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.net
We 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