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The Fort Gaines Methodist Church was organized in 1822. An Act of Georgia
General Assembly incorporated "the Fort Gaines Methodist Church and that
William P. Ford, James P. Holmes, James E. Brown, James Johnson and John Dill
and their successors in office, be and they are hereby declared to be a body
politic and corporate by the name and style of the trustees of the Fort Gaines
Church." The first services were held in the residence of General
Dill.
In 1830 a house was built for all denominations.
It was burned in 1836 and in 1840 the Methodist built a church on the same site
as the present church. The present church was constructed in 1894.
W. A. Graham, W. M. Speight, A. S. Brown, S. E. Lewis, W. B. Holmes and J. D.
McKissack served on the building committee. The pastor was P. H. Crumper.
Early pastors were W. C. Crawford, Asbury Hanks, U.
Bedell, Z. Brown, J. Hutto, Rice Stripling, Osborn R. Franklin.
Website of Ft. Gaines United
Methodist Church
Transcribed by Donna
Eldridge
from the book "The History of Clay County"
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