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HISTORY OF THOMAS COUNTY school for colored people was held la the church, many ex-Confederate sol diers being among the teachers. About 1872, the South Georgia Con ference met at this church. Bishops Marrtn and Pierce being In attend ance; and the Orphans’ Home, now located at Macon, was originated. The church is now, and has been for years, the strongest institution of its hind in Thomas County. The home of the Presiding Elder of ! the ThomasYille district is located on ; the corner of Madison and Clay streets on the church property. ; First Baptist Church of Thomaaville ( The organization of the First Bap- j tist'church of Thomasville dates from January 14, 1S49. On that date the Presbytery consisted of Bey. Mr. Wily . W. Blewit. W. B. Cooper and tnomaa , J. Bowen, with Messrs. Charles Hertz, < E. A. Mertz. B. H. Russell, OUvim - Thomas and Mary Smith as charter i members.' j About one year after the organize- ' FIFTH CENSUS 1830, THOMAS COUNTY, McCloud. Archibald McMatb, Philip McKinnon, Malcolm McClendon, Ezehlel Metton, Nancy Oa ttne to the church because of Seeded work elsewhere. After Dr. iitrider, Dr.J.E.Fogartie served tha. • hurCb for one year;' after whom came flevs. J. W. Rogan, J. H. Herbener and J. P. Marion in the ora«x named. Dr. E. D. McDongmid came to the < hurch in 1896, and served nnlll 1903, ’ rben be was succeeded by Rev. Mr. ! i. L. McCarty, who remained until : *14. when Rev: Mr. Robert Stuart i landers took up the work. 'Mr.Sand- < ts was succeeded in 1*20, by Rev. Mr. 1 lymonda. In: 1883, tbe'rid chnrch being out- 1 Town, It Was decided to build a new ( ne on the old site. The {Wat 1 ulldlng was completed in 1889, at a c ost of approximately 914,900. In 1917, the old manse was removed and the present one built at a cost of approxl- hiately $4,590. (END OF VOL. U McNeil, Morris, James McCann, Joshua McClendon, Kennlth Neil, Ellas Norman.. Samnel Newton, Bird L. Newman, James A. Newton,. William Newton, James Neil, Elijah Newton, William O— Ogden, Isaac Proctor, Joshua Marker, Starling Parrott, John Pamphrey, Redden Pate, Zacharlah Powel, John Powel, Joel Parramore, John Pollard, Pew. Perkins, Ebenezer J. Pate, Samnel Pate, Bonnet Pate, Joel Sheriffs Jacob' Harrell Samnel Cherry Jacob Miller iounty Florida Florida Georgia Georgia Georgia Florida Florida Oeorpln Georgia Georgia 5*713 10,7X8 5,872 5,574 <.798 ANTE-BELLUM LOWNDES COUNTY OFFICERS Florida .Florida Georgia 'Georgia Georgia Georgia Florida ' Florida * Georgia ’ .’'Georgia 1880 J 9,876 1 12,343 11,922 , 5,24* i io,7«e £ 5.5*4 A L816 lames Newton faedaa'Newton Eetd-y H. Smith Daniel W. McRae r, 1. Goldwire 7. R Coldwire 1L785 26,521 33,044 24,538 MJU M. NeliL 24,435 39,971 ta,8ts ltjst ANTE-BELLUM -DECATUR COUNTY OFFICERS board was bored with an anger school through the board and lath and peg ged on with a wooden peg; the house made of hewn logs and the floor puncheon. The puncheon was a riven board one and one-half inches thick, 12x14 wide and hewn on one side and sized on the bottom across the sleep ers to make a smooth floor; and It was mfich smoother than we would think possible. Can show one now in a crib floor on my place. “This data is straight" goods, as giv en to me by my : father since 1 was a man. In his last days he lived' in-the past largely and could tell things that happened at Raleigh. N. C„ and on Tar River and on through his life. When you learn to read this well 1 can call in and yon can ask me Ques tions that I can answer, perhaps, to make connections. Advise me If yon think it worth while. "The old church, or arbor, was called Peters Chapel by some of the toughs of the neighborhood at first. I get the Inference from the tact that Peter McKinnon donated the land bn which the