Gwinnett County GaArchives Church Records.....Norcross Methodist Episcopal (South) Copyright Date 1911
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Norcross.

	The Norcross Methodist church was formerly known as Flint Hill, and was located
a mile or so from Norcross.

	Just when Flint Hill was organized cannot be ascertained. It perhaps dates back
to 1818 or 1820. It was moved from its old location in 1871 to the town of
Norcross, and its name changed from Flint Hill to the name it now bears. From
about 1825 to 1862, a camp meeting was held annually and the Flint Hill camp
ground was famous for its great preachers and wonderful revivals, Mrs. Martha
Carroll Brown, now in her seventy-seventh year, attended this camp meeting in
1834. She was born in this year, but remembers her mother telling of coming to
this camp ground that year. Mrs. Brown joined Flint Hill church at the age of
15, and is a member at Norcross now. She remembers hearing Russell Renneau
preach there. Miles W. Arnold was another great preacher who held meetings at
the old church. It was he who held two camp meetings there during the same year.

   Riley Owens was a well known preacher in those times. He was a South
Carolinian and when he began preaching, his father made him leave 'home. After
preaching in Georgia, he returned to his home in South Carolina. His father went
to hear him preach and was converted.

	Ira L. Potter, Bishop Haygood, Young J. Allen and Joshua Bradford are the names
of other distinguished ministers who attended and preached at Flint Hill camp
ground.

	It is said of Joshua Bradford that he was a great bully and made trouble
wherever he went. He finally attacked the wrong man, was soundly whipped and
soon thereafter was converted and made an able minister, who fought the devil as
hard as he once fought his fellow man.

	When the Southern Railway was built, the church was moved to the town of
Norcross and a building erected in 1875. The church property is valued at $3000.

	Many leading ministers have served this church since it was moved to Norcross,
among them being C. C. Carey, W. A. Dodge, W. T. Lane, F. B. Davis, G. E.
Gardner, W. W. Lampkin, W. P. Smith, T. J. Christian, H. M. Newton, W. M. Winn,
M. W. Arnold, W. T. Robinson, L. P. Neese, J. W. Quillian, W. B. Dillard, C. V.
Weathers, J. C. Atkinson, Wallace Rogers, R. M. Dixon, C. L. Patillo, R. M.
Dickson, C. P. Marchman, A. D. Echols, J. S. L Sappington, A C Cantrell.

