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Minister: MORRIS,
R. H. Title: Rev.
Years Served: aft 1878
Church: African Methodist Episcopal
Church
Village: Darbyville, Township: Muhlenberg, County:
Pickaway, State: OH
Source: History of Pickaway County and
Representative Citizens, 1906, pg. 149
Additional: Begun in the spring of
1878, services were held at the schoolhouse by
John DICKINSON. The pulpit was supplied for a time by Rev. R. H.
MORRIS,
of Circleville.
Date: Sun Jan 17 17:40:33
1999
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Minister: AMBROSE,
George Title:
Rev.
Years Served: 1820
Church:
Village: , Township:
Muhlenberg, County: Pickaway, State: OH
Source: History of
Pickaway County and Rep. Citizens, Van Cleaf, 1906, pg. 149
Additional:
"Rev. George AMBROSE came to the township about 1820, and taught school
on
the
west side of Darby Creek near Darbyville. He was a Baptist minister and
preached
in the
surrounding country."
Date: Mon Jan 18
18:33:55 1999
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Minister: WRIGHT,
James L Title:
Rev.
Years Served: 1840-1850
Church:
Village: ,
Township: , County: Benton County, State: AL
Source: The History
of Methodism in Alabama by Rev. Anson West, D.D.
Additional:
Linda R Todd Date: Sat
Apr 17 15:50:50
1999
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Minister: COLLIER,
William Edward
Title: Reverend
Years Served: 1838-1886
Church: Florida
Methodist Conference
Village: Florida, Township: Tampa, County:
Hillsborough, State: FL
Source: Archives of the Methodist Church,
Florida Conference and SC Conference
Additional: Rev./Dr. William E. COLLIER
first served in the South Carolina Conference. Then, while in the
Florida
Conference, he served the churches in the Wayne County, Georgia area.
Later,
while Presiding Elder of the Tampa District in 1871, he proposed a plan
for a
mission to the Seminole Indians in the Everglades. He was appointed as
the first
missionary to that area. He rode through areas where houses were a day
or so
apart, then he had to find his way through the swampy areas of the
Everglades.
His son, Oscar W. Collier, my great grandfather, carried on his mission
there in
the 1880's. Oscar was a "local" preacher of whom no records were kept
by the church.
Sydney Lane
Cardner Date: Sat Apr 17 16:54:27 1999
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Minister: COLLIER,
Junius S. Title:
Reverend
Years Served: 1873-1911
Church: Florida Conference of
the Methodist Church
Village: North Florida, Township: Brooksville,
Lake Weir, Taylor, County: Marion and Levy counties, State:
FL
Source: Archives of the Florida Methodist Conference
Additional: Junius was
the son of Rev./Dr. William E. COLLIER. They were from the Abbeville
and
Fairfield areas of South Carolina. They moved to GA from SC, and then
by 1861
they were in Florida. Junius, his father, and his brother, Oscar all
served in
the Confederacy in Florida units. Junius married Mary Clementine MCCOLLUM of
Micanopy, Florida.
Sydney L.
Cardner Date: Sat Apr 17 17:06:29 1999
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Minister: MURPHY,
Dabney P. J.
Title: Reverend
Years Served: 1857-1860
Church: First Baptist
Church
Village: Troy, Township: , County: Montgomery,
State: AL
Source: History Committee of the First Baptist Church, Troy,
Alabama
Additional: He also pastored churches in Rocky Mount and Hayneville.
He also worked as a carpenter, jewelry maker, and farmer. In 186o he
lived in
Helicon(now Crenshaw County. On March 11, 1860 his house in Helicon and
all of
its contents burned to the ground. He came to Florida in 1862. His wife
was
Charlotte ARMSTRONG of Alabama.
Children: Henry T. Murphy, James A. Murphy, William W. Murphy, Dabney
T. J.
Murphy, Nanci H. Murphy, and Charlotte Murphy.
Sydney Lane Cardner
Date:
Sun Apr 25 10:14:44 1999
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Minister: BURKE,
William Title: Rev.
Years Served: 1790-1855
Church: Methodist
Village: Circuit
Rider (KY,NC,TN,OH) Township: Cincinnati, County: ,
State:
OH
Source: Sketches of Western Methodism, by Rev. James B. Finley
Additional: Early Times in Middle Tennessee, by John Carr -
Autobiography of Rev. Jacob Young - Jacob Young Holston's Methodism by
R. N. Price - The Quarterly Bulletin, William Burke - Early
Cincinattian by Harry R. Stevens - Personal Memories by E. D. Mansfield
- History of Methodism in Kentucky by Rev. A. H. Redford - Methodism in
North Carolina
Date: Tue May 11
09:50:34 1999
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Minister: WALLS,
Simon Title: Rev
Years Served: 1882-1912
Church: Church of the United Brethren in
Christ
Village: French Lick, Township: French Lick, County:
Orange Co., State: IN
Source: They Carried the Torch - Walls Family by
Minnie Walls Noblitt
Additional: Had 24 assignments all in Southern Indiana.
