The Virginia Baptist Historical Society at The University of Richmond has an extensive collection. They could probably help. Don Ethel J. Smith wrote: > > Does anyone on this list know if there are any existing records for the > old Goldmine Baptist Church during the 1860-1885 time frame? I am trying > to find some indication of recorded birth, baptism or perhaps attendance > for the daughters of James Thomas Dickinson and second wife Mary Jane > Ellyson. They were Virginia (Virgie) G. b. 1866?, Mary Estelle b. 1868? > and Ethel St. Clair (my grandmother) b. 1870? The family always thought > Grandmother was born August 18, 1872 but marriage record and census > records indicate an earlier date. I was told that the Dickinson family > were members of Goldmine Baptist Church for many years, and since I > can't locate any birth records I have to look elsewhere. James Thomas > Dickinson was the son of James Cole and Mary Sandidge Dickinson, of > Belle Isle in the Elk Creek area, and he lived at Palo Alto near > Fredericks Hall. > School records during that time frame would also help, if any exist, > especially since Mary Jane Dickinson apparently taught school for a > while, or at least applied for a teaching job in Louisa. I have no > information about her later years after 1884 and don't know when and > where she died, although I know James Thomas Dickinson moved to Richmond > and died there in 1895. > I also would like to locate the old Dickinson-Kuyper family cemetery at > the site of Belle Isle, well hidden in the woods near the Claybrooke > tree farm on Route 618 near Contrary Creek. If anyone has even a clue > how to find it, please let me know. My cousins and I have searched twice > without success! > Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. > Ethel Smith > Researching line of DICKINSON/ELLYSON/SANDIDGE/COLE/COSBY/SHELTON in > Louisa and nearby counties; > line of TURNER/BATTEN/SEEDS/MORRIS/STREET in Isle of Wight; > lines of JOHNSON/HALL/ALLEN and SMITH/ALLEY/KING/HAWKS in Petersburg - > Richmond area and line of VAUGHAN/OAKES/WADDELL in Danville and > Pittsylvania County