Rev. B.P. Pennington

Rev. B.P. Pennington officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:
1905 -
William White & Alice Spotts, 7/30/1905

Rev. W.F. Patterson - Minister of the Gospel M.E. Church

Rev. W.F. Patterson officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:
1888 -
James W. Hill & Susan Brown, 12/26/1888
1890 -
Andrew Mann & Mary Emma White, 10/4/1890
&
He officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:
1886 -
George Haynes & Louisa Shinall, 4/22/1886
James Jackson & Lizzie Marshall, 5/23/1886
Charles Kimbro & Ann Johnson, 5/?28/1886
Joseph M. Marshall & Robinett Wright, 7/2/1886
Moses Hunter & Mary Phillips, 11/20/1886
Charles W. Haynes & Sallie Johnson, 12/29/1886
1887 -
Jacob Wright & Fannie Cosby, 12/1/1887
Henderson Kent & Lora Wesley, 12/1887
1888 -
Houston Nickell & Mary E. Brown, 2/16/1888
Toge Loggins & Rose Johnson, 7/?20/1888
Benjamin W. Pride & Charlotte Brown, 8/25/1888
John H. Morris & Bettie Llewelyn, 10/5/1888
George Woodley & Minerva J. Harris, 10/25/1888
1889
Henry R. Ross & Eliza J. Herskins, 4/10/1889
William L. Anderson & Martha Clark, 6/10/1889
1890
William A. Smith & Amanda J. Fortner, April or May
Robert Daniel & Ida Pack, 12/25/1890
1891
John Thomas & Cynthia McGee, Jan/8/1891
Andrew W. Williams & Lelia Ross, 2/26/1891
John H. Johnson & Priscilla Trice, 4/31/1891
Allen Muse & Amanda L. Peyton, 12/24/1891

Rev. Matthew Lyle Lacy (Caucasian minister officiated at Black Marriages)

Rev. Matthew Lyle Lacy officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:
1889 -
Albert Payne & Ida Bell Dunsmore, 10/15/1889
1892 -
John Lewis Dunsmore & Lydia Erskine

Note: In the Journal of the Greenbrier Historical Society, Volume 7, # 6, 2004, page 64 in an article relative to the HISTORICAL SKETCH OF MAXWELLTON it states that Lee Military Academy "was bought by the citizens of Lewisburg and given to the Greenbrier Presbytery and the school was run by Rev. M.L. Lacy, DD until it was taken over by the Col. H.B. Moore ..." .
Because of the above information I believe that Rev. Lacy was Caucasian.

Note also that the Albert Payne above was the son of Martha Ann Payne Haynes Jones & the stepson of Solomon (Saul/Sam) Haynes & Peter Jones.

On 11/27/06, a comment was received by this writer relative to this entry & the writer of the comment advised that "M.L. Lacy" was Rev. Matthew Lyle Lacy & offered these important facts: "Rev. Matthew Lyle Lacy.... (was) co-pastor of the Presbyterian church ... (1869) ... until 1882 ... & "from 1887 until 1902 he was pastor of two churches in Monroe County, the Union Presbyterian Church and Mt. Pleasant Church at Sinks Grove". This comment is very much appreciated for many reasons including the fact that it places the minister in the exact community where the bride and groom Albert & Ida Payne lived (at Sinks Grove).

Rev. Grandison

Rev. Grandison officiated at the following (Black) Greenbrier County marriages:

1951 -
James Homer Early & Henrietta Lee Williams

Rev. L. Baxter Goodall

Rev. L. Baxter Goodall was a Baptist minister at Alderson, Greenbrier County. He was a minister at the Second Baptist Church in Summers County.
He was the officiant at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:
1902 -
Sachel McKeener & Mary Smith, 12/6/1902 (note - this may actually have been a Summers County marriage)
1904 - Erastus S. Pack & Annetta Frances Trice, 11/15/1904
He was the officiant at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:
1903 -
Lacy Robinson & Maggie Wingfield
1904 -
George W. Scott & Ros B. Qualls, 2/7/1904
1905 -
James Morris & Fannie Taylor, 11/2/1905

Rev. A.C. Gearhart

Rev. A.C. Gearhart officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

? year -
Cary Lewis & Lucy Green

Rev. Henry C. Gregory

Rev. Henry C. Gregory officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:
1901 -
A.L. Lipscomb & F.J. Watson, 6/6/1901
1902 -
Joseph Mosley & Effie Allen, 8/10/1902

Rev. Robert Gray

Rev. Robert Gray officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:

