African American Churches in Southampton County, Virginia

This photograph of Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church (2015) was contributed to FindAGrave.com by a person who goes by ‘AGraveStory.’

“[Shiloh Baptist Church] was organized in 1865, during the last tumultuous year of the Civil War by a small group of ex-slaves. They started worshipping God in a log cabin called Bethel near Cross Keys…. Eventually Bethel was moved to its present location at 30188 Shiloh Road and renamed Shiloh Baptist Church….Shiloh has birthed many pastors, preachers, teachers, deacons, clerks and trustees and helped grow five branches — Bryants, Odom Chapel, Zoar, Galilee and New Bethel Baptist churches.”

The complete article by Rev. Dr. William A. Scott is online at “Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church helped grow other congregations,” The Tidewater News, 16 February 2013 (blog) accessed 22 November 2020.

There’s more information about Shiloh Baptist Church on FindAGrave.com. A person called ‘AGraveStory’ contributed this photograph in 2015. The image features the older part of the building and a brief note explains that there are cemetery sections behind the church and across the road in front of the church.
The post is on Find A Grave at https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2139288/shiloh-missionary-baptist-church-cemetery, accessed November 22, 2020.