Jasper-Putnam-Washington County GaArchives History .....Early Georgia Preachers January 27, 2008 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sharon Lee sdlee1@cox.net and Sharon Lee sdlee1@cox.net January 27, 2008, 12:56 pm Wesley Forbes, Jr. was an early Georgia Methodist Episcopal Preacher and attended the second ME Georgia Conference: Methodist Preachers in Georgia 1783-1900. Lawrence, Harold, editor and compiler. (Boyd Publishing, 1984, p. 189. DAR Library, Washington, DC. Original on file Sharon Dean Lee). "Forbs, Wesley (1787-10-7-1853) d. Leon Co., FL; m/Elizabeth Ponder (1805-1-25- 1849) dau.of Hezekiah & Ann Ponder of Camden Co., GA. *nv Forbes. (L) GEORGIA CONFERENCE: 1836 Recommended elder but not elected. ME [Methodist Episcopal]" *NOTE: See reference below to the 1836 Conference. Wesley Forbes' grandchildren (Thomas and Eliza Jane Forbes Mills' children) attended Fletcher Institute, begun by the Methodists in 1847 in Thomasville, GA; and his granddaughters Leonora Alice Mills and Catherine Elizabeth Mills attended Andrew College, also begun between 1856 and 1861 (until the outbreak of the war). From "Methodist Church: Overview" "During the antebellum years Georgia Methodists were particularly interested in education. In 1834 the Georgia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church established the Manual Labor School, the forerunner of Emory College and Emory University in Atlanta. Georgia Female College in Macon was acquired by the Methodists in 1836* and renamed Wesleyan Female College in 1843 and Wesleyan College in 1917. Andrew College, now a junior college, was chartered in 1854 in Cuthbert for the education of women. LaGrange College, another institution for educating women, was purchased in 1857 by the conference." [The New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3159] File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/jasper/history/other/earlygeo718gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb