Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-22

SEASONAL services there The building remained
upaltered and many of our old citizens re.
member it's ancient interior. In the winter or
1929 large body Of Federal troops was en-
camped in the vicinity and by them the nne
old church was torn down, brick by brlck.
and the material used to build chmneys ana
hearths for their winter quarters. me tomo,
stones in the large graveyard perhaps shared
the same fate. for only one or two remain ,
though the yard is full of sunken graves. A
small frame Baptist Church now covers part IT. OF
of which still be traced. The silver COM
munion service belonging to this church was
given by an old LADY living in the nelgho sh
year 1850 and vas by him presented to St.
Johns Church, Centerville, where it is still in
Every now and then mild con.
troversy crops up as to the site of
the first Pohick Church. There can be
little doubt that Lewis Chapel stands
on or close to the site of the Pohick
Church. DR.. Slaughter, in his book,
which was published in 1908. and
having before him the recovered Ves-
try book of Truro parish, tells of the
meeting of the first veStry, November
7, 1892 Five vestrymen were elected,
Charles Broadwater. Richard Osborn,
John Lewis, Gabriel Adams and Ed
ward Emms, together with Dennis
McCarty. John HEREFORD and Edward
Barry, having taken the oaths ap-
comfortable to the doctrine and d1sci-
pline of the Church of England, took
their places in the vestry according
w." At the next vestry meeting.
March &c. 1888, John Sturman and
Giles Tillett were added to the yes
try, and there were also present
Francis Aubrey and William Godfrey
not previously mentioned" Then this
follows:
hot fho
give publick notice to workmen to appear at
the next Vestry to be held for this parish to
agree for the building of a Church at the
crossroads near Michael Reagans In this
At the meeting on April 16. 1873; Michael
Ashford took the oaths and subscribed the test
as a yestryman. An agreement was mace
with the Rev. Lawrence De Butts to preach
three times month for one year lat Deco
guam Church. the new church. or william Gun
nelTs, and at the Chappell above Goose Creek,
for the sum of eight thousand pounds Of to-
bacco clear of the Warehouse charges and
Attachments"
In mote" following thistle
mote" being written by Rev. DR..
Edward L. Goodwin, historiographer
of the diocese of Virginla-it is set
down as follows:
Occoquan Church, which DIR. Slaughter could
not identify, was none other than the old Po-
hick Church, which stood about two miles from
chester. When this church was built Is not
known. but it was first an Upper Church" or
Chanel Ease in Overwharton parish. When
Hamilton parish was formed. January l., 1880,
It was ordered that the freeholders and house.
keepers meet lat the church above Occoquan
ferry" to elect their vestry, above" meaning
up the Potomac. When Truro parish was set
apart two years later this church falls again
into a new parish. After the year 1913 the
name Occoquan disappears and that of Pohick
is substituted The church stood until super
seeded by the new present Pohck in 1874.
William Gunnells Church was probably
temporary or perhaus rented building, and
may have been situated not far below Difficult
Iun, as the Gunnells owned land in that vicin-
ity 1t disappears after the building of the
church NEAR Michael Reagan's'' and may
be considered the first Falls Church. The
location of the .'Chappell above Goose Creek
is not known. 1t was still unfinished at this
time, being completed in 1886