Baker-Calhoun-Clay County GaArchives Cemeteries.....BEARD CEMETERY near CHRIST CME CHURCH - Partial Survey More to Come
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Evangelist Carolyn Malaika Foster-Brooks MINISTRYOFSARAH@NETSCAPE.NET August 28, 2003, 4:37 pm

Abstracted By: Evangelist Carolyn Malaika Foster-Brooks

Beard Cemetery is the resting place for The Foster Family 
of Baker County, Georgia and other related kin. It is near 
Christ Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in a rural 
area, sixteen miles west of Newton, Georgia. The land in a 
heavily wooded area, was given to the black residents by a 
white planter.
     Christ C.M.E. Church, before the War Between The 
States, was a place of worship for both whites and blacks 
who held membership in a hand-hewn log structure with board 
window shutters, a short distance from where the present 
church was known as Christ Methodist Church. Here, the 
white planters and their families along with their black 
slaves met to worship God.
     At the close of the war, the blacks were freed. They 
established their own church some five miles to the east of 
old Christ Methodist Church and thus came the name Christ 
C.M.E. Church. The membership built a brush arbor, which 
served as a place of worship until a permanent building 
could be erected. This first structure, built after the 
Civil War, was destroyed by fire along with the earlier 
records. The church was rebuilt, remaining in that location 
until the early 1940's.
     The present church is a continuation of old Christ 
C.M.E. Church. In the 1940's, the membership purchased two 
acres of land and rebuilt the church on a highway about 0ne-
tenth of a mile west of the original Christ Colored 
Methodist Episcopal Church.

Last Name     First Name            Middle Name   Birth               Death           Comment
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Foster        John                                                                    
Foster        Susan (Sue)           Bryant        1855                1941            
Foster        Jessy                 Crosley       1900                Dec. 25, 1918   
Foster        Robert (aka Bob)      Bridges       January 30, 1897    March 30, 1957  
Foster        William (aka Cooter)  David         September 15, 1917  July 20, 1961   drowned in Lake Okeechobee, Florida



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