Little Fork Episcopal Church: Mr. Jones resigned Feb. 1780; the vestry received the Rev'd James Stevenson as minister in April. After the Virginia General Assembly on January 16, 1786, adopted Thomas Jefferson's Statute of Religious Freedom and Virginians were free to profess and by argument, maintain their opinions in matters of religion, all Episcopal churches experienced loss of status, income, and members. The depressed years continued in Saint Mark's Parish until about 1815. Mr. Stevenson served Little Fork until 1794 when he went to St. George's Church in Fredericksburg. He retired to Culpeper Co. and spent his last days at the glebe near Brandy Station where he died on June 20, 1809. Mr. Stevenson was followed by his son in law, the Rewv'd John Woodville in 1794. The Rev'd John Woodville died in 1834. His son, the Rev'd John Walker Woodville, who had conducted his first service at Little Fork in 1828, succeeded his father as rector of Little Fork. He was ordained in 1835 by Bishop Richard Channing Moore. In 1848, the Rev'd. John Walker Woodville's mother died. She was the sole surviving heir to the glebe lands of Saint Mark's Parish. Her death resulted in the sale of the glebe lands "for the benefit of the poor and for educational institutions" under a Va. Legislative Act of 1802. The Saint Mark's Parish glebe was one of the last in Va. to be sold under that Act. The Woodville family, living at that time on the glebe lands as a result of Mrs. Woodville's inheritance, was forced to seek residence in the homes of parishioners. The Rev'd J. Walker Woodville served Little Fork until 1849. During this period a transition had been taking place. The vestry of the new Saint Stephen's Church in Church had assumed the responsibility for Saint Mark's Parish. When Mr. Woodville left Little Fork in 1849, the Rev'd John Cole (who had been at Saint Stephen's since 1837) took responsibility for the Little Fork congregation along with that of Saint Stephen's until 1868. The drill master for Little Fork Rangers that was formed in 1860, was the legendary Sergeant William H. Cole, killed at Mt. Jackson in 1864.