State of Georgia, Campbell County. This indenture made the fourth day of November in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighty between Elizabeth Hattaway, Emanuel Hattaway, David Hattaway, Walter L. Hattaway, Luther Cook, Mary Teal of the one part and E. Hattaway, David Hattaway, B. A. J. Smith, J. P. Miller, L. Cook, trustees of Friendship Church all of the county and state aforesaid of the other part. Witnesseth that the said Elizabeth Hattaway, Emanuel Hattaway, David Hattaway, Walter L. Hattaway, and Luther Cook and Mary Teal hath given, granted, and conveyed and doth by these presents give grant and convey until the said E. Hattaway, David Hattaway, B. A. J. Smith, J. P. Miller, and L. Cook, trustees of Friendship Church all that tract or parcel of land situated by and being a part of lot number 12 in the 7th corner of said lot number 12 and running east thirty eight rods from thence south seventy rods from thence west thirty eight rods from thence along the original line north twenty rods to starting place containing four acres one hundred and twenty rods more or less we give grant and convey the above described tract or parcel of land unto E. Hattaway, David Hattaway, B. A. J. Smith, J. P. Miller, and L. Cook trustees of Friendship Church for the purpose of erecting a missionary Baptist church and the grave yard is to be used exclusively for the burying of white persons to have and to hold said tract or parcel of land for said purpose only unto there the L. Cook, trustees of Friendship Baptist Church and their successors together with all and singular the rights, members, and appurtenances to the land in any manner belonging to them for the use above mentioned forever in fee simple.
In testimony whereof the said Elizabeth Hattaway, Emanuel Hattaway, David Hattaway, Walter L. Hattaway, Mary Teal, and Luther Cook hath hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals the day and year above written. Emanuel Hattaway (his mark) Elizabeth Hattaway (her mark) David Hattaway (His mark) Walter L. Hattaway Mary Teal L. Cook Signed, sealed, and delivered in the presence of James A. Cook
J. B. Smith, J.P.
Recorded December 15th, 1880
M. H. Wooddall, C.S.C.
This deed was made between Elizabeth (Teal) Hattaway and many of her surviving children, Emanuel (also shown as E. Hattaway), David, Walter Hattaway, Mary (Hattaway) Teal, and her widowed son-in-law, Luther Cook. At the time of this deed, the cemetery that would become Friendship Baptist Church Cemetery already contained the graves of Elizabeth (Teal) Hattaway's husband, Lacy Hattaway, their son Frank Hattaway, and their daughter Eliza Ann (Hattaway) Cook. Frank Hattaway is buried in an unmarked grave made of field stones. The cemetery may also contain the unmarked graves of Elizabeth (Teal) and Lacy Hattaway's son-in-laws: Meshack Teal (hanged in 1856) and Jesse Teal (died during the Civil War)as well as infant children and grandchildren. Their son-in-law, William F. M. Mapp died during the Civil War in Richmond and is supposedly buried there. William's widow, Elizabeth (Hattaway) Mapp Vaughn, had apparently sold part of her share to her brother Walter, remarried, and was living in Texas at this time.
Elizabeth (Teal) Hattaway was buried at Friendship Baptist Church Cemetery within four years of this deed. Also buried there were Emanuel Hattaway and his wife Amanda (Mapp) Hattaway, David Hattaway and his wife Mary (Cash) Hattaway, Walter Luther Hattaway and his wife Eliza Susan (Pate) Hattaway, Luther Cook with both wives Eliza Ann (Hattaway) Cook and Sarah Elizabeth (Dailey) Cook. In addition, many descendents of Emanuel Hattaway, Walter Hattaway, and Eliza (Hattaway) Cook are buried at Friendship.
Luther Cook's parents, John Cook and Polly Ann (Burnett) Cook, were buried there as well as Luther's younger brother James A. Cook. James was a witness to this deed, but died as a young man in 1886. Some of James A. Cook's land was purchased by David Hattaway (his brother's former brother-in-law). Dave Hattaway was also a witness to their father, John Cook's will.
B. A. J. Smith, listed as a trustee of the new church was Basil Andrew Jackson Smith, born in 1843 to Basil Smith and Margaret Amanda (Atchison) Short, and died in 1922. It is not known if J. P. Smith, Justice of the Peace in this deed, was related to Basil or not.
J. P. Miller, also listed as a trustee of Friendship, was James Preston / Presley Miller, who would also be buried in the cemetery along with his wife Celia (Wilkerson) Miller. Three of Preston and Celia Miller's daughters would marry grandsons of Lacy and Elizabeth (Teal) Hattaway: Nellie Miller married Oscar Cook, Lenora Miller married Joe Wheeler Hattaway, and Bertha Miller married Lacy Lane Hataway.
A few years before this land was officially designated for the church, Friendship Baptist had already started.
13 charter members are listed in 1876:
1. Mrs. Stevie (Docia Kidd) Garrett: Theodocia Kidd, daughter of James Harvey Kidd and Catherine Medora Short Kidd Smith
2. Mrs. William (Betty Kidd) Nix: Sarah Elizabeth Kidd, daughter of James Harvey Kidd and Catherine Medora Short Kidd Smith
3. Mr. Emanuel Hattaway: son of Lacy and Elizabeth (Teal) Hattaway
4. Mrs. Emanuel Hattaway: Amanda Jane Mapp Hattaway
5. Mr. L. N. B. Cook: Luther Napoleon Bonaparte Cook
6. Mrs. L. N. B. Cook: Eliza Ann Hattaway Cook, daughter of Lacy Hattaway and Elizabeth (Teal) Hattaway. By the time the deed was made in 1880, Eliza had passed away and her husband had remarried to Sarah Elizabeth Dailey.
7. Mr. L. M. Teal - unknown relation to Elizabeth (Teal) Hattaway
8. Mrs. Sarah Boggs - possible relation to William Boggs in the estate of Lacy and Elizabeth Hattaway
9. Mr. B. A. J. Smith: Basil Andrew Jackson Smith
10. Mrs. B. A. J. Smith: Catherine Medora Short Kidd Smith
11. Mr. David Hattaway: son of Lacy and Elizabeth (Teal) Hattaway
12. Mr. Tom Chastain
13. Mrs. Tom Chastain
Docia (Kidd) Garrett and Betty (Kidd) Nix's sister, Gabriella Kidd, would marry Mary (Cash) Hattaway's nephew, Alexander Stephens Garrett. All three (Docia, Betty, and Gabriella) were daughters of Catherine Medora Short by her first husband, James Harvey Kidd.
Martha (Cash) Garrett, mother of Alexander Stephens Garrett, is buried next to her sister, Mary (Cash) Hattaway in Friendship Cemetery.
Friendship Baptist Church became the foundation for a church and also a school. The church was rebuilt in 1942 - a marvelous granite structure with magnificent stained glass windows remembering early members. A Fellowship Hall was added later with stained glass windows naming long standing members of Friendship Baptist.
Many descendants of founding members still attend regularly. Each year, on the third Sunday in August, Friendship Baptist Church has a Homecoming for old members, pastors or anyone who would like to enjoy the fellowship. Over a century ago, what started as FAMILY has become a wide web of FRIENDSHIP.
