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Bethel Primitive Baptist Church

Brooks County · dedicated 1958 · On Bethel Church Road 1.5 miles south of Georgia Route 122, on the left when traveling south in Pavo.

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Bethel Primitive Baptist Church, the second Baptist Church to be organized in the aria of old Lowndes County. was constituted September 2, 1826. The organizing Presbytery were: Elders Benjamin Manning. Matthew Albritton and Henry Melton, with Deacon William A. Knight. Charter members of Bethel Church were: Elder Melus Thigpen and his wife, Sarah; Archibald Strickland and his wife, Luander; Henry C. Tucker and his wife, Sarah. Elder Thigpen served as supply pastor until 1828, when the Rev. Matthew Albritton was called to the charge of Bethel Church.

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