Towns County GaArchives Biographies.....Corn, Adam 1783 - 
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Author: John Corn
Adam was one of the first, if not the first, Baptist ministers in the
environs of present Towns County. He was the oldest of 15 children from the
family of John Peter and Elizabeth Parr Corn, a family noted for its many
great Baptist ministers.        
     Adam was born May 2 ,1783 in Albemarle Co., VA. Adam moved with his
family from Virginia to Surry County, NC in 1794. Later the family moved to
Wilkes County, NC and some six years later to Buncombe Co. (present
Henderson Co.), NC where his parents lived until their deaths.
     Hannah Heatherly, the wife whom Adam met in Buncombe County, was born
in Pendelton District, SC about 1791, the daughter of John Heatherly and
grandaughter of George Heatherly. Hannah and Adam married sometime prior to
1810,  for they were living near her parents in that census year.
     The Lord called Adam into ministry in 1812. He was ordained in
September of that year at Mud Creek Baptist Church in Henderson County, NC.
This church was organized by Adam's brother, Elder Noah Parr Corn, and
members of the French Broad Church in 1804. Deacons of the church were John
Heatherly, Solomon Heatherly, and Matthew Capps (the latter 2 married Adam's
sisters).
    The young minister and his family moved to the Cullowhee Community in
present Jackson County, NC for their eldest son John was born there in 1813.
Adam took an active part early in his ministry preaching to the Indians and
organizing churches for Indians and pioneers. He and Humphrey Posey
organized the Locust Field Church (what is today the First Baptist Church)
in Canton, NC. This was the first church to be organized west of the French
Broad River. August 1,1823 saw Adam Corn along with H.Posey and Joseph Byers
forming a presbytery to organize the Waynesville Baptist Church (today is
the First Baptist Church of Waynesville, NC). 1829 finds Adam Corn as first
moderator at the founding of the Tuckaseegee Baptist Association in the
Cullowhee Baptist Church. Also in 1829, Adam Corn and Humphrey Posey founded
Mount Zion at the Arneechee ford of the Ocona Lufty, and this was the first
church in the Tennessee River Baptist Association. This church divided by
1836,  Adam Corn having a part in the founding of the Lufty church on June 6
of that year.                        
      The Corn family moved to Union County, Georgia prior to 1839.  Adam
Corn is involved in the organization of Macedonia Church and Brasstown
Church. He was a prominent figure in the early church at Old Union in Young
Harris. He baptized his two sons John and Alfred in the Hiawassee River and
into the membership of Macedonia in 1841.
     Bell Creek community became the home of Elder Corn. His address was
Shady Grove and he served as a delegate from the Hiawassee Church at the
Hiawassee Baptist Association. His son John was first moderator for this
Association in 1849.  Adam's registered ear mark for stock was a smooth crop
of the left ear and a swallow fork in the right ear,recorded in 1857.
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     Shoal Creek Baptist Church, which traces its roots back to the July 26,
1828, founding of Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church at Yellow Hill in what
is now Cherokee and what was then part of Haywood County. (Cullowhee
Baptist, founded in 1821, is Jackson County's oldest Baptist church.) 
     With 43 original members, the church was constituted by a presbytery of
three men: Humphrey Posey, Stephen White and the Rev. Adam Corn.
     Mt. Zion divided in 1836, splitting into the Oconalufty and Shoal Creek
churches, with Shoal Creek retaining the records.

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