Mount Vernon Baptist Church
The Constitution of the church was adopted on October 20,
1832. An 1858 roll lists my great-great grandparents as members: James and
Martha Step and James and Elizabeth Layne. Land was given in 1868 to relocate
the church. James Step was one trustee receiving the land.
John D Stepp was buried behind the church in 1905 and Emma
Layne, wife of J D Steppe and R W Farris, was buried there in 1944. Maggie
Jordan, daughter of John and Emma, planted a “Tree of Life” between the
headstones. The family had to journey to the mountains of Virginia to dig it
up.
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The church as it is today, it is near Concord in Campbell
County.
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Tombstones of Emma and John; the “Tree of Life” grows
between them.
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Bark and leaves from the tree show that it is probably an
Eastern Hemlock.