The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-10-26
Association Has As Churches
and 4.OO2 Members. Makes
Very Good Gain.

Minutes of the 53rd. session of
the Ashe Missionary Baptist As
ISOLATION, held the last of August
at Friendship Baptist Church,
have been printed and are now
ready for distribution.
The next session will meet with
the Phoenix church at Bina on
August 80, 81 and Sept. l.
The Association showed gain
in membership last year of 217
and several new churches were
also added. There are As churches
and the total membership is A.
0O2. West Jefferson, with 284
members, is the largest. Healing
Springs is second with I'll. Next
is Landmark, with 204, then
Friendship with 157 and valley
Home has 152 members.
The churches and pastors are
as follows: Apple Grove, Rev. A.
P. Howell, Whitetop; Bald Noun
tain, Rev Grady Handy, Blow
ing Rock; Baptist Home; Beaver
Creek, Rev. H. M. Winkler, Todd;
Bethel, Rev. Levi Green, Deep
Gap; Big Flats, Rev. G. c. Bur
kett, West Jefferson; Big Laurel,
Rev. J. r. Trivett, Mabel; Bristol,
Rev. E. z. Sexton, Lansing; Buff
falo, Rev. C. Handy, Blowing
Rock; Blue Ridge; Clifton, Rev.
A. c. Ashley, Warrensville;
Chestnut Hill, Rev. A. G. Ashley;
Friendship, Rev. w. E. Denney,
Grassy Creek; Glendale, Rev. H.
A. Bulls; North Wilkesboro;
Grassy Creek, Rev. J. R. Shu-
mate, Sugar Grove, Va; Healing
Springs, Rev. w. E. Denney;
Laurel Knob, Rev. H. M. Kink-
Ter, Todd.
Liberty Grove, Rev. H. M.
Winkler; Liberty Hill, Rev. w. F.
Barker, Silas Creek; Little Hell
ton, Rev. w. L. Denney, Grassy
Creek; Long Branch, Rev. T. A.
Farmer, Lansing; Mission Home,
Rev. H. M. Kinkler; Mountain
View, Rev. J. R. Trivett, Mabel;
New River, Rev. w. T. Whiting
ton, West Jefferson; Oak Hill,
Rev. R. c. Ashley, Bina; Obids,
Rev. G. c. Burkett, Jefferson;
Old Fields, Rev. F. c. Watts,
Purlear; Orion, Rev. E. z. Sex
ton; Pilot Mountain, Rev. H. M.
Kinkler; Peak Valley, Rev. j. r.
Trivett; Phoenix, Rev. w. E.
Denney; Pleasant Branch, Rev.
A. c. Ashley; Pleasant Hill;
Pleasant Home, Rev. A. c. Ash
ley; Pleasant Valley, Rev. E. A.
Eller, Grassy Creek; Rock Creek,
Rev. H. M. Winkler; Sabbath
Home, Rev. E. z. Sexton; Smeth-
port, Rev. R. c. Ashley; Stur-
gills, Rev. E. A. Eller; Three
Forks, Rev. T. A. Farmer; Tuck
erdale, Rev. M. D. Hart, Tucker
dale; Valley Home, Rev. T. A.
Farmer; Warrensville, Rev. R. c.
Ashley; West Jefferson, Rev. W.
T. Wilmington and Welcome
Home, Rev. A. C. Ashley.
Prof. J. c. Goodman is again
moderator and Fitzhugh Barker,
of Lansing, is clerk. On the exc
cl1tive committee are: Ira L.
Johnston, chairman, E. c. Eller,
w. T. Hairless, G. S. Holman and
Bert Dixon.
The members of the standing
committees are: r. F. Johnston,
Idlewild, state missions; Rev. A..
c. Ashley, Warrensville, home
missions; L. J. South, Smethport,
foreign missions; Rev. R. K.
Campbell, Sunday Schools; Miss
Gertrude GRAPHICAL, Fig, daily va
vacation Bible schools; Mrs. b.
E. Reeves, Biblical Recorder; De-
wey Cox, Grassy Creek, hospl-
tai: Mrs. Mamie Tucker, Tucker
dale. orphanage; Prof. F. c. Nye'
Christian education; Ira john
ston, pastoral support; Prof D.
F. Phipps, Crumpler, aged MIN
isters' relief; w. L. Houck. West
Jefferson, temperance; Fitzhugh
Barker obituaries; Darius Severt,
West jefferson, B. T. u; Mrs
Ralph Parsons, West Jefferson
w. M. U. and David Hairless lay
mems work.
The Minutes carry obituaries
for the following; James Waiter
King, Victoria Vox Ashley, 10
seph Oscal Eller; America Jones
Barker, Hampton Monroe Brown
Thomas Calvin Marsh and Zllpha
Jones. ''In Memoriam;; preface
the following: Claude Blevins,
Clifford Ray, Joel Combs,
Charles Hurley, Nancy Porter,
Mary Hurley, Avery Oliver, Eli
zabeth Haynes, Mrs. Jones Faw,
Emmit Pennington, Mrs. Rose
Campbell and Lizzie Houck.