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Minister: NELMS,
John Archibald
Title: Parson
Years Served: 1820 -1870
Church: Methodist
Circuit Rider of Epistocal League
Village: Russellville, Logan Co.,
KY, Township: Bonham, Fannin Co., TX, County: Fannin
Co.,
State: TX
Source: 1850 U.S. Census, Fannin Co., TX.
Additional:
WEDDLE, Robert S, PLOW-HORSE CAVALRY, Madrona Press, Inc. / Austin,
TX,c. 1974.
Robert S. Weddle "writes of his own land and his own people," as he
edits Civil War letters exchanged by "Americus Leonidas Nelms and his
wife,
Minerva Jane, (his) maternal grandparents during the Civil War."
His words: " As I delved into the family records and historical
material
that helped me weave these letters into a narrative, old kinship ties
long
neglected were discovered. My pride in the family heritage was
bolstered, and
my work became a labor of love."
Juanita H. Cooper
Date: Tue Jul 31
11:13:18 2001
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Minister: QUINN,
James Title: Rev.
Years Served: 1799-1847
Church: Methodist Episcopal Church
Village: , Township: , County: , State: OH
Source: Life
and Labors of James Quinn by John F. Wright
Additional: Rev. James QUINN was
a highly respected minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. After
his death in
1847, Rev. QUINN was buried in Auburn Cemetery, Highland County, Ohio.
His
gravestone reads: JAMES QUINN who was nearly half a century a minister
of the M.
E. Church, d. 1 Dec 1847, Age 72y 8 mos. Erected by his brethern of the
Ohio
Conference , Wright & Connell, Committee." Rev. James Quinn married
(1)
Patience TEEL/TEAL (2) Eleanor WHITTEN.
His brother Isaac (also a minister)
married Cynthia WHITTEN (sister of Eleanor) Some of the circuits Rev.
Quinn
ministered to were the Greenfield, Highland, and Scioto Circuits.
Pamela J. Dawson Date:
Tue Jul 31
19:06:05 2001
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Minister: DESHAZO,
Larkin Title:
Rev.
Years Served: unknown
Church: Methodist
Village:
, Township: , County: Benton, Carroll, &
Crockett, State:
TN
Source: 1941 Memphis Conference Yearbook
Additional: Larkin was a
member of the Central Tennessee Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
Ruth Wick Date: Sun
Aug 12
19:37:40 2001
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Minister: DOAN,
Thomas Title: Rev.
Years Served:
Church: Methodist Episcopal
Village: ,
Township: German Township, County: Bartholomew County,
State: In
Source: "History of Bartholomew County, Indiana" page 476 by Brant and
Fuller; "Doi
Additional: Rev. Thomas DOAN (DOANE), my ancestor was born
a Quaker in North Carolina July l9, l781 a son of Joseph Doan and wife
Jemima
Vestal Doan. Rev. Thomas Doan died in German Township, Bartholomew
County,
Indiana 8/25/l85l. He married Sarah HOBSON, born
Dec. l9, l778, and died
8/l9/l835 in German Township, Bartholomew County, Indiana. Both are
buried in the
HAMNER Cemnetery at Amity, Indiana. Rev. Thomas Doan's tombstone is
large and
thick, not like tombstones here in the East. Rev. Thomas DOAN was a
Quaker and
married out of unity of the Quakers so he became a Methodist. On Dec.
2l, l845 he
performed the marriage of his favorite granddaughter, Mary Jane EARLYWINE to
Edward BARKLEY which is recorded in Bartholomew
County, Indiana marriage book 4,
page 64, in which he states he is a licensed Minister of the Methodist
Episcopal
Church. I have never found where he was licensed. But records prove he
was, the
above being one of them. In 1820 he and his wife Martha HOBSON lived in
Washington County, Indiana. In 1821 they were in Johnson County,
Indiana and in
that year a Methodist Episcopal Church was formed there, and he and the
EARLYWINES were members. The church was organized on Sugar Creek, in
the Blue
River Township. His glasses and Bible I gave back to the Tipton County,
Indiana
Historical Society, while his saddle bags were lost in the fire which
destroped
his granddaughter's log cabin in Tipton County, Indiana about l909. He
is well
written about in my book," OUR GERMAN, PILGRIM, QUAKER ANCESTORS<"
PAGES 64,65. There are many descendants who do not know of him, I am
sure.
Material submitted by a professional genealogist for over thirty five
years and
a life member of the Doane Association of America.(Mary Belle Lontz)
Dr. Mary Belle Lontz
Date: Wed Aug 29
18:28:28 2001
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Minister: HOLLERS,
James Lemuel
Title: Rev.
