McGaughey Methodist Church
Cohutta
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This church was organized about August 15, 1882, with Riley Barnes,
W. C.
Kirby, W. M. Wilson, F. M. Swinny and W. Headrick among its organizing members.
(Book L. P.— 116.) Services were at first held in a log school house while the
church was being erected on two and one-half acres of ground, deeded for this
specific purpose by R. B. McGaughy for the consideration of fifty dollars. The
first church was built by F. M. Swinney. The first pastor* was H. Triplette, who
was followed by Fidelia Carroll, ______ Boyd, Ferdy Cochran, Ware, Pitt,
Earnest, Chastain, Posey, Allen, Hurley,
Frank Cook, Henry Mitchell,
George Ridley, Parsons and Hampton.
Source: History of Whitfield County, 1936
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