Quitman County GaArchives Church Records.....Pataula Baptist Church
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                         PATAULA BAPTIST CHURCH


     Pataula Baptist Church was constituted about the year 1830 and was first 
located near the site now known as the Pittman burying ground.

     In 1833 Pataula Church had fifty-seven members.  Some of the early members 
were:  George Harrison, John N. Hatcher, William Hill, John Martin, J. S. Nash, 
and William Ross, a licensed preacher.   It is possible that the John Ross 
buried in the Hatcher family cemetery was his son.

     In 1843 a part of the membership pulled out of the church and established 
a new church that was known as the Liberty Missionary Baptist Church.  The 
premitive brethren that were left later moved the Pataula Church to the 
neighborhood of the McKenzie place.

     In the minutes of the 18th session of the Harmony Baptist Association that 
was held with the Antioch Church in Early County, Georgia in October  of 1856, 
Pataula Church was shown as sending two delegates.  They were A. Belcher and N. 
Paul.  It was shown as being in Randolph County and having a Pataula Post 
Office address.

     It is assumed that all signs of the church were gone by the 1880's.  This 
is the homeplace of my grandmother and there are no recollections of it being 
mentioned by her.

The Cuthbert Times  Quitman Co. Centennial Edition  Oct. 29, 1958


"Cemeteries and Churches of Quitman County, Georgia"
  by Jacquelyn M. Shepard
  (page 58) 

Additional Comments:
Transcribed and submitted by Donna Eldridge with permission from Jacquelyn 
Shephard

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