Harris County, GA - Bios Green Berry Waldrop ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Scalawag1826@cs.com Sandra Waldrop Doolittle GREEN BERRY WALDROP Green Berry Waldrop , the 1827 Land Lottery, He and his family lived in Harris, Talbot, Taylor, Gwinnett and Muccogee Counties 1827-1840 . Green Berry Waldrop owned 607 1/2 acres. in Harris County and 202 1/2 in Taylor on the Harris County line. 1827-1840.( 810 hundred acres in Georgia.) FOUND YESTERDAY (OCTOBER 2003) THE LAND GREEN BERRY WALDROP'S OWNED IN HARRIS COUNTY, GEORGIA HE WON IN THE 1827 GEORGIA LOTTERY. District 15, is found on exit 25 Interstate 85 goes right thru the middle of his land. When you are on the way to Atlanta and you reach exit 25 you take a right and go on Highway 116 and there is 202 1/2 acres of his 608 acres in Harris County. The Interstate cuts right thru his half. The pictures taken in the air show Interstate 85 half cutting right down the middle, and you can see his land on both sides of the Interstate.. He had 101 acres on one side of the Interstate and l01 acres on the other side. This was in 1827-1840. I have deeds , map location and pictures taken of the land in the air. Each 202 1/2 acres he won in the 1827 Georgia Land Lottery. The second one was found off Muscogee and Harris County Line Road. where Randall Woods and Woodland neighbors are there, now. More stories and pictures to add . The third one will be checked out this week end in Shiloh, Georgia. oh yeah the one in Taylor County near Butler Georgia on the Talbot and Taylor County Line. The Fourth can be found in Taylor County on the Talbot County lines, maybe 5 miles from Butler. In all he owned 802 acres in Georgia not to mentions the hundreds of acres his papa Benjamin and Asley Waldrop owned in Georgia. In the Georgia Counties Green Berry Waldrop was a minister he also ministered to the Bethel Baptist Church in Muscogee County on Flat Rock Road. Original Church was blown down by the wind. He also ministered in Talbot County around and near Box Springs and Upatoi , he organized many of the Primitive Baptist Church and just plain Baptist Churches in Harris County , Talbot and Taylor, he along with four members of the Georgia Baptist Assc, ( Presbytery) All of this is written in the Georgia Baptist Assoc. minutes, which I have copies. This and personal letters from Joseph R. Waldrop will be added. Also , pictures of the Churches that were built on top of the Churches that Green Berry ministered to the people in 1827-1840. Most of the Churches only go back to the 1860s. The Primitive Baptist Churches goes back to the very 1800s. Green Berry Waldrop was Baptized in Green County, Alabama in 1822..The Primitive Baptist Church are mostly black, they were to strict for the white people to be members of. Here is an account of Rehoboth Baptist Church and our Green Berry Waldrop is mentioned in the transcript below. Rehoboth Baptist Church was one of the Churches that our great grandpapa Rev. Green Berry Waldrop along with other members of the Presbytery Constituted new Churches and Ordain new Ministers. Rev. Green Berry Waldrop was on the Presbytery who Ordained Rev. C.C. Willis of Muscogee County, Bethel Baptist Church on Flat Rock Road in the 1830s. Names related to Green Berry Waldrop while in Georgia 1827-1840. The Following names: Green Berry Waldrop's daughter Nancy Caroline Waldrop , married a Higgingbotham. Green Berry Waldrop's granddaughter Georgia Ann, daughter of Joseph Ryan Waldrop 1826-1870, married Thornton. Green Berry Waldrop and his wife Elizabeth H. Ward Waldrop were buried in the Evensen's Cemetery. Evensen was with Rev. Green Berry Waldrop in Gwinnett County , Georgia , Sweetwater Primitive Baptist Churches. Evensen went on to Mississippi and Green Berry Waldrop followed in 1840. Rev. Green Berry Waldrop settled in Harris , Talbot and Muscogee County 1827-1840 after he had wan land in the 1827 Lottery in Georgia. Some of these people move to Mississippi along with the Waldrop Family and remained friends and their children also married. Waldrops, Higginbothams and Thornton. Rehoboth Baptist Church was first located about one and a quarter miles below Cataula, Georgia. On March 10, 1839, the church was in "conference set". The Rev. George Grandberry was the minister. It is thought that the Church was in existence before that date, but the other ministers are not known. In November 17,1839 the Rev. George Grandberry, Hiram McCullers, Willis, Evensen were delegates to Columbus, Georgia Association. The following formed a presbytery, viz: James Perry man, Wm. Henderson, G. B. (Green Berry) Waldrop, Cary Willis, Anderson Smith, and Robert Fleming. Brother and Sister McKinley were dismissed by letter. It is thought that the Grandberry family gave four acres of land for the original