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Robert Simon Laws was born ca. 1837 on Wood Farm Plantation in Middlesex County, Virginia as an enslaved person. [11] At some point, Robert was sold to Richard H. Lynch of Washington County, Virginia who published a $100 reward in 1863 for the return of a runaway slave, 24-year-old Robert Laws, who was described as "5 feet 7 inches high and weighs about 175 pounds" and likely headed to ...
Mount Zion Baptist Church or Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church or variations may refer to: United States (by state) Mount Zion Baptist Church (Anniston, Alabama ...
Mount Zion Baptist Church Stained glass. 1872 – A small group of Black Athenians gather for religious services at the home of Joseph and Henrietta Miller. 1876 – Services held in a wood-framed single-room church on Lancaster Street. 1885 – Baptisms take place in the Hocking River before the new church building is constructed.
Leonard N. Smith (born October 4, 1961 – February 20, 2022) was the senior pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church in Arlington, Virginia, with a congregation exceeding 2,000. [1] Mount Zion Baptist Church, founded in 1866, is the oldest Black congregation in Arlington, Virginia.
Mount Zion United Methodist Church is a historic black church located at 1334 29th Street NW in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States. It was built in 1876 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
The Mount Zion Baptist Church is a historic church in Miami, Florida. It is located at 301 Northwest 9th Street. It is located at 301 Northwest 9th Street. On December 29, 1988, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
Mount Zion Baptist Church is a historic church on Opequon Lane in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Built during 1836–38, 35 by 40 square feet (3.3 m 2 × 3.7 m 2) in plan, with stonework "unequalled" in Berkeley County. As of 1980 the church was in use only about once yearly. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [2]
After a theological disagreement with the elders of the Mt. Zion church, he left in 1976 to form his own ministry, the Life Center COGIC church, in the same neighborhood. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Barrett was charged in 1989 with orchestrating a pyramid scheme , by encouraging his congregants to donate to a series of economic development fundraisers which ...