-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [ALBLOUNT-L] Methodist Records Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 17:52:19 -0400 From: "Marie Burt" <mariesfamily@bellsouth.net> To: "Terry Jackson" <jacksont@otelco.net> References: <44AF10C3.9040604@otelco.net> I too would be interested in any of the following names included in the book. AMason, Amerson and Devaney. Thanks, Marie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Jackson" To: Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 9:56 PM Subject: Re: [ALBLOUNT-L] Methodist Records > Charles > This is great information! This is why I stay subscribed to the list. I > love when folks share. > > I recognize the location for Shiloh. The cemetery is still there. There is > a church across the road known as Poplar Springs. Someone has taken on the > task of converting it to a private residence within the last couple of > years. > > I believe Clear Springs is still an active congregation. Beautiful little > church. > > But I'm curious if anyone knows of a location for the Ebenezer Church in > the Rosa/Cleveland area. Currently, Dailey's Chapel, Easley, Concord, and > Rosa come to mind. Robin Sterling indexes an Ebenezer Methodist Church in > Snead. Right name, right denomination, wrong location. > > Terry > > > Charles Blakley wrote: > >> >> Terry, I'm confident that Frieda is seeking information from the book, >> "History of Methodism in Alabama and West Florida", by Marion Elias >> Lazenby. This book has a copyright date of 1960 by the North Alabama >> Conference and Alabama-West Florida Conference of The Methodist Church. >> The book is indexed. I have a copy of the book. >> >> It talks about Tuscaloosa Circuit "The circuit extended far up into >> Blount County. One of the first Blount County churches was Ebenezer, >> organized 1820 in the home of Aaron Murphree, about fifteen miles >> southeast of Blountsville and not far from Rosa near Cleveland. Two local >> preachers, Peter Foust and Wm. McDonald, were active in this church. >> Among its members who entered the itinerancy were Jesse Ellis and John >> Foust. William Foust, David Foust, Daniel Easley and Cumming Hallmark >> were local preachers." >> >> "Farther down Murphree's Valley was Shiloh, organized in 1820 at or near >> Chepultepec (now Allgood), in Blount County. (A church at Inland, about >> five miles west of Allgood, was organized very early also; says Will F. >> Franke, "Rev. James Blackburn and son Joel settled not later than 1817 on >> the Blackburn Prong of the Warrior, and built a log cabin church before >> the advent of Ebenezer Hearn, and deeded same to the Methodists about >> 1822, which is now Clear Springs Methodist Church") >> >> >> Charles Blakley (My ancestors included Celia Murphree, widow of James >> Daniel Blakley, who m. Rev. William S. Foust following Blakley's death in >> 1846, and James and Joel Blackburn, above) >> >> >> >> Terry Jackson wrote: >> >>> Freida, >>> Here's a book by the correct name but has a different author. Do you >>> think this would be the book you're interested in? >>> >>> "A history of Methodism in Alabama" >> >> >>> >>> >>> Frieda wrote: >>> >>>> I understand the the "HISTORY OF METHODISM" by Marion E. Lazenby has a >>>> lot Alabama Methodist History. Since some of my Relatives where very >>>> active in the Methodist Church in Blount Co. and Jefferson Co., >>>> Alabama, I would appriciate if someone would look up some names and >>>> some information for me. Thank you and Hugs, >>>> Frieda Glenn Bennett >>>> Amason, Amerson, Brindley, Calvert, Clark, Easley, Franklin, Glenn, >>>> Hallmark, Lewellen, Mc Donald, Moore, Murphree and allied families. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > ______________________________