church was built which I get from chain of titles I have of lot 397. Peter and Angus McKinnon were Scotch people and lived here and died in those days." A deed Recorded In Book E, page 341, Nov. 24, 1840, shows that Angus Morrison, for the consideration of one dollar, conveyed to James L. Vickers, John C. Browning. John Williams, Jordan Hall, Laughlln L. Morrison, etc., two Seres on south side of lot 396 In the Eighteenth District of for merly Early, and now Thomas, coun ty, being the place on which the church now stands. The writer is Informed by a rela tive of the Kindled Braswell men tioned that In 1826, Mr. Braswell was on bis way to the Golf'to get salt; and when he was In the vicinity of What later became Duncanville - and still later, Beaebton, the wooden point of tbe axle of bis two-wheel cart broke. Tbe traveler was compelled to make a temporary location which bfecame his permanent borne. This Mr. Kindred Braswell was a brother to Mr. Hugh Braswell who located shortly afterwards a little above wbat is now Ochlbcknee. Mr. Peter McKinnon, who donated tbe first church lot, came from North Carolina. He was a Cousin of Mr. John McKinnon who located on tbe ThOmasvllle-Boston road. Peter Mc Kinnon had three sons, Angus B. Mc Kinnon, Daniel McKinnon and Dun can McKinnon. The Thomssvifie "Methodist Church By a deed dated September 2, 1839, recorded in Book O, page 387, John tion .. . ed, besides others including ... enty-flro -colored members, the foilbw- ing names: Janies M.Grey, Charles Mertz, Thomas Dyson, Willis J. Par nell, S. Alex Smith, D, G. Daniel, John G. Pittman, Rhbert S. Burch, David S. Harrell, Ebgene L. Hunt, R. R. Para- more, Peter E. Love, T. G. Bracswell. Achellcs Smith, Samnel Hall, Elzy Thomson, i Jeff McBain, James L. Seward, James Wine. Joseph S. Neely, John Hubert- T. J. Lightfoot, David Hall, Robert Mitchell, Nelson Mitchell. George Parnell, Pleasant Vickers, william Hubert, Spaulding Paine and R. J. Bruce. The first pastor of the Baptist church was the Rev. Mr. W. B. Cornier and the following succeeded in the order naped: J. B. Lacey,* W. W. Blewit, Rev. W. N. Chaudoin, George C. Conner, A. B. Campbell, William H. Clark, C. S. Gauldin, W. B. Bennett, E. Z. F. Golden, Rev. Fblghuu, Wil liam J. Willjams, Thomas E. Tiller, D. H. Parker, iJ. H. Logan, Robert H. Harris, A. W. Bealer, L. T. Mays, and W. M. Harris, the present pastor. Soon after the organization a chnrch building was erected on the corner of Smith avenue and Dawson street, where the pongregation worshipped until 1893, when the present building on the corner of Broad and Jefferson streets was dedicated. *Mr. Jno. B. Lacey obtained through Hon. H. W. Hopkins, his land warrant for services rendered in the War of 1812. j Harmony Primitive Church recorueu in uuuti vj, page ost, joan, ° n Novemper 25, 1855, Elijah Dukes, Jordan, William’ G. Dekle, Robert Ivey I tor the consideration of live dollars, and Malcolm McKinnon, Commission-1 conveyed to the members composing ers, conveyed to Jason Brinson, Thom- l* 1 " Harmony Primitive Baptist chnrch as Harvey, 'James A. Newman, James a strip of land one hundred by one L. Seward, Thomas Jones and Samuel hundred fifty yards in lot No. Four Hines, Trustees of the ThomasviUe 1 hundred forty-nine In the Thirteenth Methodist church, a certain "portion District of Thomas Connty, Georgia, or pal-cel of land situate, lying and he- j Gn March 2, 1868, John Gray con ing in the village of Thomasville, veyed to Joshua Mbrritt, William Mc- known and distinguished as the north- Millan and Fk B. McGord, trustees of east cor tier of an acre of land, lying Bold Spring Methodist church, as and adjoining an acre lot whereon the 1 shown by deed recorded In Book L, Academy is now situated, being one- j Page 137, a parcel of land