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EARLY METHODISTS IN ALABAMA, 1845-1968
Source: "160 Years of Methodism in South Alabama and Northwest Florida, 1808-1968" by Franklin Shakelford Mosely, pp. 7
1845 May 1, The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, organized, of which the Alabama Conference became a part.
1856 Jan. 26, Southern University at University incorporated and in 1918 joined with the North Alabama Conference College to become Birmingham--Southern College.
1857 Feb. 1, East Alabama Male College at Auburn incorporated by the Methodists. Operations were suspended
1862 -1863 and on Feb. 26, 1872 the Conference deeded the college to the state and it became the Agricultural and Mechanical; in 1.899 the Alabama Polytechnic Institute; and in 1960 Auburn University.
1867 Oct. 17, The Methodist Episcopal Church, Alabama Conference, was organized at Talladega on an interracial basis.
1870 Dec. --, The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church was organized, into which went most of the over 78,000 colored members of the Southern Methodist Church. In 1954 this church changed its name to the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.
1870 Dec. 7, The North Alabama Conference was organized and took in the northern section of the Alabama Conference, and at the same time The North Mississippi and the Mississippi Conferences absorbed the parts of the Alabama Conference in Mississippi.
1878 Dec.--, The Woman's Work organized in Alabama Conference. This in1912 became the Woman's Missionary Society; and in 1939 The Woman's Society of Christian Service and Wesleyan Service Guild.
1881 May 25, The Alabama Christian Advocate appeared. It was re-named The Methodist Christian Advocate in 1857. The New Orleans Christian Advocate served Alabama 1851-1881 and the Southern Christian Advocate served before that.
1890 Jan. --, The Alabama Methodist Orphanage opened at Summerfield in the old Centenary Institute building. It moved to Selma in 1911 and in 1939 was re -named the Methodist Children's Village.
1893 Anson West's History of Alabama and West Florida Methodism appeared, covering the years
1904-1870. 1905 Dec. Alabama Conference History Society organized.
1923 The Alabama and North Alabama Conferences accepted ownership of the Montgomery Memorial Hospital, the latter only briefly. The Hospital closed in 1931.
1939 The Methodist Protestant Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, united as The Methodist Church.
1947 Home For The Aged approved (1947 Conference Journal, page 71).
1949 Blue Lake project approved (1949 Conference Journal, page 73).
1956 The Alabama Conference, covering South Alabama and Northwest Florida, became the Alabama-West Florida Conference.
1958 Nov.14, Mrs. Wesley Sellers Price (Margaret Louise Bassett) was licensed to preach at Glenwood by the Troy District Conference, being the first woman licensed within our conference.
1960 Marion Elias Lazenby's History telling of lithe amazing march of Methodism through Alabama and West Florida, appeared, edited and indexed by F. S. Moseley.
1966 April 21-24, American Methodist Bi-centennial at Baltimore, to which Lester Spencer rode on horseback, sponsored by the Conference Historical Society.
1968 April 23, The United Methodist Church, of which our Conference is a part, was born by the uniting of the Evangelical United Brethren Church and The Methodist Church.
1968 This volume: 160 YEARS OF METHODISM in South Alabama and Northwest Florida, appeared under the sponsorship of the Conference Historical Society, with Franklin Shackelford Moseley as editor of same.
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