Thank you for this. I love the family names you mentioned and hope you have some way of passing them on.
If you to Columbia Drive in Decatur, look at the Methodist Children's Home and you'll see an old Chapel. The chapel was built with funds raised by my Great Great Uncle, Sam Jones (the Evangelist). Up in Pitt County in North Carolina is another Church, this one Episcopalian with windows memorializing another side of my family who served and worshipped there for generations.
Not everyone knows their history. Some don't even know their grandparents correct names. For them and for us, what we really need to know is that we are God's People and our history is amazing!
I will admit, I'm not one to pay particular attention to family history, but this was cool. Thanks for sharing it.
Stamps Chapel became a Baptist congregation in 1904 -- and they build a new chapel at that time. The congregation had another name before that, I just don't know what it was. Margaret is buried in that graveyard -- alone. The rest of the family is buried in Crestlawn.
Stamps Chapel is just a few blocks away from Columbia Seminary and the Methodist Children's Home -- it's right off 2nd Ave. in Decatur.
wow thank you so much for sharing this.
I barely know my grandparents history, let alone anything else. lol That is just so cool though!
This is great, reverendmommy. My husband is a big Civil War buff and amateur geneologist. I'm sending this to him to read. He will love it!
I loved this post!
I LOVE this post! It reminded me of how I felt when I watched the film "cold mountain". Just overwhelmed with how hard life was "in those days". Physically hard! I grew up in an appalachin family full of those stories of large families and sojourns through the mountains. As an adopted child. . i always yearned to know "my" story. Where we are "from" is so important. I applaud your efforts to re tell and pass it on.
My Rice/Penley family came from North Carolina. In doing genealogy research, the neatest thing for me to find in a GEDCOM is personal stories! It makes it all come alive and I get "connected" to my ancestors. Thank you for giving me a thrill today and making this a "connected" day.
It also makes the point that we all need to write it down. What feels like dumb junk to us can make our families in coming generations "connect" to us.
Thanks again
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