Nunn and Wheeler Church and Cemetery


Nunn and Wheeler Church

     Very little is know about this church which is located off Hwy. 112, North Wilkinson County District 5 Lot 208. The original land was granted to John Nunn of Warren County dated June 12 1806. John Nunn, a Revolutionary Soldier from South Carolina was married to Elizabeth Pratt. His son-in-law was John Wheeler who married Rebecca Nunn. Other families connected with the church can be guessed by the cemetery listings. (below)

      From the old photo above the church appears to be located on the northwest side of the cemetery. The church is mentioned in the 1880 will of John Eady: "and by the public road, leading from Milledgeville to Crawfords ___ Mill on which is a Nunn and Wheeler Church and burying ground with the reserve of four acres, more or less. "

     Bartley Collins, 21 years old, died in the church June 24, 1900, after an accident on the way to church. He is buried inthe cemetery.

     Keith Watson, a Bloodworth descendant, says "Mom (Carolyn Bloodworth Watson) said they would have dinners  up there in the  building  when they  would go clean off the cemetery, she did not  remember any pews in the building, but  did  remember the organ. I heard uncle Ellis (Bloodworth) talk of toting water  from the spring  or well  up to the church.

    I talked to a Whitaker cousin, who cleans up the  cemetery who told me that a  Pennington man  tore the church  down, probably was paid to tear down (early 1950's), probably  just a family  church.

   I think it may have been started about 1836 I may  have read  that somewhere else or  maybe  that was the year  land was  donated, not sure why I  believe it was  started in 1836,  I  also read that Macedonia  was started about 1868 and I  believe  a lot of Bloodworth's went there so maybe the church  was  just  there a few years.

    Dad (Clifford Watson)  has said  that Grandpa  Bloodworth (William F. Bloodworth)  commented one  time  that unmarked graves go down the hill toward Hwy 112."

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