Falling Spring, VA
Data source is the 1990 book, "Moomaw-Mumma-Mumaw-Mumaugh Genealogy" compiled by Robert Austin Moomaw (deceased).
1900: Covington, Alleghany, Virginia
B C Moo Maw, Dec 1852, 47, m: 25 yrs, b: VA/VA/VA, farmer
Margarett E Moo Maw, wife, Nov 1854, 45, m: 25 yrs, 9 children, 5 living, b: TN/TN/TN
Annie M Moomaw, dau, Dec 1884, 15, b: VA/VA/TN
John C Moomaw, son, Jan 1887, 13, b: VA/VA/TN
Benjamin C Moomaw, son, Sep 1889, 10, b: VA/VA/TN
Margarett L Moomaw, dau, June 1892, 7, b: VA/VA/TN
Honoria D Moomaw, dau, Aug 1893, 6, b: VA/VA/TN
Ollin N Moomaw, nephew, Dec 1875, 25, b: VA/VA/VA
John C Hilton, Juin 1872, 26, b: VA/VA/VA, farm laborer
1910: Covington, Alleghany, Virginia
Benjamin C Moomaw 56, m1: 35 yrs, b: VA/VA/Germany, farmer, general farm
Margaret E Moomaw 56, m1: 35 yrs, 9 children 5 living, b: TN/VA/VA
Annie M Moomaw 25, b: VA/VA/TN
John C Moomaw 23, b: VA/VA/TN
Benjamin C Moomaw Jr. 20, b: VA/VA/TN
Margaret E Moomaw Jr. 17, b: VA/VA/TN
Honoria D Moomaw 16, b: VA/VA/TN
Davis Burko, laborer, black, 19, b: VA/VA/VA
From "The Brethren Encyclopedia", Vol 2, 1983, page 873. The Brethren Encyclopedia Inc, Elgin IL.
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Moomaw B. C. (Brethren Church), fl. 1852-1927, pastor. A German Baptist leader in Virginia, B. C. Moomaw apparently joined the 'Progressive Brethren in the 1880s. He was a Brethren minister at Stuarts Draft, VA, after 1875. His major presentation at the 1892 General Conference, "A Manual of Church Organization and Administration," was the subject of much discussion for Brethren who, at that time, were still searching for a more formal statement of their *policy. However, no action was taken on his proposal. Moomaw served as pastor at Buena Vista and Savannah, VA, for several years. He wrote extensively for 'The Brethren Evangelist and, after appointment to the first Sunday School Literature and Tract Committee at the 1892 General Conference, wrote most of that committee's first tracts. The *"Manual for Procedure," adopted by the church in 1915 bore a strong resemblance to Moomaw's earlier paper. He contributed a chapter to a major study on *eschatology, That Unknown Country (1889). Moomaw was last listed in the ministerial list of The Brethren Annual in 1917. BEW
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A. T. Ronk, History BC (1968) index; H. R. Holsinger, Tunkers (1901) 546; Virginia (1973) 112; Almanac (1881) 35; Annual (BC) (1893) 76-93; D. R. Stoffer, "Thought and Practice" (1980) 537-39, 542, 593, 594, 595.
"Buena Vista - Founded by Benjamin C. Moomaw in the late 1800s, the town consisted only of a simple tannery at the intersection of two railroads and a canal. The Richmond and Alleghany Railroad and the Shenandoah Valley Railroad, stood alongside the James River Canal that had been used to transport materials from the Atlantic ports of Virginia to Lexington since the 18th century, but by the founding of the city had been converted for the distribution of water power. After opening the tannery, Moomaw opened a pulp mill and a canning factory. In 1882 Appold & Sons Tannery opened, and the first public school opened in 1885.
In 1893, the town was described as "one of the many new towns that seem to have sprung up as if by magic in some parts of Virginia." Previous to 1889 none of the 600 dwellings, churches, stores, hotels and other buildings in the town had been built "but where are streets and all that goes to make a booming city the reapers that year gathered a luxuriant crop of wheat." In December 1888, Moomaw wrote the Buena Vista Prospectus to organize a town and began selling stock. "It took only 30 days for all the stock to be sold for a total of $400,000. With the sale completed, it was time to lay out the town and begin recruiting people and industries." On February 22, 1889, a large deposit of iron ore was reportedly discovered that resulted in a boom of economic activity that lasted until March 4, 1892. In just those three years the community grew extensively, adding a new brick school house, an opera house, two churches, a luxury hotel, a new Masonic Lodge (Buena Vista Lodge No. 186), a paper and pulp mill, a saddle factory, a cashmere mill, two brick and clay works, a wagon works, two banks, an egg crate factory, an electric light plant, a furniture and chair factory, a boiler factory, an iron furnace and steel factory, a glass foundry, and several wood and lumber establishments."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buena_Vista,_Virginia