In answer to the question: >I am searching for records of a family attending Blue Run Baptist Church (or at least I think that is the name) located on Rt. 15 >close to the Orange County line. The records would date from 1918. Does anyone know if services are still held at the church, >and who might have records from that time period? Thank you. I have a few comments: I am aware of a Blue Run Baptist Church that was in Orange County and perhaps still is. My 3-gr-grandfather was active in Blue Run Baptist Church. My data base says the following: >Thomas was converted and baptized in his 16th year. (This would have put the date as circa 1813) Afterward by change of >residence, he became a member of Blue Run Church, then under the pastoral charge of John Goss, where he was called to the >office of deacon, which he used so well that he was soon formally licensed to preach the gospel. Returning to the home of his >childhood, he united with other brethern in 1816 in organizing Forest Hill Church, Louisa. Here he was ordained to the full work >of the ministry, and here he retained his membership to the day of his departure from the earth. Thomas's son, my 2-gr-grandfather, Edward Pinkard Hawkins is said to have been baptized at Blue Run Baptist Church when he was 17 which would have put the date as circa 1746. My data base says: >E.P. was baptized when he was about 17 years old--according to an article in The Virginia Baptist Ministers by George Braxton >Taylor. I made a copy of the article while in the Alderman Library at UVA fall 1999.--by Rev. E.G. Hipp, at the Blue Run >Church, Orange County. His school days were at a private academy “near J.B. Newton’s between Blue Run CHurch and Orange >Court House. ... In a small brochure available from the Zion Baptist Church in Orange County, I found the following information: > ....Baptist have been organizing. Until 1734, when Orange County was settled with the Baptist organizing Blue Run in 1759, North Pamunkey in 1774, Zoar in 1805 and Zion on October 30, 1813. Please keep any discussion of this church on the mail list. I am very interested in any more information that is available about this church. marsha in WV