Quitman County GaArchives Church Records.....Davis Chapel A. M. E. Church
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                         DAVIS CHAPEL A.M.E. CHURCH

                           (African American)

     Davis Chapel A.M.E. Church was organized around 1892.  For a few years 
meetings were held in a bush arbor as there was no money for a church 
building.  From this bush arbor beginning in 1892, there has been a total of 
three structures erected.  The first church was destroyed by a storm, which 
also killed a man in Eufaula, Alabama, on the 5th day of March in 1919.  In May 
of 1919, a new building was started.  Times were hard and money was tight, so 
this wooden frame building with a tin roof was not made to last and just gave 
out.  About 1974 a new church was constructed, this time a block building was 
erected.

     Membership has been high but as with most country churches it has 
decreased over the years.  Only two of the members of Davis Chapel are not of 
the age of retirement and hold jobs.  Attendance is good at the services that 
are held one Sunday a month.

     In the old cemetery below the church you will find names that are on the 
church roll today as many of the members are sons and daughters and grandsons 
and granddaughters of the founding fathers.

     Erosion had begun on the hillside so it was determined that a new cemetery 
be started on the sides of the church.

Mr.&  Mrs. Lex Lewis


"Cemeteries and Churches of Quitman County, Georgia"
  by Jacquelyn M. Shepard (page 49) 

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Transcribed and submitted by Donna Eldridge with permission from Jacquelyn 
Shephard

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