Liberty County GaArchives News.....Oldest Church In Georgia - Midway Church August 24, 1900
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The Marion County Patriot August 24, 1900
The Marion County Patriot
August 24, 1900
Page Two

Oldest Church In Georgia

The old Midway church, in Liberty County, Ga., still standing, had for its
pastor between 1785 and 1791 Dr. Abiel Holmes, the father of Oliver Wendell
Homes, and when President Washington paid his celebrated visit to Georgia in
1790, Dr. Holmes was made the chairman of the committee appointed by the
congregation of Old Midway church to greet him.  Dr. Joseph LeConte, professor
of chemistry in the University of California, says a correspondent of the Boston
Transcript, “is one of the products of the Midway church.  So also is United
States Senator A.O. Bacon, and many people will be surprised to know that
Governor Theodore Roosevelt, of New York, is also of this same stock, deriving
his connection with Old Midway church through his mother, who was born in
Liberty County, and whose progenitors were prominent and influential members of
the church.”



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