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I have seen little written on this forum about Saponi churches. The Sappony Church in Dinwiddie County on Sapony Church Road near McKenney VA. Sources say it was founded in 1725-26
The first reference I’ve seen is the May 30th 1828 Richmond Enquirer:
“Dr Ducachet, Mr. Syme, and myself then passed on to Sapony Church where I preached on Saturday, and on Sunday, assisted by two clergymen just named, I admitted to the priesthood the Rev. John Grammer. Dr Ducachet preached the ordination sermon, after which I administered the Lord’s Supper, and confirmed nine persons. In the afternoon of the Sabbath, The Rev. Mr. Syme preached; we then bid the people farewell.
After the performance of my duties in Dinwiddie…”The July 4th 1864 Fayetteville Semi-Weekly Observer refers to the Battle of Sappony Church (June 28th 1864):
“GREENSBORO, July 2 – The Richmond Enquirer of 2d is received. It contains details of the cavalry fight near Saponi Church and Reame’s Station between Gens. Hampton, Fitz Lee and Mahone, and Wilson and Speare’s raiders, resulting in the complete rout of the latter. ”
This is near Stony Creek, Sussex County VA on Concord Sappony Road, and refers to the Sappony Meeting House established in 1773 that later became the Sappony Baptist Church. No doubt after many Quakers moved North around the time of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793.
1890 and 1891 Journals of the Episcopal Church, Diocese of Virginia refers to Saponi Church, Dinwiddie
Sappony Meeting House AKA Sappony Baptist Church AKA Sappony Primitive Baptist Church in Suusex County on Concord Sappony Rd near Sappony Creek
from https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=18852from Distant Voices As Heard From The Water’s Edge
https://duplin.lostsoulsgenealogy.com/family/bone.pdfThe formal establishment of the church had followed the founding of a fellowship, because on Dec. 12, 1801, Edward Ballard had given the Elder’s use of the land “where the Sappona meeting House now stands” – for as long as they “shall keep or cause to be kept up on said land a house for the worship of God*”
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John and Sarah “Sally” Winstead Poland (Polland) were members of the Falls of Tar River Baptist Church, and after August 17, 1804 members of the Sappony Primitive Baptist as was Elizabeth Winstead Bone, wife of John.
Williamson Poland’s wife, Mary was a member of Sappony as was Elizabeth Poland Joyner and her husband John. Attendance at this church proved to be a real family affair.
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Sappony. six miles south of Nashville, was established in 1804 by 26 members dismissed by letter from The Falls of The Tar River Baptist Church The church was constituted on August 17, 1804 by the following twenty-six members:
Elder Jordan Sherrod
Edward Ballard – (John Bone’s close friend. Nelson Bone’s father-in-law)
Mary Polland – (John Bone’s daughter)
Jane Sherrod
John Vick – (Elizabeth Winstead Bone’s brother-in-law)
Susie Vick – (Joseph Winstead’s daughter)
(Elizabeth Winstead Bone’s sister)
Elizabeth Bone – (John’s wife. Nelson’s mother)
Nathan Joyner
Nancy Joyner
John Polland – (Elizabeth Winstead Bone’s brother-in-law)
Sally Polland – (Elizabeth Winstead Bone’s sister)
John Joyner – (John Polland’s son-in-law)
Elizabeth Joyner – (John Poland daughter)
Lucy Bottoms
Sarah Bofer
Samuel Hunt
Rhoda Hunt
Lewis Joyner
Josiah Melton
Martha Melton
Henry Atkinson
Grace Edwards
Annie Hambleton
Christian Knight
William Dawes
Joiner Venos
Listing provided by J. B. Williams. Pastor.——-
On October 3, 1832. Nelson Bone, son-in-law of the late Edward Ballard conveyed to Granbeny Vick and Jethro Harrell in behalf of the United Baptist Church at Sappony Meeting House, a parcel of three acres on the road leading from Atkinson’s bridge to the bridge across Sappony Creek near Jacob Barnes’ at the Meeting House…
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Nelson Served as Justice of Peace in 1837, 1851-1855. and 1857. Nelson’s wife died in the 1820s, he married a second time, to Niccy Batchelor who died in 1865. There was no issue of the second marriage. Nelson died in July of 1866
Photographed By Bernard Fisher, May 9, 2009Sapony Church AKA Sappony Church AKA Sappony Episcopal Church in McKenney, Dinwiddie County VA
from https://www.archinform.net/projekte/49356.htm Sappony Branch arises about a mile east of the present town of McKenney on Highway Number 1, south of the town of Dinwiddie. Near this point was built in 1727 Old Sappony Church, where Protestant Episcopal services still are held. About a mile south of the old church, on a slight elevation on the east side of the road, stands a two story residence formerly occupied by Gardner Ledbetter (1786-1866), a great grandson of the original Richard and wife Hanna. https://www.seekingmyroots.com/members/files/G004304.pdf
Wow. There’s another church I wish I knew more about. A Blackfoot church in Pike county, Indiana. As usual, searching on “Blackfoot Church Indiana” revealed a number of hits.
https://indianaalbum.pastperfectonline.com/photo/26C30D3F-4526-43D4-9618-143981292526
Double wow. Blackfoot cemetery is said to be haunted.
https://agraveinterest.blogspot.com/2017/10/haunted-blackfoot-cemetery.html
The historical marker is very interesting. My family was from Kentucky at that point, traveling to Illinois. The story involved about the Indians telling them where to bury the lady who’d died could be a sanitation of a group of Blackfoot-descended people, trying to ‘pass’ who wanted to leave a momento of that side of the family. In the journey westward that took several generations I noticed the family always stopped where there were remnants of Siouan people.
