For a truly enjoyable few hours <Very Big Grin> Go to 1999 and type in Church, or Burying Grounds, or Church Minutes and see the wonderful info so generously shared by GAWARE List Members. To Search the GAWARE Archives: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/GA/ware.html ========================================== Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 11:20:23 EDT From: <Connie2127@aol.com> Subject: Re: [GAWARE-L] NAME SEARCH Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit THE HISTORY OF THE SATILLA BRANCH NOW THE UTAH BRANCH SOME OF THE FIRST MEETINGS WERE HELD AT THE SCHOOL HOUSE SOUTH OF MC DONALD,NEAR MILLWOOD. AT HOMES OF, LITTLE JIM WHITE, CALVIN WILLIAMS, WILLIAM HERRIN , BILL GRIFFIS, NEAR PEARSON THEY HELD MEETINGS AT THE HOMES OF, DAN LOTT JOE ADAMS, LATER BOTH FAMILIES JOINED THE CHURCH AND MOVED NEAR DOUGLAS. MEETINGS WERE ALSO HELD AT THE HOMES OF BABE CARVER STEVE MURRAY. CALVIN W. WILLIAMS JAMES HIGGS, WALT WHITE, JOHN ARNOLD. THE NAMES OF THE FIRST SIX OF THOSE JOINING THE CHURCH WERE, IRVIN SPIVY AND HIS WIFE LAURA MORNING DAVIS SARAH WIFE OF ALLEN WILLIAMS CALVIN W WILLIAMS AND WIFE SARAHAN, ON MAY THE 19th SAME YEAR AMANDA WALL, WIFE OF JESSE M WALL EMMA JILLEN. ON AUG 5tH SAME YEAR, ELIZABETH NETTLES. ON SEPT.9th MILLIE BOWEN DIANAH SHAD OCT.21st JOHN BENNETT DEC 27tH OLIVE GRIFFIS WIFE OF WILLIAM GRIFFIS ETTIE WILLIAMS WERE ALL BAPTIZED. THE FIRST SUNDAY SCHOOL WAS ORGANIZED AT THE HOME OF JAMES WHITE WITH THE FOLLOWING OFFICERS. BENJ.IRVIN SPIVEY, SUPT. CALVIN W WILLIAMS, ASST SUPT.SECTY. JESSE M.WALL. AMANDA M.WALLS SARAH ANN WILLIAMS TEACHERS. THE FIRST SUNDAY SCHOOL HELD WAS ON, NOV.18tH 1900. SINCE THERE WAS NOT A CHURCH AT THE TIME, THE SUNDAY SCHOOL WAS HELD AT DIFFERENT HOMES. IN 1900 CALVIN W.WILLIAMS DEEDED TO THE CHURCH, 2 ACRES OF LAND, ONE TO BE USED FOR A CEMETARY AND ONE FOR A CHURCH.(LITTLE UTAH) THE SAME YEAR A FEW OF THE MEMBERS GOT TOGETHER AND BUILT A CHURCH OUT OF ROUGH LUMBER. THE FIRST PERSON TO BE BURIED IN THE CEMETARY WAS ALLEN R. WILLIAMS. FATHER OF CALVIN W.WILLIAMS. NAMES IN RECORDS(NOT ALL WERE BAPTIZED, BUT NAMED IN FILES, AND MOST RECORDS ARE IN THE PAF FILES AT THE FAMILY HISTORY CENTER. BENJ.IRVIN SPIVEY CALVIN C WILLIAM JESSE M WALL J.G.W. WHITE PEARL WILLIAMS THE SATILLA BRANCH 1902 1979 LITTLE UTAH CHURCH AND CEMETERY. AXSON, ATKINSON CO. GEORGIA. SIGN ERECTED IN 1995 AT THE UTAH CEMETERY IN AXSON GEORGIA. THIS BUILDING WAS REMODELED SEVERAL TIME ADDING ELECTRIC LIGHTS, GAS HEATING,INDOOR PLUMBING. IT BECAME A LANDMARK OF PRIDE TO THE COMMUNITY. THE OFFICIAL NAME OF THE CHURCH WAS ASATILLA BRANCH OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS.@ IT WAS USED FOR CHURCH SERVICES, WEDDINGS, PARTIES, FUNERALS, OUTDOORS DINNERS, & RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES. THE BUILDING WAS SOLD AND MOVED AWAY IN 1979. AND A NEW CHAPEL BUILT IN PEARSON GEORGIA.THE FIRST PERSON TO BE BURIED IN THE CEMETERY WAS A MAY THIS SPOT ALWAYS HOLD A SPECIAL PLACE IN OUR HEARTS. A A ERECTED IN 1995 IN THE HONOR OF CALVIN AND SAHAHAN DAVIS WILLIAMS, THROUGH THE CONTRIBUTINS OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS. ALLEN R. WILLIAMS, FATHER OF CALVIN WASHINGTON WILLIAMS. THE FOLLOWING FAMILIES WERE CONTRIBUTORS TO THE BUILDING FUND. 1.JODE ADAM 25.JIM MZEL 2.SON ADAMS 26.SON MIZELL 3.J.B. BENNETT 27.ISHAM MIZELL 4.IRA BENNETT 28.RON MIZELL 5.ELIAS BENNETT 29.W C PETTY 6.DIANA BENNETT SHADD 28.RON MIZELL 30.W W STEWART 7.W.M BENNETT 31.COREY WALL 8.CLYDE BENNETT 32.COLMAN WALL 9.E. H. BROWN 33.A F WILSON 28.RON MIZELL 1O.J.H. COVERDER 34.C W WILLIAMS 11.IVEY DAVIS 35.J G WILLIAMS 12.M D DAVIS 36.HARDY WILLIAMS 13.JIM DAVIS 37.C R WHITE 14.F G DAVIS 15.WILLIS DAVIS 16.HARVEY DAVIS 17.C H DAVIS 18.W M DAVIS 19.CHARLES FILLMAN 20.JOHN FUSSELL 21.FISHER GASKIN 22.JIM HIGGS 23.T H MATTHEWS 24.Y O MATTHEWS ______________________________