This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_909405633_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII I thought I might pass this on I found it quite interesting. Hope you do too. Nick --part0_909405633_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.aol.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline From: [email protected] Return-path: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Fwd: [MOPIKE-L] Traveling Church, VA to KY to Pike co MO Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:10:56 EDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="part1_909405633_boundary" --part1_909405633_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.aol.com.3> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII --part1_909405633_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.home.com.4> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-zd03.mx.aol.com (rly-zd03.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.227]) by air-zd03.mail.aol.com (v50.21) with SMTP; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 23:25:36 2000 Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) by rly-zd03.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id XAA13776; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 23:25:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from [email protected]) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA19738; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 20:23:26 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 20:23:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <[email protected]> From: "Stan Cornelius" <[email protected]> Old-To: "Pike co MO" <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 22:22:39 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3115.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Subject: [MOPIKE-L] Traveling Church, VA to KY to Pike co MO Resent-Message-ID: <"XHRMyC.A.I0E.tCrK2"@bl-14.rootsweb.com> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/212 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi Found this on the internet. I know that some of these families ended up in Pike co MO so hope it is of some interest to someone. Can be found at http://pw1.netcom.com/~jog1/churchlist.html Stan "The Travelling Church" by George W. Ranck Press of Baptist Book Concern, 1891 The following list of church members appears on page 31 of Professor George W. Ranck's book known as "The Travelling Church: An Account of the Baptist Exodus from Virginia to Kentucky in 1781 under the Leadership of Rev. Lewis Craig and Capt. William Ellis." ALLEN ELLY PRICE ASHER EASTIN ROBINSON & WIFE BLEDSOE GARRARD RAMSEY BOWMAN GOODLOE RUCKER BARROW HUNT SHACKELFORD BURBRIDGE HART SHIPP BUCKNER HICKMAN SHOTWELL CRAIG, Toliver & wife HICKERSON SINGLETON CRAIG, Lewis MARTIN SMITH CRAIG, Joseph MOORE SANDERS CAVE, William MORTON STUART CURD MARSHALL TODD CARR MORRIS THOMPSON CREATH MITCHUM WALTON DUDLEY NOEL WOOLFOLK DUPUY PAYNE WATKINS DARNABY PARRISH, Timothy WALLER DEDMAN PARRISH, James WARE ELLIS, William & PITMAN WOOLRIDGE ELLIS' family of 5 PRESTON YOUNG other members Excerpts from the book pages 4 and 5: It was plain that something very unusual was transpiring at an isolated building in Spottsylvania County, Virginia, one Sunday morning in Sep- tember, 1781. The house, which stood on the old Catharpin road leading to the then little village of Fredericksburg, and which was located about four miles south of the spot since known as Parker's Station, was surrounded by such a gathering of men, women and children, slaves, pack horses, cattle, dogs, and loaded wagons as had never been seen in the county before, but there was no unseemly disorder and but little noise except such as came from fretful ilnfants and from the bells of the grazing stock. The crowd was too great for the house and most of the people were assembled under the trees in fron of it where the women had been provided with seats. it could not be a camp-meeting - there were no signs of eilther cheerfulness or enjoyment. It was not a funeral though all were sad and many were deeply dejected. It was "farewell Sunday" at Upper Spottsylvania (Baptist) Church - the next morning the congregation was to start in a body for Kentucky. .............. All kinds of property were disposed of, all kinds of arrangements were made and the Farewell Sunday found them heavy-hearted but ready for the start with packing completed, homes abandoned and surrounded by friends who had gathered from far and near to bid them a last and long good bye. Of those not a few were Baptist preachers of Spottsylvania and the neighboring counties. Among them, according to tradition, was Elijah Craig, the bold exhorter of the Blue Run church who had lunched in jail more than once on rye bread and water for conscience sake; Ambrose Dudley who had often labored with him; William E. Waller, pastor of County Line and William Ellis the aged shepherd of the Nottaway flock who had realized what "buffetings" meant long before the Revolution brought its blessed heritage of religious freedom. They had many relatives among the departing throng and all of them but the venerable Ellis soon followed them to the land of Boone. John Waller, pastor of Lower Spottsylvania Church, and the most picturesque of the early Baptist ministers of Virginia was also there. He was the "Devil's Adjutant" no longer. The former persecutor, whole-souled in everything he undertook, had for years been one of the staunchest defenders of the people he had once so energetically reviled. One familiar figure was misssing from the crowd. John Clay, the struggling preacher for the struggling church in the flat and desolate "slashes" of Hanover was not there. Only a few weeks before the father of the eloquent "Harry of the West" had ceased from his labors forever. Preachers were not lacking in the expedition itself. Joseph Bledsoe of the Wilderness Church and father of the afterwards noted Senator Jesse Bledsoe of Kentucky; Joseph Craig, "the man who laid down in the road"; William Cave, a connection of the Craigs, and Simeon Walton, pastor for a season of Nottaway Church, were four of probably a dozen preachers who accompanied it. Many more came after them, so many in fact that an early chronicler of the church in Virginia calls Kentucky "the vortex of Baptist preachers." Page created by: [email protected] --part1_909405633_boundary-- --part0_909405633_boundary--