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From: Jordan Jones <>
Subject: Re: [VIA-L] Country road - Albemarle Co.
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 07:03:11 -0800


There is also John Robert Via, son of George Allen Via, as a possibility. He would have been 17 in 1860. I believe that his brother Thomas David Via was a carpenter, so maybe he was as well.

-- Jordan

At 12:14 AM 2/7/99 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 99-02-06 20:56:43 EST, EFCHvia writes:
>
><< s John Via who built this Methodist Church the same John A. Via whose
>daughter was Isabella Ward baptised as Brethren in 1866 in Albemarle Co. and
>who donated the land for The Locust Grove Meetinghouse of 1870 (Brethren
>Church)? >>
>
>Leon,
>I cannot positively say whether it is John Abington Via or not but I believe
>that it probably was. Since they weren't baptized in the Brethren faith until
>about 1866 it seems possible that the John referred to is John A. Via. He's
>about the only John in Albemarle Co at that time of the right age. It could
>be referring to his son John but he would have only been about 18 years old.
>
>Judy
>

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