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I am trying to document possible church membership for Frederick
Watson (1784-1854) who was an active hardshell Baptist and moved
to Lowndes Co., the 12th district, now Brooks Co., about 1851. His
will is recorded there and he died there about 1854.
So far I have to guess he would have joined either Bethel or Bethlehem
(Quitman), but it seems that Union and perhaps other congregations in
the area existed at the time.
Here are some notes on those two churches:
http://tinyurl.com/5fdvmh
Bethel Primitive Baptist Church, the second Baptist Church to be
organized in the area of old Lowndes County [what was the first?], was
constituted September 2, 1826. The organizing Presbytery were: Elders
Benjamin Manning, Matthew Albritton and Henry Melton, with Deacon
William A. Knight. Charter members of Bethel Church were: Elder
Melus Thigpen and his wife, Sarah; Archibald Strickland and his wife,
Luander; Henry C. Tucker and his wife, Sarah.
Elder Thigpen served as supply pastor until 1828, when the Rev.
Matthew Albritton was called to the charge of Bethel Church.
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http://lat34north.com/HistoricMarkers/MarkerDetail.cfm?KeyID=014-9
Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church about 4 miles Southwest of here,
was constituted November 29, 1834. The charter members included;
William T. Rushing his wife. Belinda; Asa Geiger, his wife, Nancy;
William Jones; his wife. Elizabeth; James McLead, his wife. Jemima;
Jared Johnson; John Turner, his wife. Lucy; Emily Turner; Henry
Rowell; Cynthia Rowell; James Rowell, his wife, Sarah: William C.
Goff, his wife, Jincy; Rebecca Beastley, Nellie Goff. The Rev. Ryan
Frier was the first pastor Jared Johnson and James Rowell were first
deacons. The present church is about 1 mile from the original site.
You'll notice my note re:
Bethel Primitive Baptist Church, the second Baptist Church to be
organized in the area of old Lowndes County...
which really leaves me wondering, what was the first?
Also, there is a record of a Redden Wooten being an early member of
Bethel. He lived on land lots very near Frederick Watson and it is
mentioned that he removed his membership to another church nearer to
his home... but which church would that have been?
Here's that citation:
from
pp. 292-293 of Vol. 2 of Pioneers of Wiregrass, Georgia: WOOTEN,
REDDEN._____1785-1881_____BROOKS [Co., GA] Redden
Wooten, a son of Joe] Wooten, R.S. (Vol. I), was born in Edgecombe
County, N. C., in 1785, and died at his home near Pavo in Brooks
County Ga., in 1881, age 96 years. He came with his parents to Burke
County, Ga., in 1800, then about 1805 to Montgomery County, then to
Telfair County. He was married twice. His first marriage was in Telfair
County, May 17, 1810, to Miss Susannah Byrd, born 1793 in
McIntosh County. By her six children were born. In 1849, he was
married in Lowndes (now Brooks) County, to Martha Ann Dukes, born
1820 in Tattnall County, daughter of Elijah Dukes, and grand-daughter
of John Dukes, R.S., who emigrated from Barnwell District, S. C., to
Tattnall County about 1802-03. By the second wife, six children were
born. The twelve children in their order, were: 1. Elizabeth b. 1811, m.
Morgan G. Swain, Sept. 3, 1928. 2. Easter b. 1813, m. Adoniram
Vann, Aug. 10, 1831. 3. Sarah b. 1815, m. Lasa Adams, Dec. 1,
1834. 4. Joel Byrd b. 1817, m. Mary Roberts, Nov. 21, 1841, dau. of
Elias. 5. Martha b. 1820, m. Ezekiel Parrish, Dec. 4, 1839. 6. Redden
Byrd b. 1823, m. Nancy Edmondson, dau. of John. 7. John Dukes b.
1851, m. 1st, Martha P. Williams; 2nd, Lizzie McRae. 8. Susannah
Dukes b. 1852, m. William Cooper, Oct. 23, 1869. 9. Henry Dukes b.
]854, m. Lula Victoria Kauffman, Apr. 26, 1890. 10. Elljah Dukes b.
1855, m. 11. Elisha Dukes b. 1857, m. 12. Sarah Dukes b. 1859, died
young. Mr. Wooten lived several years on the north side of the
Ocmulgee River, but after the creation of Appling County south of the
river and the detachment of the 1st ]and district from Appling and being
added to Telfair, he granted lands in that district and moved there. But
in 1827, he sold out his possessions there (land lot 314, 1st district) to
William Ashley, having shortly before moved to Thomas County. In
Thomas he settled in the 13th land district where he acquired three or
four lots of land and established his home. But after his first wife's death
he divided his lands between his children who were all married at the
time, and he then bought lots 212 and 249 in the 12th district of
Lowndes County, in the part that was cut into Brooks County in 1858.
In 1869, he divided these lands and gave same to his children by his
second wife but continued to live there until his death. The second wife
died about 1870. Mr. Wooten's only public service was as Justice of
Peace, 437th district Telfair County, to which he was commissioned
January 21st., 1825, but which he resigned when he moved to Thomas
county. He was a member of Bethel Primitive Baptist Church in Brooks
County, as was also his first wife. They were received by letter in April,
1827, into Bethel Church from a church in Telfair County; Mrs. Wooten
died a member, and Mr. Wooten was granted a letter of dismission in
February, 1853, and placed his membership in another church nearer to
his home, the identity of which has not been learned. He died a member
of that church. CENSUS REFERENCES: 1820, Telfair; 1830, 1840,
Thomas; 1850, Lowndes; 1860, 1870, Brooks.
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