Sardis Baptist Church

Sardis Baptist Church is a Georgia historical marker in Burke County, dedicated 1956.

At the intersection of Pine Street and Burke Street, on the right when traveling north on Pine Street in Sardis.

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On Sept. 28, 1803, a group of men living in Burke County near Beech Branch Meeting House, "found to be in the true Baptist faith" by a presbytery of Rev. Henry Hand and Rev. John Ross, were constituted into one Body as a Baptist Church. A church covenant was adopted. William Thompson, Sr., and Stephen Murray, Sr., were made deacons. Original members were Stephen Murray, Sr., William Thompson, Sr., Thomas Tipton, William L. Mobley, Nicholas Thomas, Jeremiah Kimbal, Jacob Taylor, Jr., Jacob Hollingsworth, Ephriam Davis, Jessey Pollock, Mary Murray, Elizabeth Tillis and Ama Tipton. A new church was built on land given by William and G. W. Sapp and, in 1810, the name of the church became Sardis.

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1795 · State of South Carolina. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1806 · Carolinas, Georgia, Floridas, Bahamas. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1816 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1816 · Georgia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Carolinas, Georgia, Floridas, Bahamas, 1806, covering the location of Sardis Baptist Church, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Carolinas, Georgia, Floridas, Bahamas, 1806, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Sardis Baptist Church

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