Taylor - Liberty County GaArchives Church Records.....Taylor's Creek Methodist Church Copyright Date April 12 1891 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00010.html#0002476 June 3, 2004, 10:20 pm The Butler Herald Tuesday, May 12, 1891 Page Three Taylor’s Creek [note: Liberty County] Mr. Editor – Will you allow me a little space in the Wesleyan? Thank you. At the last session of our conference, the old Hinesville circuit was divided, and Taylor’s Creek became a circuit. It has four churches – one Trinity receives only evening and odd Sundays. I think this division was wisely made. On account of poor health, we did not reach the charge till the (article torn) of February. But when we came we were kindly received, and made comfortable. The parsonage has been on the same spot of ground for a long while. Such men as J.J. Giles, J.B. Wardlaw, J.E. Sentelle, J.E. Rorie, J.M. Marshall, J.M. Austin, have served this people. The first church in this county was organized in 1807. James Dorsey and two others made the first society – called Canoochee. Squire Ben Darsey, son of James Darsey, now lives in this county, and is a member of Taylor’s Creek church. He has been tenting at our camp-ground here for sixty years. It was our good fortune to spend a few hours in his hospitable home on yesterday. At leave taking he presented our limited library with “Asbury’s Journal,” in three volumes. We prize these gifts very highly. Squire Darsey has in one volume the conference minutes of the Methodist Church, from 1773 to 1813. But back to the parsonage. Well, last year, or sometime in the past, the preacher went to Hinesville to live and carried the furniture with him; so, when this was made a circuit we must have some furniture. The ladies, with their usual energy, went to work, and the parsonage will soon be provided with new furniture throughout. In this immediate vicinity that is ten miles round, we are all kinfolks. We once heard of a little boy, which affirmed that he saw “ten acres of dogs.” Well sir, we here have ten miles of Martins. It is the biggest, cleverest family I almost ever saw. This part of the circuit will pay nearly or quite as much this year as all of it did last year. The people are responding well to the pastor’s calls. Last Sunday we asked the congregation at Taylor’s Creek for $100, and we got it just easy enough. We are proud of our importance, and we expect to pay every cent of our assessments. If the pastor’s health don’t improve rapidly, some good preacher will be asked to help him conduct his meetings. We find a number of people in the church who have never been converted. Is it not true that some of us preachers strive beyond what is lawful, or at least expedient to swell the roll? I fear. It is said that this county once had two residents who signed the Declaration of Independence. However, they are both dead, healthy as this section is. Through the favor of God in sending him to this mild climate and soft water, the health of the writer has been slowly improving since his arrival here. We hope to do much good here yet, in spite of late start. Let everybody who reads this pray for the health of the writer and the prosperity of his own soul, and the souls of his people. Respectfully, Geo. B. Culpepper ========== Notes: Betty Thompson ESTGen@aol.com a Methodist Church in what was Taylor's Creek. It was known as the Taylor's' Creek Methodist Church. This I copy from the marker located just outside the Cemetery: "Taylor's Creek Methodist Church was organized in 1807 by Rev. Angus McDonald with seven members including James Dorsey, Mrs. James Dorsey and Robert Hendry. A village soon grew up around the church and was for many years was a trading center for the surrounding area. The Taylor's Creek Methodist Church edifice built here in 1841 was in use for 101 years until in 1942 the site was taken over by the United States Government to become a part of the Fort Stewart area." ----------------- Notes: Harris Hill http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002514 Author of the letter to the editor, as he was a brother to the 5th and last wife on my great grandfather, Hamilton Henry Hill. George Bright Culpepper was the son of Dr. James Marion Culpepper, of Taylor County, and Lucinda Brooks O'Daniel. He was the fourth son and the eighth child and baptized at Turner's Chapel. He was a life-long Methodist preacher. Much can be read about his life at the fascinating Culpepper Family website, Culpepper Connections. http://gen.culpepper.com/ss/p33303.htm#i33303 I include a tiny snipit from that website that is pertinent to this issue. This is George Bright Culpepper speaking, reflecting over his life....... ".....At that Annual Conference (in Texas), I asked for a transfer back to Georgia and returned to the South Georgia Conference. That took us to 1891 and we were sent to the Taylor's Creek Circuit in Liberty County, Georgia. At the close of that year I was assigned to the Richland Circuit - composed of the churches at Richland, Weston, Preston and Parrott......." I presume this would indicate that Taylor's Creek was indeed located in Liberty County as Virginia suggested. I would be interested in exchanging information with others that might research the descendants of Dr. James Marion Culpepper, particularly his eldest child, daughter Susan Fitzpatrick Culpepper Watson Hill This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.7 Kb