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M. Lee, Editor, V^OL. 3 NO. 40 BLUE RIDGE BAPTIST BAPTIST CHURCH: _ Preaching every second and fourth^ Sunday, morning and evening. Sunday School 10 A. M. Prayer meeting every Tlmrsday eve. Rev. W. R. Bradshaw, Pastor, METHODIST CHURCH: Preaching every first and third Sun- 'day morning and evening Sunday School 9:30 A. M. Prayer meeting every Tuesday evening.^ Rev. J. B. Tabor, Pastor. ^ PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: ^ Preaching every third and fourth Sun ^day, morning and evening. ^ Sunday School 9:30 A. M. 0^ Prayer meeting every Wednesday eve.^ Rev. C. W. Robinson, Pastor. MS ^1* cordially invited to attend] ^Jthese services. PREMIUMS POR— --BflPTIST WORKERS. Doubtless no other Religious paper in Western Carolina, has grown ,so rapidly as the Blue Ridge Baptist. Everybody who sees and reads its contents has a good” word to say about it. An easy matter to secure subseribers. Any body can easily obtain a valuable present. We make the following offers: for Two Subscribers-*- W© will mall you, po.stage paid,- Cloliig’to College,-(xiowh wicii the en thusiasm of a high ideal. We wish it could be in the Library of every High school, Seminary and Academy in the laud. Price 50c. Or liikes and Opposites,- a han dy book for the speaker and writer Price oOc. Both of the above named books for only 3 subscribers. for Three Subscribers-*' We will mail you, postage paid,- 1000 Mytliolog. Characters Briefly Des cribed, or 1000 Classical Charact ers Briefly Described, price of each 75c., or How to Study Ldterature. (Special for Literary Societies.) Price 75c. All three of the above named books for onP,' 5 subscribers. Tor four Subscribers-*- We will mail you, postage paid, a copy of,How to Attract and Hold an Au dience.- Every man who speaks in public should have one, especially Clergymen, Well bound in cloth and retails for $1,00, or we will mail you either of the following if preferred at the same rate. 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Address: BLUE RIDGE BAPTIST, No. Wilkesboro- DEVOTED TO RELIGION, EDDCA^^ION AND TEMPERANCE. NORTH WILKESBOR(jy, N. C.. JULY 16, 1903. D. W, Lee, Associate Editor ond Manoger. WEEKLY, 50c. A YEAR. THE LEWIS’ fORK BAPTIST ASSOCIATION. , I'he writer often leaves the reader with something to supply—and sometimes strands him in doubt Let us look at the manj’-sided pictui e. The early pioneers, manyof them, lived from the Kennebec river, Maine to the Ashley river, S. O., and you Vi ill find many familiar old Baptist names in the Yadkin country among the early day Baptists of Alnryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. From the latter State we in stance the following uanies; Stout, Wilson, Brown, Brooks, Morgan, Bennet, Smith, Moore, Miller, Armstrong, Curtis, Martin, Johnson, Adams, Morton, Thompson, Todd, Davis, Simmon,s Van Horn, Eaton, Qano, Sheppard, Reece and Horton. The latter fam ily and others in the above list came from Jersey. In the mention made of Jjlder Andrew Baker, the evident pioneer, of the mountain Baptists of Ashe and Wilkes and the wes tern parts of Virginia, some facts were with held waiting further information from our older and wiser brethren. Col. James Eller says in a i-eceut letter that Elder Baker was a brother in ’aw to Elder Nathaniel Vannoy. The sketch kept by the writer would place him as an older man than Nathaniel Vannoy was and brother to the mother of the latter. Wood Furman places the Bakers in the old Charleston church and Benedict places Sam uel Baker one of the constituent members of the Old Ashley River church. Nathaniel Vannoy was the fourth son of John Vannoy and Susannah, hi.'? wife, and was born Feb- i.iaij 10, itid. probably ,n Uie couuty or Anson (now Davidson), Aorth- Carolina. When converted to Christ the writer has been unable to ascertain. When called to the ministry is not known. He Wci.s a soldier under Benjamin Cleveland who was claimed as a kinsman in the King’s Mountain cam paign and performed other services in that war as did his father who must have been more than sixty years of age in 1780. This family were Huguenot on the fathers side and English by descent from the mother. Elder Nathaniel Vannoy is first in the list of the constituent names of New Hope church June 20, 1830. He is said to have been its first pastor. The records do not show this, although, some months after that organiza tion was completed the chnrch by vote asked the church at Reddies River for pastoral help. The first sent, Elder Solomon Stamper and the second sent, Elder James Vanno'’— these two alternated the months until Elder Jordan Ashley was called. This, by the wav, sounds new to us in these days, but it was the custom among the old regulars seventy five years ago. Prior to 1840 some newly or ganized body called on New Hope church for pastoral help, and having recently or dained Elder William 7hurch it was agreed by the brethren at New Hope that this broth er be sent. This proves the custom. So much by the way .ind the custom evidently came all the way from the. Charleston Association, at a very early day in its history, prior to the Revolution, we find this query. “Quer V 14. Is it consistent with gospel or der for a minister to have the pastoral care of two distinct clinrches at the same time?” This was answered in the negative. “Yet,” says the minutes, “we are of opinion that the p:i8tor of one church may occasimially’ admin ister the ordinances in another which is