St. Marks Parish, Virginia

United States   Virginia    St. Mark's Parish

History
St. Mark's Parish has served Spotsylvania, Orange, and Culpeper counties. Little Fork Church, which had originally been a chapel of ease, became the parish church.

Founded

 * 1730

Cemetery
Many of the graves at Little Fork Church are described at Find A Grave. Includes transcripts and select photographs.

Parish History
Meade's 1861 history of St. Mark's Parish is available online.


 * Boyle, Andrew J. The Church in the Fork, a History of Historic Little Fork Church. Culpeper, Va.: Little Fork Preservation Committee, 1983.
 * Slaughter, Philip. A History of St. Mark's Parish, Culpeper County, Virginia: With Notes of Old Churches and Old Families, and Illustrations of the Manners and Customs of the Olden Time. Baltimore, Md.: Innes &amp; Co., Printers, 1877. Original edition: ; digital versions at Ancestry ($) and - free.
 * Thomas, Arthur Dicken and Angus McDonald Green. Early Churches of Culpeper County, Virginia: Colonial and Ante-bellum Congregations. Culpeper, Va.: Culpeper Historical Society, 1987.

Parish Registers
The original parish registers (christenings and marriages 1794-1797) are kept at the Library of Virginia. Copies:. The christenings have been abstracted:


 * Somerville, Mary Lee. "Saint Mark's Parish Register Baptisms, 1794-1796," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1959):99-102. Digital version at American Ancestors ($)..

Vestry Books
The original St. Mark's Parish Vestry Books (1730-1843) are kept at the Library of Virginia. Copies of vestry book (1730-1753) and treasurer's levies (1731-1785):. Abstracts:


 * Davis, Rosalie Edith Rogers. Saint Mark Parish Vestry Book &amp; Levies, 1730-1785: Spotsylvania, Orange and Culpeper Counties, Virginia. Manchester, Mo.: Heritage Trails, 1983. Contains records about the organization of the parish, elections of church officers, hiring of ministers, payments of fees and wages, upkeep of the "gleeb" house and church, care of the poor and orphans, and the raising of levies from the parish tithables.

Websites

 * Little Fork Church (official site). History, photographs.
 * Little Fork Church, The Historical Marker Database