Braxton County WV Archives Photo Document.....GH15 August 6, 2005
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Source:             Green Hill Cemetery
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A History of Green Hill Church

	The Green Hill Protestant Church building is located in the north part 
of the district.  It is a huge log structure erected in 1881 by the joint 
efforts of the Methodist Episcopal and the Methodist Protestant denominations, 
and is occupied by both.  Indeed we doubt that the state affords a better 
example of broherly love existing between different denominations than is here 
presented.  The two denominations meet at their church weekly on the same day 
and hold their class meetings at the same hour.  The members of the Methodist 
Episcopal occupies one side and the members of the Methodist Protestant the 
other. The membership of the former is twenty-three and that of the latter 
twenty-two.  N. J. Louden and W. L. Weekly are the class leaders, the first of 
the Methodist Episcopal and the second of the Methodist Protestant.  Of the two 
classes, the Methodist Protestant is the older, having been organized in 1868, 
at which time the first class leader was Addison harper who served one year.  
He was succeeded by W. L. Kelly, who with the exception of the year 1881, when 
William Cummings filled the post, has served ever since.
	There are four church buildings in the district, of which three are 
hewed log and one frame, but the number of edifices is not an index to the 
number of societies, several of which, having no building, worship in the 
school houses, which by the law of the state are open to all denominations.
	There are at present three Sabbath schools in the district, viz.:  
Millstone, Kanawha Creek, and Green Hill.  The last was organized in the year 
1870, under the supervision of the Rev. Thomas; it has been in active peration 
ever since.
	J.D. Cunningham was the first superintendent, and Williams is the 
present one.  W.L. Kelly is the recording secretary.  Several teachers are 
employed, among whom W.L. Kelly and Matilda Malcomb.

--From "Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia: Special History of 
the Virginias:  Maps and Histories of Braxton and Gillmer Counties."  H. H. 
Hardesty and Co., Publishers, Chicago & Toledo, 1883

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This sign is mounted on a wall inside the Green Hill Church

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