FLUMC Journal Memoirs
Each of the Florida Methodist Annual Conferences produces a Journal documenting the results of the conference sessions including much information about the past year in conference churches and plans for the future. One feature of historical interest are the lists of minister's and their spouse's that have passed away since the last journal was published and their "Memoirs". These "Memoirs" provide summaries of their lives, interests, duties and assignments in Florida Methodism.
This page provides links to journal "Memoirs" for some of Bethel's ministers, District Superintendents, Bishops and others that have some influence on Bethel church. Most "memoirs", which are primarily just text documents, have been converted to a form more appropriate for online viewing. Some early documents were not easily convertible (i.e. without major retyping) and are shown as pdf documents containing images of the journal pages
Though most recent memoirs include a picture of the person memorialized, those have not (
yet) been included in these documents.
History of Florida Conference - a brief history from the 2021 journal.
All Conference Sessions - Since the first in 1845, held in Tallahassee
2021 Roll of Honored Dead - List of all ordained ministers in the Florida Conference who served and passed away prior to 2021.
Bethel Pastors from 1838 to present - This has notes about information that is being gathered
Journal Memoirs -
most of these are the result of extracting text from pdf copies of the journals. This process sometimes results in extraneous symbols and characters, some of which have not yet been excised or corrected.
(Click
here for memoirs of Bethel ministers in chronological order.)
All Memoirs in Alphabetical sequence
- Almand, Howard Warren - Entered ministry out of Bethel
- Baker, Jesse Lloyd - Bethel Minister, 1975-77
- Bean, Russell Irvin - Bethel Minister, 1979-81
- Blake DD, E. L. T. - Bethel Minister, 1871
- Booth, Norman Edward - "Old" Pisgah minister,1971-86
- Chapman, Robert B. - district superintendent,1969-75
- Choice, W.M. - Bethel pastor in 1871
- Davis, Robert A. - President of Fla Southern College
- M. F. Dukes - Bethel minister 1929
- Dunkle, William Frederick. - Bethel Minister, 1944-47
- Edwards, Walter Dale - Methodist minister in Tallahassee and Pompano Beach
- Ferrell, David W. - Bethel Minister, 1935-1936
- Gray, W. J. - Bethel Minister, 1882?
- Hamrick, Dana Lee - Bethel Minister, 1967
- Hartz, Dr. Edwin R. - district minister and friend to Bethel
- Herndon, L. Edward - Bethel (Leon Circuit) minister, 1949-50
- Holmes, Robert C. - Tallahassee DS, 1962-65
- Honaker, Ray H. - Bethel minister, 1983
- Howren, R.H. - Bethel minister, 1842,1860
- Jackson, Leslie Clarence - Bethel minister, 1978
- Langford, Fred B. - Bethel minister, 1917-19
- Ley, John C. - Bethel minister, 1865-66
- Mann, Alpheus - Bethel minister, 1896
- Martin, C. C. - Bethel minister, 1941-43
- Mitchell, Barbara Mosley - wife of District Superintendent T.G. Mitchell, 1981-87
- Mitchell, Thomas Glenn - District Superintendent, 1981-87
- Patterson, Ira Smith - Bethel Pastor, 1881-82
- Pendergrass, Bishop Edward - Tallahassee D.S., 1944-46, Bishop in Miss, 1964-72, active in Florida area and Fla Southern College until death in 1995
- Penny, John C. - Bethel minister in 1843
- Richardson, Rev W. S. - Bethel minister, 1863-64
- Robinson Jr, Frank - Bethel minister, 1934-35
- Roughton, William Wesley - Tallahasse DS, 1966-69
- Stiles, Joseph R. - Bethel minister, 1985-1992
- Stiles, Mark Michael - Son of former Bethel minister Joe Stiles.
- Strickland, W G - Bethel minister, 1937
- Tomkies,Rev. Thomas Walker - P.E./D.S., 1894-97
- Vaught, Alfred B. - District Superintendent of the Tallahasse District
- Wier, W. A. - Bethel Minister, 1897
- Williams, W. Calvin - Bethel Minister, Oct 58-Dec 63