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Bio of Rev. Hampton Patterson "He was ordained 21 June, 1834 at Mountain Creek Church by a Presbytery composed of Elders Alfred Webb, Samuel Bruce and Joab Wilkie, and probably became pastor of Mountain Creek about the time Eld, Alfred Webb left the church for Georgia about 1837."

Joab Wilkie (Pastor 1854 ) He was born Ca. 1796, North Carolina, son of Elder William Wilkie. He died about 1886 or 1887. He and his wife, Sarah, who was born ca 1808, married around 1827, reared a large family. Known children: Eliza born ca 1828, Joseph born ca 1829, William born ca 1830, James born ca 1834, Martha born ca 1836, Thomas born ca 1838, Mary born ca 1840, Sarah born ca 1841, and Washington born ca 1844. He professed religion early in life and joined the church as Big Spring and was chosen as a lay delegate to represent the church in the session of Broad River Association in 1826. He then became associated with the Catawba Association where he remained until the formation of the Green River Association. He was ordained as the Shiloh Baptist Church between 1834 and 1838. The Shiloh Church was organized in 1834 by a Presbytery composed by Elder A. Webb, John Blackwell, W. Hammon and J. Wilkie, and was supplied by Elder A. Webb until the ordination to the ministry of J. Wilkie, who was set apart of the church at an early period of its history, an office he continued to exercise until 1844. Elder Wilkie is said to have been "a good pious Christian minister, subject to the same drawbacks that cripple the usefulness of a large majority of olden time Baptist minsters - meaning a lack of early educational training." Among the churches where he was pastor were: Shiloh, Cane Creek, Arrowood, Cooper’s Gap, Bill’s Creek April to Nov. 1854, where he was pastor, this in 1839; however, he was listed among the Ordained Ministers within the bounds of the Green River Association until 1886. Evidently his church membership remained with the Shiloh Church for he was one of their delegates to the association on many occasions between 1863 and 1885.

Reverend William Wilkie, noted philosopher and author, was the first minister of the Abermarle Parish, from which Sussex County, Virginia, was formed. He began the often quoted Abermarle Parish Register.