LONG COUNTY, GA - CHURCHES  Jones Creek Baptist Church

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CHURCH HISTORY

Jones Creek Baptist Church "was constituted on April
22, 1810, by Reverends John Goldwire and Moses
Westberry and thirteen members from Beard's Creek
Baptist Church, then in Liberty, now in Tattnall
county, who had been dismissed a week earlier for
that purpose." This group of believers came
together for the express purpose of establishing a
Baptist church on the banks of Jones Creek.

Elmer Oris Parker, A History of Jones Creek Baptist
Church, Long County Georgia, 1810-1985, 1985, p. 1

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Jones Creek Baptist Church State Historical Marker

Jones Creek Baptist Church State Historical Marker
Located on U.S. 301, 5 miles northwest of Ludowici, Ga.

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JONES CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH

Jones Creek Baptist Church was constituted April 22,
1810, at the Jones Creek Meeting House near this
site.

Original members of this church, all former members
of Beards Creek Baptist Church were: Charles
Flowers, James Clark, Levi Morgan, John Hall, John
Bohannan, Martha Flower, Abigail Clark, Sarah
Morgan, Fannie Lowery, Mary Howe, Mary Chapman,
Lydia Bohannan.

The Rev. Moses Westberry was the first pastor of the
church, and served in that capacity for 35 years.

Land for the present site of the church edifice was
given by William Walthour in 1817.

Jones Creek Baptist Church was first a member of the
Piedmont Baptist Association, but is now with the
New Sunbury Baptist Association, of which it was one
of the organizing members in 1866.

091-3 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1957