Years Served: 1891-1909
Church: First United
Methodist Church
Village: Corsicana, Township: , County: ,
State: TX
Source: Central Texas Conference & Northwest Texas Conference
Additional: 1891-New Hope Mission 1901-Silverton
1892-Santo 1902-Chillicothe
1893-Proctor
1894-Proctor
1895-Harmony Circuit
1896-Killeen-Nolanville
1897-Oglesby Circuit
1898-Oglesby Circuit
1899-Canadian
1900-(Superannuate)
Joyce
(Hollers) Jones Date: Mon Sep 17 19:18:21
2001
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Minister: FARNSWORTH,
Title:
Years Served:
Church: (home of Issac Carter)
Village:
Trask, Township: Jefferson , County: Grant, State: IN
Source: History of Grant County, Indiana Parts I & II, Chicago,
Brant &
fuller, 188
Additional: First name is not listed. Following quote from
reference" page 367
Referring to Jefferson Township
"....meetings and preaching were held at the houses of citizens till
buildings were erected. Meetings were held at William Heal's in
Delaware
(County), and at Issac Carter's in Grant, as early as 1833 and 1835.
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Farnsworth preached at Carter's; ---Roby
preached at Carter's and Heal's;
___swank preached at same places; Wade Posey
preached at the same places in 1837;
and organized some other churches.
Marianne Carter
Date: Sun Oct 7
09:27:13 2001
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Minister: DODD,
THOMAS HEWETT Title:
REV.
Years Served: 1912-1930
Church: various
Village:
, Township: , County: , State: AZ
Source: Newspaper
Obituaries (see below)
Additional: Obituary from Arizona Daily Star, June 1,
1930, page 7:
AJO, May 31 -- Rev. Thomas Hewett Dodd, age 66, pastor of the Ajo
Federated
church for the past few years, died in the Good Samaritan hospital,
Phoenix,
Sunday morning following a brief attack of pneumonia. Rev. Dodd had
shortly
before gone to Phoenix to be treated for sinus trouble from which he
had suffered
for over two years. The body was brought to this city Wednesday and
services,
conducted by Dr. A. L. Baker, of Los Angeles,
an intimate friend of the deceased,
were held Thursday morning. After the services here in Ajo, the body
was taken to
Kingman for a second service and burial. Rev. Will A. Betts, of Phoenix, district
superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal church was in charge of the
services in
that place.
Mr. Dodd had been pastor at both Hayden and Kingman prior to being
appointed to
this community. He was a member of the Masonic and Knights of Pythias
orders,
Kingman lodges. Suriviving relatives are his widow, one daughter, Mrs.
Clayton
Sherer and a grandson, Bernard Sherer.
The Ajo Federated church building will stand as a monument to its late
pastor as
he was largely instrumental in the making of the plans and in selecting
its
furnishings.
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This obituary is pasted in the family Bible belonging to my
great-grandmother,
Rev. Dodd's widow. There is no date or paper given:
Rev. T. H. Dodd Dies
Rev. Thomas Hewett Dodd, pastor of the Ajo Federated church for almost
five
years, passed away at 3:30 Sunday morning in the Good Samaritan
hospital,
Phoenix, with pneumonia. Rev. Dodd has been suffering with sinus
trouble and
asthma for about four years and has undergone a number of operations.
He also
suffered an attack of pneumonia during the past winter, and this left
him so
weakened that he lacked the resistance to withstand another attack.
Mr. Dodd has been in Arizona since 1912, when he went to Hayden and
there
superintended the building of the church. From Hayden he went to
Kingman in 1919
where he served until 1923 and also superintended the building of
another church.
From 1923 to 1925, he filled a pulpit in Los Angeles, whence he was
called to Ajo
in September, 1925. During the building of the Ajo Federated church, he
was
continuously on the job to see that the people of the church were
receiving the
best in the building of their place of worship.
Rev. Dodd was born in Brampton, England Oct 20, 1864 and came to
America in 1888.
He was a graduate of Oxford university, and also of Princeton. A man of
broad
understanding and sympathy, a profound thinker and erudite scholar, he
brought to
the people of Ajo a cultured and highly Christian pastorate. The more
intimately
one knew Rev. Dodd, the more he drew their affections to himself.
Those privileged to know Rev. Dr. Dodd intimately were impressed with
his
gentleness, sympathy and responsiveness, and his loss will be felt by
them keenly
-- the loss of a departed friend, as well as pastor. And they
understand that
when as a pastor he at times spoke and preached plainly, one of his
sensitive,
kindly nature would do so only for what he believed to be the good of
the person,
of the church and of the best interests of the community generally. He
ever
realized -- and never tried to shirk -- his duty as a minister.
Memorial funeral services will be held in the Ajo Federated church at
10 o’clock
Thursday morning. Dr. A.L. Baker, Los Angeles, formerly district
superintendent
of the Methodist Episcopal church and a friend of Rev. Dr. Dodd for
many years,
will conduct the service. The body will be sent to Kingman for burial,
and the
Rev. Will A. Betts, district superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal
church,
will officiate at the funeral and interment there.
Rev. Dodd was a life member of the Masonic lodge in Kingman, also of
the Knights
of Pythias. Life membership in the latter was given him last year as a
Christmas
gift from members of the Kingman lodge. Burial will be in the Masonic
plot of the
Kingman cemetery.
Deceased in survived by his widow, Nora E. Dodd, a daughter, Mrs.
Claire Sherer
of Holtwood, Md., who has spent the winter with her parents and with
Mrs. Dodd
was with Rev. Dodd at the end, and a grandson, Bernard Sherer.
