Oakdale Methodist Church
Wilkinson County, Ga.
was located on Stucky Road.
Organized 1919 by Rec. C.C.
Borland
According
to Victor Davidson in History of Wilkinson County, Ga. the first
members were Mr. & Mrs. J.T. Davidson, Mr. & Mrs. Joel Knight,
R.E. Davidson, Gordon Hall, C.M. Tidwell, Mr. & Mrs. W.O. Hall.
J. O. Davidson gave the land upon which it was built. According to the
Macon Telegraph obituaries other members were W. W. Winslett,
and Thelma Davidson Whigham.
According to R. Elizabeth Brewer, Oakdale School and Oakdale Methodist Church was located on Oscar Davidson's property. Going north on Stuckey road, passing the road to Pleasant Plains Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery Road, about 100 yards on the right was where it was located. The Knight family now owns the property.
In
the January 18, 1942 Macon Telegraph writes "Hardshell Baptists
are living in a Methodist church. Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Davidson and their
step-mother, Mrs. W. H. Lee, are the occupants of a six-room white cottage,
which was formerly Oakdale church two and one-half miles out on the Jeffesonville-Irwinton
highway.
It has been four or five years
ince the last sermon was preached in the meeting house. Mr. Davison traded
for the building and moved it about a quarter of miles to the edge of a
beautiful pine thicket, back of which is a spring. Here he rebuilt the
church into a comfortable house of three bedrooms, living room, dining
room, kitchen, back and front porches. Not over $30 worth of new timber
was needed. "