MONROE COUNTY CHURCHES

Monroe County Churches

Please send any Church histories or sketches of any churches to the county coordinator.
Taken from Geographic Names Information System -
United States and Territories

Origin and Early History of the Congregational Methodist Church

The Founders of the Congregational Methodist Church

Berner, Georgia
Cabaniss Baptist Church
Saint Pauls Church
Sunshine Church (historical)

Bolingbroke, Georgia
Bolingbroke Methodist Church
Colaparchee Church
First South Church
Jobes Chapel
Mount Zion Church
Mount Zion Church (2 of these)
Pleasant Grove Church
Saint Paul Church
Salem Church
William Chapel

Collier's Station
Shiloh Baptist Church

Culloden
Culloden UMC

Dames Ferry, Georgia
Dames Ferry Baptist Church

East Juliette, Georgia
Browns Chapel
Ebenezer Church UMC
Ephesus Church
Friendship Church
Holly Grove Primitive Baptist Church
Juliette Baptist Church
Juliette United Methodist Church
Saint Peters Rock Church
Saint Peters Rock Church (historical)
Saint Pauls Church
Spring Hill Baptist Church

Forsyth, Georgia
Fairview Church
Fellowship Church
First Baptist Church
First Presbyterian Church
Forsyth United Methodist Church
Garden Hills Baptist Church
Kynette United Methodist Church
Logwell Church
Maynard Church
Mount Airy Church
Northside Church
Piney Grove Church
Roberts Memorial Chapel
Rum Creek Church
Saint James Baptist Church (historical)
Saint Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church
Smyrna Church
Tessiehall Church
Trio Baptist Church

Goggins, Georgia
Union Primitive Baptist Church

High Falls, Georgia
High Falls Baptist Church
Providence Church

Indian Springs, Georgia
Antioch Church
Coleman Church (historical)
Coleman Clerk Church
Lowdice Church
Mount Gilead Church
Mount Gilead Church (2 of these)
Paron Church
Pleasant Grove Church
Pleasant Grove Church (2 of these)
Saint Pauls Church JACKSON, GA.
Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church

Johnstonville, Georgia
Oak Grove Church
Old Mount Zion Church (historical)
Rocky Creek Church
Wrights Grove Church

Macon, Georgia
Damascus Methodist Episcopal Church (historical)

Moran, Georgia
Greenville Church
Little Rogers Church
Mount Calvary Church (historical)

Smarr, Georgia
Bethlehem Church (historical)
Church of Christ
Ebenezer Church
Hopewell Church GA
Midway Church
Mount Pleasant Church
Mount Vernon Church
Mount Zion United MethodistChurch
New Pine Grove Church
New Providence Church
Rogers Methodist Church
Russellville Baptist Church

Strouds, Georgia
Mount Pleasant Church
New Macedonia Church
Orange Grove Church
Parkers Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Russellville Church
Sharon Church
Tabernacle Church

Dames Ferry Baptist Church. (The Monroe Advertiser, Oct. 4, 1928)
The new Baptist church at Dames Ferry was dedicated with a special service Sunday night at 8 o'clock. The dedication sermon was preached by Robt. J. Taylor of Macon. A musical program was presented by the Georgia Industrial Home band of Macon. A large crowd attended the services. The new church at Dames Ferry is the result of only one year's labor. In the past 12 months, the Baptist have built a church, organized a Sunday school of 70 members and a B. Y. P. U. of 55 members. A new piano has also been purchased. Credit for a large part of this work is due Ed C. Seifert, superintendent of the Sunday school. Rev. R. W. Freeman, of Macon, is the pastor. Revival services will be held at the church during the week of October 14. This series of meetings is to be sponsored by the Business Men Evangelitial Club of Macon.

