Papers, 1852-1886.

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Papers, 1852-1886.

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Correspondence of John Francis Poulton, a dentist and Methodist minister of Loudoun County, Va., and throughout Virginia, concerning family and friends; courtship, marriage, and the death of his first wife, Rosannah (Davisson) Poulton; his life as an itinerant preacher and the uncertain status of the southern Methodist Church after the Civil War; attendance at church conferences; and a complaint against Poulton brought before the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, concerning his conduct towards a new Methodist minister assigned to Warrenton, Va. Chief correspondents include his first wife, Rosannah (Davisson) Poulton, concerning courtship, family and friends, and the Christian lifestyle, and his mother-in-law, Elizabeth Derrickson (Wickes) Davisson, concerning the deaths of her daughter and her husband, Frederick Augustus Davisson, the remarriage of John Francis Poulton, and the future of her grandchildren. Other major correspondents include fellow Methodist ministers offering professional encouragement, expressing sympathy in the loss of his first wife, and discussing church business.

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Methodist Episcopal Church

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The Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in the U.S. in 1784. The first general conference was held in 1792 and the constitution was adopted in 1900. In 1939 the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Protestant Church united to form the Methodist Church (U.S.). From the description of Methodist Episcopal Church records, 1791-1945. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122455885 From the guide to the Methodist Episcopal Church records, 1791-1945, (The New ...

Poulton family.

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Davisson, Elizabeth Derrickson Wickes, 1812-1881.

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Poulton, Rosannah Davisson, 1835-1869.

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Poulton, John Francis, 1831-1901.

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