Rev. Dodd leaves a host of friends who mourn his loss and who extend to
the
bereaved family their deepest and most sincere sympathy.
Richard Aurand Sherer
Date: Fri Nov 23 12:16:38 2001
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Minister: GRAY,
Samuel Title: Father
Years Served: 1829-1856
Church: Seneca Glanford Circuit - Canada
Village: Onandaga, Township: Seneca, County: , State:
ON
Source: As Recorded in: Plan of Appointments on the Glanford and Seneca
Circuits
Additional: Samuel Gray(Matthew, Matthew)was born April 2,1781 in
Skirlaugh, E. York, Eng.,
and died February 11,1856 in Onandaga, Ont., Canada.
"Father Gray" as he was familiarly styled lived and laboured in
fellowship with
the Methodist Church for several years in England before he was
transferred to
the Church on this side of the Atlantic. With him he brought his wife
Mary
and 8 children. The letter of removal was signed by Rev. Daniel Isaac, and dated
May 1829. He first settled in Lachute, Lower Canada and
here lived and laboured for five years. He then moved to Upper Canada
and was
among the first to settle on the the Indian lands in the Township of
Seneca.
At that time, the
only road in the area was Hamilton and Port Dover Plank
Road and the almost impassable trails through the woods. He travelled
to
the distant appointments on the circuit, which at that time included
what is
now the city of Hamilton. And thus he continued until he was 70 years
of age.
At that time he asked a less efficient place in the plan of the
Circuit, but
still he preached ocasionally, and was always in his place in the house
of God,
istening delightedly to the Word, and taking an earnest part in all the
acts of
worship.
Catharine Cook Date:
Thu Nov
29 18:57:52 2001
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Minister: DECKER,
John A. Title:
Rev.
Years Served: 1828-1834
Church: United Methodist
Village: , Township: , County: Pike County, State: IN
Source: Biographies of Early Settlers in Pike County, Indiana
Additional:
Local Twin Oaks Area Holiness History
Three miles northeast of Petersburg was known as the Twin Oaks area as
early as
the early 1800’s, perhaps sooner. This is now what is two miles
northeast of the
city limits of Petersburg.
Data taken from "Biographies of Early Settlers in Pike County,
Indiana."
John A. Decker, Itinerate Circuit Rider
John A. Decker was born in Smith County, Tennessee on May 19, 1808 to
Michael
Decker and Christina Deal Decker. When John was
a small boy, his family came to
Indiana and settled in Harrison County. John received his first license
to preach
in the Methodist Church at age twenty in 1828. He was assigned the
Boonville
Circuit and traveled by horseback to his various preaching
appointments.
He moved to Pike County and settled in what was called the Twin Oaks
Community.
Church services were held in peoples homes. Next, brush arbors were
erected and
camps were held in these crude shelters. Pike County people gathered in
the fall
from far and near to hold camp meetings. Preachers gathered from all of
this part
of the state. Large crowds were present and the services some times
lasted for
more than a week.
In 1839, the Methodists erected such a camp on the grounds owned by
Pastor John
A. Decker, three miles northeast of Petersburg City Limits ( ? Rd).
They
continued holding camp meetings there for four years. The horses were
lined up
along Lick Creek to drink while the crowd was in service. This area was
along the
Lick Creek, perhaps over the area of the cemetery and up through where
our church
now stands, up to where his house was located, between the present Twin
Oaks
Church and the double story white house.
He was well known throughout southern Indiana where he conducted many
revival
services and camp meetings. He was considered to be an evangelist with
few peers
in the Methodist Church. One author described him as a "fiery orator"
even though he was frail in stature. He died of Consumption at age 36
and was
buried in the Lick Creek Cemetery now known as Twin Oaks Memorial
Gardens which
is located east of the present Twin Oaks Church.
(Picture: John Decker's Tombstone, bears round iron emblem of Circuit
Rider
Preacher, United Methodist Church)
He had a dream of a church built on the hilltop some day and now Twin
Oaks Church
stands on this hilltop. Twin Oaks Church now has descendants of John
Decker in
the congregation.
John A. Decker married Mahala Hardin and they had seven children, the
youngest
being born two months following his death. The children were Hester Ann
Decker
who married Jacob M. Shandy and is buried in Walnut Hills Cemetery near
Petersburg; John Wesley Decker; Ruth Decker buried at Anderson Chapel;
William D.
Decker buried at Lick Creek Cem (Twin Oaks Memorial Gardens); Mahala
Jane Decker
who married John Collins and is buried at Lick
Creek Cemetery; Isaac Decker who
died at Bowling Green, Kentucky from Winter Fever while serving the
North during
the Revolutionary War. His mother sent her son John, and her
son-in-law, Jacob
Shandy to Bowling Green to bring his body
back to Lick Creek Cemetery. He sent
almost all of his pay home to his mother. Sarah Frances Decker was the
youngest
child and was born two months after the death of her father. She
married John
Bradfield and is buried in the Anderson
Chapel Cemtery.
Twin Oaks History written by Karolyn Rae Roberts, Fall of 2001
Karolyn Rae Roberts
Date: Tue Dec 11
17:12:53 2001
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