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• Obituary for Mrs. Mary Frances (Fanny) Reynolds.

  Obituary for Mrs. Mary Frances (Fanny) Reynolds (91) who passed away at the home of her son Vester Reynolds.
  

• Westfield Friends Meeting: Brochure explaining who and what Friends and Quakers believe.

  Westfield Friends Meeting: Brochure explaining who and what Friends and Quakers believe.
  

• Photographs of Westfield Friends Church

  photographs of Westfield Friends Meeting in Westfield, NC
  

• Bicentennial of Westfield Friends

  Short history of Westfield Friends Meeting in Westfield, NC with information on its founding in 1772 and the church officials in 1972
  

• The Westfield Quaker Meeting and Early Westfield History

  Brief history of the Westfield Friends Meeting, includes family sketches on the Christians, Cookes, Hills, Jacksons, Jessups, Flippins, Owens, Pells and Tilleys.
  

• Letter from Luther Byrd to Mrs. Woodrow Smith

  Letter from Luther Byrd to Mrs. Woodrow Smith containing information on Westfield Friends meeting that was requested by Mrs. Smith
  

• A Compilation of Westfield Origins

  History of the Westfield Friends Meeting during the late 1700s and 1800s.
  

• Westfield Friends Meeting commemorative plate

  commemorative plate featuring Westfield Friends Church, Westfield, NC. with gold rimmed, embossed fruit around the edge. Westfield Friends Church, better known as "Old Westfield", is the oldest religious organization in Surry County, NC, dating back to 1760s when pioneer Quakers from New Garden crossed Quaker Gap of Saurtown Mountains to plant a community in the Valleys of Big Creek and Tom's Creek. Those early Quakers began holding meetings at Westfield by 1772,December 23, 1786 a monthly meeting was set up at Westfield, and the name was changed from Tom's Creek to "Westfield." The meeting grew rapidly and established several new meetings. In 1803, a quarterly meeting was established with Westfield as its center. Gradually the migration westward weakened the meetings and in 1832, Westfield Meeting was laid down. In 1868 Friends gathered again at Westfield and started a meeting for worship. The meeting was setup as a monthly meeting again in 1883, and has continued without interruption until present day. The first church was built in the 1780s but decayed before the Civil War , was rebuilt, about 1870 and continued in use until about 1883, when present building was erected. Later to be modernized to its present form in 1939. As of this date, 1951, there are 175 members.
  

• Lottie Marshall Robertson

  photograph of Lottie Marshall Robertson, 73, who was a minister at White Plains Friends Meeting for 40 years and a teacher before that. daughter of John Marion Marshall and Christina Sparger Marshall, born: 8-27-1867, died: 12-19-1955. She married Charles L. Robertson, a buggy manufacturer in 12-1890. Mrs. Lottie M. Robertson, Friends minister of White Plains, Surry Count and had been a leader in the religious and civic life of her community for the fast 50 years. She was Surry County's first woman minister, a school teacher at 18 and at 22 was was appointed postmistress at White Plains. She helped raise funds to establish the first graded school at White Plains and later helped secure a high school. She helped start Friends Meetings at Green Hill, Ararat and Pine Hill.
  

• Westfield Friends Meeting photograph

  Westfield Monthly Meeting Of Friends; oldest church organization in Surry County