Mt Zion Methodist Church, Dawnville

Mt. Zion Methodist Church

Dawnville

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Mount Zion Methodist church was organized near Meredith Camp ground in the
Meredith home about 1860. The members worshiped in an old log building about one
and one-half miles northeast of Dawnville for several years until the site of
the present church building was purchased.

   The original deed states that on February 9, 1874, E. F. Dawn deeded
three-fourths acre of land to Wm. McNabb, Geo. P. Fraker, A. S. Dean, H. D.
Keith and J. M. Poag, said land to be used for Mt. Zion M. E. church, south. The
consideration v/as thirty dollars. The deed is signed by E. F. Dawn and Mary Dawn.

   A second deed made on November 27, 1886, by Thos. Caldwell and Margaret
Caldwell grants an additional acre to the trustees named, Wm. McNabb, George P.
Fraker, A. S. Dean, H. D. Keith and F. L. Lane.

   The purchase price was thirty dollars. Each deed specifies that there are to
be no burials on the lot.

   The church building erected in 1874 served the congregation until 1925, when
it was replaced by the larger building now in use.

   Among the first members of Mt. Zion were the Meredith family, Jackson Davis and wife Jane,

James Crouch and wife Lavinia, George P. Fraker and
wife Evaline, Andrew Fraker and wife Margaret, Wesley Fraker and wife
Sallie, Nathan Jones and wife Violet, Alexander Dean and wife Elizabeth.

Among pastors at Mt. Zion were _______ Hamilton, Thomas Pledger, J. R. Speck,
A. J. Hughes, G. L. Chastain, W. E. Kennedy, E. M. Stanton, W. T. Hamby, W. R.
Kennedy, Henry D. Pace, J. F. Tyson, J. W. Bailey, A. J. Mann, J. M; Hawkins, N.
A. Parsons.

Source: History of Whitfield County, 1936

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