This African-American church is located off Georgia Highway 90 near the Hatley community. Other than having been told that this was a black congregation, I spent over ten years trying to identify this church. Thanks to a post to my Vanishing Georgia group on Facebook by Tony Cantrell, I am now confident that it is the original home of the Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Church, which is now known as New Oak Grove Missionary Baptist and located in Cordele. That church was established in 1940, so perhaps this was used by another congregation from 1904 until that date.
Unfortunately the building has deteriorated drastically. I use to walk past it and the graveyard behind it in my daily walk. The graveyard isn’t noticable unless you look for it. The graves are in bad shape. I saw no marker with the name of the graveyard.
This would have been late 50s…
If this is the one I think it is, my Grandmoma and Granddaddy had a live-in maid and I can remember as a child going with Granddaddy to take her to church here.