{"id":2619,"date":"2020-10-18T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/?p=2619"},"modified":"2020-10-18T07:07:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T12:07:02","slug":"bethany-methodist-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/bethany-methodist-church\/","title":{"rendered":"BETHANY METHODIST CHURCH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Old Bethany Methodist Church, South of Martin, Tennessee<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"765\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Bethany_Church.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Bethany_Church.jpg 765w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Bethany_Church-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Bethany Methodist Church was organized and built in 1887 on land donated by T. C. Wood.&nbsp; Some of the charter members from the local community were the Wood family along with the Meek, Mahon, Bullington, Cole and Brooks families.&nbsp;&nbsp; In later years Bethany became a member of the Ralston Circuit, sharing the minister with Ralston Methodist, Oak Hill Methodist, Campground Methodist and Pisgah Methodist.&nbsp; Due to declining membership Bethany was dissolved in the 1960&#8217;s.&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong><em>The site of this church was on what is currently called Bethany Church Road south of Martin.<\/em><\/strong><br><br><em>Submitted by Marilyn Brooks Hammonds<\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"377\" height=\"43\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/scroll9.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1732\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/old-churches\/\">BACK to Old Churches<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Web Design &amp; Graphics by MaryCarol<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Bethany Methodist Church, South of Martin, Tennessee Bethany Methodist Church was organized and built in 1887 on land donated by T. C. Wood.&nbsp; Some of the charter members from the local community were the Wood family along with the Meek, Mahon, Bullington, Cole and Brooks families.&nbsp;&nbsp; In later years Bethany became a member of <a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/bethany-methodist-church\/\" class=\"read-more inline\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-gutenberg.php","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"full","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"MaryCarol","author_link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/author\/marycarol\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/category\/uncategorized\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 5 years ago","modified":"Updated 5 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on October 18, 2020","modified":"Updated on October 18, 2020"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on October 18, 2020 7:00 am","modified":"Updated on October 18, 2020 7:07 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2619"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2624,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions\/2624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}