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Sussex County, VA



 


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All of Sussex County was known as Albemarle Parish during colonial times, and all of its citizens were required to support the Anglican, or Established, Church with their taxes and their attendance. The church wardens, rather than the government, took responsibility for the care of the poor. The communion silver used at St. Andrew's Church near Yale still survives and represents one of the most complete sets of colonial church silver in America. Also, the register of births and deaths kept by the Rev. William Willie has also survived as a great genealogical reference to the colonial residents of the county. Growing dissatisfaction with the Established Church during colonial times led to the establishment in Sussex of some of the earliest Baptist and Methodist churches in Virginia. Antioch near Yale, originally known as Raccoon Swamp Meeting House, is regarded as the oldest Baptist church in eastern Virginia, being established in 1772. Sappony Church near Stony Creek, followed, being established in 1773. Its first pastor was the Reverend James Bell, who had relinquished his post as a member of the Virginia House Of Burgesses to devote himself to a new ministry. Bell Road in Sussex, which runs by the site of his home, is named for him. At Jones' Chapel, the site of which is located on Comans Well Road near Interstate Route 95, thousands were converted by itinerant Methodist preachers, including Bishop Francis Asbury. Lane's Chapel, which was located near Airfield Mill Pond near Wakefield, is the third earliest documented Methodist church in Virginia. At Ellis Chapel, which was located near Waverly on Walnut Hill Road, Virginia Methodists, at their annual conference held there in 1783, first went on record as opposing the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

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   Last Name, Given Name(s)    Birth    Person ID 
101 PARSONS Joseph  Cal 1817Sussex County, VA I430
102 PARSONS Mary  1755Sussex County, VA I3984
103 PARSONS Sarah (Sally) Weathers  1795-1796Sussex County, VA I3023
104 PARSONS Unity-Uriah  1757Sussex County, VA I3985
105 PARSONS William Robert  1749Sussex County, VA I3968
106 PETTWAY James R.  5 May 1852Sussex County, VA I2277
107 POND Albert  Between 1840 and 1846Sussex County, VA I6807
108 POND John Richard Rives  Abt 1903Sussex County, VA I6721
109 POND Robert Moyler  6 Sep 1903Sussex County, VA I6682
110 PRESSON Thomas L.  22 Aug 1778Sussex County, VA I9202
111 RAWLINGS James Carter  1803Sussex County, VA I7703
112 RICHARDSON Mahala  27 Aug 1825Sussex County, VA I7698
113 ROGERS George Washington  22 Feb 1866Sussex County, VA I1956
114 SHEFFIELD Alma Jeanette  Abt 1853Sussex County, VA I9487
115 SHEFFIELD Angelo Daniel  21 Oct 1892Sussex County, VA I7695
116 SHEFFIELD Annie G.  10 Oct 1881Sussex County, VA I7692
117 SHEFFIELD Charles H.  4 Aug 1876Sussex County, VA I7689
118 SHEFFIELD Edwin B.  17 Aug 1856Sussex County, VA I9488
119 SHEFFIELD Everet J.  6 Jul 1873Sussex County, VA I7688
120 SHEFFIELD Grover Cleveland, Sr.  13 Feb 1886Sussex County, VA I697
121 SHEFFIELD Harry R.  3 Jun 1890Sussex County, VA I7694
122 SHEFFIELD Henry T.  3 Nov 1879Sussex County, VA I7691
123 SHEFFIELD John A.  3 Jul 1883Sussex County, VA I7693
124 SHEFFIELD William Archer  26 May 1850Sussex County, VA I7683
125 SHEFFIELD William Robert  21 Apr 1878Sussex County, VA I7690
126 SMITH Lucy  20 Oct 1741Sussex County, VA I12255
127 SOUTHALL Ira Anderson  25 Jan 1882Sussex County, VA I9855
128 STACY Hannah  1769Sussex County, VA I3045
129 WHITMORE Essie Blanche  29 Sep 1886Sussex County, VA I1954
130 WHITMORE Maggie Maude  23 Apr 1881Sussex County, VA I1941

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