This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kolby Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XV.2ADI/462 Message Board Post: On November 28, 1844, Bishop Thomas A. Morris appointed John C. Kolby postor of the Camden (Ark) Circuit. Thus Camden became the head of the circuit, which probably included Buena Vista, Two Bayou, Mount Vernon, Carolina and other places through this section. At the end of the year, there were reported for the circuit 139 white members and 73 colored members. At the conference of 1845, which met here in Camden, the church was made a station. It was the third station in the state, Little Rock having become a station in 1837 and Batesville apparently a few years earlier. The year 1844-45, Brother Kolby's year here, was the year which witnessed the separation of the Methodist Episcopal Church into the Northern and Southern branches, not to be reunited until 1939. The Camden church, of course, became a part of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. On April 14, 1845, the congregation bought the front lot of the present holdings at the present site (1944), from Ira Nunn, s! on of John Nunn, founder of Camden. That same year they moved to a log house, possibly two-story, 40 by 40 feet in size, located across Harrison street from the present site, which building they had built in the fall of 1844 under Bro. Kolby's term. School, court and other community meetings were held in both the early churches, and it seems that the church at Harrison and VanBuren was sold or given to the town for a school building when the congregation outgrew it in 1845. John C. Kolby joined the Arkansas Conference in 1842 and served the year 1842-43 on a circuit in northwest Arkansas. He served 1843-44 as junior preacher on the Washington Circuit. Then came his year here (Camden) in 1844-45. At the conference of 1845 he was transferred to the Texas Conference. -- from "A History of the First Methodist Church of Camden, Arkansas", by Kenneth Spore, 1944. -- transciber is not a relative and has no further information regarding these individuals.

History of the Church sounds interesting. I wonder if someone has early membership records of the Church that would willing to share. Respectfully, Carroll ---- Original Message ----- From: <goodsearch@aol.com> To: <AROUACHI-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 11:06 AM Subject: [AROUACHI] John C. Kolby, Methodist minister in Camden > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Kolby > Classification: Biography > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XV.2ADI/462 > > Message Board Post: > > On November 28, 1844, Bishop Thomas A. Morris appointed John C. Kolby postor of the Camden (Ark) Circuit. Thus Camden became the head of the circuit, which probably included Buena Vista, Two Bayou, Mount Vernon, Carolina and other places through this section. At the end of the year, there were reported for the circuit 139 white members and 73 colored members. At the conference of 1845, which met here in Camden, the church was made a station. It was the third station in the state, Little Rock having become a station in 1837 and Batesville apparently a few years earlier. The year 1844-45, Brother Kolby's year here, was the year which witnessed the separation of the Methodist Episcopal Church into the Northern and Southern branches, not to be reunited until 1939. The Camden church, of course, became a part of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. On April 14, 1845, the congregation bought the front lot of the present holdings at the present site (1944), from Ira Nunn, s! > on of John Nunn, founder of Camden. That same year they moved to a log house, possibly two-story, 40 by 40 feet in size, located across Harrison street from the present site, which building they had built in the fall of 1844 under Bro. Kolby's term. School, court and other community meetings were held in both the early churches, and it seems that the church at Harrison and VanBuren was sold or given to the town for a school building when the congregation outgrew it in 1845. John C. Kolby joined the Arkansas Conference in 1842 and served the year 1842-43 on a circuit in northwest Arkansas. He served 1843-44 as junior preacher on the Washington Circuit. Then came his year here (Camden) in 1844-45. At the conference of 1845 he was transferred to the Texas Conference. -- from "A History of the First Methodist Church of Camden, Arkansas", by Kenneth Spore, 1944. -- transciber is not a relative and has no further information regarding these individuals. > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >