THE HERITAGE OF STOKES COUNTY, N. C., 1981. John R. Woodard, Editor . ISAAC BARNER STONE

931 Isaac Barner Stone was born on Sunday,

December 1, 1811 to William and Edney Bar-ner Stone. As far as we know he was born in Stokes County and was the oldest of eleven children. He studied law in Tennessee and was granted permission to practice law in 1840 in Bedford County as per the following paper: "STATE OF TENNESSEE-December Term of Bedford County Court. Present: William Gal-breath, Chairman, Jacob Green and Price C. Steele. Proclamation being made and Court was Opened: On motion of Medicus A. Long, Esq. and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that Isaac B. Stone is a citizen of Bedford Count, Tenn. that he is a man of good moral character that he is more than twenty-one years of age, it is therefore ordered by the Court that the Clerk of the Court certify these presents as a preliminary step to the obtaining of license to practice law by the said Isaac B. Stone. State ofTennessee, Bedford County. I, Robert Hurst, Clerk of the County Court of said County hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and perfect copy of an order made by the County Court of said County as appears upon record in my office. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of Bedford County Court this 10th day of Decem-ber A. D. one thousand eight hundred and for-ty. SI Robt. Hurst, Clerk."

Perhaps soon after 1840, Stone went to Alabama to practice law, and met and married Lydia Elizabeth Jenks from Bar Harbor, Maine in December, 1842. Tradition has it that Lydia's mother was an aunt to Thomas Paine. The following information was copied from "Russell Lowndes County Court House, page 68: 'One of Haynesville's early lawyers, Isaac B. Stone, a native of Stokes County, North Carolina, who died in Boston in 1853, aged thirty-nine years, is buried near the center of the original cemetery. Mr. Stone married at Cahawba, Alabama, in December of 1842, Lydia Elizabeth Jenks of Thomaston, Maine. Two of their children are interred here. A beautiful wrought-iron fence enclosed these graves. Mrs. Stone was a niece of John Ho-ward Payne (?) author of 'Home, Sweet Home.' (According to family records, Isaac was 42 years old - 1811-1853.)

Isaac and Lydia were the parents of five children: Julius, Arthur Lowndes, Isaac, Catherine and Ada Jenks. Lydia died when she was only 29 years old with yellow fever, and is buried in Hayneville, Ala where two of her children are also buried.

After their parents died, the three remaining children were for a time kept by Lydia's brothers who ran a hotel. Later Julius and Isaac (Jr.) were brought to North Carolina to their grandparents. Julius was born Sept. 3, 1843 and died June 20, 1863- 'In defense of the Sunny South' - aged 19 years, 9 months and 17 days. He is buried near King in the old Stone Graveyard . Isaac (Jr.) was reared by his Stokes County relatives near King and married Betty Jane Newsom Feb . 8, 1877. He is buried at Mt. Pleasant graveyard . Catherine, 'Little Kate' was reared by her aunt Catherine Jenks

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Smith in Boston . It was on the trip to carry her to Boston that her father Isaac Sr. died and was buried in Boston, later being dis-interred and buried in Hayneville, Ala. beside his wife, Lydia. Catherine married Colonel Clark of the Union Army, and died 6 weeks after she was married. (See William Stone history.)

- Jessie J. Stone

ISAAC BARNER STONE, JR. 932

Isaac Barner Stone was born in Alabama on Nov. 29, 1847, the third child of Isaac Barner and Lydia Jenks Stone. He was only a small boy when his mother died with yellow fever and his father died with a heart attack shortly after. The surviving children were kept by two Jenks brothers who ran a hotel until William G. Stone, their uncle from North Carolina brought them back to N.C. to Uncle Joel Stone.

Catherine, Isaac's younger sister was car-ried to Boston to her Aunt Catherine (Kate) Jenks Smith, where she lived until she died, soon after her marriage. It was on this trip, carrying her to Boston, that Isaac (Sr.) died. Isaac (Jr.) and Julius were reared by Uncle William and Uncle Joel (Joe) at the old home-place near the Little Yadkin River. We do not know much of his early life - we know that Julius, the older, fought and died in the Civil War and the marker at at his grave is inscribed, "in defense of the Sunny South."

On February 8, 1877 he married Betty Jane Newsom, and they lived for a short time in Forsyth County off the Spainhour Mill Road where their children were born. Most of their life was spent at Five Forks, near King in the two-story frame house which is still standing.

They had six children: Lonie Jenks, born July 28, 1878, married Sidney 0. Schaub, died 2-8-1949 and is buried at Mt. Pleasant Graveyard. One child born to her died in infan-cy. Clodie Hinton Stone, born Feb. 11, 1880, died August 11, 1966, was auditor for South-ern and H.P.T. & D. Railroad in High Point; never married; Joseph E. Stone, born April 16, 1882, married Martha Lennis Pulliam, died March 20, 1956: Kate Perry Stone, born Sept. 20, 1883, died Aug. 31, 1947 - was a reg-istered nurse. Grover Francis (Jack) Stone, born Aug. 30, 1886, died Nov. 7, 1968. Mar-ried Lelia Ingram - no children. Grady Eras-tus Stone born Dec. 1, 1891 died in King where he practiced medicine on June 21, 1945. He is buried in the graveyard at the King Baptist Church. He marrried Nannie Ashburn on May 19, 1919. (See history of William Stone.)

- Jessie Johnson Stone

JOE E. STONE 933

Joe E. Stone was born on April 16, 1882 to Isaac Barner and Betty Jane Newsom Stone. He received his formal education at Dalton Institute and attended the School of Telegra-phy in Newnan, Georgia. He was reared on the farm where he worked until 1927 when he started work in King at the King Drug Com-

pany. While a young man, he and his sisters Kate and Clodie enjoyed playing in their "fami-ly" band~ he play~d the violin, Kate the banjo a~d . Clod1e the guitar - they also enjoyed singing.

On Sunday, December 15, 1912, he mar-ried Martha Lennis Pulliam at the home of Rev Oliver, who officiated. They stopped on th~ way h~me at. Trinity Church for the morning worship service. They spent the first night at Grandma Pulliam's in King and went to Grand-ma Stone's the next day.

Their first home was on the land deeded to him by his aunt Catherine (Kate) Smith, ad-joining his father's home. In 1927 he moved to King to help his brother Dr. G.E. Stone and Dr. Rupert Helsabeck in the King Drug Store where he worked until his death. In 1930 he' Dr. Stone, Aunt Clodie and Dr. Helsabeck built the present drugstore Where his nephew Dick Stone now owns and operates the store. He worked long, long hours, keeping the books keeping the doctors' "pill boxes" filled with medicine - doing first aid and other jobs connected with the operation of a drugstore. He was loved and respected by everyone. He was a loving and devoted husband and father and a lot of people called him "doctor". '

He bought and sold many tracts of land as deeds among old papers attest. When the banks failed in 1931, he lost all the money he had in the King Bank, and this was the year that his son Joe, Jr. was entering college. He was a good business man - a man of great integrity - honest in all his dealings - a "peace maker" - and an example of strong, disci-plined character.

He died with cancer in 1956 at his home in King following a colon operation. Although he suffered much, he never complained- a man of great inner strength and courage. He loved his family dearly, and always wanted them to be good citizens. He was a Mason, following a tradition of his family. He is buried at Mt. Pleasant Graveyard in the Stone plot.

He and Lennis were parents of three chil-dren: Joe E. Jr., born September 23, 1913, married Jessie Johnson, no children; Annie Kate, born June 8, 1919, died March 1920; and Isaac Frank Stone, born April 26, 1921, married Eleanor Sipe of Virginia, died Dec. 27, 1976, buried at the old Stone Graveyard in Surry County, under the Pilot Mountain which he loved.

Compiled by the daughter-in-law of Mr. Stone.

- Jesse J. Stone

JOE E. STONE, JR. 934

Joe E. (Everett) Stone was born on Septem-ber 23, 1913 in Stokes County near King to Joe E. and Lennie Pulliam Stone, the first of three children. His first schooling was at Old Richmond, then, graduating from King High School. He graduated from High Point College in 1934, and later took a correspondence course in Electrical Engineering. After grad-uating from College, he was employed by Duke Power Company in Winston-Salem and after working in many departments, he was

tra,nsferred to Reidsville as Electrical Superin-tendent in 1952, becoming Manager in 1959, and retiring in 1975 as District Manager.

While growing up in King, he helped his father in the King Drug Store, and drove the car for Dr. Stone and Dr. Helsabeck when they made home calls . He worked for Mr. C.R. Carroll in wiring houses, and in many ways assisted him while he was Manager of the King Branch of Duke Power Company.

On December 12, 1936 he married Jessie Oleita Johnson, daughter of Joseph Edwin and Ida Frances Kiser Johnson, in Quaker Gap Baptist Church. They lived in King until 1952 when he was transferred to Reidsville . While living in King they were active members of King Moravian Church, he serving as Sunday School Superintendent, a member of the Church Board, chairman of the building com-mittee for the Christian Education Building, and helped make the Lovefeast Coffee for the Lovefeasts . He served as Scout Leader for many years, was Past Master of Pilot Masonic Lodge #493.

In Reidsville he served as President of Penn-rose Park Country Club, Board of Trustee of Annie Penn Hospital, Chairman of the United Fund, Merchants Association, Chamber of Commerce, Northern Piedmont Development, Kiwanis Club, in the Boy Scouts, a Deacon in the First Presbyterian Church, President of Rockingham County Shrine Club, and many other organizations. He received many hon-ors, including "The Boss of the Year."

Jessie was also active in Church and Com-munity affairs, serving as Sunday School teacher, member of the Provincial Woman's Board of the Moravian Church, a member of the Chancel Choir and other capacities of First Presbyterian Church in Reidsville. She was a member of Annie Penn Auxiliary, Red Cross, The Reidsville Woman's Club, The Potters Art Club and the Green Thumb Garden Club. She won several awards for her oil paintings and pottery, also awards in sewing and many awards in golf.

- Jessie Johnson Stone

j JOHN STONE 935

John Stone is a descendant of the third Governor of Maryland, William Stone. Gov. William Stone came from England in 1633 and was appointed Governor, August 8, 1648 by Lord Baltimore . His great-great-grandson, Thomas Stone, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Through Wills, Deeds, Land Grants and location of land and a careful study, has this John Stone being the sixth generation of Gov. William Stone .

John Stone was the son of William and Hannah Conway Stone who came from Fan-quier County, Virginia and settled in Surry County near Pilot Mountain in 1780.

John Stone was born in 1759 and died June 1, 1839. He married Betsy Curry, daughter of Malcolm Curry, a big land owner in Surry County. Betsy died September 9, 1842.

William purchased several hundred acres of land in Surry County. There is a deed in the

Stokes County Register of Deeds Office where William and Hannah Stone had 280 acres of land in Stokes County near Belews Creek, but sold that land Feb. 8, 1786 (transfered from Surry Co .) to Paul Starbuck from Gu ilford County. This son John Stone owned land join-ing them but sold it Nov. 24, 1792 to Moses Barrow. It is believed that William and Hannah or John lived on this property. We find this John Stone purchasing land through land grants and individuals on the Little Yadkin River and Crooked Run Creek near the Dry Springs Community about five miles south west of King, N.C. as early as 1778.

There is a graveyard on the land that John owned in the Dry Springs Community, and is known as the " Stone Graveyard". He and Bet-sy are believed buried there. There are several rocks used as head stones with no inscription.

John Stone was a Justice of the Peace in Stokes County for twenty years from 1800 to 1820. According to the Court of Pleas he served on the jury about every session during those years.

There was a Bethlehem Lutheran Meeting House near the present area of Country Estates development near King. A small graveyard is there near where the Meeting House stood.

In 1810 this was "Bast's" precinct estab-lished in Richmond Tax District with John Stone, Jacob Spainhour, and Adam Fulk in charge.

In 1812 John Stone was an election Official. It is believed that elections were held in the Meeting House.

In 1815 this district was changed to Spainhour.

School was taught in the Meeting House, also, with John Stone becoming one of the first public school teachers.

He was a tax lister in 1825 in Spainhour District.

One of John and Betsy Curry Stone sons was William Stone born March 3, 1787.

These were my Great-great-great-great-grandparents.

- Jean Stone Hall

JOHN AND WILLIAM STONE 936

The History of Stokes County would not be complete without the names of John and Wil-liam Stone, who came to r~orth Carolina from Fauquier County, Virginia around 1760, along with other early settlers, looking for cheap land. John Stone, it is recorded, was paying taxes in 1761, and bought 250 acres on the South Fork of Polecatt Creek (now Little Yad-kin), in Rowan County (now Stokes), on April 17, 1762, (Deed Book 4, page 685). On a recent Stokes County Historical Map, the loca-tion of the John Stone place Is shown to be about north of Chestnut Grove Methodist Church.

John and William Stone were born at Poyn-ton Manor, Charles County, Maryland. Their father, Thomas Stone, was a member of the Continental Congress, and a signer of the Dec-laration of Independence, from Maryland. John married a Miss Corder, who bore him six sons: Enoch, Thomas, Corder, John Jr.,

James and Tazewell. The father, Thomas Stone, inherited Poyn-

ton Manor, which was once a 5,000 acre estate of his great grandfather, Will iam Stone, third Colonial Governor of Maryland. Governor William Stone came to Virgin ia, first , where he rece ived 1800 acres of land for bringing 34 new colonists into the state from England. In 1638, after marrying Verlinda Cotton, the gov-ernor moved his family to St. Mary's City, Maryland. where he became active in the new government. Records show that his father was John ~tone of England (1575), whose father was Richard Stone (1540), whose father was William Stone deTwiste (1490).

The eighteenth century John Stone was a Baptist ri:,inister, who preached throughout this section, and was active in establishing Baptist churches. There are hundreds of de-scendants now living in this area with names like: Bird , Coble , Cummings , Denny, Dodson, Edwards, Gordon, Hill , Johnson , Love , Lynch, McKinney, Payne, Poindexter, Scott, Southern, Tucker and Ward, and countless others who cannot be recalled .

- Clarence O. Southern

ROSE LEE JONES STONE 937

Rose Lee Jones married Joseph Anthony Stone, farmer. Lived near Pilot Mountain, N.C.

Sons and daughters: Caleb Monroe Stone, farmer, married Cleo

Joyce. Their children are Faye Joyce Stone who married Allen Ray Stafford, and they have three children, Allen Ray, Jr., Brian Keith, Marty Dealane.

Larry Edward Stone. welder married Janet Tilley. They have two sons, Chad Edward and Christon Lee Stone.

Lillie Alma Stone is a nurse. Joseph Philip Stone, a mill worker, married

Frances Vaugus. Their children are: Joseph and Jimmie. Dora Melissa Stone married Robert Clay

Walker, factory worker. Their children are Robert Clay, Jr., Steven Ray, and Jeff Walker.

- Mrs . J.R. Jones

WILLIAM STONE 938

William Stone was the son of John and Betsy Curry Stone . He was born March 3, 1787, two years before Stokes County was formed from Surry County. He died Nov. 29, 1863. He married Edney Barner on Feb. 2, 1811, when the county seat was at German-ton . Edney was born June 21, 1791 and died March 10, 1861.

Edney had cataracts and was blind the last eleven years of her life. William became sick and died a little over two years after her death with heart failure at the age of 76.

Edney's home was just behind the present location of the Hastings Company in King, N.C.

When Luther Pulliam purchased the land for his Baptist Mission Church he found that the

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, Barner graveyard was there, covered with bru h and honeysuckle. He began to find wooc post for the headmarkings and shorter ones for the footmarkings. However some were marked and later families have erected tombstones.

William Stone was in the War of 1812. Rani d as a Private. Name of Federally De-tachtd Unit: Sixth Regiment, Sixth Company. First Stokes Regiment, Eighth Brigade.

William and Edney built a house about five miles south west of King, N.C. in the Dry Springs Community. The house was two story and uated on the east side of the Little Yad-kin , 1er on a round knoll - a cool, beautiful plaCP.

I med the land where the Stone gra 1rd is. According to older generations he ' Edney are buried there. There are se rocks used for head and foot stones wir no inscription.

i ·n·am was a school teacher. He taught at dit,, ,..,l number 42, which was known as the "Old Mount Olive Church". Records show he was teaching there in 1842. The school term lasted two months and he was paid $13.00 per month.

His home was some twelve miles away. That would explain why the late Mrs. Ruel (Dora Lane) Waller, who was 91 at her death, told me of her recollection of older one telling her that he rode a mule to school and when he arrived ice would be in his mustache and beard.

William Stone was a Justice of the Peace in Stokes County for twenty years from 1840 to 1860.

He made Alamanacs. The cenus show he was a farmer, also.

