Lima, Oklahoma

Nestled in a nearly hidden, green, and lush valley resides Lima, Oklahoma. This Seminole County town site was founded perhaps 1904 as a all Black community. Its name is thought to have come from the lime quarries of the region. The area thrived with a school, businesses, and several churches.  Although labeled a ghost town, there are occupants and a nearby new community of New Lima provides a large public school system.

 

The remains of the once large (300+ students and as many as 12 faculty members) school offering a variety of curricular offerings, including Latin to students.  In 1921 the Rosenwald Fund helped the community build Rosenwald Hall, which was placed on the National Register of Historic Places (NR 84003427) in 1984.

A large sign tells a little of the fascinating story of Lima, one of the "All Black Towns of Oklahoma". Much of the information is included on this webpage.

The empty pad was site of Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church. The Mount Zion Methodist Church was constructed in 1915 and was still standing in the early twenty-first century.

"The American Methodist" Published in Stroud, Oklahoma

 

The Rev. J.H. Hubbard  served as editor and publisher of this weekly publication that began in 1905 and may not have survived past 1906 (most holdings are only of the 1906 issues).  The editor, who also worked for the local newspaper entity, published under the 'Methodist Mission Press Publishing' or the "Mission Press Publishing' title.

The masthead identified as editor the Rev. J.H. Hubbard (editor and proprietor). Assistant editors were Rev. A.M. Virden (Edmond), Rev. R.A. Barnes (Oklahoma City), and Rev. J.A. Ferguson (Garber).  The Clegg and Oden work Oklahoma Methodism in the Twentieth Century lists a "John H. Hubbard" as a Methodist Episcopal minister who transferred into Oklahoma from another Methodist Conference in 1904 and who died in 1954. Virden was also a M.E.C. minister who transferred into the Oklahoma area in 1904 and who died in 1927. Barnes was Roscoe A. and was a M.E.C. minister who transferred into the area in 1904 and out again in 1908. Ferguson was a M.E.C. minister who transferred into Oklahoma in 1895 and died in 1917.

Rather unique to the time and group was a statement of their premises or "Our Platform" as they termed it.

"1. Genuine repentance and faith toward God

 2. Regeneration that transforms men,

 3. The Witness of the Spirit for every child of God.

 4. Entire Sanctification - the happy privilege of every believer."

For searchable issues visit the Oklahoma Gateway.

Some History of the Methodist Church in Stroud, Oklahoma

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

ON ROUTE 66: UFO'S along the Mother Road

As author of SOONER SAUCERS: OKLAHOMA UFOS 1947-1969 I explored the reports of strange things in the skies over Oklahoma.  As a relocated, I have been looking for tales associated with Route 66.

For many years a private, static display of found art sculpture has garnered a lot of interest for people traveling the route to glimpse a little Americana and experience some of the feel of the historic past the road represents.   Now, the UFO sign points to a private yard that is a little overgrown and neglected but that black and white sign proclaiming "UFO" still causes interest.

So, for the curious or unaware there have been reports of UFO's in and around the Stroud area of Oklahoma and Route 66.

Here is one: 

In 1956, 5-10 miles south of Stroud, on January 19, at 1651z (daylight) an F84f pilot observed four objects moving east for about 3-5 seconds. 

He observed that the four objects were the size of a bushel basket at arm's length and that were a brilliant emerald green. There were 3 smaller objects white and silver trailing. He tried to establish a fix on radar but was unsuccessful and he noted he had never seen any meteor as bright or as green as the object he saw.  Additionally, they followed a straight and level flight heading east. Meteors often follow a descending arc or a straight falling type of trajectory as they plummet to earth.

So what was the extremely fast, level and multi-colored set of objects the pilot had observed? The explanation

provided by the Air Force and Project Blue Book was that he had observed a rare daylight meteor, a true transient celestial body,  but one that was a perfectly natural occurrence.

I will leave you to decide if that was an adequate explanation....

 In August of 1965 - the summer called the summer of the saucer by some - there were reports from Minnesota to Mexico of things zipping by in the skies. The Air Force tried to limit it to a "Great Plains" event caused by "temperature inversions" and mistaken sightings of the planet Jupiter. The Oklahoma City Planetarium staff on hearing that last one had to take exception indicating that the planet Jupiter was not even visible on this side of the globe at the times reported. The Air Force would then backtrack and say they were applying that explanation for events in Wyoming and Nebraska but did not seem to understand the same facts would apply for those locations. So, they ditched the whole planet and stars explanations and wowed the locals with highly technical explanations of widespread temperature inversions that would result in hundreds of sightings of groups of objects moving across Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Wyoming and further north.

Several of the groups of objects buzzed in diamond formations on a line that more or less followed the Turnpike between Oklahoma City and Tulsa. They were sighted by law enforcement and private citizens all across the area in Seminole, Cushing, Chandler, Stillwater, Bristow, Stroud and elsewhere. At the same time others were reported in Woodward, Texas and the western plains of Kansas and some were keeping highly trained guards at the top security missile silo stations near Cheyenne and the ammunition center at Sydney, Nebraska.

I am still digging out stories. If you have one to share send to Marilyn A. Hudson, Author.

ON ROUTE 66: Stroud, Oklahoma

 They are termed "ghost signs" - those lingering imprints of old graphic work on brick and stone edifices. They advertise long defunct businesses or - like this one - well known and loved products. Some are faint enough to seem to be disappearing before the eye, hence the term "ghost" and others are being restored to capture and share some of the vitality such ads once added to bustling small towns.

Along Route 66 in Oklahoma are many such "ghost signs" and each one has a story. I look forward to gathering some of them and sharing the happenings and history along the "Mother Road" as it wends its way through Oklahoma.

Marilyn A. Hudson, Author and Researcher

Stroud, Oklahoma

A Literary Landmark in Stroud, Oklahoma

From a 2013 press release: 

Hello, Friends of Libraries in Oklahoma. We hope you will join us for Oklahoma’s next Literary Landmark dedication on Sunday, April 28 during National Poetry Month. The late poet Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel (1918-2007) will be honored at 2:30 p.m. at Stroud Public Schools, C. B. Wright Auditorium. Literary Landmarks are a national program which started in 1989. 

 

Sites honor a deceased literary figure, author, or his or her work. www.ala.org/united/products_services/literarylandmarks

 

The dedication will feature author and Route 66 expert Michael Wallis as emcee, author Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, film screening “Down an Old Road: The Poetic Life of Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel” by Chris Simon, poetry readings and award presentations for the Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel Poetry Contest, and music by the Stroud High School Choir.

 

Born near Stroud in 1918, Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel was the daughter of Benjamin and Anna McDaniel. Her father was a sharecropper and her mother was a homemaker. Her siblings were Verne, Roy, Allen, Keith, Harold, Opal, and Kenneth. Wilma attended schools in Lincoln and Creek counties until the effects of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl led her family to migrate to California in 1936.

 

Friends of Libraries in Oklahoma (FOLIO) www.okfriends.net has dedicated 10 other Oklahoma Literary Landmark sites: 

 

Woody Guthrie, Okemah (2001); 

Ralph Ellison Library, Oklahoma City (2002);

Lynn Riggs, Claremore Public Library (2003); 

Angie Debo, Marshall City Hall and OSU Library, Stillwater (2004); 

John Berryman, McAlester Public Library (2005); 

Sequoyah’s Cabin, near Sallisaw (2006); 

Will Rogers Memorial Museum, Claremore (2007); 

John Joseph Mathews, Osage Tribal Museum, Pawhuska (2009); and 

Woodrow Wilson Rawls, Tahlequah Public Library (2011).

