Summer 1992
The Darlington Flag Newsletter
History
of Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church, Lydia, S.C., 1789 – 1989, by
John
Lennell Andrews, Jr.
This history traces the growth of
Methodism in western Darlington County from 1789 through its bicentennial year.
The “Gully Meeting House and Campground” was Darlington County’s
first Methodist society and served as the “mother church” for the Lynches
Creek Circuit and the Darlington Circuit.
The influence of Wesley Chapel spread far beyond the bounds of Darlington
County. The
role of other early Methodist churches (Dowling’s Meeting House
[Philadelphia], Skinner’s Meeting House [Hebron], Bethel, Cypress, Damascus,
Elim, and Ashland) is also recounted.
Six appendixes include information on Wesley Chapel’s ministers, the
membership throughout the years, and marriages and baptisms on the Darlington
Circuit during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Published on “acid free” paper, copyright 1992.
756 pages, 6 appendixes, bibliography, full name index, 75 photographs,
map, plat of campground, hard cover.
Price: $20.00 plus $4.00 shipping for first book and
$1.50 for each additional
book.
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