Tinbridge Hill in Lynchburg, Virginia — The American South (Mid-Atlantic)

Ministers, Trustees and Other Religious Leaders

Buried in the Old City Cemetery

Photographed By Devry Becker Jones (CC0), August 14, 2021

1. Ministers, Trustees and Other Religious Leaders Marker

Inscription.
Cabell Street Methodist Church
William Amos Laughon (minister, 1885-1889)

Centenary United Methodist Church
(Third Street Methodist Church
Robert F. Hening (trustee, steward, leader of singing, 1840s-80s) • Christopher S. Mooring (minister, 1813) • Caroline F.R. Morgan (officer, Dorcas Society) • James W. Morgan (steward, 1840s) • John Schoolfield (trustee, 1806-1819) • George W. Valentine (steward, 1850s-70s, member 76 years)

Court Street Baptist Church (African Baptist Church)
William Grant Anderson (trustee) • James Edward Bowler (trustee) • Daniel A. Butler (trustee, -1911) • Royal Pleasant Butler (deacon, c. 1905) • Andrew Jackson Everett (deacon, c. 1905) • Phillip Franklin (trustee, 1898-1914) • Silas Green (deacon, c. 1905) • Willie Reid Hayes (deaconess, 79 years) • Squire C. Higginbotham (trustee, 1876-1882) • Thomas Isbell (deacon, 1840s) • Theodoric L. Jones (trustee, 1898-1914) • John Merchant (deacon, c. 1905) • Jordan Merchant (deacon, 1840s) • Fielding W. Morris (pastor, c. 1870-1881) • Phillip Fisher Morris (pastor, 1881-1898) • Robert A. Perkins (trustee, 1876-1881;
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chairman of Building Committee) • Armistead Pride (trustee, 1876-1898) • Pleasant Roane, Sr. (trustee, 1898-1914) • Susan Roane (founder of Roane's Brigade pastor's aid society) • Thomas H. Scott (trustee, 1914+) • Martin Warwick (deacon, 1840s) • Albert J. Williams (deacon) • Mary Louise Williams (trustee, 1980s-90s; church historian)

Court Street United Methodist Church
(Fourth Street Methodist Church)
Patrick Henry Cabell (sexton, 1874-1901) • Caroline F.R. Morgan (provided first parsonage; charter member of the Female Missionary Society)

Diamond Hill Baptist Church
Aquilla E. Timms (assistant pastor, c. 1905-1910)

Eight Street Baptist Church
Phillip Fisher Morris (founding pastor, 1898-1911) • Armistead Pride (trustee, 1898-1900) • Claíborne Gladman Pride, Sr. (trustee, 1906+) • Warwick Spencer, Sr. (trustee, 1898+) • Nelson Spiller (trustee, 1898+)

First Presbyterian Church
Patrick Henry Cabell (sexton, 1902-1917)

Jackson Street United Methodist Church
Patrick Henry Cabell (trustee, 1893) • Frank Trigg, Jr. (trustee) • Elias Whitlock (trustee)

St. Paul's Episcopal Church
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A. Christian (vestryman, 1850s)

Universalist Church
Pleasant Labby (minister and patriarch, 1840s-60s)

Oher or Unknown Churches
Edward Cannon (Methodist minister in Virginia, 1820s-30s) • William Thomas Hall (pastor, High Street Baptist Church, Danville, and Galilee Baptist Church, Philadelphia) • Richard Johnson (minister, died 1996) • William H. Johnson (minister) • Frank Ternal Matthews (minister, early 1900s) • Daniel Morris (Baptist minister, 1890s) • Nelson Payne (Baptist circuit minister, late 1800s) • W.H. Stewart (minister, 1880s) • James Tompkins (Presbyterian minister in Lynchburg, c. 1800s) • Frank Brown Woodard (Baptist minister in Iowa, 1910s)

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Churches & Religion. In addition, it is included in the Unitarian Universalism (UUism) series list.

Location. 37° 24.834′ N, 79° 9.45′ W. Marker is in Lynchburg, Virginia. It is in Tinbridge Hill. Marker can be reached from Wise Street, 0.1 miles north of 4th Street, on the left when traveling south. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 401 Taylor St, Lynchburg VA 24501, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Hermon Methodist Church (here, next to this marker); Chapel and Columbarium (here, next to this marker); Ivy Chapel Union Church (here, next to this marker); Site of Glanders Stable (a few steps from this marker); Glanders (a few steps from this marker); Lynchburg’s First Public Hanging, 1830 (a few steps from this marker); The Quartermaster's Glanders Stable (a few steps from this marker); Stone Watering Trough (a few steps from this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Lynchburg.

Credits. This page was last revised on February 1, 2023. It was originally submitted on August 19, 2021, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 102 times since then and 11 times this year. Photo 1. submitted on August 19, 2021, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.