Harmony United Methodist Church
Ware Shoals, SC
Excerpts From Laurens County History Book
Harmony United Methodist Church
Located on Hwy. 25 between Greenville and Greenwood in Ware Shoals, SC
Organized as a branch of Mt. Bethel Methodist Church. Original deed dated October 7, 1839.
Original church was a very small frame with an unpainted structure. It had a door in each end and a small place set aside for slaves.
As to the charter members, we have been able to get the names of a very few, which are William Smith Puckett, and wife, Delilah Knight, married 1814, first members to join Harmony Church; Cason Bradford Puckett, married February 2, 1845, Margaret Mahala Clardy, at Harmony Church.....Catherine Delilah Puckett married William A. Reeves on January 19, 1865. They were devout members of this Church. Aunt Kate Puckett, as she was known, is remembered as an old timey shouting Methodist
Church remodeled in 1908.
New church opened on October 5, 1952.