Sylvania (AKA Silvina) Kivett was the first born child of Zemriah Kivett and his wife Sydney "Siddie" Scotten in Columbia Township, Randolph County, North Carolina. Sylvania was the first wife of Dennis Culberson York who she married about 1862. They lived in a one room log cabin under challenging circumstances on their farm between present day Ramseur and Staley, in eastern Randolph County, North Carolina. She is buried in the Old Shady Grove Baptist Cemetery near her father, Zemriah Kivett. Her tombstone is broken into pieces and lies buried in the leaves behind a large oak tree.
She was a member of the Sandy Creek Baptist Church that had relocated near her home. A large part of that congregation departed from the original Sandy Creek Baptist Church on Sandy Creek over theological issues of missions and temporarily met in a brush arbor on the banks of the Brush Creek. Later the church meet in the nearby John Staley one room school on the western banks of Brush Creek, just a few hundred yards from where she was buried. Apparently there were church meetings that met briefly in the parents’ home of Sylvania Kivett. Sylvania Kivett, her mother Siddie Kivett and her husband Dennis Culberson York were very active in the church all living nearby the church. This congregation was later renamed as the Shady Grove Baptist Church in its newer location just west of the original location on Brush Creek.
According to the York family Bible Sylvania gave birth to four children with only one surviving to adult life. Three daughters did not survive but one son Vance York did survive and lived in Liberty, Randolph County, North Carolina. According to the Bible entry he was named Dennis Thomas 'Vance' York born in 1862 during the civil war era.
Her husband Dennis Culberson York was a musician and camp guard in the Confederate army stationed at Camp Holmes in Raleigh, North Carolina. When General Sherman invaded North Carolina in the spring of 1865 he ultimately obtained the surrender of the Southern Confederate States of America (CSA) Army. All the CSA troops at Camp Holmes escaped on rail to Camp Stokes in Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina. There the Confederate troops were taken as Prisoners of War (POW's). The Confederate troops including Dennis Culberson York at Camp Stokes had to surrender their arms, sign an allegiance not to take up arms against the USA. Then in late April 1865 they were dismissed to walk home in defeat.
While all of this was occurring Sylvania Kivett with a young 3 year old son died at home while her husband was a Prisoner of War at Camp Stokes. Dennis Culberson York not being aware of had happened back home, first walked home with his civil war friend John Spoon in Alamance County very near the eastern border of Guilford County. As an overnight guest Dennis met the entire John Spoon family. Perhaps he rested a short while enjoying the hospitality of the Spoon family not realizing he had met his future second wife. Dennis Culberson turned south continuing a 17 mile walk to his own log cabin. After visiting John Spoon's family, Dennis Culberson finally arrived at his log cabin in Randolph County where he experienced a devastating shock. He was no doubt in a lot of pain and grief to discover he had lost the war, and now discovered he also lost his wife while he was a POW as a defeated CSA veteran. His emotions overwhelmed him realizing he did not have a wife but a new responsibility of a new baby boy, Vance York, to care for plus his mother Margaret Cox York who also lived in the log cabin. Dennis Culberson York soon married in 1867 a second time to Sarah “Sallie” Ann Spoon, the sister of his civil war friend John Spoon. God had truly orchestrated a divine answer for his situation.
She was a member of the Sandy Creek Baptist Church that had relocated near her home. A large part of that congregation departed from the original Sandy Creek Baptist Church on Sandy Creek over theological issues of missions and temporarily met in a brush arbor on the banks of the Brush Creek. Later the church meet in the nearby John Staley one room school on the western banks of Brush Creek, just a few hundred yards from where she was buried. Apparently there were church meetings that met briefly in the parents’ home of Sylvania Kivett. Sylvania Kivett, her mother Siddie Kivett and her husband Dennis Culberson York were very active in the church all living nearby the church. This congregation was later renamed as the Shady Grove Baptist Church in its newer location just west of the original location on Brush Creek.
