CENTENNIAL STORY, FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, TYLER, SMITH CO, TEXAS, 1848-1948

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Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net
5 March 2001
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MINISTERS LICENSED AND ORDAINED BY THE
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

John H. Whitman . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1854
Robert Clay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1855
H. T. Morton  . . . . . . . . . April 23, 1882
M. O. Meadows . . . . . . . .  October 3, 1906
J. R. Rozelle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1912
J. B. Oliver  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1919
Ligon Rozelle . . . . . . . . . .July 31, 1927
W. E. Morgan  . . . . . . . . . September 1932
W. M. Barber  . . . . . . . . . September 1932
Leon Gorsline . . . . . . . . . September 1932
Billy Graves  . . . . . . . . . September 1932
J. D. Aarant  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1932
James Delbert Liles . . . . . . .Licensed 1933
C. D. Schmidt . . . . . . . . . March 13, 1939
Arthur Williams . . . . . . .September 3, 1941
William Beacham . . . . . . .September 3, 1941
John H. Gary  . . . . . . . . December 9, 1942
Elbert Wright . . . . . . . September 28, 1943
Odom Dyess  . . . . . . . . . . .Licensed 1944
A. B. Emerson . . . . . . . . . .Licensed 1945
Carl Wrotenberry. . . . . . .November 26, 1946
Fisk Ray  . . . . . . . . . .December 25, 1946
Robert A. Gorsline. . . . . . . .Ordained 1946
John Hunter Hammett . . . . . . .Licensed 1946
Grady Hicks . . . . . . .Licensed January 1948