When Bettie Tyler’s aunt died leaving four little stair steps, she and her sister, Mollie, founded the Hephzibah Orphanage and Tabernacle Rescue Home (#71) at their farm home in Monroe County. They started the orphanage with fifty cents worth of sugar, a few pounds of rice, and one dollar in cash. Miss Tyler later relocated the orphanage to larger quarters on a 600-acre farm off Pea Ridge Road in Macon. In 1922, she sold the ministry to the Southern Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Church to ensure its continuance.
(1857-1928) (Daisy, lot 7, row I)
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