Eden Church Cemetery
Enfield, Halifax County, North Carolina, USA
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Get directions Corner of Beaverdam Road & S. Brown Road
Enfield, North Carolina 27823 United StatesCoordinates: 36.23760, -77.70101 - Cemetery ID:
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During the Revolution evangelists from Virginia, associated with the reform efforts led by the Reverend John Wesley, moved into Halifax County to conduct revival meetings.
John Dickins (1764-1798), a friend of Bishop Francis Asbury, served the Roanoke Circuit of which Eden Church and Whitakers' Chapel were members. Dickins in time moved to Philadelphia where he established the Methodist Publishing House in 1789.
William Bellamy, Henry B. Bradford, and William Henry Wills were subsequent church leaders. The first deed for the church dates from September 20, 1803 when Jesse Hillman conveyed a tract to trustees. In 1828 Eden was one of eight Methodist Episcopal churches represented in the annual conference which met at Whitaker's Chapel, six miles east of Enfield.
Like Whitaker's Chapel, Bradford's Chapel, and other nineteenth century churches, Eden had a school located near the house of worship. The present church building, the third in the church's history, was built and first used around 1890.
Church literature indicates that Eden was the scene of many varied activities including box suppers, ice cream suppers, Sunday School rallies, Mission Days, Children's Day, quilt contests, and dinners on the grounds.
*The above information was written by the late Dr. Ralph Hardee Rives, who was a long time member of Eden Church.
Sadly Dr. Ralph Hardee Rives passed away May 20, 2016.
During the Revolution evangelists from Virginia, associated with the reform efforts led by the Reverend John Wesley, moved into Halifax County to conduct revival meetings.
John Dickins (1764-1798), a friend of Bishop Francis Asbury, served the Roanoke Circuit of which Eden Church and Whitakers' Chapel were members. Dickins in time moved to Philadelphia where he established the Methodist Publishing House in 1789.
William Bellamy, Henry B. Bradford, and William Henry Wills were subsequent church leaders. The first deed for the church dates from September 20, 1803 when Jesse Hillman conveyed a tract to trustees. In 1828 Eden was one of eight Methodist Episcopal churches represented in the annual conference which met at Whitaker's Chapel, six miles east of Enfield.
Like Whitaker's Chapel, Bradford's Chapel, and other nineteenth century churches, Eden had a school located near the house of worship. The present church building, the third in the church's history, was built and first used around 1890.
Church literature indicates that Eden was the scene of many varied activities including box suppers, ice cream suppers, Sunday School rallies, Mission Days, Children's Day, quilt contests, and dinners on the grounds.
*The above information was written by the late Dr. Ralph Hardee Rives, who was a long time member of Eden Church.
Sadly Dr. Ralph Hardee Rives passed away May 20, 2016.
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Halifax County, North Carolina, USA
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Halifax County, North Carolina, USA
- Total memorials7
- Percent photographed100%
- Percent with GPS14%
- Added: 30 Apr 2015
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2577478
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