Bethel Church
Dalton
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The information which follows was furnished by Misses
Ella and Nan Richardson
and J. L. Randolph.
Bethel Methodist church was built before the War between the States
on land
given by Buford Randolph. Among the pioneers composing its membership were
William Richardson and wife, Nancy, William C. Richardson and wife, Eliza, John
M. Richardson and wife, Martha, Lee Richardson and wife, Ann, the widow and
children of Alfred H. Richardson, Buford Randolph and wife, Elizabeth, John
Wesley Fincher and wife, Rhoda, Mrs. Eliza Harris Tillman, Charlie Cochran, Mary
Jane and Ann McCurdy, Churchwell Morris and family, William O'Dell and Luther
Rodgers and family.
The colored members of the congregation occupied pews in the rear
of the
church. Among the most devout of these were Uncle Lewis Richardson and his wife,
Aunt Jane.
The pastors of Bethel have been Thomas Pledger, _______ Hamilton, J. R. Speck,
A. J. Hughes, _______ McFarland, J. L. Bryan, ______ Gober, G. L. Chastain, W,
R. Kennedy, E. M. Stanton, W. T. Hamby, R. P. Tatum, H. D. Pace, J. V. M.
Morris, J. M. Hawkins, A. B. Pendleton, M. L. Harris, E. G. Thomason, C. L.
Martin, N. A. Parsons, J. E. Russell, J. W. Veatch, W. H. Spear, D. A. McBrayer,
S. A. Bales, John M. Legg, C. H. Williams, J. T. Pendley, W. L. Jolley, F. H.
Ray, H. A. King, J. E. Ward, C. A. Reece, B. M. McHan and J. L. Varner.
Source: History of Whitfield County, 1936
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