Reverend Peter W. Gravis (1828-1902) was born in Nashville, Tennessee, to Thomas F. Gravis, and moved to Texas in 1838, part of Robertson’s Colony. Peter Gravis was a Methodist clergyman and missionary to Texas in the mid-1800s. His autobiography, Twenty-Five Years on the Outside Row of the Northwest Texas Annual Conference, written and published in 1892, was republished in 1966. He served as a circuit rider in the Panhandle of Texas for twenty-five years, including as minister in Comanche, Texas, ca. 1868, and at the Iredell First United Methodist Church in Iredell, 1869-mid 1870s. His wife Mary died in 1895. They had one daughter, Ellen.
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Peter W. Gravis Papers, 1828-1892, 1968, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.
From the guide to the Gravis, Peter W. Papers 69-012., 1828-1892, 1968, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin)
