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Subject: Re: [BRE] church in Va. 1903, J.O. Boone
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:31:34 -0700
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thank you Bob Harter



In a message dated 06/16/10 13:33:43 Pacific Daylight Time, writes:
According to Sappington, "The Brethren in Virginia", page 327:
"In the southernmost part of Franklin County, some twenty miles south of
Rocky Mount, a section of the Antioch congregation was split off around the
beginning of the twentieth century to form the Snow Creek congregation. In
1910, this small group of about twenty-five Brethren built a church under
the leadership of J.O. Boone, a resident minister. Other ministers from the
Franklin County congregations assisted him in the church work. By 1956, when
the congregation changed its name to Boones Chapel, it had grown to a
membership of one hundred sixty."

Apparently the Antioch congregation planted a number of churches, but this
was the only one I could find that seemed to fit your description.

According to Sappington's index, J.O. Boone was John O. Boone. Now, there
was another John Boone who lived 100 years earlier. His wife was Elizabeth
Moyer and their daughter, Sarah "Sally" married David Harter in 1812 in
Montgomery (Floyd) County, VA. Does anyone know anything about him?

Bob Harter

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Subject: [BRE] church in Va. 1903


> Can any on the list, tell me the name of the church that was organization
> from the Antioch church in 1903 in Franklin Co., Va. ? See below.
>
> Dennis
>
> Feb. 14, 1903 page 109 The Gospel Messenger
> Antioch church met for council Jan. 31, Eld. Riley Flora presided. Three
> letters were received. Bro. John Bowman, an aged deacon, was gladly
> welcome by the church. Two letters were granted. The members of the south
> side of the county called for a separate church organization at Brier
> Mountain, where they have a neat churchhouse, twenty miles south of here.
> The request was granted. They have twenty-five members, two of whom are
> ministers in the second degree, Brethren J. O. Boon and Samuel Boon.
> Sunday-school officers were elected for the second and third quarters.
> Brethren B. F. Flora and J. Bowman were re-elected superintendents – J. A.
> Naff, Boons Mill, Va., R. F. D. 1, Feb. 2.
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