TechTeach has made several posts here about the Blackfoot Cemetery in Pike County IN. Given my family’s history in Indiana, I’ve looked at in detail at that cemetery and who rests there. Although none of my direct ancestors are in Pike or Gibson Counties, almost all of mine started in Randolph and Wayne counties and moved West and North.
TechTeach has posted about tracing Marvel and Prettyman lines from Blackfoot Town DE to the Blackfoot Cemetery in Indiana.
One user posted about their English line buried there
This thread is about the Ricketts line
This is a thread about the cemetery
She has also posted about the surnames in the Blackfoot Cemetery https://saponitown.com/topic/traylortraillour-lines/
The Skinner surname is one that caught my attention because it was one of three middle names of my grandmother’s grandfather, who passed our Blackfoot oral history. It seems history is sometimes passed through these lines by preserving surnames as middle names or sometimes first names. Years ago I started an analysis of the surnames in the Blackfoot Cemetery. Your reply motivated me to finish it this morning. These are about 900 interments in the Blackfoot Cemetery and over 200 surnames if you include maiden names. These are the top 100 surnames (3 or more ancestors):
Name Total
Mason 121
Thompson 39
Skinner 31
Allman/Allmon/Almon 29
Cash 26
Wade 26
Beatty 25
Fleener 22
Julian 22
Coleman 21
Yager/Yeager 20
O’Neal 19
Dyer 16
LeMasters 14
Jordan 14
Couts 13
Ricketts 13
Riddle 13
Minnis 13
Owens 13
Simpson 13
Thiering 12
Green\Greene 11
Allen 10
Cato 10
Webster 9
Wilder 9
Roger\Rogers 9
Johnson 9
Coe 8
Manning 8
Bolin 8
English 8
McConnell 8
Williams 8
Grubb 8
Oliver 8
Dersch 7
Ferguson 7
Gieselman 7
Thurman 7
Riester 7
Spencer 7
Claridge 7
France 6
McCrary 6
Nixon 6
Rowland 6
Stocker 6
Harbin\Hardin 6
McGregor 6
Taylor 6
Faries 6
Kinder 6
Miller 6
Wilson 6
Bryant 5
Chansler 5
Denton 5
McCormack/McCormick 5
Burnett 5
Fella 5
McQueary 5
Perry 5
Reed 5
Steele 5
Carter 5
Mabrey 4
Polk 4
Pollock 4
Roach 4
Roeder 4
Runyan\Runyon 4
Alley 4
Doerner\Dorner 4
Richardson 4
Riley 4
Gentry 4
Blackford 3
Duncan 3
Edrington 3
Hamilton 3
McKnight 3
Montgomery 3
Pancake 3
Pipes 3
Quick 3
Ragle 3
Reister 3
Russell 3
Shelton 3
Shoultz 3
Stuckey 3
Watkins 3
Whitney 3
Baize 3
Burch 3
Corn 3
Crooks 3
Martin 3
Nossett 3
Black 3Other surnames (surnames known to be used by Siouan descendants in bold):
Abbott
Anderson
Austin
Aydelott
Bass
Baumgart
Beatty
Beauchamp
Beck
Blaine
Burdette
Burnett
Chancellor
Chew
Collins
Cooper
Copeland
Craig
Crofts
Cross
Curry
Daugherty
Davis
Deffendoll
Deter
Dimmett
Doughty
Elkins
Fithian
Frost
Gatwood
Godbey
Goodwin
Gray
Griffith
Grose
Gryder
Guernsey
Harger
Harris
Henson
Hess
Hicks
Hoffman
Hoover
Hopkins
Houchins
Hull
Hunley
Hurt
Hutchin
Jones
Kellems
Kelsey
Kolley
Lance
Lane
Lange
Long
Martin
Matheus
Matthews
McClellan
McGillem
McMurtry
Metcalf
Moore
Murphy
Papadopolous
Parke
Parker
Peters
Pope
Posey
Potter
Powers
Price
Raibourn
Redman
Rhea
Rice
Ringer
Ringo
Ritchey
Roy
Ruckman
Ruppel
Sandusky
Saulmon
Schmitt
Schofield
Selby
Sertel
Singer
Sizemore
Small
Smith
Spang
Stinson
Strickland
Sutton
Teavault
Thorne
Tincher
Underhill
Veit
Walker
Walton
Whitehouse
Wiggins
Wilhite
Wilkerson
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