Dodge County GaArchives Church Records.....History of Old Allston Methodist Church
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OLD ALLSTON METHODIST CHURCH.

  OLD ALLSTON METHODIST CHURCH was built by old man Billy Allston, a Methodist
preacher, who gave it to the congregation. The church was built about two miles
from Rhine at a siding now known as Copeland, and was one of the first churches
built after the Indians left this side of the Ocmulgee. A stairway led to an
upper story of the church and this was used as a Masonic Lodge. This building
was used until the Seaboard Airline Railway came through that section about
1887, when the town of Rhine sprang up and the church was moved there and is
today the Rhine Methodist Church.

  Among the first members of old Allston were Gen. Mark Willcox and his family,
Peter Coffee and family, John W. Coffee and family, Daniel Campbell and family,
Bob Campbell and family, Joe Brown and family, Daniel McCranie and family, John
Frazier and family, John Cravey and family, James Bishop and family, Mrs. A. W.
Dean, Mrs. Y. Griffin, Miss Lizzie McCoy who became the mother of Moses W.
Harrell.


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HISTORY
OF
DODGE COUNTY

COPYRIGHT    1932
By MRS. WILTON PHILIP COBB

Printed by
FOOTE & DAVIES CO., ATLANTA.



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