Irvington Baptist Church and
White Stone Baptist Church were church plants of Morattico Baptist Church. Members of Morattico who lived in the south end of Lancaster County met at the Salem Meeting House near White Stone beginning in the early 1800s.
When Luther H. George died of malaria in the fall of 1890, he was buried in the graveyard of a church that was still being built. The sanctuary was dedicated on January 8th, 1891 as Carter's Creek Baptist Church. The church formally chartered as Irvington Baptist Church in August of 1895 and separated from Morattico. In Grandaddy's scrapbook he said "Luther H. George died September 25, 1890 and was the first person to ever be buried in the cemetery at Irvington Baptist Church, which to me is not much of an honor." Luther's in-laws were also buried at the church years later.
The church grew over the years. In the 1940's a rear addition was built and in the mid 1990's the hall on the side of the church was added. In it's history Irvington has had 14 preachers; Frederick W. Claybrook, Harry Jeter Goodwin, Edmund LaFayette Hardcastle, Albert Edwards Estall, Joseph Hathaway Cosby, Rueben E. Alley, R. Clayton Pitts, John Leslie Hart, William W. Wright, Richard T. Bray Jr., William Owen Dillard Jr., Richard C. Newlon, Harvey Tildon Myers and John Howard Farmer.
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- Find-A-Grave
- In Remembrance Gravestone Inscriptions and Burials of Lancaster County Virginia, Margaret Lester Hill & Clyde H. Ratcliffe, 2002
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