Willi am must have been a strong and courageous man. Stories go that he had a "high temper".

William and Edney Barner Stone had eleven children:

1. Issac Barner Stone born December 1, 1811 and died July 30, 1853. Married Lydia Elizabeth Jenks in December 1842.

2. Anderson Hubbard Stone born Novem-ber 9, 1813 and died January 18, 1894. Mar-ried Melinda Fulk on October 14, 1839. She died in 1847. His second marriage was to Olivia Davis Truelove on December 5, 1858. She died March 2, 1907.

3. Martha (Patsy) Stone born March 4, 1815. Never married .

4. John M. Stone born March 15, 1817 and died November 25, 1880. Married Julia Haus-er. He ran a Grist Mill near his home on Crooked Run Creek and Little Yadkin River.

5. Rebecca (Becky) Stone born June 10, 1819. N"1er married.

6. Wil ·am G. Stone born May 4, 1821 and died December 6, 1895. Don't know his wife's name. He went to Texas and Alabama. Was overseer of a big plantation and became known as "Alabama Bill".

7 I i 1cisey H. Stone born February 10, 1832 , ' · 1 June 15, 1867. Never married.

3. ' J Stone born October 1, 1825. Mar-, J Jackson.

9. ,Jo·.I J. Stone born May 19, 1828. Never , 1 r i d. Was in the Civil War. He, Martha

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(Patsy), and Rebecca (Becky) lived together in the home place after the death of their parents. They farmed , raised sheep, and had several guineas.

10. Sally Stone born October 16, 1832. Died young .

11. Elizabeth (Betty) Stone born May 13, 1835. Married Red Fawlen. He was killed in the Civil War and Betty married Eugene Lineback.

These were my Great-great-great grand-parents.

- Jean Stone Hall

WILLIAM EDWARD STONE 939

William Edward Stone was the son of Anderson Hubbard and Melinda Fulk Stone. He was born October 9, 1840 and died Decem-ber 10, 1908. He married Sarah Ann Hendrix on October 1, 1863. She was born November 2, 1844 and died April 24, 1922.

He was in the Civil War: William Edward Stone 4th Corporal; Company 1, 33rd N.C. Regiment: Stokes County. Pneumonia developed which cut his duties

short and he was sent home to recover. William Edward purchased sixty six acres of

land in 187 4 from George Barr and wife Char-lotte. This land is about five miles south of Pinnacle, in the Perch Community. Two acres of this land was in Stokes County and the remainder sixty four acres and the four room log house, with kitchen out back, was in Surry County.

William Edward , "Squire" as he was some-time called, was a Justice of the Peace in Stokes and Surry Counties. He called his home his office and if weather permitted court was held in the yard . His father, grandfather, and great grandfather were Justice of the Peace in Stokes County.

He was a man of good works. Ellis Coon of Pinnacle told me that his father had spoken of him being such a man that men would not think of any business deals before first check-ing and talking it over with him. He was a kind father and husband. One who was looked to as a leader in all that was useful and good . Always serving his community to the best of his abil-ity, highly honorable in dealing with his fel-lowman.

He followed as his ancestors and became a school teacher. He taught in the Barrow School in Stokes County near Pinnalce. He chose walking instead of riding his horse. In talking with the late Mrs. Ruel (Dora Lane) Waller she told of him being her first school teacher, of the warm fires he kept in the big rock fireplace, of times when the girls had to rush to the spring for clean water- if the boys got there first they would always "stir up the water" so they couldn't drink any. Mrs . Waller was 91 at her death in 1978. He also , taught in the Kallem School. Some called this school "Sal-trot" . This school was in Stokes County. He retired from teaching in the year 1900.

He opened the Perch Post Office in his home and became postmaster until his death . The train would bring the mail to Pinnacle. Will Cox

would walk the twelve miles round trip bare-foot three times a week for a penny a trip to get the mail. On one occasion Will Cox was in John Spainhour's store in Pinnacle with his mail bag . Everyone knew Will loved stick can-dy. Several men said they would all pitch in and buy Will a pound box if he would eat it- they did - he ate it.slung his mail bag on his shoulder, put his barefeet in the road and headed back to Perch.

William Edward and Sarah were life long members of Mt. Zion Methodist Church near Pinnacle, and are buried there.The church was founded in the early 1860's and service began under a brush arbor with slabs for seats.

