Word of the Rev. Jefferson Milner preceded him as he traveled Northwest Georgia and Alabama planting churches like a farmer plants crops.
As is typical of the times, much of his life’s work is unknown. We know he was born into slavery in South Carolina in about 1820, and he was buried in 1895 at the Oakland and Eastwood Cemetery in North Rome.
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