TWIGGS COUNTY, GA - CHURCHES - Cool Spring Primitive Baptist Church Membership Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: M Sgt Robert K. Nobles., Jr. bnobles@direcway.com Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/twiggs.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm COOL SPRING PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH Cools Springs Church is located on Cool Springs Road, go east on hwy 80 from Jeffersonville after you are in the city limits of Danville it will be the first paved road on your right, then the Church & Cemetery will be on the right about 2 to 4 miles. There is no Book "A" it was lost. So we are missing the Minutes from 1809 to 1833. Doc Arnold who was the Clerk of the Church in the 1970's. Cool Spring Baptist Church as was Constituted. 11 June 1809 in Wilkinson., County., Georgia. List of names of members composing the Cool Spring Church as made out July 20th, 1899 Henry Lamb dead June 12, 1873? 1. Allis Lamb 2. Synthia Rouse dead 3. Effy Maning? dead 4. Mary Grimsly dead *with husband William on 1851 5. Hannah Johnston (Col) dead 6. Jennie ? Brown (Col) 7. Zach? Meredith Excommunicated Aug 1, 1879? 8. William Smith dead 9. Matilda Smith dismissed dead 10. W.T. Howell dead 11. Martha Lamb Expelled (crossed out) ? 12. Caroline Howell dead 13. Martha Jane Nobles 14. Willis ? Nobles 15. Harriet J. Nobles 16. Rebecca Thomson ? 17. D.G. Lamb 18. F.T. Lamb 19. H.C. Lamb 20. Henry Howell 21. S.W. Lamb 22. G.W. English Dismissed by letter Jun 4, 1880 23. Edward Trep (Tress) dead 24. Jackson Nobles 25. Sinate? Arnold 26. Malinda Jartz (Martz?) 27. Franklin Collins Rec by letter 28. Robert Rosar ded 29. Mary Arnold expelled 30. Catherine Arnold *wife of Dock Arnold;d/o Mary & Wm Grimsley 31. Jane J. Lamb dismissed 32. Henry J. Lamb dismissed 33. Iverson Grimsley expelled s/o Mary & Wm Grimsley 34. Alley J. Sanders 35. Marion Collins =================== 36.Eliza ? (? La -- )expelled 37. Sarah Howell dead 38. Elizabth Nobles expelled 39. Charlott Smith dead 40. Dock Arnold Sept 6, 1879 ? (husband of Catherine Grimsley) 41. James Smith Received by letter July 2, 1880 dead 42. R.R. Lamb expelled 43. Jesey (Jesse) S. Carboily expelled 44. H.J. Howell 45. Sarah A. Howell 46. Sarah Ann Howell 47. Nancy Little dead 48. Elizabeth F. Fowler dead 49. Mathew Fowler 50. Pollie Ann Arnold 51. R.C. Nobles 52. W.W. Howell 53. J. Arnold dismissed 54. Edney J. Lynn 55. Mrs. (M ? )Scott 56. Sarah J. Nobles 57. Yader Meredith (crossed through) 58. S.E. Powell dismissed 59. Mrs. (M.?) Arnold 60. Elizabeth Joiner 61. Laura Thomson 62. Amanda Elizabeth Howell dead 63. Benjiman Lamb dead 64. C.F. Powell dismissed 65. Martha Matilsa Horton 66. Margretann Nobles expelled 67. Sally Lou Davis dead 68. J.W. Allen restored 69. Azaid Meridith restored 70 J. Scarbough 71. L.M. Collins 72. J.T. Smith 73. J.R. Lamb 74. J. L. Collins 75. M. (Mrs?) Collins 76. M.L. Lamb 77. W.H. Nobles 78. Sark Barlow 79. Griga E. Thomson 80. J.G. Sanders 81. B.H. Lamb 82. J.L. Allen dismissed 83. Willis Ann Lamb 84. C.P. Everet 85. S.E. Arnold ========= (The) following is a List of the Names of the Mo- ? fellowship at cool Springs as amde out in the year of our Lord 1860 from list of 1851 (?) (Henry) Lamb Allis Lamb Timothy Sears Syntha Rouse (?)incy Davidson Allen Davidson (dead) Peter F.A. Smith (?carried) Hannah (of?) Lambe Axy Pope expelled Jane Allen dead Mary Perkins William Nobles Meedy Lamb Elizabeth Lamb Harriet of J. Allen (carried) ?evig of Brown ?tty Manning ?eccsa English ? English William Hasking ? is of Meridith ? of Meridith ? of Rickus Elizabeth