site. The church cemetery is there, but the church has been moved to Cataula. In the first conference a letter was granted to Dinah. "a woman of colour, the property of the Rev. B.B. Buchannan." Mr. V. A. Hill was clerk. The following formed a presbytery, viz: James Perry man, Wm. Henderson, G. B. (Green Berry) Waldrop, Cary Willis,Anderson Smith, and Robert Fleming A Partial list of the members from the entry April 30, 1842, follows: Jesse Cox, Jane Cox, Robertson McCullers, Martha Ann McCullers, Tabitha Higginbotham, Emily Higginbothom, Nancy Gunn, Martha Hamby, Mitchell Stribling, Newton McCullar, Amanda M. Thompson, Elia. I. Gray, William Owens, Mary I. Owens, Condace Brown, Charles Brown, George Gunn, (from Church Crawfordville, Ga.) William Butler, Sara Butler (Eatonton, Ga.) Jonathan Hand (Fayetteville, N. C. ) llen Pruden, Mark Thornton, George Burton, Nancy Burton, David Tarvin. Brother Woodberry, W.A. Hill, Wm. Butler, I. Downs, T. A. Pruden, M. Striblin, were delegates in 1847. Members included Jehu Page (Wilkes Co. Ga.) Lucinda Page, Jeremiah Sutton, Mary Ann Sutton, James W. Sutton, Elizabeth C. Sutton, Henry Dawson, Sara Dawson, Brother Simpson, (from Lincoln Co. Ga.) Sara Stribling, Benjamin Davis Nancy Ann Davis, Elizabeth Ragan, William Tarvin, Mrs. Missouri Ann McCullars, Sara Jane Ragan, Brother Osburn, Jane Ely (Fort Gaines, Ga.) Sarah Jackson, Henry Jackson, Jesse Blackmon (Shady Grove Church Harris County), John Ligon, Leroy A. Phillips, Charlotte Philips, Williams Hartsfield, Pellatiah Hartsfield, Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson. Mrs. J. W. Thompson served as clerk in 1847. His son and grandson have served this church through the years, according to a letter from Mrs. T. C. Floyd. My great-greatgrandpapa was ...with the presbytery...not the minister of the church... Rev. Green Berry showed up in several County books, listing him as with the presbytery. He moved to DeSoto where he had his own Church. Submitted by the Great-Great-Granddaughter of the above (Rev.) Green Berry Waldrop, Sandra Waldrop Doolittle. BELOW ARE NAMES OF THE MEMBERS OF SWEETWATER BAPTIST PRIMITIVE CHURCH IN GWENNETTE COUNTY, GEORGIA. (1827) The following were charter members Frances Landers, Clarissa Woodruff, Sara Morgan, Elizabeth Niblet, Precilla Woodruff, Mary Hendrick, Hannah Spralding, Heziah Lawrence, Sarah Schamblee, Margaret Minchem, Cynthy Barnett, Edith McDaniel, Elly Davis, Nancy Henddris, John Hendrix, Elizabeth Doneyhoo, James Donechoo, Thomas Mason, Produnce Wells, James Well, Bodie Waldrop, Benjamin Waldrop, Alsey Waldrop. The first building was erected in 1824 and replaced in 1909. The first minister of the church was James Hale, who served 16 years consecu tively, and an additional 12 years two years later. Located on Pleasant Hill Road betwee Deluth and Lawrenceville, near the corner of Cruse Road, the church today is used as Sweet water Memorial Chapel. The cemetery is relatively well maintained and several graves are decorated with small Confederate flags. The Eli Landers house is seen directly behind the cemetery. Picture show of a new church building...and the cemetery with the Landers house in the back ground. Sweetwater Primitive Baptist Church information sent to me by Faye Johnston and Marshall Waldrup. Benjamin Waldrop (John, ) was born about 1762/1763 in Amelia Co., Va.. He died in 1840/1850 in Tallapoosa Co., Ala.. Benjamin married (1) Alsey Huggard . Alsey was born about 1765/1770. She died about 1824/1825. They had the following children: 107 M i. Greenberry Waldrop . 108 M ii. George Waldrop . 109 iii. Infant Waldrop . 110 M iv. William Waldrop . 111 M v. Major Waldrop . 112 M vi. Daniel Waldrop . 113 M vii. Henry Waldrop . 114 M viii. Ezekial Waldrop . Benjamin married (2) Rachel Griffin, on 22 Dec 1825 in Monroe Co., Ga. Rachel was born about 1799. She died after 1850 in probably in Chickasaw Co., Ms. They had the following children: 5 M ix. Archibald Waldrop was born in Coweta Co., Ga. 6 M x. Benjamin Waldrop Jr. was born in Coweta Co., Ga. Dr. Joseph Ryan Waldrop born in Georgia. In 1826 he was living with his parents Rev, Green Berry and Joseph's mother Elizabeth Ward Waldrop in Haris County 1827-1840 , Georgia. Harris County, Georgia, where Rev. Green Berry Waldrop was a member of the Baptist Prestbytery and the Columbus Baptist Association of Muscogee County. Green Berry helped constitute most of all the Baptist and Primitive Baptist Church, including Bethel Baptist on Flat Rock Road, Columbus, Georgia, Muscogee county from 1832 until 1840. Green Berry was written about in the Columbus Baptist Association minutes and all so many of the small churches he heped constituted. The Waldrop family later move to Alabama and settled in DeSoto, Mississippi where he lived and died in 1854.