 

The Stroud Public Library is co-sponsoring the Literary Landmark Dedication and will be the site for the bronze plaque. Additional sponsors to date include, Friends of Oklahoma State University Library, Back40 Publishing, Friends of Oklahoma Center for the Book, Village Books Press, Tom and Leslie Hubbell, George and Karen Neurohr, and The Estate of Poet Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel. Partners include Stroud Chamber of Commerce, Lincoln County Museum of Pioneer History, Oklahoma Department of Libraries; Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers; Oklahoma History Center and Oklahoma Library Association.

 

For information, contact Marsha Morgan, Stroud Public Library, 918-968-2567 or Karen Neurohr, OSU Librarian and Coordinator Oklahoma Literary Landmarks, 405.744.2376.

Some Interesting Memorials and Markers: Okmulgee, Oklahoma

Cushing, Oklahoma : Methodist Church History

 

Western Oklahoma: Cordell's UMC

Located at the south end of the main north-south route through town, HWY 153 or Glenn English Avenue, this interesting Oklahoma church has a unique story to share.  Founded when the region was first opened  around 1900 their building was called the "Union Church" because it was shared space among the other denominations in town until their own building efforts were successful. Members have included the family of notable operatic talent Roberta Knie, as well as photographer-painter Bob Taylor and politician-educator Glenn English.

CUSHING - HEART OF THE CIMMARON RIVER COUNTRY

Let's Look at: Cushing, Oklahoma. Born of the hectic land expansion of the 1890's in Oklahoma and Indian Territories, Cushing in Payne Co. OK was founded in the heart of the Cimmaron River country where once vast cattle herds grazed on land leased from the federal government.

Later, as oil gushed in the 'Cushing Oil Field" encompassing Oiltown, Drumright, and Yale, as well as a few other now ghost towns, the small community boomed. The population by 1920 had risen from 700 to over 7,000 people. With that came a great and quick response to the need of housing and supplies, education, healthcare, and so much more for those new citizens. Most of the changes were good but like other boom towns a livelier crowd also sought out the lure of people with money in their pockets and a need to let off steam at work week's end.

Long known as the "Pipeline Crossroads of the World", Cushing has changed and like any place connected to the roller coaster world of oil production and use there have been good times and more challenging ones.

Still existing, and recognized as historic, are several buildings dotting the downtown area. These include the "Karr Building" built in 1922 at 118 E. Broadway, site of the first C.R. Anthoy's store in 1918.

Leading citizen, Hiram Dunkin built a fine prairie style craftsman at 309 E. Broadway. he also built the Dunkin Theatre, at one time one of four theaters providing entertainment to Cushing and surrounding areas.

Remnants of the first business district, "Old Jericho" dot the south side of Main Street (HWY 33) between Noble Street and Katy Street and the east side of Steele Street along the old M, K, T, Railroad line.

I will be adding photos and more stories about this town on HWY 33 that is once more experiencing some "boom" as the oil and gas industry stir to life in the region.  Efforts to revitalize the downtown area, to clearly link the community to the "Red Dirt Music Corridor" running from Tulsa, to Bristow, and Chandler are all under way.

All through the community are delightful reminders - in cottages and business buildings -of a historic past just waiting for people to buy them up, restore them with love, and return them to their former charm. The heavy traffic on Hwy 33 (connecting Guthrie and Tulsa) and Hwy 18 (connecting Shawnee and Stillwater) promise a bright potential future for those with an eye to building and crafting a future.

To learn more:  http://www.digitalprairie.ok.gov/cdm/ref/collection/stgovpub/id/290644

History of the Methodist Churches in Holdenville

Barnard Memorial UMC (mah/2015)

The Methodist Church in Holdenville: A Brief History

In the softly rolling hills of what would become known as Hughes County it is reported that a small settlement emerged in the Creek Nation known as “Echo” (“Acho”), a word in the Creek language meaning “deer.”   The small hamlet’s name was changed to “Fentress” when it was first given established a post office on May 24, 1895. Then, as was often the case, the name changed again with the spread of the rail lines and honored a rail road company worker , J. F. Holden, an employee of the CO&G. On November 15, 1895 the community was christened “Holdenville” replacing the earlier Fentress designation.

