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Subject: [ALHENRY] Re: COBIA, BARNES, CULPEPPER, GRAY, PELLUM, CHANCE, MILLER
Date: 13 Jun 2002 16:56:45 -0600
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Surnames: Barnes, Pellum, Cobia, Culpepper, Gray, Miller, Chance, Jackson, Money, Jackson, Starling, Montgomery, Grace, Brown, Dees, Messer, Chitty, Chambers, Green, Blackshear
Classification: Query
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Jackie,
You are absolutely right. Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church is in Hardwicksburg. The families of Cobia, Culpepper, Gray, Pellum, and Chance were all active members of this the oldest continuously active church in Henry County since April 1836. Others were Jackson, Money, Starling, Montgomery, Grace, Brown, Dees, Messer, and other families were Old School Baptist or called the defamatory name of "Hardshelled Baptist"--of which I am a member. The Lee R.Miller family and the families of Planter Howell E. Chitty, Planter Thomas B. Chambers, Joshua Franklin Barnes, Sr., Probate Judge M. B. Green, Planter Randolph Blackshear (settler in East Haleburg in 1823) and many wealthy families were members of the Yatta Abbey (Adoniram) Missionary Baptist Church on the west side of the Abbie Creek from Mt. Zion on the west. Yatta Abbey (Adoniram) was possibly the most powerful "political" church due to the high standing of its members in the civic life of all of Henry County. Its ro!
lls are a "Who's Who In Antebellum Henry County." The Pellums settled northeast of the church in 1831. My gggrandmother Clyde Rebecca Barnes, wife of the late Joshua Thomas Dukes is buried in a small cemetery on the original Pellum (Pelham) lands just south of the Grace Place south of Shorterville. She married your Francis Cobia in 1884, who was also a widower at the time. You and I are step-cousins! I would love to hear more of your research on all of these familes to learn more and perhaps share some things that will help you. "Twill be a win-win situation where we both benefit.
Very Henry Countily Yours,
Steve Elliott
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