According to the York family Bible Sylvania gave birth to four children with only one surviving to adult life. Three daughters did not survive but one son Vance York did survive and lived in Liberty, Randolph County, North Carolina. According to the Bible entry he was named Dennis Thomas 'Vance' York born in 1862 during the civil war era.
Her husband Dennis Culberson York was a musician and camp guard in the Confederate army stationed at Camp Holmes in Raleigh, North Carolina. When General Sherman invaded North Carolina in the spring of 1865 he ultimately obtained the surrender of the Southern Confederate States of America (CSA) Army. All the CSA troops at Camp Holmes escaped on rail to Camp Stokes in Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina. There the Confederate troops were taken as Prisoners of War (POW's). The Confederate troops including Dennis Culberson York at Camp Stokes had to surrender their arms, sign an allegiance not to take up arms against the USA. Then in late April 1865 they were dismissed to walk home in defeat.
While all of this was occurring Sylvania Kivett with a young 3 year old son died at home while her husband was a Prisoner of War at Camp Stokes. Dennis Culberson York not being aware of had happened back home, first walked home with his civil war friend John Spoon in Alamance County very near the eastern border of Guilford County. As an overnight guest Dennis met the entire John Spoon family. Perhaps he rested a short while enjoying the hospitality of the Spoon family not realizing he had met his future second wife. Dennis Culberson turned south continuing a 17 mile walk to his own log cabin. After visiting John Spoon's family, Dennis Culberson finally arrived at his log cabin in Randolph County where he experienced a devastating shock. He was no doubt in a lot of pain and grief to discover he had lost the war, and now discovered he also lost his wife while he was a POW as a defeated CSA veteran. His emotions overwhelmed him realizing he did not have a wife but a new responsibility of a new baby boy, Vance York, to care for plus his mother Margaret Cox York who also lived in the log cabin. Dennis Culberson York soon married in 1867 a second time to Sarah “Sallie” Ann Spoon, the sister of his civil war friend John Spoon. God had truly orchestrated a divine answer for his situation.
Sylvania (AKA Silvina) Kivett was the first born child of Zemriah Kivett and his wife Sydney "Siddie" Scotten in Columbia Township, Randolph County, North Carolina. Sylvania was the first wife of Dennis Culberson York who she married about 1862. They lived in a one room log cabin under challenging circumstances on their farm between present day Ramseur and Staley, in eastern Randolph County, North Carolina. She is buried in the Old Shady Grove Baptist Cemetery near her father, Zemriah Kivett. Her tombstone is broken into pieces and lies buried in the leaves behind a large oak tree.
She was a member of the Sandy Creek Baptist Church that had relocated near her home. A large part of that congregation departed from the original Sandy Creek Baptist Church on Sandy Creek over theological issues of missions and temporarily met in a brush arbor on the banks of the Brush Creek. Later the church meet in the nearby John Staley one room school on the western banks of Brush Creek, just a few hundred yards from where she was buried. Apparently there were church meetings that met briefly in the parents’ home of Sylvania Kivett. Sylvania Kivett, her mother Siddie Kivett and her husband Dennis Culberson York were very active in the church all living nearby the church. This congregation was later renamed as the Shady Grove Baptist Church in its newer location just west of the original location on Brush Creek.
According to the York family Bible Sylvania gave birth to four children with only one surviving to adult life. Three daughters did not survive but one son Vance York did survive and lived in Liberty, Randolph County, North Carolina. According to the Bible entry he was named Dennis Thomas 'Vance' York born in 1862 during the civil war era.
Her husband Dennis Culberson York was a musician and camp guard in the Confederate army stationed at Camp Holmes in Raleigh, North Carolina. When General Sherman invaded North Carolina in the spring of 1865 he ultimately obtained the surrender of the Southern Confederate States of America (CSA) Army. All the CSA troops at Camp Holmes escaped on rail to Camp Stokes in Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina. There the Confederate troops were taken as Prisoners of War (POW's). The Confederate troops including Dennis Culberson York at Camp Stokes had to surrender their arms, sign an allegiance not to take up arms against the USA. Then in late April 1865 they were dismissed to walk home in defeat.