1917 -
William L. Smith & Faust Nickell, 6/20/1917

Landcraft

In an earlier post I indicated that I "intermingle" names when two names sound alike or when indiviudals are listed under two different spellings of a name. One such name is Landcraft, which I originally read as Sandcraft because of enumerator penmanship.
One of the early Landcraft's was "Noris/Morris Landcraft" who appears on the 1870 Census in Greenbrier County (GC), Blue Sulphur Township (BST), as a mulatto male, age 38, farm hand, born in Virginia, with Charles (17), Victory (15), Stuart (12), Ennis (10), & (an 8 year old named Elizabeth who is listed as a white female - but there is a question mark next to the racial designation). In 1900, (Noris) appears again in GC, BST as a Black male, age 68, born January, 1832, a farmer, widowed, with his sons, Willie (17), Hotry (15), John N. (12), his daughter, Helen L. (10) & with a servant/housekeeper named Mary A. Johnson (45). Mary's children are also in the household and they are Laura & Lucy. Another person in the household is a boarder, Morris Thompson. In 1910, (Moris Landcraft) appears in GC, BST, as a black male, age 76, farmer, widowed, with Boatswain S. (25) (*note: Boatswain is Hotry), John (23), & Ellen A. (21). Moris/Noris Landcraft can also be found in African American Records by Mary Frances Bodemuller, Larry Shuck's Greenbrier County Death Records, page 157, & Shuck's Greenbrier County Birth Records, pages 187 & 221.
Other Landcraft entries in BLACK RESIDENTS OF GREENBRIER, MONROE, POCAHONTAS & SUMMERS COUNTIES, WEST VIRGINIA by C. Haynes are:
Amminta (1870 Census), C. (1920 Census), Calloway (husband of Emily Pack), Coney (1920 Census), Craig (1920 Census), D. Thompson (Shuck's Marriage Records), Dorinda (See Lucinda Landcraft), Eliza (1880 Census), Ementha (1930 Census & graduate of Bolling High School 1936), Emma (1920 Census), Henderson (1870 Census), James E. (1920 Census), John (in addition to the above listings with Noris/Morris, John can be found in AA Records by Bodemuller & Shuck's Birth Records), Kenneth (1910 Census), L. (Shuck's Birth Records), Letitia (See Letitia "Tessia" Landcraft Pack, wife of Meshack Pack), Lurinda/Larinda/Thennda Thompson Landcraft (Wife of Noris/Moris, died 8/17/1889 - GC Register of Deaths, also see AA Records by Bodemuller & Shuck's birth records), M. (Shuck's birth records), Mary (See Mary Landcraft Pack, wife of Harris Pack), Mollie (1920 Census), Neteria (See Neteria Allen), Oran (1880 Census with his wife Eliza), Pidgie (1910 Census), Samuel (1870 & 1880 Census), Sarah Eddie Swope Lancraft (Wife of William H. Landcraft who she married in 1905 in Monroe County (MC), 1910 Census), Stuart (1870 Census), Theodore (1920 Census), Tina (1920 Census), Vater (AA Records & Shuck's Birth Records), Victory (1870 Census), Walter (1920 Census), William H. (Husband of Sarah, 1905 marriage in MC, 1920 Census).

Rev. W.H. Wiley/Rev. Wyley

Rev. W.H. Wiley officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:

1879 -
John H. Bailey & Laurena Erskine, 6/4/1879 at Union

and he officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

1882 -
John H. Wood & Julia Clay, 11/22/1882
1884 -
Archibald Briggs & Mary Kelly, Jan/22/1884

& another Rev. Wyley officiated at the following (Black) Greenbrier County marriages:

1952 - Albert Leroy Harris & Ethel Lewrella Carpenter

Rev. I.W. Wightman

Rev. I.W. Wightman officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

1885 -
James M. Callaway & Alice L. Robinson, 10/20/1885

1886 -
Charles P. Wagoner & Emma Franklin, 6/7/1886

Rev. Wheeler

Rev. Wheeler officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:

1878 -
Charles Kenney & Elizabeth Brown, 12/28/1878

Rev. W.N. Wagner

Rev. W.N. Wagner officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:

1883 -
Willis Richard Hopkins & Sarah Lybrook, 7/12/1883

Rev. William R. Williams

Rev. William R. Williams officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

1875 -
Andrew Hill & Malinda (?Bird)

Rev. S.E. Williams

Rev. S.E. Williams officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:

1899 -
Napoleon B. Gardner & Flora M. Chapman, 10/24/1899
Charles I. Parker & Rosa Lee Pack, 10/25/1899

&

he officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

1896 -
Thomas Nelson & Minnie Branham, 11/19/1896
1897 -
Willaim Meadley, Jr. & Katie Lee, 3/3/1897
Thomas Nelson & Lucy Mitchell, 3/17/1897
John L. Abbett & Clara Peters Nelson, 3/24/1897

Rev. H.W. Williams

Rev. H.W. Williams officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

1893 -
David W. Callaway & Salina F. Peters, 12/5/1893

1894 -
Charles W. Harris & Ella Crockett, 1/3/1894

Note that Rev. H.W. Williams was the father of Avie Williams who married Lou Nelson in Summers County on 6/10/1893.