Metwin expelled (Methvin) Charlotty Smith Sarah Ann Melvin ? (Sarah Ann Sears Methvin. Daughter of Timothy & Jennie White Sears and wife of Samuel Ross (Rafe) Sears. MKGG@aol.com ?ight Howell ============== Lydia Smith Smytha Pickerson Jim of Theophilus D. Booth Mary Ann Scarborough Nelly of Theophilus D. Boothe Leah of do do (Theophilus D. Boothe) Elenor T. Scarborough (? dismissed) William Grimsley Mary Grimsley Mrs. Nancy Haskins Mrs. Elizabeth Odom Mrs. Mary Benford (dismissed) *see note below Richmond Lamb Miss Elizabeth Bush NOTES: William was married to a Mary.She was alive in 1880 living with Dock and Catherine Arnold. Iverson Grimsley was their son. Also Catherine Arnold was their daughter and wife of Dock Arnold.Dock has a Confederate marker at Cool Springs but no dates. Iverson's wife is Marthy, buried at Cool Springs Cemetery. Iverson probably is too but it is unmarked.I have been to Cool Springs and can get there fine but the roads from here are just back country roads so I can't give directions. I will see what I can find out. I think I know who the preacher is. Will let you know. Betty Notes: Max Smith" I was excited to see my great grandmother listed on this list as "Mrs. Mary Benford (dismissed)." Although I wonder why she was dismissed. She was Mrs. Robert Meroland (Maryland) Benford. I believe she might have been a Bloodworth before marriage. I also think she is buried in an unmarked grave in the Mt Carmel Baptist Church cemetery. There is a Benford monument there with 4 associated graves. I think that she and her husband are buried there. You never know what is going to turn up on one of these lists. ================== Lindy Hard shared this on the GEORGIA-L list....so wanted everyone on this list to see it as well: Source: "History of the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Association (of Georgia) 1814-1964; Jones 1965. p19 "The churches of the Ebenezer Baptist Association first met at Cool Springs Meetinghouse (now anti-missionary or Primitive Baptist) Wilkinson County, Georgia (hence removed to Twiggs County, Georgia) on Saturday before the first Sabbath in March, 1814 for the purpose of organizing the Baptist churches lying in the forks of the Oconee and Ocmulge Rivers into a Baptist Association." ... "first regular Association session was held at Mount Moriah Meetinhouse in Twiggs county August 1814... Churches dismissed from the Hephzibah Association to form the Ebenezer Associations were: Rocky Creek, Laurens County, Whitehead's Meetinghouse, Laurens County; Big Sandy, Wilkinson county; Cool Springs, Wilkinson County; Poplar Springs, Laurens County; Sugar Creek, Pulaski County; and Mount Horeb, Pulaski County... " [other churches were dismissed from the Ocmulgee Association to join the Ebenezer Association]... "First District- Richland Creek, Mount Moriah, Trail Branch, and Cool Springs..." Source: History of The Ebenezer Associaiton of Missionary Baptists in Middle Georgia, Walter M Lee, [date unknown] p4 "Rev. David Smith was pastor at Ramah in 1835. He was a member of Cool Springs for a long time. He was quite an able preacher, having several churches in the association"... p5... "The division of the missionaries and the anti-missionaries occurred at Bethsheba church in Twiggs County, Sept. 24th, 1836" Source: History of Wilkinson County [Georgia], Davidson 1930, reprinted 1997 p379 RE: 24th session of the Ebenezer Association held at Beersheba, Twiggs County Sept 24 1836... "the delegates of seven churches left the house... Cool Springs"... I suppose it was after this 1836 date that Cool Springs became Primitive Baptist.