Sardis Church in Folkston, Georgia

[Tom]

Sardis is the oldest church in Folkston.  I continually run into historic stories and artifacts when sawing in Folkston.   Some need closure and I try as hard as I can to link them up or find an ending to the stories.

While sawing Andy's and Ricky's Sweet gum and Oak that was downed behind the old church by the latest hurricane,  I found, deep in it's depths a bullet.  Lots of lead with not much shape that we figure must have come from an old muzzle loader.

Now, it just so happens that there is a popular story about the pulpit in the old church.
http://www.folkston.com/pdfs/pkg1nc.pdf
A bullet was fired through it by a defender in the Indian Wars.  Now, the way I've got it figured, that bullet passed through the pulpit, out the back of the church and lodged itself in that very same Sweet Gum that we were sawing.

So, if you are ever at Ricky's house and sit down to a supper table made of sweet gum, look for that piece of lead lodged in its surface and wonder in the fact that you are gazing upon the musket ball that passed through the pulpit.

A little later in the same log, we ran through an ancient nail that, after almost an hour of supposing, we decided must have been where they nailed the wanted poster for that Indian.

[Jeff]

Sounds logical ta me!

[DanG]

Just a little while back, Arkansawyer posted a piece or two about old stumps. Just a couple of days ago, if I remember. Those little essays told us a bit about stumps, but told us a whole lot more about the man that wrote them. I could say the same about this story of a man defending his territory, and the resultant bullet in the tree. The man that tell's it is pivotal to the story.  Thanks Tom!  

[isawlogs]

Sounds logical ta me!

I can beleive dat to...

[SwampDonkey]

I'll second that motion Mr. chairman. ;D