Sunday Morning,

September 5, 1954

Macon Telegraph and News

Section Two, Page Thirteen

Restored almost completely through work of the Richland Restoration League, Inc., in the past five years, Richland Baptist Church in Twiggs County will gleam whitely in the September sun when it welcomes its few surviving members and hundreds of descendants of its early members for a program next Sunday to dedicate a marker beside the old church.  Hoop skirted girls from the community, men in the costumes of that era will add to the atmosphere of a century ago when the church was in its heyday.

From the John Ball Chapter, DAR, a group of members gets a preview of the marker they helped secure.  Left to right, Mrs. Henry Faulk, Sr., one of the few remaining members of the old church; Mrs. O. T. Chapman, Mrs. John Faulk, Mrs. Kathleen J. Carswell, Mrs. W. T. Wall.

Marker to be Dedicated

Sept. 12 At Richland Church,

 Twiggs County

To be re-enacted with the daughter of Mrs. Isolene Minter Wimberley, Mrs. Isolene Wimberley Robbins of Atlanta, reading her mother's address from the original copy and presenting the flag will be a scene that took place at Richland in1861.  J. Emory Clay, Jr. of Macon, descendant of the Rev. E. J. Coates, an early minister of the church, and of William Coates, founder, will receive the flag.  Left to right, practicing the scene, are Frances Baker, Hugh Faulk, Jr., Jane McCallum, Russell Hanson, Jane Fitzpatrick, Mr. Clay, Phil Taylor.

George Axam, right, who has lived long in the old Richland community, will bring his horse and wagon back to Richland for the unveiling exercises to add to the old-time atmosphere.  Hugh Faulk, Jr. helps Austelle Faulk to alight.  On the steps are Mary Ruth Rozier, Dot Carswell, Glendolyn Phillips.

These are the graves of the Rev. Henry Bunn, one of the church's first pastors and only one buried in the Richland Church Cemetery, and his wife, Nancy, many of whose descendants will attend the unveiling of the marker at the church Sunday.