Fannin County

[crickets chirping] [fire crackling] Tilley Bend Baptist Church sits tucked away in the thick forests of Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where winding roads cut through steep hills, and isolated mountain communities trace their roots back to the 19th century.

Located along Old Dial Road in rural Fannin County, not far from the Toccoa River, the church that's there today is a modern wooden building, its dark brown exterior standing in stark contrast to the greenery of the surrounding forest.

Like many of the places we've visited over the years, a- at first glance, there isn't much about this little country church that would suggest anything out of the ordinary.

After all, it's served as a place of worship for generations of local families, with a congregation whose history dates all the way back to 1858.

Before Elizabeth Bradley became associated with curses or witchcraft, she was Elizabeth Tilly, a woman born into one of the families that settled in this area of the North Georgia mountains.

On March 28th, 1868, Elizabeth Tilly married Jason Bradley in Fannin County.

I don't know.

There is something about it, talking about it.

It is, yeah.

Well, Fannin County, Georgia, and I got to know each other well.

Yes, yes.

And I feel, uh, I feel a, a little kinship to the, that county as well because it taught me how to do genetic genealogy.