This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EJB.2ACE/567 Message Board Post: One of my ancestors, Minerva Steele, married Richard Grooms in Jefferson County on June 14, 1836. The minister who officiated was R. D. Smith, M.M.C.G. Does anyone have information on which church he pastored? What do the initials stand for? (I tend to think Methodist Minister of Christian Gospel but not positive.) Any assistance appreciated.

R. D. Smith was mentioned in quite a few places in "A Complete History of Methodism as connected with The Mississippi Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South," by Rev. John Griffing Jones. Thus, your guess that he was a Methodist preacher is correct. > >