Habersham County GaArchives Church Records.....Ebenezer Methodist Church 
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About the time Habersham County was organized in 1818, Ebenezer Methodist 
Church was built across the highway from the present location on land owned by 
the Mathews Estate.  No records can be found of the building committee or of 
the date the first church was built, but the information has been handed down 
to the oldest citizens and church members that Mr. Mathews gave permission for 
the church to be built on his property and that it probably remained there 
about 70 years until the church purchased 8.5 acres from Edward N. Ivester in 
1892.  This church was at one time in the Dahlonega Charge. It has also been in 
the Elberton Charge and Gainesville Charge.  

Many pastors have served the church staying anywhere from 1 to 9 years.  A deed 
was made on May 18, 1892, between Edward N. Ivester and the Trustees of 
Ebenezer Church.  The Trustees were:  A. C. Inglis, J. T. Smith, G. A. 
Anderson, J. R. Anderson, and Moses Franklin.  They purchased the church lot 
and graveyard for the sum of $27.00.  The deed states: "This land to be held in 
Trust, that said premises shall be used, kept, maintained and disposed of as a 
place of Divine Worship of the Methodist Episcopal Church, subject to the 
Discipline, Usage, and Ministerial Appointments of said Church."  The deed was 
recorded on July 19, 1892.  The church was moved back from the highway around 
1927 at the time the highway was paved.

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