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I didn’t see this website in the archives here and the main page doesn’t have a “date created” on it, so I don’t know if it is a new website or an old one, but thought I would post it. It talks of the High Plains Settlement.
Stacey
The Virgilina va. post I had several days ago..mentioned that a lady out of the blue e-mailed me to say there were family members in Virgilina, Va. which I had never heard of. Population 152 people. Mentioned the Blue Wing Baptist Church. That may be over the border into NC., but there is the Blue Wing Creek.
And if you type just Virgilina, Va into the web you will get the Virgilina Va homepage. I also came up with a Sappony Tribal Center, 4218 Virgilina, Rd, Virgilina, Va 24598. I don’t know anything about this. And I don’t know what to trust on the web anymore.
Sue J
Vance…… Becky and I are quite familiar with the High Plains Sappony. We attended their community get-together last spring and intend to be a part again this year. Otis Martin is their chief and he is quite an interesting and delightful character. Patrick Stewart is their historian and we will probably see him at the Person Co Historical Society meeting this coming tuesday night. I have 4 of the surnames associated with this tribe but have made no effort to seek membership as I have lived outside of the closeknit community all my life.
Hi there….Blue Wing Church is in Person County…I had researched a cemetery that is there…they are building a large subdivision in that area, so the Register of Deeds was quite familiar with it.
The Sappony just finished building their Tribal Center…and it is going to be a great place for them to gather. There is still discussion about all the things they want to do there. Ken and I walked the trail behind the place. Most of their folks are buried in the Mayo Chapel cemetery…that was an awesome place.
Take care, Becky
I “think” but can not prove, a direct ancestor was Elizabeth “Stuart/Stewart”. Is this one of their surnames?
Nevil Wayland Sr (1754-1807) married Kezziah (unknown maiden name, but circumstantial evidence exists suggesting Keziah Gibson). His known sons were William, Henry, Nevil Jr. (Stoney Creek Church clerk), Henry, and Francis. I am descended from William. His wife was Elizabeth (maiden name unknown). But one of their daughters was Elizabeth Stewart/Stuart Wayland. She married Hamilton Richey, the man who raised my great grandpa, his nephew, Jeffrey Hoten Richey.
Stuart/Stewart is not a common middle name, so I am thinking it might be her mother’s maiden name, and those Gibson’s we think we might be related to came from somewhere near this same geographic area.
Vance
Dear Dreaminghawk,
Could you list the surnames existing in the High Plains Sappony community?
Thanks!:)
Roca
Roca…… glad to comply 😉
From the Sappony website:
Sappony have about 850 Tribal members who all descend from the seven main families or clans, each with unique but related histories that have enriched our community. One person from each of the seven families serves as a representative on our Tribal Council. The seven feathers found on our Tribal Insignia represent the seven families of the Sappony.
and from the 1948 article at website below:
Strangely enough, among the approximately 350 people in the scattered farming community, only six family names are represented: Johnson, Martin, Coleman, Epps, Stewart (also spelled Stuart), and Shepherd. Stranger still, three of these names correspond closely with those among the list of Lost Colonists: Johnson, Coleman, and Martyn. . (A seventh prominent name among this group is Tally.)
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncperson/high_plains.htm
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