(
Photograph from July, 1954 - Submitted By:
Darrell Bailey.)
Joe Tilley was a well
respected resident of Sinai Mountain. He was a
minister and held services at the below historic
Sinai Mountain log church during the1940s and
1950s.
On Sinai Mountain, Press
Robinson, Whitlow and Haskin Jones and John
Dillon dismantled the old Jones cabin in Bell
Branch Hollow and put it back together beside the
road above the Jones Farm. They remodeled
the cabin into a church where Preachers Mr. Shaw,
Mr. Sutphin, John Dudley, and JoeTilley held
services. Haskin Jones married Kate Foster
there, and Whitlow Jones married Annie Sue Foster
there in 1912. Preacher John Dudley had to walk
from Montcalm to have services in the church, and
walked back off the mountain late at night
carrying a lantern that cast an erie yellow glow
through the forest. This church photograph is
from 1990. The church has since been torn down.
(
Sinai Montain Church text furnished By: Ken
Bowen, Bluewell, WV. )
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