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- WESLEYANNA MEMORIAL
CHURCH
- Formerly Wesleyanna
M.E. Church
Organized 1868 under bush arbor
on Stephen D. Lewis farm by Elder Theo. A. Pharr, John Hardy
Bolton, Julia Wells Bolton, Stephen D. Lewis, Martha Howard Lewis,
Paul Jenkins, Temperance Jenkins, Fulton L. Oglesby, Mary Bolton
Oglesby and others on land given by Alexander James Wells and
Isaac Thomas Bazemore. Original Trustees: John W. Boston, James
Allen Bazemore, Green Berry Waters, Alexander James Wells and
Abisha Humphrey Bazemore. Among early preachers: John Jenkins,
W.D. Smith, Abisha Humphrey Bazemore, A.F. Ellington, Emory F.
Dean, Jacob Perry Bazemore, David Matthews Bazemore, A.M. Johnson
and John W. Roach.
June, 1957, church and cemetery
set aside as perpetual memorial to founders by deed from Methodist
Conference to Trustees, all of whom are descendants: Dora Bazemore
Brooker, E. Lampkin Bazemore, I. Thomas Sanders, James Eugene
Bazemore, Charles Thurman Hopkins, Sr., Lilla Sanders Smith,
John w. Gross, Palmer A. Bazemore and Bertha Hoffman.
- WESLEYANNA MEMORIAL
CHURCH
- 1963
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- [Note: Although this
marker does not have a number, it has a state seal and is identical
in size, color, and appearance to state historical markers.]
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© Carl Vinson Institute of Government,
University of Georgia
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