HISTORICAL MARKERS
RELATED TO BAPTISTS
IN
(Supersedes all Previous Editions)
Robert G. Gardner
Senior Researcher in Baptist History
Jack Tarver Library,
This document is divided into two major parts:
I. Historical Markers
II. Index
Apart from personal observation by the compiler and others, these sources have
been consulted:
(1) Georgia Historical Markers (Helen, GA: Bay Tree Grove, 1973) (hereafter
often cited
as GHM [1973], followed by page number[s])
(2) Georgia Historical Markers erected by the Georgia Department of Natural
Resources, 1976-1998 (
Collections, 2000; F287 / G46/2000)
(3) http://www.georgiahistory.com/NewMarkers.html
(4) http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/gahistmarkers/
(6) http://www.visitnortheastgeorgia.com/roadside_historical_markers.htm
Because of their wide availability, the texts for markers included in these
sources are not usually reproduced in this list. Complete texts for all markers are located at the Georgia Baptist History Depository.
Several abbreviations are used in this document: BA = Baptist Association; BC =
FBC =
Georgia; GHS = marker placed by the
yet seen by editor.
Abbreviated entries show the following information: Name of Marker (Source and
date of Marker): Location of Marker (Explanatory note, if needed) (Location of Marker’s text).
Because this list is subject to change, the index refers the reader to county
locations, rather than to page numbers, in Part I. When a numeral follows a county designation in the index, this indicates the number of markers, if more than
one, on which a name appears in that county.
City: Appling
Location: Downtown Appling
Date: Granite monument dedicated
Automobile accident in 1972 and later replaced (Viewpoints: Georgia Baptist History 6
[1978]: 83)
Subject:
church in
Text:
The oldest Baptist church in
the spring of 1772 by Daniel Marshall and served by
him as pastor until his death in 1784, was originally
located a few yards southwest from this marker as described
in courthouse records of
Church was removed in 1808 to brick building three miles
away which still stands. Present church located in Appling.
This marker erected in 1950 by
Source: Committee on Baptist
Additional Information: Waldo P. Harris, III, Locations Associated with Daniel
Marshall and the Kiokee Church,@ in Waldo P. Harris, III, and James D. Mosteller, Georgia’s First Continuining Baptist Church (Appling, GA: Kiokee Baptist Church, 1997), 268-291, where much of the information on this marker is demonstrated to be false.
City:
Location:
Date: Markers dedicated
Subject:
Texts:
HISTORICAL SITE
DEDICATED
DEVELOPED BY
HISTORY COMMITTEE,
IN COOPERATION WITH
AND THE
-----------------------------------------
DANIEL MARSHALL
BORN
IN
CONGREGATIONALIST WHO BECAME
SEPARATE BAPTIST DURING GREAT
AWAKENING. ORDAINED, ABBOTTS CREEK,
N.C., 1757. LEADER IN ESTABLISHING BAPTIST
WORK IN
FIRST CONTINUING
THE LITTLE KIOKEE IN 1772. ONLY PASTOR
TO REMAIN IN
REVOLUTION.
HELPED TO FORM
BAPTIST ASSOCIATION, FIRST IN STATE,
SHORTLY BEFORE HIS DEATH, NOV. 2, 1784.
FOR NURTURING MANY MEN WHO
CONTRIBUTED TO THE MOVEMENT=S EARLY
GROWTH.
MARSHALL HOMESITE
THE AHOUSE WHERE THE REV. A. MARSHALL
LIVED STOOD HERE. PURCHASED FROM HIS
FATHERs ESTATE (COUNTY DEED BOOKS
Z.P. 449 & C.P. 102). BAPTIST HISTORIAN
DAVID BENEDICT WROTE: AI SPENT SOME
TIME WITH HIM [ABRAHAM MARSHALL] AT
HIS OWN HOME AT KIOKEE, IN 1810, WHERE
HIS VENERABLE FATHER [DANIEL MARSHALL]
DIED. SITE IS PART OF
GRANT TO DANIEL
MARSHALL (
PLAT BOOK E.P. 269). REMAINING TIMBERS
OF HOUSE WERE DISMANTLED IN 1981 AFTER
DOCUMENTATION. DANIEL MARSHALL SAID
TO HIS WIFE SHORTLY BEFORE DEATH: AGO
ON, MY DEAR WIFE, TO SERVE THE LORD.
HOLD OUT TO THE END. ETERNAL GLORY IS
BEFORE US
MORGAN EDWARDS, 1772, WROTE: AT
LITTLE KIOKA IS A MEETINGHOUSE.
ERECTED IN 1771 DAN.
SEPARATE BAPTISTS, BRANCH OF BIG
SPRING 1772, WITH DANIEL MARSHALL,
PASTOR. THEIR BUILDING, EAST/SOUTHEAST
OF THIS MARKER, WAS ALSO FIRST
VOTING
1777.
AT NEW SITE CALLED
MEETINGHOUSE ; THIRD, 1808, STANDS
ON SAME SITE CALLED AOLD KIOKEE
MILE WEST OF THIS MARKER. CHAPEL,
BUILT IN APPLING ABOUT 1828 AS ARM,
DESTROYED BY TORNADO 1875. FIFTH
STRUCTURE MOVED TO APPLING 1907,
USED UNTIL 1937, WHEN SIXTH
BUILDING WAS ERECTED ON PRESENT
SITE. MOTHER OF CHURCHES. MOLDER
OF PREACHERS. PILLAR OF THE
ASSOCIATION. PROMOTER OF MISSIONS.
