TALBOT COUNTY, GA - Union Primitive Baptist Church

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"A few names of the Baptist order in the Settlement of
"Little Lazurer Creek, "including Seaborn and Malinda
Webster, were  among the thirteen members meeing wit
the Presbytery, the Rev. Hiram Powell and G, B.
Waldroup my gr gr grandpapa Green Berry Waldrop", to
constitute Union Primitive Baptist Church on April,
1831.

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Settlement for Little Lazuer Creek.

Including  Seaborn and Malinda Webster, were among the
thirteen members meeting with the   Presbyters, the
Rev. Hiram Powell and G. B. Waldrop ( Green Berry) ,
to constitute Union Primitive Baptist, Church on April
1, 1831.

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Mercer 
University's Baptist Archives (Macon)  have  minutes
from 1831-1879 on microfilm.  It can be borrowed on
interlibrary loan (Microfilm #387).  

Also available through LDS Family History Centers FHL
US/CAN Film 249476 Item 3 

Original Location: 5 miles northeast of Talbotton
(no longer in existence)

Organized on April 1, 1831

"A Record of the Union Church Georgia, Talbot County.
Whereas a few names of the Baptist Order in the
Settlement of little Lazar Creek met agreeable to a
previous appointment for the purpose of being
constituted a church, and we as a Presbytery sent for
some clothed with Church Authroity and after examining
them found them orthodox in the faith and constituted
them on the first day of April 1831 into a Church at a
Meeting House called Union Church."
Presbyters - Hiram Powell and G.B. Waldroup

Original members:
Males: 
Levi L. Walker
Hardy Wheelus
Matthew Clements
James G. Walker
Thomas Sanders
Seaborn Webster

Females:
Elizabeth Walker
Sally N. Clements
Elizabeth Corley
Nancy Bush
Frances Wheelus
Martha Sanders
Malinda Webster

James Perryman, clerk protem
The Church met "Friday before the 3rd Sabbath in April,
1831" and elected Matthew Clements as Church Clerk.

Elizabeth Maxwell received by letter
"received Betsy, a woman of color, the property of Samuel Holley, by letter"

May 1831. David Corley received by baptism
June 1831 Ordination of Deacons
Hardy Wheelus and Levi L. Walker

Other members added included:
Joseph Davis
John Lawson
Margaret Ingram
William Turner
John Turner
Jacob and Nancy Carreker
Benson Maxwell
Daniel Griffin
Thomas M. Stinson
James and Lucy Barrow
Benjamin and Rhoda Bivins
William Howell
Stephen and Elizabeth Lunsford
James Veasey
Seaborn Thomas
Jacob Williams
Amanda Trice
William Fleming
Reuben Maxwell
James Powell
Nancy Thornton
Mary Phillips
John Ferguson

In 1854 pastor John Harris was moderator and James M. Stinson Clerk.

There was a Land, pg 150-151