UNITED STATES - November 3, 2018: The 1771 South Fork Friends burying grounds is maintained by the Goose Creek Friends Meeting House (Philomont) and i
UNITED STATES - November 3, 2018: The 1771 South Fork Friends burying grounds is maintained by the Goose Creek Friends Meeting House (Philomont) and is open to the public. It is located approximately 1 1/2 miles south of Unison. A meeting for Worship was allowed as an indulged meeting in 1768 and was called South Fork Meeting, the meetings being at first held in the house of Isaac Votaw. This meeting was located about 6 or 7 miles south west of Lincoln, Virginia (the site of Goose Creek Monthly Meeting). It was on or near the South Fork of Beaverdam Creek. It was reported, by Yardley Taylor in 1853 as "still active". The old burial ground near the village of Unison marks the site of the meeting house. When Goose Creek Meeting was established as a monthly meeting in 1785 South Fork Meeting was assigned to it. The members of South Fork Meeting were pretty "worldly" and caused great "concern" to both Fairfax and Goose Creek Monthly Meeting. Many of the young men of South Fork Meeting "drank to excess", had many fights, gambled, indulged in "horse racing", and were lax morally; many were disowned. (Photo By Douglas Graham/WLP)
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