Ruth helped me out with these churches in the Pleasant Hill area. I'm still trying to pinpoint the church that Nathaniel Athon was the pastor of. >From this list, I'm guessing the Providence Methodist Church on Woodland Rd....since Belleview is south of Woodland. Does anyone have any info on this church....history or list of pastors?? Thanks for checking your materials. >From: "Neil & Ruth Jaeger" <[email protected]> >Don't know if this will help since it's at a later time, but in Nelson >Goolsby's book HISTORY OF PLEASANT HILL, TALBOT COUNTY, GEORGIA, pg. 5, he >says: "In 1892, four churches were active in the Pleasant Hill area: Ephesus Primitive Baptist Church, 1/2 mile from Pleasant Hill on the Valley Road; Concord Baptist Church, on the Thomaston Road just beyond the Jeff Daniel >home Providence Methodist Church on the Woodland Road near the Dixie Harris >home Pleasant Hill Methodist Church, near the John H. Ferguson home." > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Crilley [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 2:40 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [GATALBOT] Rev. Nathaniel Athon > > >Thanks to all of you who helped me out with Nathaniel Athon. This is a >summary from several of you, and especially Lynda and Linda! > >I have concluded (from this) that he was perhaps in BOTH the Pleasant Hill >and Belleview area at various times.....but primarily the Blacksmith Shop >would locate him in Belleview. > >Which brings up this question? What can you help me find out about >Belleview. I know that it is south of Woodland....and that Woodland wasn't >formed until 1900. > >And WHAT Methodist Church would have been in either Belleview or Pleasant >Hill that Nathaniel Athon would have been the pastor for?? If anyone can >discover this, it will help. > >I'd like to create a special Bios page for Ministers....as I think this is >a BIG clue as to the part of the county the couple being married lived. So >keep in mind any ministers of any denomination that you come across. > > >Nathaniel Athon >Davidson - Rockaway Volumes > > Volume 1 pages 404: > "Beyond the >McDowell store, and a little farther back from the highway, stood the >blacksmith shop of Nathaniel Athon in 1850, and earlier. Work >continued there 30 or 40 years longer. The services of a blacksmith were >often needed by farmers..." >" > > >Page 410: "Athons and Crittendens were near neighbors in Baldwin Co., GA. >Nathaniel Athon accompanied the Crittendens to Talbot Co. in 1825 and >settled >at Belleview. In the 1830 census, Nathaniel Athon was between 20 and 30 >years of age, and his wife 15 to 20. Their one child, female was of age 5 >to >10. They owned one slave. In 1840, he owned 4 slaves." > >"Nathaniel Athon was a blacksmith by trade, the first in Belleview. A >native >of North Carolina, he was 43 in 1850.... The 1860 census shows Nathaniel >Athon a blacksmith and Methodist preacher with $2,200 of real estate and >$4,545. of personal estate. He had >sold his place in Land Lot No. 42 and at that time lived in the Pleasant >Hill District." > >Pg 424 >[in a section on Crittenden Lands] >"...William Towns of Belleview, owned Land Lots No 27 and 41, 23rd Land >District. He sold this property to Robert G. Crittenden by an indenture >dated April 8, 1837. The place adjoined lands of Peter F. Mahone and >Nathaniel Athon..." > >[Belleview is north from Talbotton on Highway 41 --just south of Woodland.] > >Pg 425 >[in a section on Gifts of Love] >"...Nathaniel Athon, who brought his family to Talbot County when the >Crittendens came, and was a kinsman, sold Cincinnatus D. Crittenden the >south half of Land Lot No. 42, 23rd Land District, on May 21, 1841 for >$400.00. Hartwell Harrison was one of the witnesses to the instrument. >Athon was a blacksmith and ironworker..." > >Pg. 564 >[in a section on David Bryan Plantation] >"...Cincinnatus D. Crittenden, of Talbot County, sold his plantation of >about 600 acres to Bryan on February 12, 1844, for $2,175. The conveyance >consisted of the north half of Land Lot No. 25, all of No. 26 except small >parcels owned by J. D. Brooks, one acre; Peter F. Mahone, two acres; James >M. Davis, one half acre; also, the south half of Land Lot No. 42, whereon >Nathaniel Athon then lived..." > > >In Volume 4 > Rev. Nathaniel Athon on >pages 82, 83, and 128 as performing marriage rites for local residents. > >Lynda [email protected] >"Linda Gullette Hudson" <[email protected]> > > >Virginia > > >==== GATALBOT Mailing List ==== >Be sure to visit the Talbot GAGenWeb Archives >http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/talbot.htm > > > > Virginia