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ine iana is now titled under the name of Raynor V. Snead, a former member of Oakley Baptist Church, whose mother and father were also members.
Isaac Beahm, clerk-treasurer of the Oakley church, was offered the deed by Judge Snead in a letter dated Jan. 12, 1959. However, the church lot was not surveyed and no effort was made to obtain the deed, according to Judge SneadOn
Aug. 9, 1964, at a Jenkins family reunion held at the church, an offering was taken and $78 was sent to Mrs. Janie Beahm. The money was to be used to pay for painting the inside and outside of the church building.
Judge Snead said that a number of factors contributed to the decline in membership which eventually led to the cessation of services in the church.
He said that a number of the church’s congregants lived in what is now the Shenandoah National Park. When the park was established in the mid-30s, those families were forced to move. A number of those families then joined churches near their resettlement homes, which decimated the church’s already small membership.
Also, Judge Snead added, as the county’s roads improved and more people bought automobiles, they became more mobile. Instead of riding to the neighborhood church in the hollow in their horse and buggy, the family rode to church in town in their new automobile. A number of the county’s small “community”
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