Talbot County  Georgia Church Methodist Episcopal

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Collingsworth Chapel Area - Menifee's meeting house 

This is one of the oldest churches in the county--
Redbone (Military District) near Ypsilanti GMD 876.

George Minifee's home was first used as a meeting place
for Methodist settlers around 1830. George Minifee was
a Rev Soldier (serving with GA Military) and died in
1837.

"A year or two later a log cabin was built a few
hundred yards west of his home in which the
congregation worshipped--it was called "Minifee's
Meeting House".

"In 1834 a frame church was built about two miles east
of the old meeting house....This building was called
Collinsworth Chapel in honor of Rev. John Collinsworth,
whom some of the members had known and loved in the
older section of Georgia."


Talbot Deed Book C
pg 89-90
29 July 1833
Mosey Boynton (Marion) to Thomas Callier, John N. Birch,
Richard Menifee, Isaac Copeland, Abner Woodall, Lewis
Wimberly, James J. Took (acting as committee of Methodist
Episopal Church
$150  23rd Dis LL185
Wit Wm V. Collier, John Holland
Recorded 17th Sept 1833

Talbot Deed Bk C
pg 301
7 June 1832  Habersham Co
William R. Anderson to George Menifee (Talbot)
$100 23rd dis LL262
Wit: Barley C. Duke, Willis Menifee
Recorded: 22 Sept 1834


Collinsworth Chapel is mentioned in There Was a
Land....and indicates a deed Jan 1, 1837 Robert M.
Smith  23 Dist LL287-288 - 3 acres of land. Land for
Cemetery (1859) from W.C. Tigner 1 1/12 acres.

Another deed (1859( from W.C. Tigner granted the
trustees 1 1/12 acres for a burial ground.
http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/talbot/
cemeteries/collin.txt  Cemetery on-line

Society members: in 1834 George Minifee, Richard
Minifee, William S. Robins, Sarah Robins, James Callier
and wife, Irbane Leonard, Roderick Leonard and Ephraim
Mabrey and wife.


In Vol. 1, A Rockaway In Talbot, by Davidson, pages
321-328 there is a lengthy discussion about
Collinsworth Institute, its beginnings and development.


Page 323

"The new school was named for John Collinsworth, a
Methodist preacher who was a close friend of Josiah
Flournoy.  The Rev. Collinsworth was honored in 1834 by
Methodists in Talbot County who renamed "Menefee's
Meeting House," in Red Bone G.M.D. 876, Collinsworth
Chapel, now Collinsworth United Methodist Church.

The Georgia Annual Conference of the Methodist Church
was vested with control of the school, as shown in
Georgia Laws, 1838".

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pg 93
3 ? 1833
John Robinson to Wyatt Brooks (Harris)
$1000  23 Dis LL130 (reserve of 2 acres where Methodist church now stands on the west line of said l.
Wit Abner Woodall, Bartley Whitehurst JIC
Recorded 18th Sept 1833

Don't know what Methodist Church this one was.

pg 6 Deed Bk D
pg 6
9 Feb 1836
Daniel Owens to Joel J. Bert
$800  23rd Dis LL107
(except two acres where Methodist Church stands)
Wit: Thomas Harris, James L. Burks, JP
Recorded 12 May 1836  - Frederick A. Bailey, Ck
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