History of Magnolia
Lodge #86---Early County, Ga.---Rev. Wiley S. Leggett was a charter member of this lodge, chartered in 1849....A
Pastor of First
Baptist Church which was probably Macedonia
Baptist at the time(where the City Cemetery is now) in
Blakely.
(He also pastored
Bethel Baptist Church on the Ft. Gaines Hwy out of Blakely...Northwest) The Magnolia History reads that he married twice, it only mentions his second wife, Miss Lydodora
Sheffield, daughter of John
Sheffield. He married her Nov. 30, 1851. Mr. Leggett afterward moved to Louisiana.......Wiley was the first
Chaplain of Magnolia
Lodge...........
per Joan
Herndon, Corresponding Sec. 2002 for the
Early Co. Historical
Society.......hherndon@alltel.netWe have Volumes I and II and III available for sale of
Early County History.....contact me for more info.....There is also a History of the
Bethel Association in the Library in
Blakely that has histories of Pastors of the
Bethel Association. Lookups are 5.00 per time........JH