Faith
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When a migrant worker died in 1879, this community had no cemetery. Counce Reeves, a Civil War veteran from Hamilton County, Georgia, and his wife Selina gave two acres at this site for a church and burial ground. The Rev. D. Dane of Jefferson led the organization of Reeves Chapel Methodist Church. The congregation first erected a brush arbor and then built a frame meetinghouse in the fall of 1879. Reeves later deeded two additional acres, and after the fellowship grew, members began efforts in 1907 to erect a larger building.
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