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Pierce's Camp Ground History and Pierce Family Ties
Historic Pierce's Camp Ground in Halifax County is traced to early 1800s use and Captain Rice Bolton Pierce who built the first church. The article links the Pierce family to Virginia legacies and notes the camp ground as a religious center with later generations in Weldon and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierce
Ebenezer Church
Branch
Isle of Wight County
Pierces
Suffolk
Lewiston
Bertie County
Nathaniel Pierce
Henry Belbeck
George Williamson
Burton Powell
Bryant Whitehead
Captain Rice Bolton Pierce
Cross Roads
John Purnell
Bishop
Shines
Dockens
Pierce's Cross Roads
Rice B. Pierce
Louise B. Pierce
Captain Pierce
Virginia
Southampton County
Halifax County
Matthew Pierce
Williamsburg
Thomas Pierce
House of Burgesses
Joseph
William Pierce
Richard Henry Lee
Neck
Tunstall Pierce
Lancaster County
Robert
Chichester Pierce
John Pierce
Isle of Wight
Mary
Col
Joseph Bridges
Josiah Parker
Captain Rice Pierce
Alexander Blucher Pierce
Anna Williams
Nottoway Co. Va
James W. Pierce
William Alexander Pierce
Frances Cooke Pierce
J. A. Musgrove
Mary Pierce
Lee Johnson
Annie Pierce
W. S. Q.B. Robinson
Stirling Blackwell Pierce
Ovid Williams Pierce
A. B. Pierce
Weldon