Carroll County GaArchives Photo Group.....Carroll County Church Congregation-c. 1890-1905? Villa Rica Or Roopville Area? 2007 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Larry C. Knowles http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00012.html#0002854 July 2, 2007, 10:49 pm Source: Brenda Taliaferro Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/carroll/photos/carrollc1168nph.jpg Image file size: 212.6 Kb CARROLL COUNTY CHURCH CONGREGATION-c. 1890-1905? VILLA RICA or ROOPVILLE area? This photo submitted by Brenda Taliaferro is believed to be of a Carroll County Church congregation. From this large group only one individual is known. In the right doorway, the elderly white-bearded gentleman in the hat is MS. Taliaferro's third great grandfather, John Isaac Weaver. John Weaver was born in March 1824 in Wilkes Co. GA and died in Carroll Co. in 1907. He and his wife Mary Turner(Pace)-who died in 1890, are buried in the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church cemetery off of Hwy. 78, near Villa Rica. Since John I. Weaver was believed to have been a Methodist minister, their burials may have been a matter of convenience. In 1900 in Villa Rica, Mr. Weaver-age 76, was listed in the household of a daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, and her husband George W. Hall. Late in life John Weaver may have attended at Pleasant Grove, but the "two doors" in this photo might indicate a Methodist church, as their earlier congregations seated women and men separately. John I. Weaver and Mary Turner Pace married in Butts Co. GA, September 4, 1851. Mary was the daughter of Hardy and Mary Ann(Gray)Pace, who moved to Chambers Co. AL shortly after their marriage. Mary was born there, where her father died about 1838. Her mother married again in 1843-[John D. Thompson]-but after losing a second husband, she returned to Butts Co. GA. about 1848 to be nearer her "Gray" family. John I. Weaver was listed as a teacher on the 1850 Butts Co. census, and there in 1860, as a shoemaker, in the Worthville village. Most preachers had to farm, teach, or have other sources of income. John was first noted as a "minister" on Governor "Joe Brown's census" of 1863. In 1870, though listed in the "Indian Spring" district, the family was likely still in the Worthville area, as the whole county was so enumerated that year! By 1880, however, they had relocated to Pike County. The date of their move to Carroll Co. is unknown but they initially lived near Roopville. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/carroll/photos/carrollc1168nph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 2.9 Kb