 7) Charlotte


6. 2.7. 1826 d. 1-17-1885


Elizabeth


Anna


;


1) Charlotte Adella


2) Amanda Malvina


3) William Henry


4 ) Permelia 5) Joshua Mc Harrell


6 ) Esther 7) Isaac


8) John Pipkin Clelia


--


. b. 1786


LEE William (M) HARRELL, Lavenia *


d 4-6 - 1843


12-5-1821


1


)Mary 2) Isaac 3) Sarah 4) Martha 5) John 6) Richard 7) Nancy 8) Margaret 9) Charity 10) Permelia 1William 12) Elizabeth


: b. 1745


. d. 1806


LEE, Henry (M) PIPKIN, Mary Elizabeth M. 11-9-1779


6. 1746 d. 9-24-1839


KEY


LEE


b. born; d. died, M. married, : Married; Capitals Surname * Charter Members


Information given by Phyllis Lee Patterson


9) Annie


Maria


Elizabeth Pipkin


6.1790


1 d. 1857


LEE, Rev. John P. (M) PARKER, Mary Figures d. 2-7-184 M. 5-27 - 1849


1


1


T.L. Brown


1Committee of Reynoldson Baptist Church, "In Memory, T.L. Brown," Biblical Recorder (April 30, 1941), p. 24.


2 Ibid.


John L. Carrick


1Hargus Taylor, "John Lee Carrick" (unpublished manuscript, 1977).


J. Sidney Cobb


1J. Sidney Cobb, Jr., letter, September 3, 1977.


W. Wardell Waters


1Foy Baker, telephone interview, 1977.


James C. Conoly


1Reynoldson Baptist Church, Minutes of June 24, 1951. 2 Ibid., April 27, 1952.


Oscar S. Edmonds, Jr.


1Oscar S. Edmonds, Jr., letter, August, 1977.


Donald Stewart


l"Know Your Clergyman: Birds Add Gaiety to Stewart Home", The Virginian-Pilot, N.D.


2Reynoldson, Vol. V, Minutes of Dec., 1959-Aug., 1961.


3"Clergyman," Virginian-Pilot.


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Billy P. Presley, Sr.


1Billy P. Presley, Sr., interview, Summer, 1977.


Deacons


1Reynoldson, Vol. III, p. 55. 2Ibid., p. 52.


Clerks


1Piney Grove, Vol. 1, Minutes of Oct., 1856.


Treasurer


1Reynoldson, Vol. III, p. 53.


Julius Howell


1Gates County Index, February 10, 1933.


2The United Daughters of the Confederacy Magazine, VIII (April, 1945), 9.


3Piney Grove, Vol. I, Minutes 1864-1873.


4Letter J.F. Howell.


5Letter J.F. Howell, February 11, 1933. 6U.D.C., April, 1945.


7W.M.U., Minutes January, 1946.


8Resolutions, December 26, 1945.


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