Date:  July 2007

Image Number:  CG094cdCG06

Comments:  New Hope Baptist Church is an African-American church founded in 1877 and located at 7725 Porters Rd., Esmont Virginia.  Its church cemetery contains approximately 137 gravestones and numerous unmarked graves or graves with illegible gravestones.  This cemetery adjoins New Green Mountain Baptist Church Cemetery of Esmont.

Directions to New Hope Baptist Church from Scottsville Museum:  Go West on Main Street and turn right on Valley Street.  Continue up Valley Street which becomes SR20.  Turn left on Irish Road (SR6) and travel 5.7 miles West.  Turn left on Porters Rd. (RT 627).  Drive 0.6 miles, and New Hope Baptist Church is on the left (7725 Porters Rd.; just past Yancey Elementary School).  The church’s cemetery is to the south east of the church building.

Following is a July 2007 listing of the extant gravestones at New Hope Baptist Church Cemetery as prepared by Rob Manoso, an intern at Scottsville Museum from the Institute for Public History at the University of Virginia.  Women are listed by their married names.  Also, asterisks (*) that appear before names denote veterans.  In 2007, there are over thirty graves marked with stones or temporary markers whose inscriptions are now illegible.

Anderson, Harry
1894-1974

Anderson, Robert Lee
October 17, 1903-March 9, 1980

Anthony, Ruth Scott
April 6, 1908-May 13, 1976

*Banks, James Williams
February 14, 1936-April 22, 1962 Korea

Banks, William
1902-1946

Banks, William E., Sr.
October 16, 1924-February 22, 1988

Barrow, Bertha J.
November 21, 1955-June 15, 1986

Bolden, Edward
September 15, 1877-February 5, 1899

Brooks, Josephine B.
1919-1978

Brooks, Thomas P

Brooks, Oley
January 10, 1942-May 28, 1994

Brown, Beatrice C.
April 29, 1903-January 28, 2000

Brown, Joseph
December 22, 1902-April 23, 1970

Brown, Lena Harriet
June 30, 1906-June 10, 1985

Brown, Lottie Carey
March 1905-October 19, 1974

Brown, M. Catherine
January 12, 1923-August 7, 1992

Brown, Ned Earl
November 11, 1928-April 1, 1982

Brown, Ronnie Leroy
August 4, 1952-May 19, 1979

*Brown, Samuel Leroy
March 11, 1923-June 20, 1964  WWII

Brown, Willie A.C.
December 25, 1895-March 1, 1966

Carey, Adley
Died March 6, 1957

Carey, Anna
1873-1932

Carey, John
1872-1933

Cary, Lenar
1886-1951

Carey, Matthew Townsend
April 2, 1918-August 20, 1991

*Carey, Townsend
July 3, 1896-June 1, 1980  WWI

Chambers, Arthur
May 9, 1889-September 17, 1972

Chambers, Theodore
January 23, 1910-September 2, 1997

Childress, E.L.
March 22, 1866-1891
Died Age 25

Coletrain, Lee Andrew
1902-1982

Coltrain, Rosa B.
1926-1997

Coltrain, Samuel E.
1912-1977

Cottrell, Martha
January 18, 1888-April 27, 1933

Dow, Annie Banks
Died August 5, 1938

Douglas, Valerie C.
1888-1975

Eason, May E.
Died June 7, 1961

Eddy, Sarah F.
September 12, 1882-March 14, 1966

Feggans, Beatrice B.
September 25, 1902-December 21, 1966

Feggans, Charles H.
August 27, 1944-1961

Feggans, Emery J.
October 13, 1959-May 25, 1988

Feggans, Floyd
October 8, 1886-May 22, 1986

Ford, Fleming Vaughan
January 25, 1910-January 18, 1974

Ford, Frances C.
1911-2005

Ford, John A.
1913-1992

*Ford, Vaughan N.
June 25, 1931-May 26, 2001

Ford, William
October 3, 1904-December 21, 1962

Fortune, Dabney M.
1900-1976

Fortune, Eva A.
1903-1962

Gaine, L. J.
January 1877-January 1904

Gray, Erskine H.
July 6, 1955-April 17, 1992

Gray, Joan E.
1933-1987

Harris, Nathan
1907-1983

Harris, Samuel J.
June 2, 1926-February 22, 1961

Hudson, Annie A.
September 16, 1894-July 6, 1969

Hudson, Benjamin F.
January 12, 1918-May 8, 1973

Hudson, Desmond Edward
March 12, 1957-January 21, 1992

Hudson, Fred Sr.
