SUMTER COUNTY, GA - CHURCHES Friendship Church - org 1839 ***************** 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: From History of Sumter County, Georgia: The present Friendship Baptist Church building, located on Hwy. 30 (Friendship Road) approximately 13 miles from Americus, is the oldest church building in Sumter County. Built in the middle 1850's on the site of the original church which was constituted on December 15, 1839, services are still held weekly as they have been for the past 117 years in the same building. The original minute book states that they would meet on the road between Mr. William B. Cothan's and Mr. John Carmichall's on the 25th of December where they expected to build a house of worship. ============ "Morris L Justice" To: "Harris Hill" Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 12:49 PM Subject: Re: [GASUMTER] Friendship Church Harris Is this the church you are looking for? Found this on Sumter Archives. Maybe someone has this book? Morris (Justice) From "History of Bethel Association Including Centennial Meeting", by Alexander Lee Miller At a meeting of the Bethel Association, held at Friendship Church, Sumter County, in 1857, on the suggestion of Rev. J. O. Screven, the Bethel Association adopted Brother Hogue as their missionary, and pledged themselves for his support at a salary of six hundred dollars annually; and on the 22nd of February 1858 he, with his family, bade adieu to kindred and friends and native state, for his new and chosen field of labor among the Indians. He arrived in safety after a tedious and protracted journey, and the Bethel Association continued faithfully and promptly to sustain him until communication with the East and the West was interrupted by the Civil War.