TALBOT COUNTY, GA - CHURCHES County Line Baptist

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Scalawag1826@cs.com Sandra Waldrop Doolittle

County Line Baptist Church
(TALBOT COUNTY)


When Rowland Mahone bought Land Lot 65, 22 nd Land
District, Rough Edge G.M.S, 904, by indentured dated
December 6, 1833, a reservation, was made in the deed
for County Line Baptist Church.  Whereon the Baptist
meeting house now stands call County Line."

The Church lot was of one and a half acres, now in the
woods, west of the site of Rowland Mahone's plantation
house site, the church site is on the north side of
the Alabama Road Rowland Mahone died in 1859.

County Line Baptist was constituted March 22, 1831
with twelve members, by a presbytery of three pastors,
the Rev. J. M. Gray, G. B. Waldroup ( my gr gr
grandpapa Green Berry Waldrop) and Hiram Powell.  The
first pastor , elected in March 1831, to serve for a
year, was Hiram Powell.

The Church was a member of the Columbus Baptist
Association organized in 1829. From the earliest
Minutes of the Association available in research by
the author, those of 1843, he found that deacons of
the Church were John Neal, J. Adams, H. Lee, Nathan
Bussy, S. Brinson , Jesse Carter, Gideon Goodwin and
J. Hays.  Ministers  licensed were Walton Barry, W. R.
Neal and G. W. Epps. Waldon Barry was ordained May 28,
1842.

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