While all of this was occurring Sylvania Kivett with a young 3 year old son died at home while her husband was a Prisoner of War at Camp Stokes. Dennis Culberson York not being aware of had happened back home, first walked home with his civil war friend John Spoon in Alamance County very near the eastern border of Guilford County. As an overnight guest Dennis met the entire John Spoon family. Perhaps he rested a short while enjoying the hospitality of the Spoon family not realizing he had met his future second wife. Dennis Culberson turned south continuing a 17 mile walk to his own log cabin. After visiting John Spoon's family, Dennis Culberson finally arrived at his log cabin in Randolph County where he experienced a devastating shock. He was no doubt in a lot of pain and grief to discover he had lost the war, and now discovered he also lost his wife while he was a POW as a defeated CSA veteran. His emotions overwhelmed him realizing he did not have a wife but a new responsibility of a new baby boy, Vance York, to care for plus his mother Margaret Cox York who also lived in the log cabin. Dennis Culberson York soon married in 1867 a second time to Sarah “Sallie” Ann Spoon, the sister of his civil war friend John Spoon. God had truly orchestrated a divine answer for his situation.
She was a member of the Sandy Creek Baptist Church that had relocated near her home. A large part of that congregation departed from the original Sandy Creek Baptist Church on Sandy Creek over theological issues of missions and temporarily met in a brush arbor on the banks of the Brush Creek. Later the church meet in the nearby John Staley one room school on the western banks of Brush Creek, just a few hundred yards from where she was buried. Apparently there were church meetings that met briefly in the parents’ home of Sylvania Kivett. Sylvania Kivett, her mother Siddie Kivett and her husband Dennis Culberson York were very active in the church all living nearby the church. This congregation was later renamed as the Shady Grove Baptist Church in its newer location just west of the original location on Brush Creek.
According to the York family Bible Sylvania gave birth to four children with only one surviving to adult life. Three daughters did not survive but one son Vance York did survive and lived in Liberty, Randolph County, North Carolina. According to the Bible entry he was named Dennis Thomas 'Vance' York born in 1862 during the civil war era.
Her husband Dennis Culberson York was a musician and camp guard in the Confederate army stationed at Camp Holmes in Raleigh, North Carolina. When General Sherman invaded North Carolina in the spring of 1865 he ultimately obtained the surrender of the Southern Confederate States of America (CSA) Army. All the CSA troops at Camp Holmes escaped on rail to Camp Stokes in Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina. There the Confederate troops were taken as Prisoners of War (POW's). The Confederate troops including Dennis Culberson York at Camp Stokes had to surrender their arms, sign an allegiance not to take up arms against the USA. Then in late April 1865 they were dismissed to walk home in defeat.
While all of this was occurring Sylvania Kivett with a young 3 year old son died at home while her husband was a Prisoner of War at Camp Stokes. Dennis Culberson York not being aware of had happened back home, first walked home with his civil war friend John Spoon in Alamance County very near the eastern border of Guilford County. As an overnight guest Dennis met the entire John Spoon family. Perhaps he rested a short while enjoying the hospitality of the Spoon family not realizing he had met his future second wife. Dennis Culberson turned south continuing a 17 mile walk to his own log cabin. After visiting John Spoon's family, Dennis Culberson finally arrived at his log cabin in Randolph County where he experienced a devastating shock. He was no doubt in a lot of pain and grief to discover he had lost the war, and now discovered he also lost his wife while he was a POW as a defeated CSA veteran. His emotions overwhelmed him realizing he did not have a wife but a new responsibility of a new baby boy, Vance York, to care for plus his mother Margaret Cox York who also lived in the log cabin. Dennis Culberson York soon married in 1867 a second time to Sarah “Sallie” Ann Spoon, the sister of his civil war friend John Spoon. God had truly orchestrated a divine answer for his situation.
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The gave site is among a group of trees near the road from the Shady Grove Church leading east to the tiny village of Staley, North Carolina. Her tombstone is broken into pieces and lies buried in the leaves behind a large oak tree in 2001.
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