Greetings, I am searching for any info on Reverend John W. Jenkins. Following is part of the info I have on him as posted on my web site: >>>>>Reverend John W. Jenkins was born in Madison County, Virginia on Feb. 12,1849 and reared in Page County, Virginia. Rev. John W. Jenkins is listed in the Free Baptist Register under the Virginia Free Baptist Association, Winchester Quarterly Meeting. In 1879-80, not yet ordained, he served with Rev. J.W. Myers in Luray, Virginia. He and Rev. Myers served the church in the Winchester Quarterly Meeting, Free Baptist Association. (The Free Baptist Association is known as the Brackett Morrell Association). John W. Jenkins was ordained in 1881. In 1883, Rev. Jenkins was the pastor of the Needmore, Va. Free Baptist Church in Stony Man, Virginia. He remained there until 1888, when he went to serve the Blainesville (Free Baptist) Church, several miles south of Stony Man. Here is a colored settlement called Blainesville, Va., consisting of thirty families perhaps. He was absent from the listing between 1890 and 1899. He is again listed in 1896, when he served in a place called Body Camp. Rev. J. W. Jenkins , built the first church in Blainesville. The church was first named St. Ann's, later it became Mt. Carmel. Mt. Carmel Baptist Church had its beginnings in 1897, and was the outgrowth of St. Ann's Non-Denominational Church and St. John's Baptist Church. Rev. John W. Jenkins was one of the organizers of the Free Baptist Sunday School and Young People's Convention organized in the parsonage of the Free Baptist Church, Berryville, Va., May 17, 1898, during the session of the Winchester Quarterly Meeting. During the years of 1900-1902, he was the pastor of the Free Baptist Church in Berryville, Va., the birthplace of the convention. In 1906, Rev. Jenkins was the pastor at Lovely Zion Church, Bedford, Va., part of the Piedmont Quarterly Meeting. In 1911, he was the pastor of the New Zion Free Baptist Church in Bedford, Va. which was also part of the Piedmont Quarterly Meeting. From 1912 to 1915, Rev. Jenkins, living in Bedford, Va., appears in the Free Baptist appendix were he retired. <<<< Any info that can fill in any gaps in this narrative will be greatly appreciated. If anything in the post looks familiar to you please contact me. My Web Page with additional information on this Jenkins Family is at the end. Thank you in advance for any consideration. Blessings, George Jenkins Jenkins-Jeffries-Lee Family Page - http://www.geocities.com/geojenk Jenkins-Jeffries-Lee Family Picture Page - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~geojenk/index.html