Quitman County GaArchives Church Records.....Rocky Mount Methodist Church
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                             ROCKY MOUNT METHODIST CHURCH


     Rocky Mount Methodist Church was organized about 1858 near the site of the 
cemetery that is now known as the Majors family cemetery.

     About 1873 the membership of the church moved o the Lumpkin-Georgetown 
Road into a log cabin type building and church was held here for about ten 
years.  It was then decided to erect a new building.

     Some of the early members were:  Woods, Coffin, Avra, Rice, Key, Dismuke, 
Owens, Lewis, Davidson, Kimble, Whitaker, and Mathias.

     Camp McGehee was organized in 1897 on ten acres of land adjoining the 
church property.  During the camp meeting season tents were erected and 
services were attended by people from all around the area.

     The land for the church building was deeded from John Whitaker to the 
church trustees: A. H. Wood, J. C. Hill and James A. Avra.  The land for the 
camp meeting ground was deeded to the trustees: John Whitaker, James Tye, John 
B. McGehee, Louis Wilkerson and Reverend C. W. Snow by John Whitaker Jr.

     Around 1971 the church was closed as there were not enough members to 
continue as so many people have left the county and moved from the area.  The 
old church building was purchased by Sam Singer from Lumpkin, Georgia and was 
torn down and used in the repair of other old buildings at Westville.


The Cuthbert Times  Quitman Co. Centennial Edition  Oct. 29, 1958
Mrs. Neil Bennett
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Gary


"Cemeteries and Churches of Quitman County, Georgia"
  by Jacquelyn M. Shepard
  (page 59) 

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Transcribed and submitted by Donna Eldridge with permission from Jacquelyn 
Shephard

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