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Works Project Administration – Articles from Rockingham County
CHURCHES
1. SUBJECT:
Elk Run M.E. Church Site.
2. LOCATION:
In East Elkton, Virginia, in the southern part of Elk Run Cemetery.
3. DATE:
About 1785.
4. OWNERS:
Elk Run Methodist Episcopal Church South.
5. DESCRIPTION:
A site.
6. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:
Here is one of the first Methodist church sites in this part of the Valley belonging to the Greater Baltimore
Conference, and some of the great Methodist preachers preached here in those days. It was in this church that
John Bear became a Christian after hearing William Cravens preach the sermon of “Curse ye Meroz” in 1812,
in which Cravens remarked to John Bear: “John, most people get converted under a blessing, but you got
converted under a curse.”
7. ART:
None.
8. SOURCES OF INFORMATION:
Informants: Mrs. Fannie Bear, Miss Elizabeth Bear, old Doctor Miller, and Mrs. Amanda Kite, Elkton, Virginia.
December 12, 2024 C.C. Morris
Shenandoah, VA
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CHURCHES
1. SUBJECT:
Elk Run M.E. Church Site.
2. LOCATION:
In East Elkton, Virginia, in the southern part of Elk Run Cemetery.
3. DATE:
About 1785.
4. OWNERS:
Elk Run Methodist Episcopal Church South.
5. DESCRIPTION:
A site.
6. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:
Here is one of the first Methodist church sites in this part of the Valley belonging to the Greater Baltimore
Conference, and some of the great Methodist preachers preached here in those days. It was in this church that
John Bear became a Christian after hearing William Cravens preach the sermon of “Curse ye Meroz” in 1812,
in which Cravens remarked to John Bear: “John, most people get converted under a blessing, but you got
converted under a curse.”
7. ART:
None.
8. SOURCES OF INFORMATION:
Informants: Mrs. Fannie Bear, Miss Elizabeth Bear, old Doctor Miller, and Mrs. Amanda Kite, Elkton, Virginia.
December 12, 2024 C.C. Morris
Shenandoah, VA
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