TAYLOR COUNTY, GA - CHURCHES Union Baptist Church (previously Ariel Baptist Church)

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Union Baptist Church

(From  History of Reynolds, Georgia  ...compiled by Reynolds Woman's Club)
The congregation constituting the Union Baptist Church
had its beginning on May 12, 1832 when four men and
five women constituted themselves into a Primitive
Doctrine Baptist Church. This church was located about
eight miles Northwest of Reynolds at Ariel in Crawford
County which at that time included part of what is now
Taylor County. Names of those signing the covenant in
1832 were Luke Brown, Allen Jones, Abe(l) Windham , H.
Pinkston, Delilah Brown, Sarah Jones, Mary Wells,
Frances Halls, and Penellopy Smith.

Services were held on Saturday and Sunday, usually the
fourth.  A few members were added each year, some by
baptism and some by letter, from other Baptist
churches.  Among these new members were some slaves.
Trial and dismissal of members on various charges was
not an infrequent occurrence.  Thus in 1837, the
church clerk introduced a motion to establish a Sunday
School and was promptly expelled by a unanimous vote.

In 1845, for reasons not explained, the membership of
the church at Ariel moved to a site on the Corbin
place, about 4 miles Southeast of Reynolds in Macon
County.  The Macon County church was named Union.
Services were held here regularly until the outbreak
of the War Between the States and intermittently
during the 1860's.


Bro. J.C.R. Lockhard	1845
Bro. Hiram Powell	1849

Dec 4, 1870 Macon County

This is to certify that we the undersigned members of
Union Church present ourselves as a body to you for
acceptance into your Christian care and fellowship.
G.T. Wilburn, Moderator A.A. Carson, Clerk

List of Members

H.L. Corbin (Henry)
Mrs. Minnie Farmer (daughter of Melissa & James A. Carson)
Mrs. McClenahan
Mrs. Lockett
H.T. Jordan (Henry)
S.I. Jordan (Sara Isabella)
J.P. Carson (Joseph Perryman Carson)
Mrs. C.K. Carson (Charlotte Briggs Carson)

Mrs. S. S. Carson (Susan Saphronia, wife of Maj John T. Carson)
(see additional notes below)

Mres. Melissa Carson (Melissa Bryan, wife of James A Carson)
A.A. Carson (Albert Alphonzo)
Miss M.E. Carson
(see additional notes below)

G.R. Briggs
F.M. Bryan (Francis Marion Bryan)
Mrs. A.E. Bryan (Anne Elizabeth Carson, wife of F.M. Bryan)
Mrs. Elizabeth Hicks (Wife of Jones Hicks)
Miss Kate Hicks (her daughter)
Miss Charity Mitchell
Mrs. Rete Hicks (Mary Carson, wife of A.W. Hicks)
Dr. G.A. Nesbitt
Mrs. Wash Frazier
Mrs. Vick James
Miss Perry Amerson
Miss Frances Amerson
Cicero Newsom
Miss Julia Morris
Mrs. Arrington (Mother of Mrs. E.D. Hicks)
Mrs. E.D. Hicks (Julia Arrington, wife of Edward Dickson Hicks)
Mrs. Elly Amerson
Mrs. Luke Merritt
Rebecca Capel
Mr. Davis
Croft Goodwin
Mrs. Goodwin
Miss Lucy McNeil
A.P. Cochran
Miss Betty Amerson
Miss Martha Mathis
J.I. Briggs
Miss Nancy Blackmon


Gerry Hill (gerryinga@isoa.net) provides this info:
Mrs. S. S. Carson (Susan Saphronia, wife of Maj John T. Carson)
She married Carson 1  Feb 1847 Crawford Co. Ga.
(SS Howe & JT Carson had 5 children.

AA born 28 Mar 1849
Robert Alston 18 Jan 1853
Marcia Elbertine 15 Dec 1854
Martha Adelia "Mattie" 5 Jan 1857
Tullulah Caroline "Lulu" 13 Dec 1858
John Thomas 29 Dec 1861