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

	It was in 1876, when the Methodist church was organized at Suwanee. At its
organization it had the following members.

	J. W. Armstrong, Anna H. Armstrong, Emory S. Brogdon, Amanda C. Brogdon, Nancy
C. Brown, Vista E. Brown, Julia Brown, Hororius Garmony, Emily K. Garmony, H. G.
Harris, Sarah G. Harris, Georgia S. Harris, Mollie C. Harris, Julia Harris, Ella
V. Harris, Sallie B. King, Wiley Plunket, Nancy Plunkett, Julia Weatherspoon,
Mary Brown, Anna White, J. T. Baxter, Sarah L. Underwood, Henrietta Brown, Lou
Culver, Mettie Brandon, Wallace Brandon, Ada Brogdon, Julia Davis, Mary E.
Langley, Ada Langley, Jos. H. Brogdon, Emily Russell, Mary C. Thomas.

	The first church was built in 1879 or 1880. A storm blew the old church down in
1909, and the present building erected in 1910 at a cost of $2,000.

	The names of pastors follow: Marion H. Eakes, one year; Joseph Carr, one year;
J. R. Smith, one year; W. P. Smith, one year; W. S. Bradley, one year; J. H.
Mashburn, one year; K. Reed, two years; J. R. King, one year; H. M. Newton, one
year; J. T. Curtis, one year; B. E. L. Timmons, one year; George Quillian, one
year; M. H. Edwards, one year; S. B. Ledbetter, two years; J. L. Moon, one year;
W. A. Parks, one year; T. H. Timmon, one year; T. J. Warlick, one year; W. L.
Singleton, one year; F. G. Golden, one year; W. W. Gaines, two years; W. E.
McBreyer, one year; S. H. Braswell, one year; F. R. Smith, one year; J. W.
Stipe, two years; H. E. Scott is the present pastor.

	A Sunday school with an enrollment of 80 is run with E. S. Brogdon,
superintendent, R. E. Johnson, Mrs. M. T. Verner, Miss Zera Verner, Miss M.
Verner, Mrs. R. E. Johnson, Miss Stevie Brogdon, Miss Georgia Harris and Miss
Henrietta Brown as teachers.

	The church has the following members:

	Miss M. E. H. Brown, Mrs. Alice Harris, John B. Brogdon, Mrs. Hattie Brogdon,
Mrs. Eunice Baxter, Walter Baxter, Emory S. Brogdon, Mrs. Amanda Brogdon, Mrs.
Sarah J. Harris, Miss Georgia Harris, J. D. Johnston, R. E. Johnston, Mrs. Vesta
Verner, Win. Wilson, Mrs. J. C. Johnston, Mrs. Bertha Little, Miss Jessie Brown,
Miss Gippy Brown, Miss Bessie Brogdon, Mrs. Clyde Devore, M. T. Verner, Dixon
Brown, Miss Avis Johnston, Mrs. W. R. Little, W. R. Little, Miss Carfax Baxter,
Miss Stevie Brogdon, Marvin Verner, Lloyd Harris, Charlie Craft, Covert Harris,
Miss Mabree Verner, Homer Wilson, Mrs. Mary S. Davis, Miss Agnes Harris, Mrs.
Ade Pierce, Miss Viola Bennett, Rogers Brown, Mrs. J. B, Smith, Joe W. Baxter,
Marvin Craft, Louis W. Brogdon, Howard J. Brown, Ross R. Johnston, Harriett M.
Craft, Ethelina Harris, Wyatt Harris, Lowell Harris, Sarah Myree King, Nesbit
Beatty, Dodson Johnston, Lillian Beaty, Lollie Harris, Vivan Harris, Zeta
Verner, Rolley Pierce, R. M. Johnston, Mrs. Ella Brogdon, Mrs. Mary Bennett,
Miss Annie L. Baxter, Lula Harris, Mrs. Minnie Davis, J. D. Teague, Mrs. J. D.
Teague, Mrs. Mary Smith, J. A. Allen, Mrs. Emiline Allen, Miss Effie Allen, Jos.
E. Allen, Mrs. Della Allen, Mrs. R. E. Johnston, Dennis Russell, Mrs. Effie
Russell, J. F. Adams, Nancy Adams, J. B. Adams, Lula Adams, Georgie Adams, Alma
Adams, Bessie Adams, Mattie Adams, Fannie Adams, Mary Adams.


Additional Comments:
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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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