This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: AINSWORTH, DeVOTIE, EARLY, EVANS, HARRISON, HIGGINS, JEWETT, KEY, LITTLEJOHN, ROBISON, SPEER, WARDLAW, WRIGHT Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Xd.2ADE/1037.1.2 Message Board Post: >From “The Making of a Modern City: Columbus Georgia, 1827-1865,” by John H. MARTIN (1875, reprinted 1972): PP. 161-62 (1863) – The M. E. Conference met in Columbus on the 25th of November – Bishop EARLY, presiding….Rev. C. R. JEWETT was Presiding Elder of the Columbus District [evidently Methodist Episcopal]; Rev. E. W. SPEER, Pastor of St. Luke M. E. Church; Rev. Joseph S. KEY, of St. Paul; Rev. W. J. WADLAW, Factory Mission and Colored Charge; Rev. J. H. DeVOTIE, pastor of the Baptist Church; Rev. S. H. HIGGINS, of the Presbyterian.” P. 169 (1864) – The M. E. ministers in Columbus for this year were the following: James E. EVANS, P.E.; Jos. S. KEY, St. Paul; W. J. WARDLAW, Factory Mission; J. T. AINSWORTH, colored charge; W. W. ROBISON, Girard [Russell County, AL]. P. 176 (1865) – The M. E. preachers for this year were – A. WRIGHT, P.E.; W. P. HARRISON, St. Luke’s; Jos. S. KEY, St. Paul’s; J. R. LITTLEJOHN, Girard [Russell County, AL]; J. T. AINSWORTH, Factory Mission; W. W. ROBISON, Colored charge. If this type of information is helpful to your research, I can extract the entries for earlier years (back into the 1850's). By the way, I am interested in learning the location of the Factory Mission. Does anyone know if this was situated near the factories along the river in Columbus – or did it perhaps serve the community at the Columbus Factory (Clapp’s Factory), three miles north of the city? There was a Methodist church in the Clapp’s Factory settlement at some point during its history. John in TX