SARDIS BAPTIST CHURCH MEMBERSHIP, 1860-1874, WINN PARISH, LOUISIANA
Submitted by: Annette (Carpenter) Womack
of Winnfield, Winn Parish, LA
January 1998


Originally printed in the Winn Parish Courier,
October 1984 by Annette (Carpenter) Womack, editor 
  As sent in by Arey Daniels of Lake Charles, LA
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SARDIS BAPTIST CHURCH, near Atlanta, Winn Parish, LA

[This is a partial list of some of the members of the Sardis Baptist Church
of Atlanta, La. starting in 1860 and thru 1874.  Submitted by Arey Daniels of
Lake Charles]


MEN AND BOYS:

D. B.Hogan; Wm. Bazer; Fields Hogan; Benjamin Hogan; James Garrett; Thomas
Garrett; J. P. Swindall; James Hogan; Thomas Bazer; Thomas Richerson; Thomas
Matthis, Samuel Holloway, Stephen Shillings; J. A. Killingsorth, Wm.  Collier;
R. E. Jackson; I. Ingram; J. A. King; John McIlwain, Joseph L. Shelton,
Hamelton Spikes, Thomas Drewett; Samuel Swindall; Hillery Hilburn; James
Durham; Wm.  A. Dove; Samuel Freeman; T. J. Collier, James L. Durham; W. J.
Martian, L. L. Bissett; Thomas Bozeman Durham; John Pryor Durham; G. W.
Daniels; Shelman H. Durham; J. J. Youngblood, L. M. Bridges; J. T. McIlwain,
W. J. Bazer, W. H. Hillburn, A. Collier, John E. Shelton, Frank Fox,  F.
Spikes, J. 0. Young, L. M. Cox.  G. W. McIlwain, T. E. Drewett, Benjamin
Barton, T. E. Barton, Wm.  Kelly, M. R. Kelly (he was my fathers' step-father)
Frank Kelly; Nat Teagle, B. Shelton, John Thompson, Allen Pinkney Durham;
Jacob Shelton, George Richerson, E. Thompson, F. E. Braszell, W. G. Legett,
E. L. Leggett, T. J. Collins, Atlas Martin, W. F. Durham, James W. Shelton,
Thomas Cox, Thomas Barton, J. F. Strahan, W. A. Etheridge, Joseph Abel.


WOMEN AND GIRLS:
Sabra A. McBride, Marinda,Kelly, Virginia Drewett, Catherine Shelton, Mary
Strange, Elizabeth Cox.  Mary Ann Hogan, Mary McDowell, Emily M. Bazer,
Elizabeth Ann Garrett, Sophronia Callahan, Margarette Ezell, Nancy Bazar,
Precilla Bazar, Artilda Shillings, Drucilla Ezell, Mary Killingsworth, Amanda
Richerson, Mary Swindall, Mary Drewett, M. C. Garrett, Mrs. E. R. Pickering,
Mrs. E. R. Ingram, Miss Narcissua Spikes, Mrs. Mary King, Margarette Ann King,
Mrs. Caroline McIlwain, Elizabeth Bagwell, Frances Bazar, Mary E. Garrett,
Matilda Spikes, Catherine Durham, Talitha McIlwain, Catherine Chitwood, Nancy
Dove, Nancy Spikes, Nancy Collier, Polly Ann Durham Daniels (she was the
grandmother to my husband) and her mother, Elizabeth Crawford Davis Durham,
was the sister to my great-grandfather Henry David), Mary Holloway, Sophia
Martin, Sarah Bissett, Marthy Martin, Paralee McIlwain, Docia Hillbun, Redia
King, Adalene Gray, Caroline Kelly, Amy Martin, Marinda Garrett, Elizabeth
Durham, Mary J. Kelly, Mary Chitwood, Elizabeth Spikes, Lavena Kelly, Adaline
Garrett, T. Baily, F.(Frances) Johnson, Sarah Thompson, P.M.L. Breazzell,
Susan Straugn, M. B. Straughin, Lynderah Leggett, Nancy Garrett,  Mary Able,
Alice Virginia Martin, Marinda Garrett, Jemina Porter Durham.

James Garrett was the first Church Clerk and J. T. Bazer the Church Clerk of
the Sardis Baptist Church, afterwards.

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