William Edward and Sarah Ann Hendrix Stone had nine children.

1. Melinda Ellen Stone born June 15, 1864 and died August 11, 1864.

2. Laura Virginia (Jennie) Stone born June 8, 1865anddiedJuly11, 1917. Married Wal-ter Fowler.

3. Henry Lee Stone born August 20, 1867 and died winter of 1964. Married Pare Sprinkle.

4. James (Jim) Auther Stone born October 23, 1869 and died April 9, 1956. Married 1st Laura Fulk. 2nd marriage was to Erma Boyles. 3rd marriage was to Ellen Foster. Jim had a store in Perch for a while, then went to work at Piedmont Warehouse.

5. Lula Alice Stone born Feb. 21 , 1872 and died May 31, 1914. Married Henry Brown. Henry was a cashier at the Bank in Pinnacle, N.C.

6. John Robert (Bob) Stone born July 1, 1874 died July 1967. Married Tannie Setliff. Bob ran a mercantile store in Pinnacle.

7. Ellis Franklin Stone born March 14, 1879 died July 18, 1959. Married Mammie Crouse. Ellis farmed and was the mail carrier in Pinna-cle. Among their children is Martha Stone who married Odell Neal. He was a school teacher and basketball coach in Stokes County for many years .

8. Ernest Sylvester Stone born August 28, 1881 died October 9, 1959. Married Lettie Kathryn Church .

9. Lily Mae Stone born February 25, 1885 died April 2, 1956. Married Seaborn (Seb) T. Kallem.

These were my great grandparents. - Jean Stone Hall

GEORGE TAYLOR 940

George Taylor was a soldier in the Revolu-tionary War. He and his wife, Elizabeth Anyan, were born in Wales. They made their home in Stokes County, N.C.

Their children were Josiah Taylor (b. November 2, 1771, d. July 27, 1862), who married Elizabeth (Betsey) Harris. From this marriage were born eleven children: James Lemuel Taylor, who died in the War of 1812, after his marriage on June 29, 1794, to Eli-zabeth Williams; John Taylor; Blagrave Taylor; Elizabeth Matilda Taylor, who married George Burrus on February 3, 1805; Adolphy Taylor; George Taylor, Jr., who married Elizabeth McMillan on January 24, 1811; William Ander-

HISTORY OF N. C. BAPTISTS, Volume 2, by: G. W. Paschal

NORTH CAROLINA BAPTISTS

Another church to the east of the Yadkin was that called Little Yadkin, seemingly because its location was on the stream of that name, to the north of Wachovia. Asplund gives 1785 as the date it was founded, and it was already in existence when the North Carolina churches which were members of the Strawberry Association had their first meet-ing at Petty's Meeting House in October 1786. At. thl!.t

7 fu.e ~ S~ was pastor of Little Yadkin, and was appointed one of the delegates to the parent association. It was probably composed in part at least of those who had been members of Elder William Hill's church, of which there is no further account after this time. For our further information about the Little Yadkin Church and its pastor the sources of information are the minutes of the Yadkin As ociation and of Eaton's and Bear Creek churches. Be-ginning with the associational meeting of 1788 Elder Stone and his church were in trouble, and a comrruttee appointed to investigate reported that they had advised the church of the misconduct of their rrunister and advised them to admonish him. This the church seems to have done with success and its delegates were admitted to the Association of 1794. This is the last record of Stone, but the other delegate on that occasion was John Stevens, who was one of the members who laid their grievances before the As-sociation, when the church, being advised to get helps from sister churches, asked the churches at Eaton's and Bear Creek to assist them. The result was that the aggrieved members, headed by John Stevens, were admitted to Eaton's Church. The dissension seems to have been on matters of doctrine. On petition the Yadkin Association dismissed Little Yadkin Church in 1807, after which no record of it exists. 1812, and that thereafter the church had no pRstor until July, 1817, when Elder Nathan Riley took the charge. Both suppositions seem to me im-probable. In 1804 and 1805 Micajah Hollis was a delegate from the Jersey Church to the Association; he preached on Sunday in 1807.

