Let's all see what we can find out to help Stephen on his research in Muscogee County. I think if we all shared little bits and pieces (including the books you may own)...that we might really find out something.... 1)Does anyone know more about Mack Stewart? Is this a nickname? What years might he have been preaching? 2) Asbury Chapel history... Just where was this church located.... Carol shared a deed 1853 to the Methodist Episcopal Church -- and I assume this one is the "white church".... Stephen Barber <spbarber@mchsi.com> I am researching the emergence of the A. M. E. denomination in the Chattahoochee Valley in late 1865 and in 1866 and trying to find information on some of the African-American preachers, most notably Mack Stewart. I'm interested in Asbury Chapel because I don't know much about it. I thought the only white Methodist church in Columbus in the 1850s was St. Luke. Part of looking at the formation of black congregations is to see the white churches from which that came. Virginia Crilley