Please send replies to Michael McGinnis at [email protected] Mike - feel free to join the list.....I'm hoping we'll have lots of discussion about the church which may help you in your research. Audrey -----Original Message----- From: Michael McGinnis <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, March 28, 1999 9:17 PM Subject: {not a subscriber} MEREDITH, Davis and Job; 1750-1881; WLS>CT>VA>WV >I'm looking for information about the MEREDITH and AMOS families of >Ritchie County, WV. Related families include the LAWSON and MARSHALL >families. Job Meredith and Mary Ann Amos were the parents of Elmina >Meredith, who married Salathiel Lawson, my gg-grandparents. Salathiel's >parents were William (son of Theopolus) Lawson and Eliza Marshall >(parents unknown). > >The family of Davis Meredith left Radnorshire, South Wales because of >persecution over their Seventh Day Baptist beliefs. He settled in >Connecticut at age 26 and fought in the Revolutionary War. His first >wife died young and childless. After the end of the war, he moved to >Loudoun County, VA, where he married again and had two children. His >third wife, Nancy Pritchard gave birth to seven children, including Job >and Davis Jr. who became a Methodist lay preacher. The Baptist >Missionary Society received a bequest from him after his will was >probated in August 1825. > >Job Meredith was born in Marion County, WV, near Pennsylvania, and >settled at the mouth of the middle fork of the Hughes River in Ritchie >County WV about 1839. Not long afterwards, he moved to the mouth of >White Oak creek, across the creek from his cousin Peter Pritchard. He >married Mary Ann Amos from Berea, and she returned there after he died. >Stephen Amos and Elizabeth Miller (probably also SDB) had six children >besides Mary Ann Amos. Five of Job's twelve children died in childhood. >In 1852, Job relocated to Berea, and died in Salem in 1881, where he had >gone just a few weeks before. > >Berea, Ritchie County, WV was a Seventh Day Baptist stronghold >originally called "Seven-Day Mill." In 1867 a local schoolteacher agreed >to request a post office for the village - but only if the name was >changed. Since a revival had been going on throughout that winter and a >Bible school had been reopened, someone suggested the name "Berea," >after the city where the Apostle Paul found diligent Bible seekers. > >-------------------------------------------------------- >Mike McGinnis * 28530 Boerne Stage Rd. #2 >Boerne, TX 78006 * 830-755-4353 >[email protected] >--------------------------------------------------------- > > >