This Week in Texas Methodist History September 29
Tennessee Annual Conference Meets—Sends Four Missionaries to Texas October 3, 1838
Tennessee was one of the most important source regions for
immigration to Texas
during Mexican rule and during the Republic.
There were well-known Tennesseans such as Davy Crockett and former
Tennessee Governor Sam Houston. There
were also many less prominent residents of Tennessee who came as farmers, merchants,
and even Methodist preachers. Some of
the motivation for immigration came from the Panic of 1837 which created
economic difficulties for many Tennessee
farmers. The initials GTT (Gone to Texas ) were chalked on
many cabin doors in the state.
The Tennessee Annual Conference convened on October 3, 1838 inHuntsville , Alabama ,
and provided a much-needed boost to the
missionary forces in Texas . Littleton
Fowler, Jesse Hord, Isaac L. G. (Ike) Strickland, and S. A.
Williams all transferred from the Tennessee Conference to the Texian
Mission of the Mississippi Conference. The
previous summer the MEC bishops decided to take the Texian Mission from the
Board of Missions and give it to the Mississippi Annual Conference—thus necessitating
the transfers into the Mississippi Conference.
The Mississippi Annual Conference did not meet until the first week of December. There was no bishop present, but the minutes reveal the following appointments to the Texan Mission.
Littleton Fowler, Presiding Elder
Abel Stevens,Houston
and Galveston
S. A. Williams,Nacogdoches
R. Alexander andI.
L. G. Strickland, Washington
Jesse Hoard (sic),Montgomery
J. P. Snead (sic), Brazoria
Sneed was already a member of the Mississippi Conference. Stevens was a member of the New England Conference. His most recent appointment wasProvidence , RI. ,
The Tennessee Annual Conference convened on October 3, 1838 in
The Mississippi Annual Conference did not meet until the first week of December. There was no bishop present, but the minutes reveal the following appointments to the Texan Mission.
Abel Stevens,
S. A. Williams,
R. Alexander and
Jesse Hoard (sic),
J. P. Snead (sic), Brazoria
Sneed was already a member of the Mississippi Conference. Stevens was a member of the New England Conference. His most recent appointment was
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