Yesteryear in Talbot County by Nelson Goolsby July 1928 The following Talbot County boys are attending the Boys Club meeting in Athens: Hugh and Norman Carter, S.N. and Eugene Harris, Jack Maxwell, Rupert Willis, Edwin Wimberly, Adrian Braddy, J. P. Shumate, George Ingram, Ralph Carson and Charlie Mitchell. Mrs. J. W. Slade, Miss Mary Slade, Mr. Thomas Slade, and their guests, Mrs. Will Johnson and Miss Dot Johnson, spent Tuesday in Columbus. Talbot County's oldest resident, Mr. W. C. Jamison, died August 19, 1928. He was 87 years old, a Confederate veteran and is survived by one son and three daughters. Woodland: Miss Inez Mills is visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. Slaughter in Greenville. Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Adams and Sara Frances and Mrs. J. R. Avery visited relatives in Atlanta, Monroe and Athens last week. Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Foster of Arlington, Texas, are visiting relatives in the Woodland area. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Wardsworth of Tazwell, Mrs. Guthrie and Mrs. Tilly from Atlanta, spent Sunday with Miss Bessie Hudson. Rev. Elton Pierce of Savannah has completed a series of services at Olive Branch Methodist Church and added one member, Miss Allene Culpepper. Save your Octagon soap wrappers for the Olive Branch Epworth League. They will be used to buy kitchen equipment for the Orphans Home in Macon. Mr. and Mrs. Kirt Ingram and Miss Eleanor Warmack of Waverly Hall were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. O'Neal sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ellis had as their guests for the weekend, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert of Talbotton. Valley Grove Baptist Church in Woodland is observing its one hundredth anniversary. In 1828, a number of Baptists in North Talbot County, between Oak and Pine Mountain, petitioned for and received a presbytery from the Echocannah Association and Valley Grove was regularly constituted. After being dismissed from the Echocannah Association, they joined the Columbus Association. All records of the church were destroyed by fire in 1912 but it is a known fact that Rev. Andrew Hood was the first pastor. In 1838, Anderson Robertson gave the church four acres of land at Tax, Georgia, and the church had 140 members. Rev. J. C. Kendrick served as pastor in 1842. Rev. Jonathan Harris was pastor from 1851 to 1873. He was succeeded by his son, Rev. J. H. Harris. These men were the ancestors of Dixie Harris of Pleasant Hill. H. H. Hawkins of Roughedge had four fine cows killed by lightening on August 28. They were standing next to a barbed wire fence when lightening struck the fence and then the cows. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hinton McGeehee of Talbotton announce the marriage of their daughter, Virginia Persons to Miller Van Allen of Atlanta. Misses Ida Lee and Mattie Seals Jones returned to their home in Ypsilanti after spending some time with relatives in Woodland, working in peaches. Prof. Grady Watkins of Edmund, Oklahoma is spending his vacation with his mother, Mrs. Molly Watkins. Mr. John Pye Woodall of Jacksonville is spending his vacation with his mother in Woodland, Mrs. D. F. Woodall. One way to make your wife happy is to point out all the women that are fatter than she is. Misses Martha and Elizabeth Parker are the guests of Miss Louise Downs in Talbotton. Mr. G. W. Posey and family are leaving Juniper for Birmingham, Alabama. September 1928 About 1908, Valley Grove Baptist Church at Tax was down to seventeen members. They voted to move the church to Woodland, but keep the Valley Grove name. In April, 1908, the first service was held at the new church. By 1912, the membership had grown to one hundred and two. Ten young men from this church served in World War I: Cline Russell, C. W. Hendricks, Russell Fryer, Robert Fryer, Barney Hawkins, Thomas Conkle, Eric Hawkins, Thompson Ferguson, Zacharia Fryer and Lester Griffin. Mrs. Carrie Benson, the former Miss Carrie Mullins, passed away in Geneva last Thursday. She is survived by a daughter Mrs. J. E. Tilman and two sons, Walter and Henry Benson. Mrs. W. T. Holmes, Sr., of Woodland, died last Thursday.