Churches in Brooke County…If you have names and records of other churches not listed here and would like to share them with us, please contact me by E Mail or the snail mail address on page one.

From the book "Origins and Proceedings of the Church of Christ 1833 (Disciples of Christ)"

This church was composed originally of thirty four members, dismissed for this purpose from the Church of Brush Run Washington Co. Pa. Then a member of the Redstone Baptist Association; some from the Regular Baptist Church on Cross Creek, Brooke County, VA. And a few others, to wit:

Males John Brown Rich D. McConnell Wm. Gilchrist -removed James Garrett Robert T. Holliday George Young Henry Jones Ex Alex Campbell Alexander Holliday Jacob Osborne David Carson John Chambers Wm. Brokan Wm. Mathews

Females Selena Bakewell Anna Brown Margaret McConnell Jane Gilchrist, Jane Garrett, Holliday Mary Marshall, Jones Margaret Campbell Sophia Duval Mary Sayres Elizabeth Carson Mary Chambers Nancy Brokan Elizabeth Young Catherine Young Susan McElroy Mary Gass Susan McElroy Mary Gass Margaret Parkinson Elizabeth Parkinson Ann Maria Bakewell Elizabeth Garrett

All these, having been immersed into Christ, assuming the New Testament as their only rule of faith and practice, united together "in one Lord, one faith one immersion and discarding all creeds and confessions of the faith except the above were accustomed to meet for worship and godly edification in the Brick meeting house in the upper part of the town of Wellsburg, there known by the name of Charlestown. (The complete history is on the shelf of Wellsburg Library in the genealogy section)