Balls Methodist Church
Balls Church Rd., near Twiggs County. 1899 Map

     According to Wilkinson County Georgia Historical Collections, by Joseph Maddox, Anson Ball, whose wife was Phoebe Jenkins, came to Wilkinson from Washington county with his father John Ball, a Revolutionary veteran, shortly after 1806. Anson, a wealthy planter, bought several hundred acres of land in what is now Bethel Militia District. For convenience of his family, the Todds, Methvins, Burneys and others who lived nearby, he gave the land to erect a church denomination unknown. The church was eventually dissolved for the whites and give over to blacks. However the nearby cemetery has been used for burial of descendants of former members.  See Holliman-Hatfield Cemetery