Gale - I saw the following today while following a Shirley connection: Shoal Creek Baptist Church is the oldest church in Hart Co. GA, being organized before 1798. The name SHIRLEY is listed among the names of those who formerly composted the membership. Unfortunately, the church burned down to the ground in the 1980's. They were unable to save anything but the bricks that were around the name plate. The bricks were given to the church members to remember the old building. ==================================================================== . You might want to look at this site: http://www.shirleyassociation.com/hart_co_ga.htm That's where this information came from. I'm looking for burial place of Jonathan Pearman and his family. Jonathan's mother was a Shirley. Of particular interest is his daughter Letitia Amanda Pearman, who married John Guest and went back home to live in the Johathan Pearman household (in Hart County - Shoal Creek area) after her husband John died in Civil War. Letty Amanda and her young son William are on the 1870 Hart County census living with Jonathan, but she disappears after that....probably buried in the Shoal Creek area, but I've not been able to verify this. Please keep me in mind if you see anything on this line. Thanks, Marian Guest Pfenning ----- Original Message ----- From: Gale Sanders <lgalesanders@hotmail.com> To: <GAFRANKL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 2:42 PM Subject: [GAFRANKL] Earliest Churches > > First of all, I am sending this query to several lists. I apologize now > for any inconvenience you may have due to the fact that you are on several > mailing lists and get duplicates of the following. > > Secondly, I need some help. > > I need to know the earliest churches that were in the WILKES CO, FRANKLIN > CO, ELBERT CO, and HART CO, GEORGIA. If you know the names but nothing > else, please let me know. If you only know the churches for one area, > please feel free to email me. My goal is to get the names and to find when > each of them came into exsistance. > > I am talking about the very first churches in each of these counties. Maybe > some historians are reading this, and I would love to hear from you. If you > know of some reference books with this information, I would like to know > that also. Thanks so much. > > Gale Sanders > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com >