Quitman County GaArchives Church Records.....Sharon Methodist Church
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                                    SHARON METHODIST CHURCH

     Sharon Church was organized in 1831 as a Methodist Protestant Church.  The 
first building was made of logs and was located across the road and down the 
hill toward the Quitman County line.  The benches were hewed logs.  This 
building was in use until 1870 when a second church was constructed.  Its site 
was to the side of the present building, about where the Edwards' family plot 
is in the cemetery now.  It was a clapboard building that was used by the 
congregation until 1909.  The building that is in use today was then erected.  
The old clapboard building was given to Mr. John Pearce and was used in the 
construction of tenant houses.  The trustees in 1909 were:  John Pearce, 
Stonewall Bryant and Walter O. Phillips.

     Due to a lack of interest and a decline in membership, the church needed 
many repairs.  There were broken and missing window panes, siding had pulled 
away from the structure leaving bare places on the outside of the building and 
the old wooden steps with no backing were about to fall in.  Under the guidance 
of J. D. Spence and J. W. Edwards with donations from many families the 
building was reworked in the 1960's.  Recent improvements include aluminum 
siding, landscaping, new carpet, pulpit drapes, a new piano and communion table.

     In 1970 a large stone monument was placed at the front of the church by 
Ruth Banks.  It reads, "Welcome to Sharon Methodist Church, given in honor of 
J. D. & Ruby Spence."

Mr. J. D. Spence
151st Anniversary Church Bulletin - 1982
History of the South Georgia Conference
United Methodist Church


"Cemeteries and Churches of Quitman County, Georgia"
  by Jacquelyn M. Shepard
  (page 62) 

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Transcribed and submitted by Donna Eldridge with permission from Jacquelyn 
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