Above: The Parsonage of Winder Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Winder, Georgia
Scan of a photograph reproduced in C. Fred Ingram, ed., Beadland to Barrow: A History of Barrow County, Georgia, from the Earliest Times to the Present (Atlanta, GA: Cherokee Publishing Company, 1983), page 265
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George Washington Barrett (1873-1956), my great-grandfather, served as the pastor of Winder Methodist Episcopal Church, South, from November 1925 to November 1927. Thus he, his wife, Nellie Sequin Fox Barrett (1876-1958). and four or five of their six children lived in this parsonage for two years. Randolph Winburn Barrett (1905-?) had left the nest in 1922, at Tignall (https://taylorfamilypoems.wordpress.com/2013/08/11/a-mothers-prayer/). Sarah Claiborne Barrett (1908-1954) might have left the next before November 1925, but I know that the four youngest children were part of the household at the time of the 1930 Census. So they would have been part of the household in 1925-1927. They were:
- George Dickey Barrett (1910-1989);
- Lucy Seguin Barrett (1912-2001);
- Nell Fox Barrett, my grandmother (1915-2001); and
- Margaret Elizabeth Barrett (1918-2007).
Scan of a photograph reproduced in C. Fred Ingram, ed., Beadland to Barrow: A History of Barrow County, Georgia, from the Earliest Times to the Present (Atlanta, GA: Cherokee Publishing Company, 1983), page 279
The brick structure of the church, erected in 1904, looked like this until the early 1920s, when renovation occurred. The building had its new front doors, front porch, and front steps when my great-grandfather and his family arrived. The parsonage was on the right, behind the church building.
Above: The former home of First United Methodist Church, Winder, Georgia, Circa 2010
Image from the former website of the Sanctuary of the Holy Spirit, Winder, Georgia
The First Methodist Church relocated to a new plot of land in 1964. When I found the old building in 2010, the Sanctuary of the Holy Spirit, an independent congregation, had occupied the building and undertaken the work of restoring it. Alas, a fire resulting from a lightning strike destroyed the structure last Summer.
When I compare the older and more recent church photographs and recall what I saw when walking the ground, I notice that the old house on the left in the older photograph was still there in 2012 and and that the old parsonage was not.
KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
AUGUST 20, 2013 COMMON ERA
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