des titute.” In this weean see the influence of the Reg ular Baptists in that centre of southern cul ture and pulpit eloquence among the breth ren on the Yadkin. It aids in establishing the origin of the two families under discus sion. It has been said that they came fiom New Jersey, but this was owing to their af finity to the family of Elder John Gano—an other Huguenot and probably next to Oliver Hart, the greatest preacher in America dur ing the Revolutionary period, a chaplain in the army and pastor—every where. New York City, however, claimed him then. Elder Vannoy lived to July 26, 1835, and passed away i^t Greenville, S. C,,where a suit able monument marks his resting place, erected by his decendents—Vannoy and W. C. Cleveland. Di his later years he rode as did Elder Gano in many parts of North Car olina, South Carolina and Tennessee. His work was principally :imong the A- cadians of the Saluda, Broad River, Trar.s- ylvani-a, Swannanoa, French Broad ami to the Dpek River regions in Middle Tennessee. Col. J. Eller, the Moderator of the Ashe Association f jr many years, gives it as his impression that Elders Baker and Vannoy were brothers in law, and says that his o wn father and (he contemporaries of 1830—40 “spokeof Elder Vannoy as a minister of considerablensHfnlness, was well informed and did muchjn propogatiiig Baptist prin ciples in the country where he preached. 1 am confident he was the first pastor at New Hope and was succeeded by Elder Jordan Ashley.” He is not mentioned in the or ganization of the Yadkin Association. 1 do not think his work, if indeed he was achris- tiona.t that time, would lead him in that di rection. But, no doubt, the Old Mountain District Association organized in 1799 from Eider Baker’s Virginia church and some o- - thers in both states would be more likely to claim him. (How much those Mountiun District Bap tists could do to tticl the writer ni getting information. Will they not do it?) Elder A annoy moved from his home on Beaver Greek in Ashe county to Lewis’s Fork and settled there about the year 14115. But was no doubt a prime mover in all tliose occurrences that led to the organization of the Lewis’s Fork Association. He W:is born again when converted on the true mission ary plan and was a zealous and faithful man even in old age. Elder George McNeil has been mentioned by name several times and was the Moderator of,the Yadkin Association in 1787 and for many years afterward. “He came from Scot land,” says one of his grand-sons, with two brothers, John and Thomas.” (He had a sis ter also who.se name was Mary.) They looked back with love as long as they could see a gieen leaf on account of their religious free dom. My graud-father came to the State of Va. and married a Miss. Coates, and as the country settled up, being a Baptist minister by profession, was called for to constitute Baptist churches and attend as jiastorof Bap tist churches. He came into Graysen countv, Va., after which he came into Wilkes conntv, N.. c., and constituted and attended churches here. He attended churches down the Yad kin river. He was pastor of theciiiirch near (helnaul of the Vadkin. lie lived in Wilkes countv about 21 miles west of New l.U>pe iiieeliiig house”—and it was this place that was once known as the church at Bro. McNeil’s— prior to the Re,volition. Nathaniel Vaiinov lived within oefe mile of Bro. McNeil’s iilaoe ill 1816. Elder McNeil w;is Regisier i.i Deeds of Wilkes county about, 1802. One of his sons, John, marriel a Olevciaiid and settled with the Clevelands in S, C. llis soil, U illiam, was a soldier in the war of 1812 and after that was settled in Olairbiirii county', I’ennessee. Elder James McNeil was his grandson, Elder Milton McNeil, of Wilkesboro. and Peter .McNeil, of Ashe, aho U(il. J. Eller of Ashe Association aregiMiid- soiis. One,of the Contemporaries of Elder McNeil was i.lder Jaiiie.s Parsons, of Ashe county near the Old Fields church. Eider 1 homas Pioffit was also a neighbor and contemporary. The inter mariiagcs of this family have brought a long train of kinsmen and decendants, of different family names. The descendants of tLio pionce- Ooubeiess iiumbei’ tbeir thousands at this time. Ten thousainl might b'. a-higb estimate bat ib-, writer would hardly hesitate at ha f that number. 'They are generally in the footsteps of their ancestors in their religious opinions. Dr. Greei.e in his sketch of the Baptists of the upper Yadkin Valley, written a few years ago, gives this account of the McNeil family. He says “they first settled in the lower pan, of ca’-olina probaolv in the cape E’ear region, llis two brothers went farth er west but he himself went first to the wes tern part of Virginia. Here he jirobal.ily struck ihc trail of the emigrant: frmi PcniisOvania to Western North Carolii,fi, and turned southward to .Vshe conurv. .S'aui he crossed the Mountaiins and Settled on Lewis’Fork, in Wilkes, nea,r where New Hope church now stands, ” (continued on secoml page.) u':.u Wo"' A * -I m BLUE RIDUE attendance20 per cent better than previous year. Good Literary Societies. Mora! influ ences good. Board in private families $6 to $9. Tuition $1 to $3. E’all Term opens Aug ust 18,1903. For catalogue, address, S. J. HONEYCUTT, Principal, North Wilkesboro, N. C. One of the leading Uo-educational Schools ill North Caroliiin. Literary, Mtisic, Bus- imss, Fllocntion and Bible Departments. 179 Students from 8 bounties. Last year’s INSTI TUTE.
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