Cabell Creek Community

Beulah Ann Missionary Baptist Church, organized fifty-one years ago on 

Lower Creek, erected the first church building on Cabell about forty-four 

years ago. Meeting was held in the Lower Cabell school house previous to 

building, and years before that many attended meeting at Mud River Church. 

Later moving their membership to their own community. 

Three buildings have stood on the foundation where the present church now 

stands. The first, a Jenny Lynn, was torn down in the summer of 1909 to 

give place to a better building. This building was numbered among the best 

of the rural churches of West Virginia, and spoke well for the growth and 

interest of the community. It was destroyed by flood Sunday morning, June 

29, 1924, Through great effort and sacrifice it was replaced that summer 

by another of almost like appearances, 

The second church built on Cabell Creek was the United Brethren named for 

Zebedee Warner, who was very influential in establishing churches and 

schools in West Virginia. This building was erected in the year 1891. In 

1920 it was reseated and an addition built to it making it a very 

beautiful place of worship. 

Schools

The first school taught on Cabell Creek was in 1860 by Sterling Davis, 

grandfather of John Davis, who is now living on the Catherine Jackson 

farm. He taught in a log dwelling, which stood where Clyde Martin now 

resides. This was a subscription school, the parents paying the teachers 

for their services, as free schools were not begun here until after the 

close of the Civil War. 

The first school building erected on Cabell was on the upper end of the 

Adams farm sixty years ago on the spot where Frank Walters used to reside; 

just across the ravine from the present Lower Cabell school. It had a 

large fire place at one end and peg benches as seats. Today we have 

CabellCentral, Turner, and Sky High. The last three embracing parts of 

Cabell Creek Community. 

Early Business

Stores were not very numerous, marketing being done at Barboursville, 

later at Howell's Mill. Then came the first store run by Samuel Wilcox and 

John Montgomery in Thompson Arthur's smoke house. 

A post office, known as the Low Gap office, was conducted for several 

years by Sam Mossman in a log house near the Henry Jordan residence. From 

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