Rev. James Sweeney

Rev. James Sweeney officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

1888 -
William R. Edwards & Gracie E. Thompson, 3/21/1888
1894 -
John D. Jones & Hannah Bradley, 5/31/1894

Rev. D. Stratton (Black minister)

Rev. D. Stratton officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

1888 - Maurice Compton & Lydia Thompson, 9/6/1888

Note that "Mr. Stratton" can be found on the 1880 Census for Putnam County in Buffalo as a Black male, Preacher, age 40, b. in Va., with Louisa Payne (54)

Rev. George N. Spencer

Rev. George N. Spencer officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

1900 -
John Williams & Callie Lee, 5/3/1900
W.J. Conner & Rose L. Manns, 9/1900

Rev. William L. Smith

Rev. William L. Smith officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:

1899 -
Frank Pack & Edna Stith, 2/9/1899

Rev. William L. Smith was the Pastor of the Greenville Circuit Baptist Conference.

Rev. George W. Smith

Rev. George Smith officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

1892 -
Napoleon Johnson & Mattie Winston at Meadow Creek, 9/24/1892

Stuart, Stewart, Steward, Stuard, & Sterit

In my compilation I "intermingle" names. This means that, for instance, I put all names that sound alike together as opposed to listing folks under the individual & diverse spellings.
I make a notation following an entry of how the name was spelled in the document cited (if there are different spelling patterns).
There are many names that call for this treatment in the studied area. Some are Brackenridge/Breckenridge, Smith/Smythe, Haynes/Hanes/Hains/Heyns/Hayns, Strother/Strothers, Boone/Boon, Swope/Swopes, Gillbreath/Killbreath, Littleton/Lyttleton, Payne/Pain/Pane, and Sweeney/Swinney/Swiney/Swiney, Straughter/Strawder .
Since I'm not a "genealogist" and have merely been collecting and transcribing the names of folks, in a small geographical area, for over a decade, I don't follow anyone else's rules. I have tried to make my compilation user friendly. I've tried to compile information in a manner in which I would have wanted to find the information or in a manner in which I would have thought would have been helpful. Finding family members can be difficult and I wanted to discard any rules in favor of helping the searcher to be successful.
I've noticed that folks names can vary (in terms of spelling) from document to document. My family, for instance, shows up as Hughes/Hues/Huse in different documents.
To complicate matters, in the area that I study, folks are often known by their middle names or their nicknames. (This often happens when they are named after a family member who lives in the same househhold - So the grandmother is Martha & the granddaughter is Mattie, for instance. Or Christopher Columbus will be the patriarch & the offspring are Columbus or "C.C.") I list each individual with their proper names but I make a notation at their "known" names which refers the user to the proper name.
As for the Stewarts:
There were Stuarts who enslaved individuals in Greenbrier County. Lewis Stuart, son of Col. John Stuart & Elizabeth Stuart enslaved individuals. See the book GREENBRIER COUNTY PIONEERS. My ancestors (following emancipation) worked as domestic servants for a Stuart who married Lt. Gov. Samuel Price. They may have been formerly enslaved by Stuarts but this connection has yet to be made.
Most of the Stewarts in my compilation lived in Greenbrier or Pocahontas counties.
See the magazine GOLDENSEAL, Vol 22, #4, Winter, 1996, which is published by the WV Division of Culture and History and which contains an article entitled "Getting Along Together - Black Life in Pocahontas County", by Maureen Crockett which talks about the Stewarts in PC.
The Stewart spelling is "all over the place" in the WV records so it is important to check all possibilities.
For Stewart also see:
African American Records by Mary Frances Bodemuller (available from the Greenbrier Historical Society in Lewisburg, WV)
Larry Shuck's Records (available from the GHS)
Helen Stinson's court records (book out of print but available at the GHS)
WV Death Certificates (see WV Division of Culture and History death certificate cite - d.c.'s on line from 1914 -1955)
Greenbrier County Cemetery Books
Marsh's 1880 WV Census Records
http://www.greenbrierhistorical.org/1811.html - Will of Elizabeth Stuart (divesting Maria)
BLACK RESIDENTS OF GREENBRIER, MONROE, POCAHONTAS & SUMMERS COUNTIES, WEST VIRGINIA by Haynes (newer editions available at the GHS & the WV Division of Culture and History) (older editions available at the Amistad Research Center & WV State University at Institute)

