wife of Nat Martin
The small burial ground next to the meetinghouse contains few legible stones, but one of them is for Eliza Martin, wife of Nat, possibly the "Bessie" named as a trustee on the deed. She died in 1906, according to her broken stone.
Sometimes it was used as a school between about 1870 and about 1900, although there was a separate school building nearby for many years. When Jamestown lost its charter, ownership of the meetinghouse reverted to the family, and eventually to Mary Mendenhall Hobbs, a great-granddaughter of George Mendenhall, Sr. Mrs. Hobbs sold the building in 1915 to the Jamestown Primitive Baptist Church.
The congregation of the church was African American, and the building was used by this group until 1933, when the church's trustees sold the building to the City of High Point, which had already purchased much of the surrounding land for the water works dam, and the park.
The Jamestown Primitive Baptist Church trustees named on the deed were Ezekiel Fuller and wife Mezeriah Fuller, Nat Martin and wife Bessie Martin, and David Hobson and wife Roda Hobson.
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The small burial ground next to the meetinghouse contains few legible stones, but one of them is for Eliza Martin, wife of Nat, possibly the "Bessie" named as a trustee on the deed. She died in 1906, according to her broken stone.
Sometimes it was used as a school between about 1870 and about 1900, although there was a separate school building nearby for many years. When Jamestown lost its charter, ownership of the meetinghouse reverted to the family, and eventually to Mary Mendenhall Hobbs, a great-granddaughter of George Mendenhall, Sr. Mrs. Hobbs sold the building in 1915 to the Jamestown Primitive Baptist Church.
The congregation of the church was African American, and the building was used by this group until 1933, when the church's trustees sold the building to the City of High Point, which had already purchased much of the surrounding land for the water works dam, and the park.
The Jamestown Primitive Baptist Church trustees named on the deed were Ezekiel Fuller and wife Mezeriah Fuller, Nat Martin and wife Bessie Martin, and David Hobson and wife Roda Hobson.
http://www.mendenhallplantation.org/Browning%27s%20Columns/Friends%20Meeting%20House.htm
wife of Nat Martin
The small burial ground next to the meetinghouse contains few legible stones, but one of them is for Eliza Martin, wife of Nat, possibly the "Bessie" named as a trustee on the deed. She died in 1906, according to her broken stone.
Sometimes it was used as a school between about 1870 and about 1900, although there was a separate school building nearby for many years. When Jamestown lost its charter, ownership of the meetinghouse reverted to the family, and eventually to Mary Mendenhall Hobbs, a great-granddaughter of George Mendenhall, Sr. Mrs. Hobbs sold the building in 1915 to the Jamestown Primitive Baptist Church.
The congregation of the church was African American, and the building was used by this group until 1933, when the church's trustees sold the building to the City of High Point, which had already purchased much of the surrounding land for the water works dam, and the park.
The Jamestown Primitive Baptist Church trustees named on the deed were Ezekiel Fuller and wife Mezeriah Fuller, Nat Martin and wife Bessie Martin, and David Hobson and wife Roda Hobson.
http://www.mendenhallplantation.org/Browning%27s%20Columns/Friends%20Meeting%20House.htm
The small burial ground next to the meetinghouse contains few legible stones, but one of them is for Eliza Martin, wife of Nat, possibly the "Bessie" named as a trustee on the deed. She died in 1906, according to her broken stone.
Sometimes it was used as a school between about 1870 and about 1900, although there was a separate school building nearby for many years. When Jamestown lost its charter, ownership of the meetinghouse reverted to the family, and eventually to Mary Mendenhall Hobbs, a great-granddaughter of George Mendenhall, Sr. Mrs. Hobbs sold the building in 1915 to the Jamestown Primitive Baptist Church.
The congregation of the church was African American, and the building was used by this group until 1933, when the church's trustees sold the building to the City of High Point, which had already purchased much of the surrounding land for the water works dam, and the park.
The Jamestown Primitive Baptist Church trustees named on the deed were Ezekiel Fuller and wife Mezeriah Fuller, Nat Martin and wife Bessie Martin, and David Hobson and wife Roda Hobson.
http://www.mendenhallplantation.org/Browning%27s%20Columns/Friends%20Meeting%20House.htm
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