CHURCH RECORDS

The Monroe Advertiser, July 27, 1939,
submitted by Jane Newton, transcribed by E. Robertson
PLEASANT GROVE CHURCH HAS HISTORIC CEMETERY
    The following interesting items concerning Pleasant Grove church are taken from the "Around the Circle" department of The Macon Telegraph:
    On the old highway between Forsyth and Indian Springs is Pleasant Grove Baptist Church (note by transcriber: this may actually be a Methodist church)
with a cemetery that connects the other century with the present, and shows the fore bearers of hundreds of Georgians living in various parts of the country.
    A monument announces that Nail McMullen was founder of the church, and he was born in 1734 and died in 1864.
    Many of the graves re so old the inscriptions have disappeared, but the grounds show no signs of neglect. Every lot is in good condition, and the tombs that brake down with age or through storms have been put in repair.
    Chappel McMullan, known to may living sequaintances as "Chap" was a prominent worker among the Masons. He was born in 1849 and died in 1910.
    Gertrude McMullan, daughter, was born in 1886, died in 1913
    Miriam McMullan was born in 1869 and died in 1878
    Among other prominent names noted are: Cader James, 1832-1908; Lucinda J. James, 1832 - 1910; Sarah M. James, 1855-1895. John Rose, 1796 - 1870. Lucinda Parrott Ross, his wife, 1808 - 1898. Nancy, wife of Achilles Wilson, 1826 - 1886. Infant daughter of J. L. and Zadie Elder. Mary S. Webb, 1844 - 1884.
K. B. Hansford, 1868 - 1934. G. W. Hansford, 1832 - 1918. active minister 62 years. Nancy Ponder, his wife, 1839 - 1919. J. H. Edwards, 1838-1911.
John W,. Hooten, 1843-1910. Annie his wife, 1849-1912. Albert M. Hooten, 1878- 1929. Lillie Hooten, 1881 - 1913. Eliza L. Edwards, 1826 - 1909. George W. Edwards, 1813 - 1891. J. T. Gibson, 1854 - 1894. S. E. Davis, 1858 - 1932. J. E. Gibson 1886 - 1912.

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I ndex of Georgia Baptist Flint River Assn. Date 1874:
Georgia Baptist: Historical and Biographical by J. H. Campbell, Perry, Ga.
Macon, GA.: J. W. Burke & Company 1874
Unknown County GaArchives Church Records.....Georgia Baptists Flint River Association Copyright Date 1874
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FLINT RIVER ASSOCIATION

Was constituted at Rocky creek meeting-house, Monroe county, on the 16th
October, 1824. Preparatory sermon by Edmund Talbot, who also sat as moderator
pro. tem. The presbytery were J. Nochols, E. Talbot, D. Montgomery, J. Callaway,
J. Milner, V. A. Tharp and T. Pierce. Fourteen churches joined in the new
organization. Robert McGinty, moderator, and Robert Kelton, clerk. Churches,
fourteen; ministers, five; total, five hundred and twenty-five.

The second session was at Mount Pisgah, Monroe, in 1825. Introductory by
Robert McGinty. Refused to correspond with General Association. Eleven new
churches join. The following year the body met at Bethel meeting-house, Butts
county. William Mosely preached the introductory. No business of interest is
reported in the minutes—nothing more than receiving and appointing
correspondence, etc. In 1827 the body meets at Sardis, Pike county, near
Barnesville. Eight new churches join. Granade, Callaway and Henderson preach on
the Sabbath. Shiloh, in Bibb county, was the seat of the session, 1828. John M.
Gray preached the introductory; J. S. Callaway and A. Sherwood on the Sabbath.
About $60 were raised for Domestic Missions. "About nineteen hundred baptized!"
The powerful revival, prevailing in other parts of the State, is advancing
gloriously within the bounds of this body likewise. Agreed to observe the
monthly concert for prayer. Men, in a state of revival, will not oppose the
missionary cause. Seventeen churches dismissed to form the Itchaconna.

Forsyth was the place of meeting in 1829. Here an act was perpetrated that did
much injury and caused great grief, in the case of the Sharon church. For
several years, the body passed through a scene of affliction, over which the
historian would gladly cast the mantle of Christian charity, and suffer these
things to die with the passing generation. The meeting for 1835 is at Shiloh,
Fayette county. J. S. Callaway, moderator, T. Langly, clerk. Nothing of
importance transacted. Churches, forty-one; baptisms, one hundred and nine;
ministers, eighteen; total, two thousand four hundred and sixty-four.

In 1837, the session is at Holly Grove, Monroe county. The subject of
benevolent institutions had been some time on the carpet; but a majority of the
delegates, instead of declaring non-fellowship with such institutions and their
adherents, "Resolved, that we are unwilling to go into any new declaration of
fellowship or non-fellowship, but feel disposed to continue in the same old
Baptist path of faith and practice, which the Association has heretofore
pursued." Whereupon fifteen churches, with Rev. William Mosely at their head,
withdraw from the house—hold a meeting in the grove, and agree to have a
convention at County Line meeting-house, in July, 1838.

After Mr. Mosely and his party have left the body, they agree to open
correspondence with the Rehoboth and Central in about 1840. Since that time, she
has become a component member of the Georgia Baptist Convention. Missions and
Sabbath schools are encouraged. Her ministers are laborious and self-denying
men, “ready unto every good work." Many of their churches have experienced
seasons of glorious "refreshings from the presence of the Lord." The Lord smiles
graciously upon the body from year to year. Rev. J. D. Stewart, of Griffin, is
now the moderator.

Of late years, this body has been actively engaged in the work of missions.
Its mission to the Indians dates from October 1st, 1872. During the first year,
Benjamin Baker and Wilson Nail, native Indians, were employed as missionaries,
who did efficient service. They reported twenty-four baptisms, the establishment
of two Sabbath-schools, numbering in the aggregate over one hundred pupils and
teachers, and a satisfactory amount of other labor. This year there are three
Indian missionaries employed—Benjamin Baker, Solomon Baker and Wilson Nail. They
have reported for the first quarter, nine baptisms, two natives licensed to
preach, and the commencement of one or two church buildings. These missionaries
have been paid promptly at the end of each quarter. The Association has also
engaged two home missionaries to labor a portion of their time within her own
bounds—Jonathan Milner and J. M. DeFoor.

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GEORGIA BAPTISTS: HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL
BY
J. H. CAMPBELL,
PERRY, GEORGIA.

MACON, GA.: J. W. BURKE & COMPANY. 1874.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by
J. H. CAMPBELL,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

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