On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 [email protected] wrote: > Hi List, > > Sorry I am posting so much, but this time I decided to copy and paste > what was on the website since I am having difficulty with the links. This > was posted to the Stroud surname GenForum in May 1999. > > Mark & Martha Strother Thompson Stroud were founding members of the Mars Hill > Baptist Church near Athens, Georgia & are buried there. The church is > celebrating its 200th anniversary on Memorial Day weekend. See the website > for details: http//negia.com/~mhbc/bicentennial.html > You can find this on the Oconee County web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gaoconee/ This is what I got on that last url you sent. Content-type: text/html That message no longer exists. > To honor this event, a history of the church has been written - see below for > details: > > Announcing the 200th anniversary > LIMITED EDITION > HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE OF > MARS HILL BAPTIST CHURCH & COMMUNITY > 1799-1999 > by Amy Warren Sanders > > Available June 1, 1999 > > Representing more than five years of intensive research, this volume gives an > in-depth look at not only the history of this early church, but the people of > the surrounding community as well, for the period of about 1799 through 1900. > It contains nearly 500 pages of surviving church minutes, the complete survey > of the church cemetery (up-to-date as of May 1, 1999), extensive family > lineages, other source material, pictures, maps and a full-name index. > > The community was formed by the families who made up the early members of > Mars Hill Baptist Church which organized on June 1, 1799 in what was at that > time Jackson County, Georgia. This same church is now located within the > boundaries of Oconee County, but had been previously in Clarke County from > 1800 until 1875 when Oconee was formed from the southern portion of Clarke > County. A 200th anniversary celebration will take place at the church over > Memorial Day weekend, 1999. Read more about the Bicentennial on the Mars Hill > Baptist Church website at http//negia.com/~mhbc/bicentennial.html . > > The families living in this community had previously been found in these > Georgia counties: Jackson, Clarke, Wilkes, Oglethorpe, Greene, Elbert, > Madison, Walton, and Morgan. Some descendants remained in Georgia (and are > still members of this church today); others moved westward into Alabama, > Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. Today the founding families of Mars Hill > Baptist Church have descendants all over the United States. > > Included in this volume are the first two Church Minute Books transcriptions, > the earliest existing membership list (1936), the Daniell Ledger and the > Bradberry Almanac (two manuscripts recording deaths in the Mars Hill > Community), census records, estate records, cemetery records, Bible records, > marriage records, and other records. > > Copies are $50 each post paid (GA residents add 7% sales tax). > > Only 500 copies of this limited edition were printed! Order from: > > Family Puzzlers, TNG > 102 Crooked Creek Road > Athens, GA 30607-3607 > > Check out our online catalog for other items of genealogical interest at > http://www.avana.net/~amymws or email Ms. Sanders at [email protected] > > FAMILIES IN THE MARS HILL COMMUNITY include Adams, Alexander, Allen, Anthony, > Arthur, Autry, Bankston, Barber, Battle, Bond, Booth, Bradberry, Brooks, > Browning, Burnett, Butler, Carter, Chanc(e)y, Clarks(t)on, Close, Cobb, > Conner, Cook, Crow, Dailey, Daniell, Davenport, Dicken(s), Doggett, > Doolittle, Dunnahoo/Donahoo, East, Echols, Edwards, Eidson, Epps, Fall, > Fullilove, Gann, Glaze, Glasson, Greer, Griffith/ Griffeth, Grimes/Grimmer, > Gunter. > > Hale, Hamilton, Harper, Harris, Haygood, Haynes, Head, Hendon, Hewell, Hicks, > Hodges, Holden/Holder, Hopkins, Jackson, James, Jeffries, Jennings, Johnson, > Jonas, Jones, Keith, Kenney, Kent, Klutts/Kluttz, Lacy, Langford, Lanier, > Lee, Lester, Lloyd, Locklin, Lovern, Lumpkin, Magness, Manders, Martin, > Maxey, Maxwell, Mayne, McCoy, McCurley, McDaniel, McLeroy, McLocklin, Mell, > Melton, Millican/Milligan, Montgomery, Moore, Morris, Morrison, Nelson, > Norris, Nunnally, Nutt, Osborn(e). > > Parker, Patton, Porter, Poss, Potter, Powell, Ridg(e)way, Roberts, Robison, > Scott, Shaw, Sheats, Sikes, Simonton, Sims, Smith, Sosbee, Southerland, > Spark(s), Spencer, Spinks, Statham, Stephens, Stewart, Stokes, > Straughan/Strawn/ Stranghan, Streetman, Strong, Strother, Stroud, Summers, > Thomas, Thompson, Thornton, Threlkeld, Thurman/ Thurmond, Tiller, Tolbert, > Toole, Traweek, Trewett/Truitt, Tuck, Vincent/Vinson, Weatherford, Wheeler, > Whitehead, Wil(l)son, Winn/Wynn, Wise, Yarbrough, Yates/Yeats; and others. > > > [email protected] David W. Morgan Honolulu Hawaii http://www.rootsweb.com/~okbeckha/coordinate.html http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ok/okfiles.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nm/nmfiles.htm http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~dmorgan/index.html