Butts County GaArchives News.....SCRAP OF HISTORY May 19 1893
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Middle Ga. Argus – Week of May 19, 1893
We find chronicled in the history of our county, that in the year 1825, 
McIntosh signed the treaty forever giving the white man the famous Indian 
Spring reserve, which act cost him his life, and we know where his grave 
nestles in a nook of wood, near Whitesburg.  We wonder why the “Red Men” of his 
tribe don’t remove his remains to Indian Spring or Jackson and build a monument 
to his memory.

But we are digressing.  In the next year 1826 on the 13th day of September, 
there was a transaction which has no place in history, and which perhaps was of 
more importance to Butts county.  There were a few pioneer christians who met 
in these, then woods, and constituted Macedonia church near Stark.  There is no 
telling the good those eight persons have been instrumental in accomplishing.  
The church now has two hundred and thirty five members.   Rev. Wm. Reeves 
preached to them the first sermon, Joseph Byars was their first secretary, 
Joseph Jolly is their present secretary, some of their children, grand children 
and great grand children, are now living about here, and some of them may not 
know their parents were constituents members.  Here are their names:  Samuel 
Leak, W. M. Redman, Thomas Thomas, Joseph Byars, Jane Leak, Nancy Thomas, 
Lillis Lee, Jane Lee.  Their first pastor was Rev. James Carter.  Rev. J. A. 
Jackson is the present pastor




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