Railroads were stitching together the territories and these would prove to be the major source of its economic growth for several decades. At Holdenville two lines crossed.  Coming from the east and angling southwest was the St. Louis and San Francisco.  Northwest to Southeast was the powerful Chicago, Pacific and Rhode Island.  Over the course of the first thirty years the battles for supremacy and control of the ‘lines’ in Oklahoma would be the cause of exciting expansion and boom as well as intriguing mysteries. 

Methodism had been in “Indian Territory”, the eastern half of the present day state of Oklahoma, since the before the middle of the 1800’s but were solidly in place as an effective work by the 1880’s.  The first efforts were missionary activities with the various tribal groups in the area of Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma. The three arms of Methodism: Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal, South, and the Methodist Protestants all established work in the region to differing levels of success. Some of the earliest advocacy of a union of all the branches of Methodism emerged from this Indian Territory work.

According to Turner’s History of the Methodist Church in Holdenville, 1897-1952, the first church organized in Holdenville was the Methodist Episcopal *1896-1910.  A retrospective article in the Holdenville Times of Jan.23,1903 indicated that in March of 1896 they first met in the Choctaw Rail Depot in service with a Rev. King or Fling.  They were formally organized in the same place a year later with a Rev. Woodson as pastor. Charter members were listed as the family (wife and daughter) of J. Smith, Mrs. Joe Northrup, Mrs. Frank Lowe, and Mrs. D. Lowe.

A wooden frame building on East 8^th Street was dedicated in February of 1897.  In 1913 the building was sold to the Episcopal Church as the Methodist Episcopal Church withdrew its work in Holdenville due to a larger retrenchment in the region.  The so-called Methodist Episcopal North would come back into the area in 1921. In1923, however, the two Methodist groups proactively united, reflecting groundswell desires not to be reflected in denominational structures until 1939. At that time, the three largest Methodist groups in America were the Methodist Episcopal (M.E.), the Methodist Episcopal, South (M.E.,S) and the  Protestant (M.P.). These three would form the nucleus of the new Methodist Episcopal Church (M.E.C.).

 

Part I   The First Fifty Years                        1897 -1947

There were in the earliest day’s representatives of both the Methodist Episcopal and the Methodist Episcopal, South working in the area of Holdenville.

The Methodist Episcopal Church, South

J.L. Adair, charter member, bought on behalf of the M.E.,S two city lots from one John Jacobs on 25 September 1897, indicating church formation and building followed each other closely. Although written down a few years later, a 1900 list identifies the following as charter members: Mr. James L. Adair, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Henderson (who together owned the Commercial Hotel and he was the 5^th mayor holding office in 1903); Mrs. Robert (Ida Barnard) McFarlin, Mrs. W.J. Red, Mrs. Thomas E.(Laura Larue) Neal, Mrs. C.W. Polk.  It was conjectured by Turner in her history that there were other “possible” charter members. These were Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Alten (Allen), Mrs. Tom Scale, Mrs. George B. Roderich, and Mrs. H.H. Holman.  In 1906, Robert McFarlin joined after a revival meeting with Abe Mulkey. He served on the Board of Trustees in 1910.  The church name, “Barnard Memorial United Methodist Church”, stems from the supportive presence of the McFarlins as members and friends of the Methodist work in Holdenville and the region.  McFarlin started in farming and ranching but as  Turner notes that just as the Fine Arts Auditorium at Southern Methodist university in Texas, the library at Tulsa University and other  locations had been given the privilege of naming their facilities after the McFarlin’s, the Methodist work in Holdenville had also been granted that opportunity.