	List of members of the Norcross Methodist church: J. B. Adams, W. H. Abbott,
Mrs. Lillie Abbott, R. R. Anglin, Mrs. R. R. Anglin, Rob S. Adair, R. E.
Barnett, Mrs. Daisy Barnett, Fred Barnett, J. P. Barnett, W. I. Bolton, Mrs.
Fannie Bolton, Elsie Bolton, C. C. Brooks, E. W. Born, Mrs. E. W. Born, Carrie
Lou Born, J. T. Born, Albert Bell, Mrs, Albert Bell, James Bell, Miss Bertie
Bell, Tillman Bagwell, Eunice Bagwell, Miles Bagwell, Paul S. Barrett, Mrs. M.
P. Brown, T. M. Connally, Mrs. T. M. Connally, Emily Crimm, A. P. Crisler,
Cottie Crisler, Otis Crisler, Mrs. Floy Clements, A. P. Cannon, Mrs. A. P.
Cannon, A. C. Cantrell, Mrs. A. C. Cantrell, W. C. Cantrell, F. M. Cantrell, J.
L. Cantrell, Sarah D. Cantrell, J. C. Davenport, Mrs. J. C. Davenport, Eulamae
Davenport, Alvena Davenport, Mrs. May O. Davenport, Eulana Davenport, Alvena
Davenport, Mrs. M. O. Davenport, Mrs. Lou Dean, Lovic Dean, J. A. Dean, Miss
Willie Dean, L. B. de Jarnette, Mrs. L. B. de Jarnette, Meredith de Jarnette,
Sam Dodgen, Mrs. M. A. Dodgen, Mrs. R. M. Dempsey, Homer Dempsey, W. R. Dickens,
Hansell Ellis, L. D. Ewing, L. D. Ewing, Jr., J. B. England, Mrs. Mary Garner,
Lina Garner, Carl A. Garner, R. A. Garner, Willie Greer, Ruby Grogan, J. N.
Ivester, Mrs. Emma Ivester, Arnold Ivester, Eva Ivester, Emma L. Ivester, Harold
Ivester, Truman Hamilton, Mrs. Mary Hensall, J. W. Haynie, Mrs. J. W. Haynie,
Elmer Haynie, Mrs. Elmer Haynie, Fred J. Hunter, Mrs. Emma Hinkle, Effie Hinkle,
Miss Bessie Holland, Mrs. Lula Hunter, Freddie Hunter, Fordie Hunter, Mrs. Ella
Johnson, Mrs. Cynthia Johnson, D. L. Johnson, Mrs. D. L. Johnson, Mrs. S. F.
Johnson, Homer Jones, M. I. Jones, Mrs. M. I. Jones, Mrs. Matthew Jones, Mrs. A.
J. Jones, W. T. Kent, Mrs. W. T. Kent, T. T. Key, Miss Lola Key, Mrs. Amanda
Kimball, Mrs. Louella Kimball, J. T. Kimball, Mattie Kimball, C. P. Lively, H.
M. I ively, Mrs. H. M. Lively, J. E. Letson, Mrs. J. E. Letson, C. M. Letson,
Mrs. Mary Langston, P. M. Long, P. C. Long, Mrs. M. M. Long, Otis F. Long, Mrs.
J. O. Medlock, M. C. Medlock, Mrs. M. C. Medlock, Myrtis Medlock, Marguerite
Medlock, M. Ida Medlock, M. Leila Medlock, Paul Medlock, F. A. Medlock, Mrs. F.
A. Medlock, Lena Bess Medlock, Mary W. Medlock, Miss Nannie Meritt, S. V.
McElroy, W. M. McElroy, E. W. McElroy, Mrs. W. M. McElroy, J. E. McElroy, Mrs.
J. E. McElroy, Sarah McElroy, L. L. McElroy, E. G. McDaniel, Mrs. E. G.
McDaniel, Jonse McDaniel, A. R. McDaniel, Moore McDaniel, Edna McDaniel, Mary
McDaniel, Mrs. Maud McDaniel, Mrs. N. T. McDaniel, Mrs. Florence McAfee, Mrs.
Pearl McCoy, Mrs. Rachael Milts, Mrs. Jena Martin, Mrs. Laura McNabb, M. J. Mac
Nabb, Elizabeth Mac Nabb, T. W. Mewborn, Mrs. T. W. Mewborn, Carl L. Mewborn,
Ella Mewborn, Mrs. Marie L. Moore, Mrs. Clyde Moore, Mrs. Ells McGinnes, H. F.
Murrow, W. F. Murrow, Lurie Murrow, Neva Murow, Susie Minor, Mrs. R. C. Nesbit,
J. M. Nesbit, Mrs. Minnie Nesbit, Carrie Nesbit, N. H. Nesbit, F. R. Nesbit,
Verne Nesbit, M. M. Nesbit, F.* B. Nesbit, Jr., E. B. Nesbit, Mrs. Catherine
Norris, Mrs. Annie Pinkston, Elizabeth Quillian, Mrs. Hattie Norsworth, Arbella
Nash, Ruby O'Kelly, Mary Nash, Mrs. Fannie Robinson, Jennie P. Robinson, Mamie
C. Ray, Maud V. Ray, T. L. Rochester, T. A. Roper, Mrs. T. A. Roper, Pearl
Roper, Jamie Roper, F. H. Sparks, Mrs. F. H. Sparks, Hattie Sparks, Ethel
Sparks, Mrs. Sarah Spence, Dollie Spence, Mrs. A. B. Satterfield, Mrs. L. C.
Sheek, A. L. Shutley, Eulamae Shutley, Alma Shutley, T. R. Stokes, John R.
Swansey, J. J. Stapp, S. E. Stapp, Qullian Scott, Mrs. Mattie Trueheart, Miss
Mattie Verdell, J.R. Vaughn, R. N. Williams, Daniel Williams, Mrs. Addix
Williams, Thomas Williams, Mrs. Alice Williams, T. F. Walker, Mrs. T. F. Walker,
Pauline Walker, Thomas Walker, H. L. Walker, Dr. W. P. Walker, Mrs. Alice Wall,
D. B. Wall, Elise Wall, Mattie Wall,. Ruby Wall, J. N. Wade, Ella May Philips,
Bennie Lee Philips, Dewy H. Philips. 

	The superintendent of the Norcross Methodist Sunday school is J. C. Davenport,
and the teachers are:

	Mrs. J. W. Haynie, Mrs. T. W. Mewborn, Miss Pauline Walker, Miss Mattie Wall,
Mrs. C. B. Moore, Mrs. J. J. Barnett, Mrs. F. A. Medlock, Mrs. J. E. McElroy,
Miss Lola Key, Miss Jennie Bell Robinson, Miss Hattie Sparks, Dr. T. T. Key.


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GWINNETT CHURCHES
A COMPLETE HISTORY OF EVERY CHURCH
IN GWINNETT COUNTY, GEORGIA,
WITH SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF ITS
MINISTERS
BY
J. C. FLANIGAN
1911


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