Ashley, We have had some recent changes at the TNUMC Archives. Please contact our archives at 615-601-1581 and we will see if a baptism record is available for your brother!
Pastor Renee, We have recently had some changes at the TNUMC Archives. Please contact us at 615-601-1581. We would love to have the Conference Journals and 1960 Book of Discipline if you still want to donate! – Gratia Strother, Archivist
I’m looking for any records you have of Andrew Johnson McClanahan. Apparently he was a circuit riding preacher in Stewart county Tennessee. I’d like to know where he preached, his long he ministered, etc…
Hi Michelle! I think we can find some records on him! Please call our archives office at 615-601-1581 and we can discuss how to get them to you. We have had some recent changes at the archives. If this message has already been replied to before please let me know. I will be happy to help in any way I can. Gratia Strother, Archivist
I am looking for a listing of Memphis Conference Ministers back to circa 1870. In particular for William Hill in the Newbern area. Please let me know who to contact.
Thank you.
Buddy – Please call our archives office at 615-601-1581 and I will try to help you with finding a listing of Memphis Conference Ministers and info on William Hill. – Gratia Strother, Archivist
I am looking for pictures to use with a video about Margaret Lavinia Campbell Kelley. If any of these are available: the family farm 7 miles from Lebanon, churches on the Lebanon Circuit as they may have looked prior to the Civil War or in the l870’s, Kelley family log cabin in Leeville, the church in Leeville. Linda Collier let me examine a copy of A Legacy of Love and I wrote down facts from it, but I would still like to look at it again.
I am looking for materials on the relationship between the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in its formative years in Tennessee, 1866-1900, including the founding conference of the CME Church at First Methodist Church in Jackson TN in Dec. 1870. Specifically, I am looking for accounts in Conference Minutes, the Christian Advocate, memoirs, and other religious periodicals.
Please call us at 615-604-1581 or email me at Gratia.strother@tnumc.org to discuss which records specifically or if you want to come visit the archives and look through what we have. Thank you!
Just a comment: My 2nd great grandfather, Rev. Amos Hays (Hayes) was one of the CME Church organizers in West Tennessee during that time according to the Methodist Archives and “Methodist Advocate-Journal” in 1902 in his obituary. I have requested a copy of his obituary in another post.
Best regards
James
Do you have a copy of the history of the Vine Grove United Methodist Church in Dayton, TN? Can’t find it in any library. Thanks
Searching for a copy of an obituary in the “Methodist Advocate-Journal” in 1902 of my 2nd great grandfather Rev. Amos Hays (Hayes), he died 10 JUL 1902. Former archive personnel stated his obituary was listed in the Methodist Advocate-Journal, but never got copy as person retired, although I did get some of his church history from him, Rev. Von Unruh, Kingston Springs TN. was very helpful. Anyone there that can get me a copy of that complete page and front page for my genealogy records I would appreciate it. Thank you for your time.
Kind Regards
James
We would like to find the record of Methodist church in Wayne County, TN about 1860. All that remain is a small cemetery where a small rock has been placed to establish the name, Mount Pisgah. If you can locate when this church was established, we would like to find the Gobbell ministers who was preaching in the vicinity at that time.
Thanks,
Lila Gobbell
I’m trying to recall the name of the Methodist Church that was located on Bellevue Avenue in Memphis, TN, where my friend was baptized in approximately 1955. This church was very near the original Bellevue Baptist Church.
Tennessee Methodist History Library and Archives 
Jim and Von,
What a great website! I am envious. Looking forward to working together in the future! Hope to get my Clergy Archive on line soon!
My brother was baptized at Whitehaven Methodist Church in Memphis, which has ceased to exist. Where can he find a record of his baptism?
Ashley, We have had some recent changes at the TNUMC Archives. Please contact our archives at 615-601-1581 and we will see if a baptism record is available for your brother!
I have several Tennessee Conference Journals dating back to 1958 tot he present, as well as a 1960 Book of Discipline that I’d like to donate.
Pastor Renee, We have recently had some changes at the TNUMC Archives. Please contact us at 615-601-1581. We would love to have the Conference Journals and 1960 Book of Discipline if you still want to donate! – Gratia Strother, Archivist
I’m looking for any records you have of Andrew Johnson McClanahan. Apparently he was a circuit riding preacher in Stewart county Tennessee. I’d like to know where he preached, his long he ministered, etc…
Michelle MClanahan
Hi Michelle! I think we can find some records on him! Please call our archives office at 615-601-1581 and we can discuss how to get them to you. We have had some recent changes at the archives. If this message has already been replied to before please let me know. I will be happy to help in any way I can. Gratia Strother, Archivist
I am looking for a listing of Memphis Conference Ministers back to circa 1870. In particular for William Hill in the Newbern area. Please let me know who to contact.
Thank you.
Buddy – Please call our archives office at 615-601-1581 and I will try to help you with finding a listing of Memphis Conference Ministers and info on William Hill. – Gratia Strother, Archivist
I am looking for pictures to use with a video about Margaret Lavinia Campbell Kelley. If any of these are available: the family farm 7 miles from Lebanon, churches on the Lebanon Circuit as they may have looked prior to the Civil War or in the l870’s, Kelley family log cabin in Leeville, the church in Leeville. Linda Collier let me examine a copy of A Legacy of Love and I wrote down facts from it, but I would still like to look at it again.
I am looking for materials on the relationship between the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in its formative years in Tennessee, 1866-1900, including the founding conference of the CME Church at First Methodist Church in Jackson TN in Dec. 1870. Specifically, I am looking for accounts in Conference Minutes, the Christian Advocate, memoirs, and other religious periodicals.
Raymond,
We have some of those resources!
Please call us at 615-604-1581 or email me at Gratia.strother@tnumc.org to discuss which records specifically or if you want to come visit the archives and look through what we have. Thank you!
Just a comment: My 2nd great grandfather, Rev. Amos Hays (Hayes) was one of the CME Church organizers in West Tennessee during that time according to the Methodist Archives and “Methodist Advocate-Journal” in 1902 in his obituary. I have requested a copy of his obituary in another post.
Best regards
James
Do you have a copy of the history of the Vine Grove United Methodist Church in Dayton, TN? Can’t find it in any library. Thanks
Searching for a copy of an obituary in the “Methodist Advocate-Journal” in 1902 of my 2nd great grandfather Rev. Amos Hays (Hayes), he died 10 JUL 1902. Former archive personnel stated his obituary was listed in the Methodist Advocate-Journal, but never got copy as person retired, although I did get some of his church history from him, Rev. Von Unruh, Kingston Springs TN. was very helpful. Anyone there that can get me a copy of that complete page and front page for my genealogy records I would appreciate it. Thank you for your time.
Kind Regards
James
We would like to find the record of Methodist church in Wayne County, TN about 1860. All that remain is a small cemetery where a small rock has been placed to establish the name, Mount Pisgah. If you can locate when this church was established, we would like to find the Gobbell ministers who was preaching in the vicinity at that time.
Thanks,
Lila Gobbell
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I’m trying to recall the name of the Methodist Church that was located on Bellevue Avenue in Memphis, TN, where my friend was baptized in approximately 1955. This church was very near the original Bellevue Baptist Church.