Organized 5 churches - Sulphur Creek , Orange Co; Pleasant Valley,
Bartholomew
Co; Mt. Nebo, Grandview, and Beck's Grove all in Brown Co.IN. Three of
his sons
were also ministers.
Nina Andrew Date: Sat
May 22 23:15:53
1999
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Minister: BROTHERTON,
Levi Title:
Rev
Years Served: 1833-1838
Church: Cherokee Indian Nation
Village: , Township: , County: , State: TN
Source: Family
History papers on file at Emory University, Woodruff Library
Additional:
Levi BROTHERTON was born on the 8th day of October 1810,in Greene
County TN. His
father John Thomas BROTHERTON moved to Blount Co,TN in 1824. He lived
with his
parents until 1833. He professed religion on 17th day September 1829 at
Morganton
Camp Ground Tennessee and joined the Methodist Church on the morning of
the 18th
and was baptized by Joseph Ascue a preacher long and favourably known
in the
Holton Conference. He was licensed to exhort by Russell Bird soon after
joining
the church, he held his license some 8 years,he left Blount Co in 1833,
in the
company of John STANTON, the grandfather of the
preacher STANTON's of the Georgia
and Colorado Conferences, he came into the Cherokee Nation and remained
among the
Indians until they went west, which was five years. Use (sic) to
worship with the
Moravian Missionaries. He was licensed to preach by Rev David CUMMINGS P.E. at
Mount Olivet Church thirteen miles north of Dalton,GAin the year
1837,was
ordained Deacon in 1842 at Knoxville TN by Bishop WAUGH
of Baltimore. He was
ordained Elder at Madison GA by Bishop ANDREWS
in 1848.
extracted from handwritten notes sent to Brother W.C. Richardson
forpublication
in the Nashville and Macon Advocate sometime after Levi's death in
1885.
Michelle Gagner Date:
Sun May 30
09:48:39 1999
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Minister: RICHARDSON,
Simon Peter
Title:
Years Served: 1850s
Church:
Village: ,
Township: , County: , State:
Source: Autobiography, family
information, some research.
Additional: Simon Peter RICHARDSON b. 13,May
1818 in Dutch Fork, Newberry, South Carolina. Son of Peter and
Katherine HORNING
RICHARDSON. Katherine was born about 1796 in Newberry, SC. The family
was of the
Luthuren faith. Mother German and father English. Left home at an early
age.
Became a Methodist minister. Began a circut ride through GA, AL, FL.
Turned
down the governorship of FL when offered to him. Married Mary E. ARLEDGE about
1850 in Key West, Monroe, FL. He was a very famous circut rider of this
period.
He died in the early 1900s in Macon, GA at the home of his dau. His
funeral was
preached by the Bishop of the Methodist Church of GA. He is buried in
Macon, GA.
Nora B. Acton Date: Sun
Jun 27
23:57:30 1999
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Minister: BRIDGES,
John Wesley
Title: Rev
Years Served: 1878-1905
Church: Methodist Episcopal
Church
Village: Searcy, Township: Arkansas, County: White and
also Pulaski, State: AR
Source: Credentials, on file at Pulaski Co.
Courthouse, Little Rock. Have copy.
Additional: John Wesley BRIDGES was
born in 1831 in GA, the son of Dr. Benjamin BRIDGES and Mary Cival HENAGAN, both
of SC. The family moved from SC>GA>AL>MS before finally
settling in
Pulaski Co.,AR in l850. John Wesley married (l) Mary Francis LOFTIN of
Mississippi; (2) Frances M. SLATTERY of
Newberry Dist.,SC. John Wesley's
children were Ephraim Hennigan, b. 1856;Francis M, b. 1857;John C, b.
1858;Duncan
D, b. 1859, Francis (Dr. Frank), b. 1836;Lucius Benjamin, b. 1866;Alice
Druscilla, b. 1868;Hunter, b. 1871;Mildred Caroline, b. 1875;John, b.
1878;Jim,
born 1884, and Emma, b. ___. In 1885, Rev. Bridges took his family and
by foot
that traveled to Coleman (Sumter Co)FLA, where his brother, Dr. Ephraim
Hennigan
Bridges lived. They lived in Coleman until the big freeze of l895,
whereupon
they walked back to Little Rock. It is probable that he was a planter
and a
preacher while in Florida. I have a picture of him, and one of the
trunks they
traveled to and from Florida with.
Mildred Brady Venitucci
Date: Tue Jun 29 12:50:58 1999
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