Randy, Do you have a copy of the deed where Mr. Whited sold land to the church? I ask because there were several congregations of the Methodist church in the Pinhook/Lutts area during that time frame. They were all part of the Martin's Mills Charge. The Lutts United Methodist Church is still active today. I have a compiled copy of all the various Methodist Church rolls in the county and there isn't a Whited listed. Here's a brief write-up on the Lutts UMC as written by the late Mrs. Elmer (Pauline Darby) Lutts. Lutts United Methodist Church "The Methodist Church was organized at Martins Mills, Tennessee. Records show Sam Treadway and wife, Laura Chowning were moved by the Tennessee Conference from Robertson County to Martins Mills in the late 1800's. Mrs. Lutts states that there was a period of time between 1900 and 1910 they did not have any records, however the Methodists came together and worshiped in the Pinhook school building beginning in 1910, as the Lutts Methodist Church, records indicating the memebrship to be 95 in 1920. The Methodist continued to worship in the school building until 1936 when James A. Stricklin made a deed giving on area of land to the Lutts Community for a church. The present Church Trustees named in the deed were E. M. Abrams, representing the Methodist Church; John R. Morgan the Baptist Church and Dee Stricklin the Christian Church. This is in Deed Book 19, page 560, dated July 5, 1936, On July 23, 1960, the former trustees of the Lutts Community Church did transfer and convey all the rights, title, claim and interest they had to H. A. Stricklin, Grady Sinclair and Elmer Lutts as trustees for the Lutts Methodist Church, Deed book 42, page 180. The deed states, We, E. M. Abrams and Dee Stricklin as member and only members of the Trustee committee of the Lutts Community Church have this day bargained and sold, and by these presents do here by bargain, sell to the Trustees of the Lutts Methodist Church." end of sketch. There was probably a congregation of the Methodist Church in the present day Lutts area as early as the 1820's. However, no records have survived or come to light. I'd be interested in the name of the church to which Mr. Whited sold the land. That would tell me where it was located and we could then figure out if it had been consolidated with another congregation or disbanded. Edgar ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randy Whited" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 8:54 AM Subject: [TNWAYNE] Pinhook - Lutts Church? > My great-grandfather, Edward Woodard Whited, deeded land in the 1880's to build > a Methodist-Episcopal Church near the Pinhook-Lutts area. I have been unable > to find any record of a church there. Has anyone run across this? If so, > where would the church records be? > > Thanks, > Randy Whited > > > ==== TNWAYNE Mailing List ==== > Visit the Wayne County, Tennessee Genealogy and History Page at > http://www.netease.net/wayne > > >