Hopewell Baptist Church
Cohutta
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This church was
organized in 1858 on a site one mile north of the present
site, just over on the Tennessee side of the state line. The first building was
a log structure.
The present building
was erected
about 1865. The first deacons were W. H. Wilson, Samuel Read, Strander Raines
and Albert Varnell.
Early members of Hopewell were Henderson and Catherine Wilson,
James C. and
Elizabeth Wilson, Achilles and Margaret Webb, Thomas and Minerva Wilson, John A.
and Mary Wilson, Frank and Martha Wilson, J. Augustus and Minerva Wilson, Josiah
Felix and Haseltine Ford Wilson, Samuel and Jane Reid, John and Jane Rose,
Matthew and Cornelia McCraw, Mrs. Sarah Bagby, Matthew Johnson and wife, James
P. Whitten, Richard Wheat and wife.
Pastors of Hopewell church have been H. P. Holland, Martin Isbill,
H. D.
Gilbert, Isaac Watkins, H. P. Stokes, W. C. Tallant, Lee Burch, Charlie Wright,
W. C. Rymer, W. E. Gray, B. F. Foster, Samuel Melton, W. M. Kelly and W. F.
Huffaker.
Source: History of Whitfield County, 1936
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