The Monroe Advertiser, July 27, 1939,
submitted by Jane Newton, transcribed by E. Robertson
PLEASANT GROVE CHURCH HAS HISTORIC CEMETERY
    The following interesting items concerning Pleasant Grove church are taken from the "Around the Circle" department of The Macon Telegraph:
    On the old highway between Forsyth and Indian Springs is Pleasant Grove Baptist Church (note by transcriber: this may actually be a Methodist church)
with a cemetery that connects the other century with the present, and shows the fore bearers of hundreds of Georgians living in various parts of the country.
    A monument announces that Nail McMullen was founder of the church, and he was born in 1734 and died in 1864.
    Many of the graves re so old the inscriptions have disappeared, but the grounds show no signs of neglect. Every lot is in good condition, and the tombs that brake down with age or through storms have been put in repair.
    Chappel McMullan, known to may living sequaintances as "Chap" was a prominent worker among the Masons. He was born in 1849 and died in 1910.
    Gertrude McMullan, daughter, was born in 1886, died in 1913
    Miriam McMullan was born in 1869 and died in 1878
    Among other prominent names noted are: Cader James, 1832-1908; Lucinda J. James, 1832 - 1910; Sarah M. James, 1855-1895. John Rose, 1796 - 1870. Lucinda Parrott Ross, his wife, 1808 - 1898. Nancy, wife of Achilles Wilson, 1826 - 1886. Infant daughter of J. L. and Zadie Elder. Mary S. Webb, 1844 - 1884.
K. B. Hansford, 1868 - 1934. G. W. Hansford, 1832 - 1918. active minister 62 years. Nancy Ponder, his wife, 1839 - 1919. J. H. Edwards, 1838-1911.
John W,. Hooten, 1843-1910. Annie his wife, 1849-1912. Albert M. Hooten, 1878- 1929. Lillie Hooten, 1881 - 1913. Eliza L. Edwards, 1826 - 1909. George W. Edwards, 1813 - 1891. J. T. Gibson, 1854 - 1894. S. E. Davis, 1858 - 1932. J. E. Gibson 1886 - 1912.

Georgia Baptist: Historical and Biographical by J. H. Campbell, Perry, Ga.
Macon, GA.: J. W. Burke & Company 1874
Georgia Baptists Flint River Association Copyright Date 1874

Permission granted to reproduce this file on the Monroe Co., GAGenWeb page by Joy Fisher.

FLINT RIVER ASSOCIATION

Was constituted at Rocky creek meeting-house, Monroe county, on the 16th October, 1824. Preparatory sermon by Edmund Talbot, who also sat as moderator pro. tem. The presbytery were J. Nochols, E. Talbot, D. Montgomery, J. Callaway,
J. Milner, V. A. Tharp and T. Pierce. Fourteen churches joined in the new organization. Robert McGinty, moderator, and Robert Kelton, clerk. Churches, fourteen; ministers, five; total, five hundred and twenty-five.

The second session was at Mount Pisgah, Monroe, in 1825. Introductory by Robert McGinty. Refused to correspond with General Association. Eleven new churches join. The following year the body met at Bethel meeting-house, Butts
county. William Mosely preached the introductory. No business of interest is reported in the minutes—nothing more than receiving and appointing correspondence, etc. In 1827 the body meets at Sardis, Pike county, near
Barnesville. Eight new churches join. Granade, Callaway and Henderson preach on the Sabbath. Shiloh, in Bibb county, was the seat of the session, 1828. John M. Gray preached the introductory; J. S. Callaway and A. Sherwood on the Sabbath.
About $60 were raised for Domestic Missions. "About nineteen hundred baptized!" The powerful revival, prevailing in other parts of the State, is advancing gloriously within the bounds of this body likewise. Agreed to observe the
monthly concert for prayer. Men, in a state of revival, will not oppose the missionary cause. Seventeen churches dismissed to form the Itchaconna.

Forsyth was the place of meeting in 1829. Here an act was perpetrated that did much injury and caused great grief, in the case of the Sharon church. For several years, the body passed through a scene of affliction, over which the
historian would gladly cast the mantle of Christian charity, and suffer these things to die with the passing generation. The meeting for 1835 is at Shiloh, Fayette county. J. S. Callaway, moderator, T. Langly, clerk. Nothing of
importance transacted. Churches, forty-one; baptisms, one hundred and nine; ministers, eighteen; total, two thousand four hundred and sixty-four.

In 1837, the session is at Holly Grove, Monroe county. The subject of benevolent institutions had been some time on the carpet; but a majority of the delegates, instead of declaring non-fellowship with such institutions and their
adherents, "Resolved, that we are unwilling to go into any new declaration of fellowship or non-fellowship, but feel disposed to continue in the same old Baptist path of faith and practice, which the Association has heretofore
pursued." Whereupon fifteen churches, with Rev. William Mosely at their head, withdraw from the house—hold a meeting in the grove, and agree to have a convention at County Line meeting-house, in July, 1838.

