TUGALOO UNITED BAPTIST ASSN. (Ga)
Given my recent discovery and contact with United Baptists in northeast Alabama, it renewed my desire to see if could find any United Baptists in Georgia. The Towns Creek UB Association in Alabama had told me that they fellowshipped several churches in North Georgia that were similar in doctrine, that had descended from some United Baptists, but no longer used that name. As I was digging, I ran across the history of the Tugaloo Baptist Association in northeast Georgia. It is now part of the Georgia Baptist Convention and the SBC. However, it was founded as the Tugaloo Association of United Baptists. I have been searching for United Baptists (henceforth "UB's") for years, and wouldn't you know it, I found it right under my nose. The Tugaloo UB Association is the association that my grandmother's church is in, which is New Bethel, constituted in 1870 formed out of Nails Creek, constituted 1794. This is also of great interest, because this association ...