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YADKIN ASSOCIATION With these things in mind, in the year 1786, he Jed the

church of which he was pastor, then called Petty's Meeting House, but later Flat Rock, to invite the other churches west of the Yadkin in North Carolina, and some just across the line in Virginia, belonging to the Strawberry Associa-tion, to send delegates to his church, about two miles west of Brooks' Cross Roads.

Eleven churches accepted this invitation and continued for the years 1787, 1788 and 1789 to meet as "a branch of the Virginia (Strawberry) Association." Since no list of churches is given for any of these years we are left largely to conjecture as to just what churches they were. For two meetings, October, 1786, and June, 1788, the Association convened at Petty's Meeting House. In May, 1787, at Mitchell's River in Wilkes County; in October, 1789, at Brier Creek, Wilkes County. Other churches mentioned incidentally as belonging to the group were Little Yadkin

-7 (Brother Stone's church) and Eaton's Church. In addition, the pastors of other churches are mentioned as connected with the Association: Cleveland Coffee, pastor of Catawba Church, in the present county of Burke, Lazarus White-head, pastor of the Grassy Knob Church, Iredell County, William Hammond, pastor of the South Roaring River Church, Wilkes County.4 It seems certain then that these eight churches were among those that at one time or another sent delegates to this branch association.

The first moderator was Elder John Cleveland, while for the remaining three years Elder George McNeill served in that office. The first clerk was John Wright, but for the other meetings the clerk was Richard Allen.

Inasmuch as this was in these years a branch association

'Dr. G. W. Greene, in "The Baptists of the Upper Yadkin Valley" in the !Vorth Carolina Baptut Hutorical Papen, Vol. III, p. 71, says that the family of Elder Cleveland Coffey belonged to the t erritory of the present county of Caldwell. In 1786, he was sent as a delegate of the Yadkin As-sociation to the parent association, the Strawberry.

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of the Strawberry Association, it sent delegates to the an-nual meetings of the parent association with a record of its proceedings to be approved or disapproved. There is no record of any disapproval, and approval is indicated in some such record as this: "All of which was approbated by the Virginia association on the second Saturday in October, 1787." So far as recorded, the delegates sent to the parent association were: George McN eill, 1786, 1788, 1789; John Stone, 1786; Cleveland Coffey, 1786; Andrew Baker, 1788, 1789; Brother Martin, 1788; William Ham-mond, 1788, 1789; Lazarus Whitehead, 1789.

In all other respects this branch association functioned as an independent body. Its order of business was the same: the assembling according to appointment; the reading of the names of delegates; the electing of a moderator and clerk; the appointment of a committee on order of business; the hearing of reports; the consideration of queries sub-mitted by the churches or formulated by a committee ap-pointed for the purpose; preaching on Sunday by several ministers chosen by the Association; the appointment of delegates to other bodies, and naming the place and time of the next meeting; and finally, adjournment.

In these early associational meetings the queries were often for instruction, and often they were debated with much ability and heard with great attention. The six pro-posed by the committee at the first meeting, that in 1786, were on fundamental subjects. The first was, What is an Association? The Answer, An Advisory Council. The sec-ond, Who are the fitting members to compose an Associa-tion? The Answer, Ministers and ablest members. The third, Whether church queries should be debated in the as-sociation, or in the church where it originated? The An-swer, In the church. The fourth, Whether it is justifiable in a minister to broach a new principle and off er it in public without first consulting his brethren in Fraternity? Answer,

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SURRY COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA DEED ABSTRACTS DEED BOOK C

(1777-1788)

By: Mrs. W. 0 . Absher

189 190 S November 1785 bet. Richard Goode and Rebecca his wife, and

John Stone 64 pds .. 200 ac both sides S. Fork Little Yadkin .. Lasters line. (we think this should be Lash's line BHC staff) .

----------------------------------------------------------------------------SURRY COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA DEED ABSTRACTS

DEED BOOK D (1779-1790)

By: Mrs. W. 0. Basher

142 4 January 1787 John Stone to Richard Goode 64pds 200 ac both sides Little Yadkin River adj. Lash.

Absalom Bostick) Enoch Stone ) John Stone )

s/John Stone

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BOOK 2 (1793-1797)

35 24 November 1792 John Stone, Surry County to Moses Barrow, Stokes SO pds 250 ac middle fork Bloose Ck (present day Belews Creek BHC staff) adj. Andrew Hannah and James Gammell.

Acknd)

s/John Stone