WILKINSON COUNTY  GA  Big Sandy Missionary Baptist Church

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BIG SANDY MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
According to the membership roll it was organized in 1809.  Male members who 
constituted the church were Elijah  Hammack, a minister,   Jesse Pierce, wife 
Winnie Lee, Moses Justice, wife Sallie Goodson, Richrad Smith  (this may have 
been Richard Williams), Daniel Hooks, George Martin and Thomas Hughs.

Women who helped in the organization were:   Alcy  Hammack, wife of the 
minister, Elizabeth Pierce, a widow, nee Roberts,   Clarissa Williams, Agnes 
Smith, widow or wife of James, perhaps nee  Culpepper, Elizabeth Keel, Rchael 
Hooks, wife of Daniel, and Elvina  Hughs.

Following athe dispute over the Missions and Reforms, many of its members 
went over to the Pleasant Plains and Mount Olive Churches and possibly othe 
Primitive Baptist Churches.

Big Sandy has remained in the Missionary Baptist Association and is located 
in the south prtion of the county in a populous community.  It is active 
today. (1978)

Members from 1810  to 1861 were:  (many members withdrew especially in the 
1830's at which time there was a movement of people migration to states west 
of Georgia, especially Texas).

Elizabeth Ard      (wife of Thomas Ard)
Allen Ashley       (wife Martha Smith)
J. M. Barge
Mary A. Belleflower    (widow of John Belleflower)
James R. Billue     (wife Elizabeth Fordham)
Malinda A. Bland
Robert Bland
William N. Bowen  (wife Nancy DuPree)
Elijah Brack
George Brack         (wife Didemma Cannon Mason)
John M. Brack
Sarah Brack            (married Edmund Taylor)
Susannah Brown
G. M. Broxton
Hiram Broxton
Sarah Broxton
William B. Bryant
Annie Buckles
Samuel Payne         (wife Arg Beall)
Sarah Payne
William Payne, minister
Henry Pickles         (wife Sarah Goodman)
Dorinda Pierce
Frances Pierce
Thomas Pierce
W. W. Pierce
N. D. Pope
Ambrose Porter       (wife Emily Summerford)
Charles Porter
Joseph Porter           (wife Rose Taliaferro)
Richard Porter         (wives Winnie and Lavenia Davidson)
John Powell
Cader Price
Nancy Price
Mary Purvis
Peggy Purvis
Alexander Rawls    (wife Mary DuPree)
O.H.P. Rawls          (wife Martha Fordham)
Samuel Rigdon
Elizabeth Rogers    (widow)
Elizabeth Rye
Amos Sanders
Elijah Shivers
Mary Smith
Rebecca Spears
Leah Stanley           (married Joshua West and James Cannon)
Rebecca Stokes       (wife of William Stokes)
Mary Stuckey            (wife of Starling Stuckey)
Phoebe Sutton,        ( nee Powell ,  wife of Absolom Sutton
Trussy Sutton
Stephen Sutton
B. Ira Taylor
Edmund Taylor      (wife Sarah Brack)
Elizabeth Taylor
John Taylor
Seaborn Taylor        (wife Susan Metts)
Hannah Tharpe
Charnac Tharpe       (minister)
Lucy Tharpe
Risdon Tharpe
Elijah Thompson
James Thompson
Martha Urly
Thomas Urly
Levu Ussery
Martha Vann
Mary Vann
Thomas Vann        (2nd wife Harriett Lee)
Joshua Walker       (wife Elsy DuPree)
Mary Ward
Roland Williams
S.P. Williams
Sarah Williams
Susannah Williams
Margaret Willis


WILKINSON COUNTY EARLY ABSTRACTS
PART  2
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