Emmanuel Church Cemetery - A Photo Tour

Rev. Wilmer's Emmanuel Church

Henrico Parrish

July 6, 1860.

Emmanuel Church was on the 1865 Civil War battle maps, in Henrico County, north of Richmond and south of Yellow Tavern on the Brook Turnpike.

Southern men and women - Richmond Confederates worshiped their God on these grounds and within this building.

He rode with John Singleton Mosby

'The Grey Ghost'

Emmanuel's flowers on the old Brook Turnpike

"NOT SLOTHFUL IN BUSINESS; FERVENT IN
SPIRIT; SERVING THE LORD;
"REJOICING IN HOPE, PATIENT IN TRIBULATION,
CONTINUING INSTANT IN PRAYER
DISTRIBUTING TO THE NECESSITY OF SAINTS;
GIVEN TO HOSPITALITY."