PITTSYLVANIA CO., VA - CEMETERIES – Grave of Rev. John Jenkins

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Grave of Rev. John Jenkins:
                  1936 July 24, 
                  Research made by Mabel Moses

Cemetery Location:  19 miles from Chatham, Virginia, take Route #57, thence 9 
                    miles, turn in on Route #702, north side, thence about 10 
                    miles to Riceville, Virginia, thence about 2 miles therefrom 
                    on Route #702, north side.
                    Pittsylvania Co., Virginia


DATE:

1828.

OWNERS:

Riceville Church property. (1936)

DESCRIPTION:

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HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:


John Jenkins was born in Loudon County in 1758, was an early and notable 
preacher in the county.  He moved with his parents to Pittsylvania during the 
Revolutionary War in which he served as commissary to the army and was probably 
employed by the post at Peytonsburg.  In 1796 he was ordained to the ministry.  
He applied himself so diligently to study that he became a proficient scholar 
with an understanding of the Greek, Latin and Hebrew languages.  It was said of 
him that he was perhaps the best educated man of his day in the Roanoke 
Association.  Through his untiring efforts he became a preacher of marked 
ability.  In 1795 he established a church at Lower Banister or Riceville, and a 
few years later a church at Shockoe.

The Shockoe Church was ever mindful of the colored people and six months after 
its organization the minutes read “Alba a negro woman, the property of John 
Irby, was received into the membership of the church by experience.”

Jenkins’ tomb is not far distance from the Riceville church from which I took 
the following inscription.


Elder
John Jenkins
An eminent Baptist Minister
Born Dec. 25, 1758
Baptized in 1792 by Elder Jeremiah Moore
Ordained at Straightstone in 1794
Died March 1828



SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

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