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- Macon County Citizen-Montezuma Georgian Sept.10,1953
KLECKLEY MEMORIAL TO BE UNVEILED AT MT. ZION SUNDAY
The memory of the Rev. and Mrs. Jacob Kleckley will be honored at a "Home-Coming Day" program to be conducted by the Macon County Lutheran Parish at the old Mt. Zion Church in the Englishville Community on Sunday, September 20th.
D. C. Smith, general chairman of the festivities, announces that a fitting historical memorial will then be unveiled on the grave of his grandparents- the Rev. and Mrs. Jacob Kleckley. This service will be conducted in the Mt. Zion Cemetery at 4:00 pm by Dr. C. E. Fritz of Atlanta.
In the morning at the 11:00 am service, Mt. Zion's oldest living former pastor, Charles A. Phillips. of Hickory, N.C. will deliver a sermon on "The Lamps of Life".
During the 3:00 pm service, sermons will be given by Dr. C. E. Fritz and the Rev. Park Smith, pastor of 1st Street Methodist Church in Macon, Ga. As the Great Grandson of Jacob Kelckley, the Rev. Mr. Smith will speak on "The Church and the Family". As the President of the Georgia Synod of the Lutheran Church which Jacob Kleckley helped to organize in 1860, Dr. Fritz will discuss "The Congregation and the Greater Church".
The general public is invited to attend any or all of these "Home-Coming" festivities. Please bring a picnic lunch with you so you can join the gathering around the "old oak tree" in the Mt. Zion Church yard at noon time.
[Note: Frances (Fannie)A. Hammiter, b.29 July 1801; d. 04 July 1883] and Jacob Kleckley [November 1, 1791 - April 23, 1862] Grave markers in the Mt. Zion Lutheran Cemetery. The Memorial Marker reads: In Memory of the Reverend and Mrs. Jacob Kleckley, founders of Lutheranism in West Georgia, coming from South Carolina in 1838, they built Mt. Zion First Church 1 mile west of here, and St. John's First Church 10 miles southeast. He went by horse to sessions of the South Carolina Synod until his dream came true in 1860. The founding of the Georgia Synod.
Jacob Kleckley with his 3rd wife, Fannie Hameter Kleckley came to Macon County among its first settlers from Newberry Dist., S.C. He was a Lutheran preacher, soon made minister of Mt. Zion Lutheran Church which pulpit he filled until he died.
Their children were Harriet, John, Catherine, Joel Thomas, Rhoda Ann Patience, David and Nancy.
Davine Campbell, Macon Co., GA
Macon County was formed in 1837 - the courthouse burned in 1857 thereby losing 20 years of Macon County records. The first surviving record for Macon County, Georgia is the
1838 Tax Digest of Macon Co., Ga.
Only Daniel Kleckley is mentioned - 1 Poll - 3 Slaves -
NO PROPERTY
1840 Census of Macon Co., Ga. HH 422
JACOB KLECKLEY
1 - m under 5 Joseph (4)
1 - m 5-10 David (9)
1 - m 10-15 John (13)
1 - m 20-30 Daniel (23)
1 - m 40-50 Jacob (48)
1 - f 5-10 Patience (6)
1 - f 10-15 Martha (13)
2 - f 15-20 Harriet (17)
1 - f 30-40 Frances (Hammiter) (42)
20 Slaves 30 Total 16 Agi.
1850 Census Macon Co., Ga. HH 526 Dist 740
KLECKLY, Jacob 58 m/w Farmer Lutheran M.7000 SC
Frances (Hamiter) 52 f/w SC
Harrit 27 f/w SC
John 23 m/w SC
Martha 23 f/w SC
David 19 m/w SC
Patience 16 f/w SC [Rhoda Ann Patience]
Joseph 14 m/w SC [Joel Thomas]
Catharine 8 f/w [SC] GA per 1860 census
COOGLE, Rebecca 27 f/w SC
Rachael 10 f/w SC
1
1860 Census Macon Co., Ga. HH 402
KLECKLEY, Jacob 68 m Lutheran Clergyman 10,200
31,450 SC [d.4-23-1862
Frances 60 f SC
Was a reverend
Mt Zion Lutheran Cemetery Macon Co., Georgia:
In Memory of the Reverend and Mrs. Jacob Kleckley founders of Lutheranism in West Georgia,
coming from South Carolina in 1838, they built Mt. Zion First church 1 mile west of here, and St. John's First Church 10 miles southeast, he went by horse to sessions of the South Carolina Synod until his dream came true in 1860. The founding of the Georgia Synod.
Jacob Kleckley
1 November 1791 23 April 1862
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1791 - 1862 (70 years)
