Snivley
Chapel
Lower Johns Creek
Pike County, Kentucky
Methodist services were
held in this area prior to 1832 and
land for this
chapel was donated by Martin and Sarah Lesley in 1853.
Thomas
Patton May, son of Thomas
May, Sr.,
was the minister at this
church for many years.

Thomas P. May [1816-1910]
Church Bible
| Hymn Book



2006 photo of Snivley Chapel

Church Bible on the
lectern at the front of the church

An artist's painting
of the church hangs on the wall
Interior of Snivley Chapel, which still has a
coal-buring stove in the center aisle.


Leather hand-stitched
Hymn Book of Thomas Patton May
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Leather hand-stitched
Hymn book of Thomas Patton May,
Thomas May was a Methodist
minister at Snivley Chapel,
located near his farm
on Lower Johns Creek.
This book is only about
six inches tall.
Courtesy of a
gr-gr-grandson, Henry Forsyth

Names written on the
inside of the cover:
1859 James H Lesley [Leslie]
brother-in-law of Thomas
Thos. P. May 1842
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