John B Wade

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1819, , Franklin, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1830, , Franklin, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1850, , Franklin, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1860, Hartwell, Hart, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 16 Jul 1867, , Hart, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1870, Ray, Hart, Georgia, USA
• Probate: 19 Aug 1873, , Elbert, Georgia, USA

Notes:

From John William Baker, History of Hart County, 1933, 2nd ed. (1968), pp. 359-60:
To the best of our information, Providence Church was constituted about the year 1815, as we have a record to the effect that John B. Wade and his cousin James Wade, both of whom were local Methodist preachers, and Polly Wade, who was perhaps an aunt of John B. Wade, and Elizabeth (or Betty as she was called), sister to John B. Wade and wife of Tarvner Rucker and perhaps others, on Christmas eve 1815, erected a log house which was the first church building at Providence, and that Polly and Betty were so anxious that the house be built that they with their own hands carried up one corner of the house when it was raised.
Perhaps it would be as appropriate here as elsewhere to give some kind of a historical sketch of Rev. John B. Wade and his activities as a pioneer preacher in the early days of our country.
He was a son of Anne Wade, as it appears from the old records of Franklin County that during the year 1825 and perhaps before and after, she drew a pension as the widow of a Revolutionary soldier, in which connection John B. Wade and others are mentioned as her children.
Anne Wade and children, and perhaps others of the Wade connection, came from Virginia and settled in what was then Franklin, later Hart County.
Anne Wade is buried in the cemetery at Providence and her grave is marked by a splendid rock vault, which bears the following inscription: "Anne Wade, Died June 18, 1849, ae. 84 years." It is evident from this inscription that she was born about the year 1764.
John B. Wade lived in the community at the time Providence Church was organized and on up until aboult the year 1854, when he sold his land and bought other lands down in the neighborhood of Macedonia Church, which was consecrated in 1854, he being perhaps the moving spirit in the organization and constitution of the church at Macedonia. He and others were the trustees to whom the land on which the church was located was deeded by Job Bowers, 23 Aug. 1854.
Along about the 1840s or early 1850s, there was a Methodist church called New Hope, which stood about a mile south of where Reed Creek is located, at which John B. Wade at one time preached. He also preached at a number of places in the country and was perhaps the leader in the constitution of other churches besides those named. It was usual in the early days, when the country was but sparsely settled and churches were few and far apart, to hold religious services at central points, which were [360] called preaching centers or stations, and where there were houses in which services were held, they were called "Meeting Houses." At many of these centers, churches were later constituted.
John B. Wade was quite active as a pioneer preacher, did quite an amount of work along religious lines, and in consideration of his many labors for his Master it may truly be said of him as was once said of another pioneer preacher of our country, "Rude temples of worship in many places sprang into existence at the call of this good man, blooming like wild flowers along the woodland paths."
Rev. John B. Wade is buried at Providence. We do not have the date of his death.

Residence:
Tax List 1819

Residence:
Residence Post Office: Hartwell

Residence:
Residence Post Office: Bowersville

Probate:
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/332030:8635?ssrc=pt&tid=186686953&pid=352449724732
Will on page 263

John married Emilia Mildred Hilley on 22 Jan 1811 in , Elbert, Georgia, USA. Emilia was born about 1795 in , , Georgia, USA; died on 17 Nov 1868 in , Hart, Georgia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Lucy S Wade was born on 15 Mar 1813 in , , Georgia, USA.
2. Mary Elizabeth Wade was born on 16 Feb 1816 in , , Georgia, USA; died on 28 Sep 1887 in , Hart, Georgia, USA.
3. W C Wade was born in 1818 in , , Georgia, USA; died on 30 Nov 1886.
4. Anna Riley Wade was born on 11 Mar 1818 in , Franklin, Georgia, USA; died on 17 Dec 1900 in , Hart, Georgia, USA.
5. Wesley G Wade was born on 18 Sep 1820 in , Hart, Georgia, USA; died on 5 May 1864 in Edray, Pocahontas, West Virginia, USA.
6. James Adrian Clive Wade was born on 17 Oct 1823 in , Hart, Georgia, USA; died on 30 Nov 1886 in , Franklin, Georgia, USA.
7. Elizabeth Wade was born in 1825.
8. Nancy E. P. Wade was born on 17 Mar 1828 in , Hart, Georgia, USA; died on 16 Jul 1865.

John married Elizabeth Jane Kezziah Driver on 11 Jun 1871 in , Elbert, Georgia, USA. Elizabeth was born in 1810 in , , Georgia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joshua married Anna Boatright on 2 Nov 1786 in , Bedford, Virginia, USA. Anna (daughter of William B Boatwright and Mary Fletcher) was born on 7 Jun 1764 in , Cumberland, Virginia, USA; died on 18 Jun 1849 in , Elbert, Georgia, USA; was buried in , Hart, Georgia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: , , Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1815, , Elbert, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1830, , Franklin, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1835, , Franklin, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1840, , Franklin, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1848, , , Virginia, USA

Notes:

Taken from Rootsweb - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kenmullins/p143.htm

"Assuming Anna, his underage daughter, was about 15 when she m Joshua Wade (Ct accepted Wm's approval). William's daughter Anna Wade, made application for her Widow's Revolutionary War Pension, and on 19 Jul 1842, while residents of Elbert County GA, her children made affidavits supporting her application. "--- Joshua Wade died 18 Feb 1800 after sliding upon the ice, and a few years after his death, Anna moved with her father William Boatright and family to the State of GA and settled in Elbert County."

In 1802 or 1803, the soldier's widow, Anna Wade moved with her father and family to Elbert Co Georgia, and later to Franklin Co Georgia.
Joshua's widow, Anna, was allowed pension on her application executed July 19, 1842, at which time she was aged seventy eight years and a resident of Franklin Co GA.

It is stated in 1842, that Joshua Wade had two or three children (the names are not shown). John B. and Polly Wade were residing in Franklin Co GA in 1842, and Polly was still a resident there in 1845. No relationship to the soldier was stated.

Anna Wade, widow of Joshua Wade
A. D. Haller
Veterans Administration, Washington D.C.

Anna Wade was buried in the cemetery at Providence and her grave is marked by a splendid rock vault, which bears the following inscription:
Anna Wade, Died June 18, 1849, age 84". It is evident from this inscription that she was born 1764.

William married Mary Fletcher in 1763 in , Hanover, Virginia, USA. Mary was born about 1734; died about 1838. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]