Morris Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Dalton
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The movement for this new church was begun in a notable prayer-meeting
in
February of 1927. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. I. G. Duckett, Mr. and
Mrs. D. M. Millsap, J. F. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Long, Mr. and Mrs. J. T.
Tatum, the Rev. T. Frank Cook of Fuller's Chapel M. E. Church who was assisted
by Samuel H. Millsap in tent and other services, and Mrs. S. H. Millsap.
The Rev. W. L. Hampton was appointed their first pastor in November
of 1928.
The congregation endeavored to build a new church upon the property acquired at
the corner of East Morris and Green streets but did not do so until after a
parsonage had been built, six years later.
The Rev. E. B. Carlock became pastor in November of 1933. The new
church was
begun with the added charter members of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Millsap, Miss
Estelle Millsap, Mrs. Nora Long, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Black, Mrs. Glen Patterson,
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, Misses Ina and Bertha Smith, Mrs. R. B. Stancill, Mr. and
Mrs. Wheeler Headrick, Misses Edith and Frankie Lankford and other associated
peoples in February of 1934. The new brick veneered church building was
dedicated in October, 1935.
Source: History of Whitfield County, 1936
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