Holdenville (M.E.,S) is mentioned in the 1^st Minutes of the 1897 (November) Conference. The Rev. A.S.J. Haygood was assigned to supply the ministry.  A retrospective article in the Holdenville Times of Dec. 14, 1906 indicates the church was organized in the spring of 1897 by Haygood three miles south of town. In the fall they moved into the town with eight members.  The church dedicated a building in May of 1906 under the leadership of Pastor Rev. E.L. Massey.  Records of the Methodist Episcopal Church (M.E.) indicate that Holdenville was a community that received one of its Church Extension program grants in 1898 (Clegg, pg. 57). At that time the work in Holdenville was considered part of the Okmulgee District (Our Brother in Red, March 23, 1898, pg. 6).

In 1899 the Methodist Episcopal Church (M.E.) in Holdenville was supplied by A.L. Cloud. Clegg and Oden does not list anyone by that name that early in the state, although a Henry Cloud is listed who enters the conference later.

In 1901 N.E. Bragg was the Presiding Elder in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and stationed at Holdenville was A.C. Pickens (Andrew Calhoun Pickens).  IN 1902, J.H. Glanville was stationed at Holdenville. In 1903, Rev. C.M. Coppedge was Presiding Elder and pastor was J.L. Bray.

C.M. Coppedge, whom Clegg and Oden called “one of the great Indian missionaries of the early days”, headed the Holdenville District. He had been earlier in 1892 the Presiding Elder of the "Canadian District."  This gives a hint that the region of the old "South Canadian" and "Canadian District" were part of the original Choctaw Nation Methodist work traceable back to 1844.  At that time the 1890's, the Holdenville District covered most of east central Oklahoma and the interpreter for the District was son of  a pioneer Methodist minister who would, in turn, be instrumental in so much of the church work in Indian Territory and early day Oklahoma, Rev. Johnson Tiger (Clegg, pg.65).

Had anyone wanted to assume that Holdenville had achieved the sober demeanor of an urban city of refinement and culture in those early years of the century, they had to look no further than one April day in 1904.  On that day an altercation broke out between two commercial painters, blows were exchanged, and then a .32-caliber handgun was brought into play.  As a result, John Tinkel had a bullet lodged perilously close to his heart and F.M. Skirvin was in the hands of U.S. Marshalls. Things may have calmed down a bit by November of 1904 when the M.E., S assigned to Holdenville Station Robert Hanson and to Holdenville Circuit Mark Wagnon (supply). The District was again overseen by Presiding Elder, C.M. Coppedge.

The summer before statehood, times were tense and challenging in the area around Holdenville during the sweltering heat of mid-July.  An African-American man, unknown to the community, was beaten severely at Wewoka just to the north of Holdenville.  The near fatal beating was the result of mob action surrounding at incident at the home of a local ice dealer Tom Rice and his wife. Alone at the home, two African-Americans approached the house for ice, received and then went away. One of them came back to the house.  There the stories diverge with the woman calling for help from neighbors because she was being beaten and the beaten man claiming he was trying to see an African American girl who worked for Mrs. Rice.  He was taken from the train he was attempting to board by a mob and nearly beaten to death before “cooler heads” could intervene.  As the result of this incident there was threat of a major race war as the African-American settlements banded together and local communities, such as Holdenville, armed to confront threat of violence.

In 1908, T.L. Mellen died during the singing of the second hymn sung one Sunday evening. As the conference committee of memoirs noted: ‘From the pulpit he was called to the presence of the Lord. In the very act of lifting up the cross, he received his crown.” (pg., Mitchell, 48?)

Oklahoma was one of the areas where some new thoughts made serious inroads in the early years.  As a new state the area was a magnet for union builders and breakers.  There were social activists, religious experimenters, and reformers of every ilk. Men in white sheets terrorized rural farmers, men with burning crosses and ropes terrorized African Americans and Native Americans. The area may have become a state but there was still a decidedly wild aspect to life in the region that no doubt called on every person of faith to find and act on the highest principles of Christian charity and love.

