Stroud, Oklahoma was settled in 1892 and by February of the next year a Methodist group was forming. At that time individuals began formalizing meetings and services. These included a "Methodist minister" named Dell Nichols, a Rev. from Guthrie named Walter Bilby, and soon after a Rev. J.C. Parker (who entered the Territory by transfer in 1892 and died in 1933 as a Methodist Episcopal Church minister). From this information is probable the first congregation in Stroud was a Methodist Episcopal Church (sometimes called the Northern branch to differ it from the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The two had diverged in the 1840's over slavery).
About 1900 a church building was under construction on West Fifth in Stroud. Locals had hoped to ring the bell there for New Year's that year but construction problems prevented that.
The Clegg and Oden history of the Oklahoma Conference of the United Methodist Church lists the pastors for Stroud for both denominations.
Methodist Episcopal Church Pastors, Stroud, Oklahoma
1907 -S.K. Jewell
1908- N.E. Wood
1909- G.W. Green
1910-11 -E.F.S. Darby
1912-13 - G.T. Andrews
1914- - D.T. Morton
1915 - Harry Royce
1916 - H.E. Brill
1918 - J.T. Riley
1920 - FEDERATED [A system introduced to allow churches to unite and an early movement prior to the 1939 union of the two denominations as the Methodist Church]
1922 - A.W. Faucett
1923-24 - H Ivan Byrd
1925 - F.W. Galyon
1926-29 - F. Singer
1930 - L.L. Brown
1931-32 - H.F. Draper
1933-34 - T. Parker Hilbourne
1936-39 - Paul E. Osman
Information concerning the location and services of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (M.E.C.,S) is less available.
Methodist Episcopal Church, South Pastors
1907 - George W. Lewis
1908 - S.M. Sartin
1909 - H. K. Monroe
1910 - W.D. Sasser
1911 - W.T. Ready
1912-13 - U.G. Reynolds
1914 - A.M. Dupree
1916 - J.R. Hardin
1917 - G.E. Ryan
1919 - R.J. LaPrade
1920-21 - J.C. Crowson
1926 - C.N. Smith
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