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| Burial: 1923 Fairview Methodist Church Cemetery,Jonesboro,Washington County,Tennessee 1 |
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From the "History of Washington County Tennessee 1988," second printing
1990, compiled by the Watauga Assoc. of Genealogists, p. 84:
"Leesburg Presbyterian Church was organized in 1818 by the Reverend John Whitfield Doak, son of Samuel Doak. The first ruling elders were JohnStrain, James Cowan and John Cowan. Apparently, records before 1834 werelost or unavailable; the 1834 minutes began with a history of the churchand in 1836 a list of members was compiled. Surnames of members in 1836were: Alison, Barkley, Blair, Bowman, Brannon, Brazelton, Browning,Buchanan, Campbell, Carmichael, Carroll, Rose, McLin, Charlton, Chase,Cochrane, Coffman, Collins, Conley, Cowan, Crookshanks, Cunningham,DeVault, Duncan, Ellis, Ferguson, Glass, Gray, Gwin, Holloway, Hope,Horton, Hunter, Kirk, Kortz, Marsh, Martin, McAdams, McCall, McCray,McLin (sic), McPherson, Mitchell, Nelson, Odell, Powell, Pursell,Russell, Ryland, Shields, Spears, Stevenson, Strain, Stuart, Taylor,Terry, Thompson, Waldren, Wyly and York.
The first church building was constructed of logs. It and the brick building that replaced it burned. The present church building was erectedin 1883.
Ruling elders in the Leesburg Church from 1821 through 1898 were: John A. Strain, Joseph Duncan, William Collom, Joseph McLin, John Stevenson,John Ryland, Hervey Buchanan, Thomas B. McAdams, Robert A. Thompson,Samuel Lyon, Samuel B. McAdams, William H. Cowan, Giles S. Cecil, WilliamCarmack, William Strain, Samuel McSpadden Crookshanks, G. W. Ferguson,William B. Crookshanks, Moses Montgomery Crookshanks, Russell DeVault,John Morrow, L. O. Byers, and Joseph B. Duncan."
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- Title: Fairview Methodist Church Cemetery Survey
Author: Betty Jane Hylton
Quality: 3
Page: Sec. 2, Row 10, Plot 8
- Note: Sec. 2, Row 10, Plot 8
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