in lot Three fourth of an acre known as the north ’ hundred fifty -one in the Seventeenth corner, as aforesaid.” j District of Thomas County, Georgia, In Book V. page 149, November 21,! ,or ,he use ot Bald church 1866, is tecorded a deed from Robert 1 ° n December 13, 1858, Prospect M. H. Hardaway, Henry Mitchell and An-; E - Church was incorporated, the trus- sel Dekle, Justices of the Inferior • l® e9 being Oapel Raford, Addison Court and Ex-officio Commissioners of i Way, John Rice, Hamilton H. WU- the town of Thomasville, conveying to I,a ? as ® nd J op n T. Williford. Robert H. Hardaway, Thomas Jones, .* ° n December 11, 1858, t won Acad- Sr., Milton C Smith, W. Z: Taylor, |* m y was incorporated with John Rice, Joshua TaVlor, John N. McKinnon, J. James Massed, John T .Williford, Caf- C. Vaughn, Isaiah Dekle and Ephraim Raford aid James H. Daniel as ?hu“V T ^—*». town of described- land adi0,n,ng ,hat ab0T * iS r ”er. e * areS^EreriU ^orge aescnDBu. ^ _ {Prince, J. S. iroover and A; H. Wil- **All that land or parcel of land situ- gOQ as commit sioners. S’JS.fiS'irtlrnk The Thomasvi le Presbyterian Church ThomasviUe, said county, number not Uader the , ^hoi-Ity of the Florida known but known as tne lot adjoining p regbytery th s c p urc p was ovganlz- the lot in which the Methodist church fid Jn lg5 , wl b seven mem b er5 Rev. i J Auld of Madison, Fla., was the !rk t6r nr representative of the Presbytery on tfon, containing one-half acre, mo.e or, ^ occa3 , on _. ! Rev. Willian E. Hamilton of Monti- r as* cello.' Fla-- pr, ached in the Thomas- flrst belonged ‘he norlda Confer-| TjUe chnrch t , lce a m0 ntb for about ® c Jhnnt Ge iXRs' the rtarS ! two and ona-1 alf years when the J! to^tontb Teorlrta r^ntS Montlcello chu-eh insisted upon hav es pnt in the South Georgia Confer- , Jng aU hia t|mg HenIT M l !Si. n. ; Parsons of Net r York, being south for Tu?Cb WaS bufldlng d : ^ e h a e be h WSTuc e cted°^ rTv” 1 ^ -which at that time ’was in the middle i when.hewM succeeded by Rev. Jo- of-Broad street, was used as a hospi-j* e P^ Br< ™ n - tal for sick Federal prisoners. Imme-1 The only officers of the church at diately after tbe CivU War, a Sunday l that time were Hons. Augustus H. Lt,, Bonnet John _____ Elizabeth ^.bbott. WtUiam W. Anderson, Henry Alien, Henry ; Allen. DOnnU .Atkinson, Shadrick Atkinson, Henry Adams. Nancy - Adams, Elizabeth Aiken, Samuel Anderson, Joseph Anderson, Moses Adams, Phabian Adams, Abel Allen, Isaac Adams, Allen Adams, Thomas Alderman, James Alderman. George Alderman, Thomas - Alderman, James B— ^ Betton, Joseph R. Brunson, Nathaniel B. '.Eiaggott, Ellas Baggott, Peter J. Barrow John G. Branch, Peter Brooks, Isaac P. 'Burk, John Blackshear, Jamas Blacksbear, Thomas E. Blackshear, Amy Bell, Asa Bleack. Abraham Bleack, Willis Baley, William Bryan, Alfred Boyd, Noah , Butler, James i Brakeli Simeon Brazel,' Samuel Browning, Daniel Browning, Kadford Brazel, Robert Bailey, Peter K. Bryan, Joseph Browning, William Black, Douglass Bankston, William Beatie, John B9van, Thomas 'Bailey, Bnnel 'Barry, George L. ;Bryan, Edward Bryan, Hardy C— , Calvllie, John Cooper, Elizabeth Cooper, Lewi's J. "Cumbs, Uriah Cooper, W. A. Cravey, Henry Coggins. William Chastain, John Carlton, William Clem- ins, William Crawford, Thomaa Carlton, Stephen Chestnut, Jesse Cone, Joseph Carlton, Alderman Carlton, Shadrack Carlton, Isaac Clark, Eli Cuts, William P. Carlton, John Carlton, Thomas Crawford, William B. Coalson, Elizabeth Cdok, Henry Clewis, George Coalmon, Jacob Chestnut, Chariea Cone, John k alel, Moses boserPeter gger, William Dekle. Thomas Dicky, shadrack . Donaldson, Hngh Dekle, Leonard Duron, Thomas Donaldson, Robert Dickson, Roland ivldson, William John Idsbn, John Duggar, William, Sr. Dannlls, Hamilton Davis, Lydia