Siloam Methodist Church, Toshes, Pittsylvania Co. Virginia

Siloam Methodist Church - Established 1832

The original Siloam Church was located on part of the present graveyard on this hilltop above Daniel Crider's 1791 mill site. The oldest graves seem to be in the center of this photograph. Other fenced family graveyards are over the hill at the right and left from this view.
This vied of Smith Mountain is from the dirt road to the church from the main Toshes Road which is about 200 yards to the east of the church.

Several families have individual iron-fenced family graveyards around the church.

Siloam Methodist Church was established in 1832 on Toshes Road less than half a mile south of the old Daniel Crider Mill site. Geroge Tosh and his wife Catherine gave one acre of land for the church and graveyard. In 1861, his son George Tosh, Jr. and wife Lucy gave an additional acre to expand the large graveyard.

In 1937, the WPA Historical Inventory recorded the church members for the year 1858. The names here are listed alphabetically:

Arthur, Vincent
Bailey, Celia
Bennett, Booker C.
Bennett, Jonathan
Bennett, Mildred
Bennett, Polly
Bennett, Reuben A.
Bennett, Richard
Bennett, Susan A.
Bennett, Therisa
Bennett, Wm. H.
Berger, Ann
Berger, Anna
Berger, David
Berger, Hester A. R.
Berger, Sam D.
Crider, Celia
Crider, Henry
Dickinson, Bettie A.
Duncan, Mary C.
Franklin, Elizabeth
Franklin, Francis A.
Franklin, Ophelia
Franklin, Sarah
Franklin, Tarlton
Franklin, Tenify
George, Elizabeth
Glenn, Zorada
Goad, Nancy
Graves, David S.
Graves, Elmira
Graves, Hafey
Graves, Ivanna
Graves, Thomas
Hatchett, Cornelia
Hogan, Elizabeth
Hudson, Nancy K.
Jefferson, Thomas B.
Jones, John H.
McClanahan, Charles
McClanahan, Rosa
McClanahan, Sallie
McClanahan, Winaford
McCrickard, Bettie
McCrickard, Gillie
McCrickard, John
McCrickard, Mary
McCrickard, Polly
McCrickard, Robert
McCrickard, Samuel
Pickeral, Lucy A.
Pickeral, Martha
Ramsey, Isaiah
Ramsey, Matilda
Ramsey, Sarah
Ramsey, Thomas
Robertson, Wm.
Saunders, Fannie B.
Saunders, Sarah E.
Shelhorse, Celia
Shelhorse, James A.
Shelhorse, Susan
Tates, Nancy
Thompson, Gabriel
Toivler, Joseph L.
Toler, William
Tosh, Daniel
Tosh, Elizabeth
Tosh, George
Tosh, Lucy
Wagoner, Charles W.
Watson, Pauline
Yates, Linda Ann

Slave members, who only had first names, were listed with the name of the family to which they belonged:

Amy (Ramsey’s)
Ann (Ramsey’s)
Ayrena (Graves’)
Booker (Saunder’s)
Carter (Saunder’s)
Celia (Jefferson’s)
Clorina (Thompson’s)
Delcy (Wright’s)
Edmund (Cole’s)
Emily (Crider’s)
Harriet (Robertson’s)
Jack (Graves’)
Julia (Wright’s)
Kezziah (Parker’s)
Loinza (Saunder’s)
Love (Graves’)
Lucindy (Thacker’s)
Matilda (Thompson’s)
Pauline (Watson’s)
Rachel (Robertson’s)
Rebecca (Ramsey’s)
Robert (Reynond’s)
Simon (Saunder’s)
White (Crider’s)
Winney (Thompson’s)