February 16, 1920-August 28, 1978

Hudson, Ratina R.
June 3, 1957-August 31, 1982

Hudson, Russell R.
1933-2001

*Hudson, Willie A.
April 10, 1916-December 10, 1971  WWII

Hudson, Willie L.
January 5, 1892-April 9, 1968

Irving, Russell N.
1943-1978

*Jackson, John Archie
December 5, 1922-August 24, 1987  WWII

Jackson, John Henry
1900-1968

Johnson, Fannie Ford
November 17, 1870-September 22, 1959

Johnson, Gladys H.
June 13, 1895-January 14, 1980

Johnson, Harry L. Sr.
December 8, 1891-July 5, 1960

*Johnson, James E.
October 25, 1914-August 23, 1948  WWII

Johnson, Larry J.
March 25, 1947-August 6, 1984

Jones, Mildred B.
May 6, 1889-August 28, 1966

Jordan, Ada J.
1932-2005

Jordan, Adam
1878-1926

Jordan, Mary A
1879-1968

Jordan, Mary Belle B.
October 17, 1908-October 14, 1933

Jordan, Robert L Sr.
December 30, 1903-August 31, 1962

Jordon, James Linwood
April 8, 1909-January 4, 1977

Lawson, Allen B.
1921-1922

Lee, Lucille C.
January 14, 1927-July 2, 1981

Lee, Theoprous Brooks
May 25, 1923-November 20, 1997

Lewis, Rosa Mae
1918-July, 7 1986

McPherson, Myrtle E.
Died 1969

Mosby, Shepard
1845-1927

Page, John H.
November 3, 1880-November 17, 1962

Robinson, E.
June 22, 1874-April 21, 1928

Rosa J.
1893-1992

Rush, Richard S. Sr.
October 27, 1940-October 5, 1981

Scott, Bertha W.
March 6, 1887-September 26, 1980

*Scott, Charlie Earl
1904-1975  WWII

*Scott, Darryl H.
January 28, 1941-October 16, 1998  Vietnam

Scott, Ella Thompkins
1891-1983

Scott, Eugene
1947-197?(illegible)

Scott, Francis W.
August 26, 1923-

*Scott, Herbert Hoover
1929-1961  Korea

Scott, Hugh
July 5, 1922-January 10, 1963

Scott, I.
June 20, 1910

Scott, Isaac A., III
September 27, 1931-February 21, 1960

Scott, Reverend Isaac A.
1890-1958

Scott, John E.
1910-1992

Scott, John Edward
March 5, 1910-July 22, 1992

Scott, Laura B. W.
April 5, 1930-March 12, 1994

Scott, Lucinda J.
1894-1971

Scott, Mary Monroe
1893-1981

Scott, Melinda
1866-1921

Scott, Deacon Monroe D.
February 1, 1918-March 19, 2002

Scott, Rachael P.
June 5, 1931-August 9, 2001

Scott, Sarah E.
September 17, 1919-June 8, 1990

Scott, Sophie C.
August 18, 1918-February 19, 1998

Scott, Willie
1905-1973

Smith, Lagrant
March 6, 1916-September 19, 1992

Slaughter, Chaney
Wife of Julian Copeland
1872-1923

Stubbs, Naomi Byrd
December 26, 1888-March 31, 1970

Swingler, Alice E.
July 16, 1921-March 22, 2000

Swingler, Charles H.
January 2, 1910-March 13, 1985

Taylor, Belle C.
1874-1946

Taylor, Donald James
March 7, 1906-March 18, 1991

Taylor, Florence
Wife of Shepherd Copeland
1907-1953

Taylor, Harold
Son of Izeta Taylor
May 2, 1903-December 23, 1955

Taylor, Katherine R.
1909-1977

Taylor, Izetta
October 15, 1879-August 8, 1985

Taylor, James D.
1878-1949

Thomas, Audrey
1903-1989

Thomas, Mattie Lee
1880-1977

Thomas, Phillip
April 1, 1869-July 5, 1917

*Turner, Willie Moses
April 14, 1924-June 11, 1999 WWII

Walker, Reverend Watson
1863-June 15, 1896

Walton, Edith M.
May 8, 1919-August 6, 1993

Walton, Isac J.
January 1, 1914-January 3, 1984

Wayne, Cora
Died March 13, 1960

Wheeler, George P.
August 2, 1907-July 5, 1990

White, Blanch R
1923-1967

*White, Haywood
March 27, 1950-March 2, 2005

White, Joe Wyatt
January 26, 1953-September 13, 2003

*White, John B
July 24, 1922-June 9, 1999  WWII

White, Mattie H.
November 18, 1890-August (illegible)

Winfrey, Bessie B.
1917-1997

Woody, Gussie V.
April 17, 1925-June 17, 1982

Yancey, Harriet A.
Died June 3, 1956

Yancey, Judge Roger M.
February 19, 1902-February 10, 1972

Memorial to *Wilson S. Nelson Jr., 1922-1943; *Rockwell Swingler, 1920-1945; and *James Brown, 1918-1945; all killed in action during World War II.