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METHODISM IN EARLY WASHITA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA: CLOUD CHIEF AND CORDELL, 1892 - 1907

Year
M.E.C., South (1892- 1939)
M.E.C. (1892-1904)
M.P.
1892
Francis C. Mabry (M.E.S.) “Cloud Chief Circuit” in the “El Reno District”

B.R. Turner and James Porter[i](M.E.C.) “Cloud Chief, Southern District”

1893
J.W. Taylor” assigned but Francis C. Mabry continued (M.E.S.)  

E.E. Morse, “Cordell and Segar” in ‘Oklahoma District”

1894
F.C. Gillum “Cloud Chief Circuit”
Rev. E.E. Morris (some spell it Morse) (M.E.C.) assigned January 5, 1894 for the current year. He spoke “at the school house” (Herald-Sentinel, January 5, 1894, pg.1).

October 11, 1894, the Oklahoma Indian Conference held in Oklahoma City assigned Morris W. Sampson (M.E.C.) to Cloud Chief, in the “West District” his first church.


1895
W.M. Williams “Cloud Chief Circuit”
T.C. (Thomas C.) Russell  (1858-1900); M.W. Sampson (M.E.C.)


1896
T.C. Russell (1858-1900) “Supply, Cloud Chief, El Reno District”
J.M. Meloy (M.E.C.), “Cloud Chief” in the “West District”


1897
J.C. Cavener “Cloud Chief Circuit in the Duncan District”
W.H. Monger was appointed to “Cordell Circuit”
(Cordell is a full church for the M.E.S.)

T.C. (Thomas C.) Russell  (1858-1900)
W.B. Parkman, “supply” to “Cloud Chief”


1898
J.H.D. Terrell, T.C. Russell (1858-1900), “Cloud Chief Circuit, Duncan District”

J.C. Cavener, “Cordell Circuit, Duncan District”
J.H.D. Terrell / supply, T.C. (Thomas C.) Russell  (1858-1900)
M.W Sampson, “Cloud Chief West District”





[i] The Weatherford Methodist Episcopal Church organized in Cloud Chief in 1892 under Rev. James Potter and then again in 1899 in Weatherford. (pg. 184, Mitchell, Teepees and Towers).https://roadstops.blogspot.com/2018/02/cloud-chief-methodist-church-marilyn.html

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