The land there is lovely. From Sweet Springs to Gap Mills, there is a long valley full of gorgeous farmland.
We were searching for a church called the Bruffey Church. That was all I knew about it at the time. Allegedly some of my relatives started this church.
We could not get inside the building, and while we ran into one person there, that person offered no information about the structure or its history.
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| It's a plain little country church |
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| You see structures like these all over southwestern Virginia and West Virginia. |
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| My husband wondered why the cross was lopsided on the front. |
As best I can tell from an unproductive internet search, about 30 people attend services here. There was no cemetery attached to the church so I am not sure where relatives who attended this structure might be buried.
There is a Facebook page for the church and I've written to see if there is a history available. I'll update if so.
I have a program from there and a cookbook from that church as well.
ReplyDeleteHi Anita and Loren. I was told by one of the church members it was named after George Washington Bruffey, who was a UME minister in the Va/WVa area at the time of its founding, on land donated by the Lynch family, which also includes the Hollywood Tabernacle. The cemetery is a little ways down the road toward where the Post Office was and the bridge over Second Creek. G.W and his wife are buried there, as is his granddaughter Emma Bruffey Thornhill, my grandmother.
ReplyDeleteMy family is from there Emily Bruffey she would be my great great grandmother.As far as I know it's always been Methodist
ReplyDeleteMark Bruffey is my 4th Great Grand Father, I've Been Looking for Strother Bruffey, and where he may be buried. his Family is buried here in Lynchburg in some of the cemetery. Has any one heard of a Krotten Bruffey
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