Just before the annual conference of 1912 a man labeled a socialist and insane killed himself in the Wewoka jail on September 23. He was reported to have been glad he killed an enemy and was happy to die an infidel. Barry Schrimpscher severely attacked a man, Dave Swihart, on the streets of Holdenville during a socialist meeting being held there. He was removed to the Wewoka jail by local sheriff C.R. Edmonds after there was open talk of lynching.  The jailed man wrote a rather rambling letter to family and then rolled off an upper bunk killing himself. Apparently, he tore up bed clothes, wrapped one piece around his neck and the other to the top of the cell. Then he tied his hands and feet together, pushed his feet through his hands, so they would not touch the floor, and then rolled out of the bunk hanging himself.

November 20, 1912 the 67^th Session of the East Oklahoma Conference of the M.E.S. convened at Holdenville, Bishop Warren A. Candler was presiding, (Mitchell, pg.50).  Candler would go on to head up Emory and Southern Methodist universities. This was his only time in Oklahoma as Bishop.

So it becomes obvious that, like much of the new state, these times were rough and rowdy years in Holdenville.  The community, like many of its neighbors, was struggling with opposing social tensions, contrary weather, unstable economics, and the work of trying to forge a community from a group of strangers.  Newspaper stories of those years show reports of threatened lynching’s, fights, disasters, hopes of booms and the despair of economic bust. 

Standing against these forces were often the simple prayers of people intervening with God on behalf of people, communities and futures. C.F. Mitchell, an early day minister of the state, shared a story of early Holdenville. It was recounted in the early work, From Teepees to Towers: The History of Methodism in Oklahoma (1936) compiled by Paul Mitchell.

“An upstairs law office in Holdenville became a veritable Upper Room when my father prayed there with three men… one of whom was R.M. McFarlin.” (pg. 141).

Robert M. McFarlin was an early oil and cattle man responsible, among several, with making Oklahoma an oil capital. He and his wife Ida Barnard moved from Norman, Oklahoma to a ranch near Holdenville in 1895. In 1903, he and his partner Chapman, formed the Holdenville Oil and Gas Company and worked the famous Glenpool Oil pool.

In 1926 the conference again convened in Holdenville. The 81^st session in 1926 was presided over by Bishop H.A. Boaz. (Mitchell)  Boaz headed the denomination’s work in Asia for many years.

Pastors

Year(s)	Name	M.E., South	M.E.
1897	A.S.J. Haygood	x
1898	S.M. Bryce (Supply)
1899	T.O. Shanks	x
1899	H.L. Cloud (Supply)		x
1900	T.O. Shanks	x
1901	A.C. Pickens
1902	J.H. Glanville
1903	J.L. Bray	x
1904	Robt Hodgson	x
1905	C.F. Mitchell	x
1906	E.L. Massey
1907	M.N. Powers		x
1907	T.L. Mellen (d1908)	x
1908
1909	Marvin Bell
1910	C.S. Walker	x
1910	A.G. Lockwood		x
1911	R.K. Triplett	x
1912	R.K. Triplett	x
1913	E.J. Campbell	x
1914	Luther Roberts		x
1915
1916	P.H. Aston	x
1917	P.H. Aston
1918	P.H. Aston
1919	S.H. Babcock
1920	S.H. Babcock
1921	S.H. Babcock
1922	J.E. McConnell	x
1923	R.A. Brighton		x
1924	J.C. Curry( 1882-1951)	x
1925
1926	Vanderpool
1927	Vanderpool
1928	H.E.Kelso d.1930	x
1929	H.E. Kelso
1930	Morehead
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935	S.H. Babcock	x
1935	Satterfield	x
1936	Salter
1937	Salter
1938	Salter
1939
1940
1941
1942	John A. Callon
1943
1944	C.L. Crippen

The First M.E., South Church building

Artist's rendering of the current version of the church