Liberty Missionary Baptist
Church
Wilkinson County, Ga.
Liberty Church Rd, northeast
of McIntyre. Organized 1837
According
to Victor Davidson's History of Wilkinson County, Liberty Church
was organized April 29, 1837 by Revs. John Hughs, Jordan Baker,
Henry Messer and J.P. Leverett. The name Liberty was given because it was
the purpose to provide a church for those who were being expelled from
other churches on account of their belief in 
Missions.
Constituting
members were: Lewis Smith and wife, Elizabeth; Lewis Clay and wife Judy;
Milly Etheridge, James Hatcher, Cholson Sanders and wife Sarah; and John
Kingery.
Membership
rolls 1836-1850 from Wilkinson County Georgia
Historical Collections by Joseph Maddox:
John Arnold, Anna Bales, Mary Bales, Nancy Bales,
Susan Bales, James Benton, Daniel Blount, Margaret Blount, Samuel Blount,
Elizabeth Brady, Elizabeth Churchwell, Isham Churchwell, Harriett Churchwell,
Judy (Judith) Clay, Lewis Clay, Lucy Clay, Sarah Clay, Charity Collins,
Elizabeth Collins, Robert Collins, John Council, Lovey Council, Elizabeth
Covey, Robert T. Daniel, Delaney Davis, James Davis, William Davis, James
Dismukes, Mary Dismukes, Ireney DuPriest, Henry Eady, Edmund E. Etheridge,
Emily Ann Etheridge, Harrison Etheridge, Joel W. Etheridge, John C. Etheridge,
Nathan Etheridge, Lucinda Etheridge, Lucy Etheridge, Margaret Etheridge,
Merit Etheridge, Milly Etheridge, Nancy Etheridge, Nicey Etheridge, Robert
Etheridge, Samuel Etheridge, Sarah Etheridge, Shelby P. Etheridge, Robert
Fenn, James Garrett, Caroline, Hancock, Elizabeth Hancock, Evelyn Hancock,
Mary Handcock, Sarah Ann Hancock, Mahaney Hatcher, Nancy Hatcher,
Robert Hatcher, Sarah Hatcher, William G. Hatcher, Amanda Hendricks, Elizabeth
Herston, Joseph Herston, Joseph Hill, Mary Hill, Ireney Holland, Wiley
Holland, Seth Honeycutt, Martha Hoover, Sarah Hoover, Caroline Jackson,
Elizabeth Jackson, Harriet B. Jackson, Harrison Jackson, Hopie Jackson,
James Jackson, Jesse Jackson, Lydia Jackson, Liza Jackson,
Margaret Jackson, Francis M. Jones, John Jones, John R. Jones, Lucy Jones,
Nicey Jones, Obedience B. Jones, Rebecca Jones, Taliaferro Jones,
John Kingery, Elijah Kinnery, Elizabeth Kinney, George W. Kinney, John
Kinney, Rebecca Kinney, Charity Knight, Elizabeth Knight, Sarah Knight,
Anna Jane Knowles, Isabel Knowles, Nancy Knowles, Susan Knowles, James
Langford, Martha Langford, Nancy Lord, William R. Lord, Sapphire McCurley,
Frances McKenzie, Nancy McKenzie, Elviney McNeal, John McNeal, Epsey J.
Mackey, John Mackey, Nancy Mackey, Siney Mackey, William Mackey, Jesse
Martin, Lydia Martin, Elizabeth Mathis, Sarah Ann Morris, Levi Mothershed,
Martha Nelson, Viney Nelson, Wade Nelson, Elizabeth O'Bannon, Isabella
Frances Pace, Lucinda Pace, Nancy Pace, Nancy Parker, William Parker, Elizabeth
Passmore, Nimrod Pendley, Selah Pendley, Augustus Pennington, Milly Ann
Pierce, Lucinda H. Powell, Elizabeth Price, Elizabeth Rammage, Joseph Rammage,
Josiah Rammage, Mary Rammage, Nancy Rammage, Anna Reeves, Joseph Riley,
Tempy Riley, Nancy Rogers, William Rogers, Colson Sanders, Elizabeth Sanders,
Miles
Sanders, Sarah Sanders, Abraham Shepherd, Berry B. Shepherd, Eli H. Shepherd,
James F. Shepherd, Mahaney Shepherd, Marguerite Shepherd, Margiann Shepherd,
Nancy Shepherd, Rebecca C. Shepherd, Sarah Ann Shepherd, Rev. Wiley B.
Shepherd Sr., William J. Shepherd, Elizabeth Shinholster (widow), George
Shinholster, James Shinholster, Mary Shinholster, Samuel F. Shinsholster,
Susan F. Shinholster,
Elizabeth Smith, John G. Smith, Lewis Smith,
Sarah Snow, James C. Spann, Andrew W. Spence, Jincy Spence, John Spence,
John M. Spence, Mary Spence, Thomas Spence, Tiney Spence, Elijah Steely,
Jane Steely, Isaac Stephens, Letha Stephens,
Sarah Stevens, Wiley Stevens, William Stevens,
Hannah Ann Stubbs, Elizabeth Stubbs, Robert L. Stubbs, Seaborn Stubbs,
Green Thigpen, Green Thompson, Sarah Thompson, William Thompson,
Alexander Tindol, Bernita Tindal, John Underwood, Coleman Vaughn, James
Vaughn, Nancy Vaughn, Sarah Vaughn, Lucinda Wheeler, Godfrey Williams,
John I. J. Williams, John J. Williams, Mariah Williams, Mary Williams,
Sarah Williams, Emily Wright, Elizabeth Youngblood.
In 1852 there were 138 members, 14
were saved that year. American Baptist Register, for 1852 by John
Lansing Burrows.
More
History
1916 Map
Cemetery
(link)
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