After Mr. Mosely and his party have left the body, they agree to open correspondence with the Rehoboth and Central in about 1840. Since that time, she has become a component member of the Georgia Baptist Convention. Missions and
Sabbath schools are encouraged. Her ministers are laborious and self-denying men, “ready unto every good work." Many of their churches have experienced seasons of glorious "refreshings from the presence of the Lord." The Lord smiles
graciously upon the body from year to year. Rev. J. D. Stewart, of Griffin, is now the moderator.

Of late years, this body has been actively engaged in the work of missions. Its mission to the Indians dates from October 1st, 1872. During the first year, Benjamin Baker and Wilson Nail, native Indians, were employed as missionaries,
who did efficient service. They reported twenty-four baptisms, the establishment of two Sabbath-schools, numbering in the aggregate over one hundred pupils and teachers, and a satisfactory amount of other labor. This year there are three
Indian missionaries employed—Benjamin Baker, Solomon Baker and Wilson Nail. They have reported for the first quarter, nine baptisms, two natives licensed to preach, and the commencement of one or two church buildings. These missionaries
have been paid promptly at the end of each quarter. The Association has also engaged two home missionaries to labor a portion of their time within her own bounds—Jonathan Milner and J. M. DeFoor.

GEORGIA BAPTISTS: HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL
BY
J. H. CAMPBELL,
PERRY, GEORGIA.

MACON, GA.: J. W. BURKE & COMPANY. 1874.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by J. H. CAMPBELL, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

Smyrna Church, Mill Community.

    SMYRNA CHURCH IS CONSTITUTED IN MILL COMMUNITY (The Monroe Advertiser, Nov. 20, 1948)
    At a service Sunday afternoon at Smyrna Church, in the Persons Mill Community, a church was constituted, to be known as the Smyrna Mission Baptist Church. The service was conducted by Dr. Leslie S. Williams, pastor of the church. The Scripture was read by Gainer E. Bryan, and a prayer offered by Rev. Jesse F. Ray, Macon, superintendent of city Baptist missions. Herbert Ashe, accompanied at the piano by Mrs. W. Fred Gunn, of Bessie Tift College, sang "Holy Spirit, Breathe on Me." and the Rev. Harry V. Smith, Pastor of the First Baptist Church, gave a history of the early church, housed in the present building. Doctor Williams read the Baptist Articles of Faith and Church Covenant.
    Other churches represented were the Forsyth First Baptist Church, Shiloh, Tattnall Square Baptist Church, Macon, Mallory Baptist Church, Macon, and Russellville Baptist Church. Charter members of the church are 12 in number, including J. B. Williams, Grady Passmore, Tobe Baggley, Mr. and Mrs. Clem Clifton, Miss Opal Clifton, Will Slaton, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Griffith, Mrs. J. W. Collins, Miss Louise Collins and Mrs. L. W. Harper.
    In 1823, the First Baptist Church of Forsyth was constituted, and in 1838 there was a division in the membership over the question of missions, and a group of the members built a church on the present site of Smyrna Church, calling it the Smyrna Primitive Baptist Church. The present building is over 75 years old, and throughout the years worship was held there, until either by death or removal to some other community, the membership dwindled away, services were finally discontinued, and the old church stood abandoned. Today there is only one living member of this church, Mrs. J. N. Zellner, of Forsyth, now in her 82nd year.
    Realizing the possibilities in that neighborhood, the First Baptist Church of Forsyth early in the spring began a mission Sunday school in the church. The land was originally deeded by the late Ben I. Pye to the membership, so long as it was used for a church. It is located at a point which years ago was an important crossroads between Macon and Griffin. Permission was secured from the only living member of the church, and others who were interested, to organize a Baptist Sunday school.
    Cathy E'Dalgo, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. McCosh, Mrs. W. Joe Ham, Miss Ernestine Kesler and Miss Antonioette Allen, as teachers, the school progressed to such an extent, and the older people became so interested, that the church idea grew. The building has been renovated, equipment bought and installed, and other improvements are in progress.
    While at present the mission is a fraternal part of the First Baptist Church, it is believed that in time it will become a full fledged church. And, to bear out this faith, the first set of newly constituted church ws to take an offering for missions, the sum totaling $19.37.

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