John Andrew-GHM 108-3-Oconee Co
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N 33° 48.033 W 083° 25.589
17S E 275371 N 3742688
129/441 .8 mile S of southern city limit sign of Bishop, Ga.
Waymark Code: WM6RG6
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 07/13/2009
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Just west of this marker is the grave John Andrew who was a Revolutionary War soldier who fought in Georgia and South Carolina and served in the Georgia House of Assembly in 1783. He was a very early native Georgian (some say the first) to become an itinerant Methodist preacher and was the father of Bishop James Osgood Andrew. Bishops James O. Andrew was the focal figure in the split of the Methodist Church and formation of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. This was the site of Mt. Zion Methodist Church/community, ca. 1820 – 1856. John Andrew preached here in the 1820s.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 108-3
Date: 2001
Sponsor: GEORGIA HISTORIC MARKER
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