HOPEWELL CHURCH (DISCIPLES)
On September 30, 1876, B. C. Burnett, Sr., Pan Burnett,
B. C. Burnett, Jr., Angelina Burnett, Mignonette Burnette,
John J. Blanton, Sarah E. Diggs, Ellen Ophelia Diggs, Josie
Lumpkin, Sallie Lumpkin, Archibald Blanton, John T. Blanton,
Ann Blanton, Sallie Haley, Ada Burruss, Ann Marmaduke,
Hause Marmaduke, Willie Marmaduke, Richard Marmaduke,
George Marmaduke, Mary Marmaduke and Atwill Cannon,
members of Emmas church, petitioned their mother church for
authority to band themselves together as a separate and distinct
congregation and to meet for worship in Hopewell meeting-house.
The petition was granted and the petitioners became the charter
members. The charter members added to their number rapidly
and was soon a thriving congregation with a regular pastor.
After more than twenty-five years of service the congregation
fell on evil days, owing to the burning of their house of worship
and removals and so disbanded. For names of other acquisitions
from Emmas church see Emmaus Church Records, Volume 18641888
in possession of Mr. L. D. George, Penola, Va. Athens, the
location of this church, was originally Athey.
