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Eastham of Flint Hill, concerning th« early hiatory of Willis Chapel states, “More than half a century ago my father, the late Rev. John Wesley Hilldrup, a member of the Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, founded a Sunday school in a little one-room school house away up in the Blue Ridge mountains, west of Flint Hill. Then he commenced to preach there and continued to do so until he left the charge. Later a church was built near the school house and was called Shiloh, where during the successive years the Methodist preachers on the Rappahannock Circuit continued to preach.
“In 1914 the quarterly con-: ference of the circuit ordered the . moving of the chapel from the original site, as there had been quite an exodus of people from that section, and the placing of it on the pike. This was done during the pastorate of Rev. A. P. Williams, and the nfcme *ras changed to jWiilis Chapel, and ■.concerning the change there is quite an interesting history, and it is as follows:
“During the Civil War a deserter from the Northern army was met near Flint Hill by some of Mosby’s men, who being under the influence of whiskey accosted the man, some words ye re exchanged and the deserter was killed by the Confederate soldiers. They then threw his body in the nearby grove, the property of Colonel Thomas Settle, (father-in-law of the late Joseph Reid and father of the late George W. Settle of Flint Hill). Mosby’s Men, still somewhat intoxicated, went on
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