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Notes for William Baugh Shell
William Baugh Shell was born about 1801 married Nancy S. Nance, daughter of Clement Nance and Elizabeth Sanders Gilliam of Newberry County, moved to Coweta County, Georgia about 1832; he and his wife were among the founders of Tranquil Methodist Church Turin, Coweta County; 1845 elected Judge of Inferior Count Coweta County, was a delegate to state Convention in Savannah which passed the ordinance of secession, 1861; d. about 1870) Settlement of estate in Coweta, County.
Betty Nunnely Jones. Elsie Wright File. ELW.rtf received 6/1999
William Baugh Shell, born near Prosperity, SC, on 4-3-1801, d. 7-28-1870, and his wife Nancy Sims Nance Shell, b. 1809, d. 1881, came to Coweta Co. from Newberry Co., SC, about 1828. William Baugh Shell was the son of Harmon Shell and Martha Eppes. Martha' s parents were John Eppes (1746-1824) and Elizabeth Baugh (1750-1816). Harmon Shell was the son of William Shell, Revolutionary War soldier (grave marker in Tranquil Cemetery), and his wife, Amelia Ellis. William Baugh Shell and Nancy Nance Shell received a land grant about 1828 near what is now Turin. Their children were John Blakely Shell, Thomas Edward Shell, and Frances Shell who m. Dr. John Gay. William Baugh Shell gave the land for the original Tranquil Methodist Church and Tranquil Cemetery near what is now Standing Rock Road in Coweta Co. The church brought its name from Tranquil Church in South Carolina, and later became the Turin Methodist Church. William Baugh Shell was one of three delegates to the State Convention in Milledgeville that passed the ordinance of secession. He retained the pen with which he signed the ordinance.
Newnan-Coweta County Historical Society. History of Coweta County, Georgia. p. 345.
Coweta County sent Dr. A. B. Calhoun, J. J. Pinson and Major William B. Shell as delegates to the State Convention that passed the ordinance of secession and Newnan's military company, the Newnan Guards were the first in the State to offer their services - thereby becoming Company A of the First Georgia Regiment.
There has never been a time in the history of the church that the Shell family was not represented on the official board of Tranquil Methodist Church, at Turin. Charter members, as remembered by their descendants, were Harmon Shell, William Shell and wife, Nancy, Isom Shell and wife Mary, Richard Leavelll and wife, Mrs. Page, the mother of Dr. G. H. Page. There has been an evergereen Sunday school in the church, with only six superintendents in all the years. They are as follows: William Shell, Patrick Carmichael, J. C. Elmore, Robert Hodnett, A. S. Carmichael, and Z. Christopher.
Mary G. Jones & Lily Reynolds, ed. Coweta County Chronicles for One Hundred Years. 1928, pp. 138-39, 345.
William Baugh Shell was one of the Georgia delegates who signed the ordinance for Georgia's secession from the Union. The pen with which he signed is still in the Shell family.
John Crouch. Descendants of Clement Nance and Elizabeth Sanders Gilliam.
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