ADA SMITH - "BRICKTOP"

Ada Smith, known as the entertainer "Bricktop" was born on 8/14/1894 in Alderson, Greenbrier County, West Virginia.
I have been told that the Greenbrier Historical Society in Lewisburg, W.V. has a lot of information about "Bricktop".
See:
BRICKTOP by Bricktop with James Hoskins, Altheneum Press
http://www.wvculture.org/istory/notewv/bricktop
See Moore-Boone Family History by B. Dickerson Murapas

Rev. John Edmonds

Rev. John Edmonds officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:

1890 -
William Chapman & Emma Ramsey at Union, 11/11/1890

Rev. J. Lattimer Kibler

Rev. J. Lattimer Kibler officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:
1882 -
George Lewis Clear & Katie Brown, 5/16/1882
John Henry Jefferson & Louisa Simpson, 7/17/1882

Rev. Lewis Kincaid

Rev. Lewis Kincaid officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

1879 -
John Willard & Christina Thompson, 9/25/1879
1883 -
Edward Wilson & Shady Pack, 3/18/1883

Rev. D.C. Hunter

Rev. D.C. Hunter officiated at the following (Black) Summers county marriages:
1896 -
William M. Coleman & Charlotte Davidson, 4/29/1896
1899 -
James Moore & Anna Ellis Biggins, 5/13/1899

Rev. A.C. Hubbard

Rev. A.C. Hubbard officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:
1874 -
Joseph Branham & Milley Lee, Jan/14/1874
1875 -
Henry Thomas & Adaline Henderson, 12/23/1875
James H. Smithers & Rachel Ellison, 12/1/1875
1882 -
Sylvester Terrell & Almina Lee, 2/16/1882
1887 -
Frank Gore & Cora Mitchell, Jan/10/1887
1888 -
George Pack & Mary Lee, 4/5/1888
1894 -
John R. Gore & Amanda Jones, 9/21/1894
1895 -
Everett W. Spangler & Virginia H. Keatley, 11/16/1895
Alexander Kelly & Lydia Lewis, 12/24/1895

Rev. A. Hogsett (Caucasian officiant at Black marriages)

Rev. A. Hogsett officated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:
1893 -
Ed McCormich & Maggie Mitchell, 4/26/1893
Sylvester Terrell & Lizzie Henderson, 12/18/1893
1894 -
Satchel/Satabel Kelly & Emma Shinalt
1895 -
John W. Essex, Jr. & Hallie R. Wesley, Jan/9/1895

* I have not been able to find Rev. A. Hogsett on the census for Summers County. I assume he was Caucasian, however, as there were no Black Hogsetts on the two censuses that I reviewed. Also, there are no Black Hogsett entries in my compilation.

Rev. Charles Hodges

Rev. Charles Hodges officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County marriages:
1896 -
Edward Smith Seams & Hester Angeline Peck, 11/25/1896
David Cousins & Laura Robinson, 4/14/1896
1897 -
Albert Mann & Sarah Taylor, 10/3/1897
1898 -
Samuel Skipper Ragland & Harriet Whitlock, Jan. 12, 1898

Rev. A.J. Cummins

Rev. A.J. Cummins officiated at the following (Black) Monroe County weddings:

1874 -
Jordan Smith & Malinda Hargrow, 3/23/1874
Andrew Newsum & Mary Hargrow, 12/4/1874
1875 -
John W. Pack & Hester Musum, 11/19/1875

Rev. J.A. Cowgill

Rev. J.A. Cowgill officiated at the following (Black) SC Marriages:

1878 -
William ?Birchett & Laura F. Johnston

Rev. H.C. Conner

Rev. H.C. Conner officiated at the following (Black) Summers County marriages:

1901 -
Rush Simpson & Cora Williams, 12/11/1901
Charles Crockett & Minnie Bush, 12/26/1901
Otis A. Bailey & Nannie E. Mitchell, 10/23/1901
1902 -
M.A. Pack & Sarah Payton, 7/30/1902
Charles W. Simpson & Emma Peyton, 11/26/1901
1903 -
Ferdinand Gore & Alice Kent, 3/16/1903

Rev. H.S. Coe

Rev. H.S. Coe officiated at the following (Black) SC Marriages:

1878 -
William Rollins & Malinda Black, 5/23/1878
Robert Thomas & ?A. Brooks, 7/27/1878
Charles F. Ward & Jennie Love, 9/10/1878