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Subject: [GADEKALB] REEVES
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:54:17 EST


p. 211
A. Reeves is listed as a member of the Dekalb Independent Guards. 1836


p. 239
Pythagoras Lodge No. 41, Free and Accepted Masons of Decatur, the oldest
lodge in Dekalb County, was chartered on November 7, 1844, having received
its official dispensation by the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Georgia
on April 12 of that year.
Original officers were Elzy B. Reynolds, Worshipful Master; George W. Reeves,
Senior Warden; and John Evans, Junior Warden. Charter members were Elzy B.
Reynolds, George W. Reeves, W.H. Graham, R.E. Mangum, John Evans, Thomas M.
Darnell, Ezekiel Reeves, Nathaniel Mangum and Frederick Arms. Between April
12 and October 7, the lodge gained 12 new members: Leonard C. Simpson, W.M.
Hill,
Alexander Johnson,John Wadsworth, E.N. Calhoun, Michael O'Brien, Patrick
Quinn, J.T. Slater, R.M. Brown, Lewis L. Ledbetter and James R. Henry.

p.311
Today's Dunwoody Baptist Church had its roots in the Providence Baptist
Church, which was founded in 1853.
The first preacher was the Rev. W. G. Aiken, and the first church was built
on his land near
the present site of the New Hope Cemetery on Chamblee Dunwoody Road.
Providence had nine
charter members in addition to the Rev. Aiken and his wife: W. M. Johnson, W.
C. Johnston, Joseph
E. Walker, Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Johnson, Nancy Johnston, Mary Walker,
Harriet Densmore and
Mary Reeves. After the Civil War, the church reorganized in a brush arbor in
Sandy Springs; a small
building was constructed in 1878. In 1886, Providence gave 11 of its members
"letters of authority" to
start Dunwoody Baptist Church. Among Dunwoody's charter members were Bunyan
Cheek and his
sisters, Myra Cheek and Lizzie Cheek Newhard. Myra later married Will Martin,
and the couple gave
land on Chamblee Dunwoody Road in 1903 for a Dunwoody Baptist Church
building. '~

Stone Mountain Methodist Church was organized in 1854. The church's first
building was constructed
in 1870, and torn down in 1909, with the lumber used to build a parsonage.
The present granite
building was dedicated in 1926.

A small Baptist church that was destined to become the largest congregation
in DeKalb County was
constituted on August 5, 1854. The first meeting of Rehoboth Baptist Church
was held in the J. B.
Johns' schoolhouse, behind the church's current location on Lawrenceville
Highway.

John Bolen Johns came to DeKalb from Wilkes County, Ga. in 1823, and began a
settlement midway
between Decatur and now Tucker. The community originally was called Pea Ridge.



At that first meeting, the Rev. S. B. Churchhill preached and organized a
Presbytery composed
of the Revs. Samuel Bryant, William H. Roberts and James H. Weaver. Charter
members of
Rehoboth were Ezekiel Reeves, John Cooper, Zephenia Estes, John Bagwell,
Green Woodson, John B.
Johns, Isaac Towers, Mary Reeves, Amanda Cooper, Emeline Bagwell, Elizabeth
Bagwell and
Temperance Towers.

Within one month of organizing, the church had conducted 21 baptisms,
including two slaves: Ed, the
slave of S. P. Cash; and Samuel, the slave of S. Cochran. Betsy, the slave of
S. P. Wright, joined the
church by letter. By the end of August, church membership numbered 36.

On October 21, 1854, church trustees John Bagwell, Joe Britt, S. Burdette and
Ezekiel Reeves
contracted with their host, J. B. Johns, to construct a church building.
Johns also was a trustee.
The original contract still is owned by the church. It calls for the building
to be 40 feet long and 30
feet wide, with four "batten doors," each six and one-half feet high and
three and one-half feet broad,
12 side windows and an additional window behind the pulpit. The cost was set
at $119.


p. 293

1850
Head Age Occupation
Joseph A. Reeves 48 merchant
Birthplace GA

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