West Virginia's White Family
West Virginia's White Family Roscoe C. Keeney, Jr. TV- izx^ff West Virginia's WHITE FAMILY The first religious services of the district were held in the home of George Woofter or Rush Run by Rev. John Davis, the Baptist minister from the Broad Run church. Many professed Christ and walked eight or ten miles, carrying children in their arms, to Broad Run for services. Mount Zion Baptist Church FAMLY HISTORY LIBRARY was officially organized in 1831, by 35 NORTH WEST TEMPLE ST SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84150 Rev. John J. Waldo. Charter members included George and Lydia (Winans) Woofter, Carr and Sarah (Brown) Bailey, the John Whites, Jennie ROSCOE C. KEENEY, JR. (Winans) Woofter (wife of Jonathan P. O. Box 5519 Woofter), James Cox, Mrs. Rachel Charleston, WV 25361-0519 304-346-2036 White, Rebecca Cox, John Nichols, and Vincent Alexander. Jacob Straley and A.B., Alderson-Broaddus College Alexander "Buck"Moffett were leaders M.A., West Virginia University Archivist, WV Baptist Historical Society in the church. For many years, church baptisms were in the creek on the Straley farm. The church, pictured here circa 1920 during a Straley-Freeman reunion, closed in 1972 but reopened in e 1987 through the efforts of several U) S^Kr former members. Page 1 THE WHITE FAMILY WHITE-FULLER William White who founded one of the origi Bassett. Sarah was a daughter of William Bas- nal Puritan families in America, fled to Leyden, sett and the mother of one son, Jonathan Holland from England after religious persecu White, born 4 June 1658 at Marshfield, MA.
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