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Notes for Harmon Shell
Tranquil Methodist Church at Turin, Georgia was organized by early settlers from Newberry District, South Carolina. It was one of the two first Methodist Churches in Coweta County. Among the charter members were Harmon Shell, William Shell and wife, Nancy, and Isom Shell and wife Mary. William Shell was the first Superintendent of the Sunday Schools. It was once said (1928) that there had never been a time in the Church's history that the Shell Family was not represented on the official board (Coweta Co. Chronicles, Mary C. Jones and Lily Reynolds, Atlanta, 1928). William Shell, named above, was a son of Harmon; Isom (Isham), a son of Harmon's brother, John. No doubt the church at Turin was named for Tranquil Church of Newberry Dist., SC. Probably Harmon and the others worshipped at the South Carolina Church before going to Georgia.
Descendants state that Harmon is buried in the churchyard of Old Tranquil Methodist Church, Turin, GA.
Harmon's family is shown in censuses for Newberry District for 1800, 1810, 1820 and 1830. He was one of the enumerators of the census for 1820; in that year he reported 19 slaves in his household.
Dixie L. McCrary. The Ellis Line from Surry-Sussex in Virginia. 1978, p. 36.
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