Wesleyanna Memorial Church-WMC-Screven Co
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N 32° 46.215 W 081° 34.341
17S E 446394 N 3625962
East of Sylvania on road to Brier Creek battlefield
Waymark Code: WM7WT7
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 12/14/2009
Views: 3
Organized 1868 under bush arbor on Stephen D. Lewis farm by Elder Theo. A. Pharr, John Hardy Bolton, Julia Wells Bolton, Stephen D. Lewis, Martha Howard Lewis, Paul Jenkins, Temperance Jenkins, Fulton L. Oglesby, Mary Bolton Oglesby and others on land given by Alexander James Wells and Isaac Thomas Bazemore. Original Trustees: John W. Boston, James Allen Bazemore, Green Berry Waters, Alexander James Wells and Abisha Humphrey Bazemore. Among early preachers: John Jenkins, W.D. Smith, Abisha Humphrey Bazemore, A.F. Ellington, Emory F. Dean, Jacob Perry Bazemore, David Matthews Bazemore, A.M. Johnson and John W. Roach.
June, 1957, church and cemetery set aside as perpetual memorial to founders by deed from Methodist Conference to Trustees, all of whom are descendants: Dora Bazemore Brooker, E. Lampkin Bazemore, I. Thomas Sanders, James Eugene Bazemore, Charles Thurman Hopkins, Sr., Lilla Sanders Smith, John w. Gross, Palmer A. Bazemore and Bertha Hoffman.
WESLEYANNA MEMORIAL CHURCH
1963
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: None
Date: 1963
Sponsor: WESLEYANNA MEMORIAL CHURCH
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