CHURCH.
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ASSOCIATION
ORGANIZED AT KIOKEE, OCTOBER 1784,
BY BEST EVIDENCE. FIRST CHURCHES:
KIOEE, FISHING CREEK,
FATHERS: DANIEL MARSHALL, ABRAHAM
MARSHALL, SANDERS
SMITH, SILAS MERCER, LOVELESS SAVAGE,
WILLIAM FRANKLIN, ALEXANDER SCOTT.
KNOWN MEMBER CHURCHES, 174, IN 28
GA. AND 5
ASSOCIATIONS: HEPHZIBAH, 1794;
SAREPTA, 1799;
CHURCHES HELPED FORM: 15 OTHERS.
MAJOR INFLUENCE IN FORMING
POWELTON, 1822, AND STRONGLY
SUPPORTED FORMATION OF SOUTHERN
BAPTIST CONVENTION,
BOTH IN MEMBER CHURCHES. LEADER IN
FOUNDING
MISSIONARY INFLUENCE. TERMED
AMOTHER, MODEL, AND ACRADLE OF
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ABRAHAM MARSHALL
BORN IN
THE FIRSTBORN OF DANIEL AND MARTHA
STEARNS
FOLLOWED HIS FATHER AS PASTOR, 1784 B
1819. PREACHED TO THOUSANDS ON NEW
ASSOCIATED WITH CONSTITUTING OR
RECONSTITUTING ABOUT 39 CHURCHES,
INCLUDING FIRST AFRICAN BAPTIST
CHURCHES,
AFFECTIONATELY CALLED ATHE FRIEND OF
BLACK PEOPLE TRUSTEE OF
COLLEGE (
CHAIRED GENERAL COMMITTEE OF
BAPTISTS, 1803. MODERATOR, GEORGIA
BAPTIST ASSOCIATION, 19 YEARS. DIED
SOME MARSHALL FAMILY GRAVES MAY HAVE
PURPOSELY BEEN LEFT UNMARKED.
ABRAHAM MARSHALL WROTE ABOUT HIS
FATHER, DANIEL:
NO MONUMENTAL PILE OR LETTER=D STONE
HIS VIRTUE TO POSTERITY REVEALS:
HIS NAME AND CHARACTER ARE BETTER KNOWN
BY HOLY TRUTH AND MINISTERIAL SEALS.
ABRAHAM=S SON WROTE ABOUT HIS MOTHER:
I=LL RAISE NO STONE HER MEMORY TO RETAIN,
SINCE MY SORE LOSS IS HER AETERNAL GAIN
ABRAHAM MARSHALL IS KNOWN TO BE
BURIED HERE,
EVIDENCE INDICATES OTHERS: DANIEL
(MRS. DANIEL), 1793; ANN WALLER (MRS.
ABRAHAM), NOV. 14, 1815; TWO SONS OF
ABRAHAM AND ANN MARSHALL, ABRAHAM
WALLER,
JUBAL ORION, AGE 5 MONTHS. GENERAL
COLLINS AND MARY ANN (MRS. GENERAL)
COLLINS, BLACKS, ONCE OWNERS OF THE
PROPERTY, ALSO BURIED HERE. NUMBER OF
UNIDENTIFIABLE
Sources: Committee on Baptist
Additional Information: Viewpoints:
(1978): 25-46
City: Near Appling
Location: At 1808
Date: Granite grave cover dedicated 1995
Subject: Jabez Pleiades
Text:
JABEZ PLEIADES
BORN IN
EDUCATED AT THE
OF THE
MARCH 29, 1832, AND BURIED HERE.
ERECTED BY
THE HISTORICAL COMMISSION
1995
Source: Committee on Baptist
City: Appling
Location:
Date: Marble monument dedicated
Subject: Religious Liberty in
Text:
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN
THIS BUILDING,
MEETINGHOUSE, WAS ERECTED IN 1937
WITH THE HELP OF MANY
BAPTISTS AS A MONUMENT TO DANIEL
ARRESTED FOR PREACHING IN COLONIAL
AT A TRIAL IN
EDWARD BARNARD AND PARSON EDWARD
ELLINGTON OF THE
HE WAS ORDERED TO ADESIST FROM
PREACHING IN THE PROVINCE HIS WIFE
MARTHA DEFENDED HIM AWITH SOLEMN
DENUNCIATION OF THE LAW, QUOTING
WITH FLUENCY PASSAGE AFTER PASSAGE
OF SCRIPTURE.@
AWHETHER IT BE RIGHT TO OBEY GOD
RATHER THAN MAN, JUDGE YE. HE
CONTINUED TO PREACH. HIS ARRESTING
OFFICER SAMUEL CARTLEDGE WAS
CONVERTED, BECAME A MEMBER OF
IN 1772, WAS ALSO ORDAINED, AND
ORGANIZED AND PASTORED CHURCHES
IN THE AREA. COLONEL BERNARD [sic] BECAME
A CLOSE FRIEND. THEREAFTER RELIGIOUS
PERSECUTION ENDED IN
THIS
PAST
Source:
Church)
(Georgia Historical Markers [1973], 154; http://www.cviog.uga.edu).
Miles north of Appling (GHM [1973], 154).
Baptist
Church) (GHM [1973], 154-155).
Reed Bingham State Park Bridge (GA, 1977): About eight miles west of Adel, at
the bridge
(mentions Jimmy Carter) (http://www.cviog.uga.edu).
Transcriber’s note:
This is a very long document, over 100 pages total covering many
counties in
Suzanne Forte, Jan 2006