Davis, Daniel Dekle, William G. Dodd. William Esrbey^ eorge Edwards, Sherrard Eason, Iredell Everett, Aaron Edwards, James Ereeman. Kyler Freeman, Joseph f^errel, Luday C. Ferrel, Hutchln FIveash, Sion Fairclotn, Benjamin * loth, Joshua Ansel ing, Richard Bertcn A William J. William oth, Dred loth, Richard tain, Owen italn, William am an, Friend sman, Richard itEESom Malcolm Futch, Idaac Frailer, Peiielipe Fennel. Dempsey • ^7" - Grinder, John Grlner, James Griffin, Dempsey Griffin, Lewis Griffin, Major Glass, Levi, Jr. Grider, Jacob Ganey, Edmond Groover, John Groover, James Gregory, Richard Gregory. Rachael Glass, Thomas Granad, Solomon *'■ Glass, Levi Gill, Thomas Grace, Major Groom, Wiley Grace, John r m Groover, Solomon Groover, John Green, John 1 Gregory, John Gregory, Sarah Hi ll all, John Hanoi, John Hurst, Daniel Hurst, Major Hurst, Jacob Hancock. William Heath, Henry Hayes, George Hadley, Simon Hopson, Green Hadley Simon D. Haney, John Hopson, Warren A. Hurst, Thomas Hall, James Hudfial, Jerrard Hall, John C. Hall, Kindred Hall, Thomas Horn. Michael Horn, Roland L. Horn, Hellkijah H. Hicks, Gebrge Hop3ou, Zacharlah Hovin, Andrew Hall, Ignatlaus Hall, Jourdan Horn, Owen G. Houze Clabourn Hart, John Hadley, Simon D. Hart, Levi Hurst, Thomas Hamilton, John * Henderson, John Huggins, James ’Hancock, John Hood, John Holloway, William, 8r. Holloway, William, Jr. Humphries, John Hornsby, Rebeccah Huggins, John Hurst, Bryan Hendricks, Seaborn Hall, Thomas L. I— Ivey, Robert Invin,.John R. J— Jones, John Johnson, Sampson Johnson, Levi. Jonlkin, Zaney Johnson, Uriah Jlnklna, David J. Jones, Elizabeth Johnson, Thomas J. Jones, Thomas Jackson, John James, Orman K— Kersey, William Knapp, David Kirksey, James Kirksey, John Kornega, Daniel Kingsley. Charles Kemp, Peter L— Lowrie, Elizabeth Lewis, Prior Lee, Charles Lacy, John B. Lee, Jesse Lovett, Jcmes Levin, William Lucky, Samuel Lynch, Willikm L '■’xeberger, John C. M— Mammack. Benjamin Molphus, Martha McCroan, John Mctton, James Metton, Benjamin Metton, Robinson McDaniel, Bartlet McAuley, Auley McCann, Hugh Mims, David McCloud, Norman Mitchell, Nathaniel R. McKinnon, Neil Ma^h, Henry Mitchell, Ann Mitchell, Richard McElvin, Elias Morrison, Angus Michaels, William Monroe, Jane McCool, Creecy McMillian, Archibald Mitchell, Thomas G. Metton, Nathaniel McDaniel, Wyatt Ray, Duncan Roney, Hugh Roddenberry, John Remmington, Edward Rails, John T. Raines, Lucian Revfis, Randolph Ridgedell, John Roddenberry, Richard Roddenberry, George Roddenberry, Robert Richardson, Elijah Rogers, Uriah Rogers, James Roads, William Roberts/Ellas Rice, John Rigs, Dempsey ' 8— Spence, Isaac Shepherd, Wlinahi Smith, Andrew O. Spears, Allen Sellers, Simeon Sellers, William Sanders* tieorge W. Slater/ 3fihel Stringer/ Daniel 8eward, William v Stringer, n Efvin 'Smith, Thomas Stricklin, AJiby Stansel, Richard O. Strieftln, John Slater, Jesse Sweatinan, William Smith, Stephen . Simpson, 1 Harry Stanaland, Hoar Sweatinan, Stephen W Shuffield, John Swain, Cannlth Swain, Morgan Strickland, Simeon Sloan, John Sloan, William Smith, Shadrick Stanaland, Richard T. Smith, John T— Taylor, Joseph Taylor, Jesse Truluck, Joseph TaylOr, Richard Thomas, Lewis A. Taylor, James Thomas, Barbara Taylor, James Thompson, John Tison, Ann Thornton, Edward S. Thigpln, Travis Tims, Stephen bl- Usher, Thomas W— Waters, John Waters, George Welch, Richard Wyche, Littleton Wood, Dempsey Woods. W. A. Wynn. John C. Walker, Robert W. Wheelis, Green B. Wales, William White, Henry Wheeler, Lot Wheeler, James F. Wilson, Allen Wyche, Thomas Watson, Joseph Wooten, Redden Whitney, Joslah Ward, William Watson, Reddick Wells, Shadrick White, Wilson Webb, Lemuel Wilson, William R. Y— Yeomans, Samuel P. Yates, William Yeomans, Henry Young, Mif.bael