Williamson/Zion Church & History
Tyler Co. WV
                                 

    Zion Church was the very first Methodist Church in Tyler County, West
Virginia. Virginia at this time of 1785. It could possibly be the first in
Virginia. Service's where held in the log home of the Williamson Family
where the little town of Friendly now stands. At the time it was the site
of a mill pond. In 1811 a large building of hand hewed logs was built. On
the present site of the Church now. It was used for Church as well as for
School till the close of the Civil War. The parcel of land around the
Church was used as a Cemetery.The first grave was that of James Williamson.
He died in 1855 at 75 years of age.
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Williamson, Catherine           8-22-1853    			13 years
Williamson, Eval                              			1 year of Age
Williamson, Florida             4-?-1877      			2 years
Williamson, Jackaline E. 	5-15-1790 	9-22-1865
Williamson, James        	6-12-1780 	6-12-1855
Williamson, Jane                12-3-1863     			8 years
Williamson, Julia Ann           12-9-1863    			10 years
Williamson, Lafayette           Dates Illegible
Williamson, Lydia Jane          8-20-1863    			16 years
Williamson, Maggie              4-20-1872    			25 years
Williamson, Margaret     	5-15-1790 	9-22-1865
Williamson, Margaret            12-?-1863    			14 years
Williamson, Maria               4-3-1901     			77 years
Williamson, Martha L.           6-7-1866      			1 year
Williamson, Phebe          	1824      	1907
Williamson, Peter B.            10-9-1867    			49 years
Williamson, Thomas              2-24-1869    			25 years
Williamson, Thomas              3-21-1860
Williamson, Thomas C.      	1818      	1902