http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/twiggs/churches/coolspring2.htm and http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/twiggs/churches/coolspring.htm (image) Transcribed membership http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/twiggs/churches/coolspring.txt We're getting some pieces of the history of this church in --- and it has been located in several different places.... Please if you have any information on any of these members --- let us know.We're also working on getting the Cemetery transcribed. It is a large one! This is one of the churches involved in the "split" --- Primitive and Missionary Baptist churches Lindy Hard shared this on the GEORGIA-L list....so wanted everyone on this list to see it as well: Source: "History of the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Association (of Georgia) 1814-1964; Jones 1965. p19 "The churches of the Ebenezer Baptist Association first met at Cool Springs Meetinghouse (now anti-missionary or Primitive Baptist) Wilkinson County, Georgia (hence removed to Twiggs County, Georgia) on Saturday before the first Sabbath in March, 1814 for the purpose of organizing the Baptist churches lying in the forks of the Oconee and Ocmulge Rivers into a Baptist Association." ... "first regular Association session was held at Mount Moriah Meetinhouse in Twiggs county August 1814... Churches dismissed from the Hephzibah Association to form the Ebenezer Associations were: Rocky Creek, Laurens County, Whitehead's Meetinghouse, Laurens County; Big Sandy, Wilkinson county; Cool Springs, Wilkinson County; Poplar Springs, Laurens County; Sugar Creek, Pulaski County; and Mount Horeb, Pulaski County... " [other churches were dismissed from the Ocmulgee Association to join the Ebenezer Association] ... "First District- Richland Creek, Mount Moriah, Trail Branch, and Cool Springs..." Source: History of The Ebenezer Associaiton of Missionary Baptists in Middle Georgia, Walter M Lee, [date unknown] p4 "Rev. David Smith was pastor at Ramah in 1835. He was a member of Cool Springs for a long time. He was quite an able preacher, having several churches in the association"... p5... "The division of the missionaries and the anti-missionaries occurred at Bethsheba church in Twiggs County, Sept. 24th, 1836" Source: History of Wilkinson County [Georgia], Davidson 1930, reprinted 1997 p379 RE: 24th session of the Ebenezer Association held at Beersheba, Twiggs County Sept 24 1836... "the delegates of seven churches left the house... Cool Springs"... I suppose it was after this 1836 date that Cool Springs became Primitive Baptist. Virginia Crilley