MORGAN'S HISTORY OF THE NEW JERSEY CONFERENCE Page 52

CHAPTER I. 

REV. G. T. WATERS

verted and added to the circuit. In May, 1869, he was appointed to the Bristol Circuit, Pa. There he was successful in clearing the church at Bristol, of debt. In May, 1870, he was returned. This year was the commencement of trouble and sorrow. Here he lost his first wife. In June, 1871, he was appointed to Chester Circuit. This year thirty souls were added to the church. He built a brick church in South Chester, at a cost of $2,100.00, and paid $1,100.00. This year he married his second wife, August 17, and lost her in March, 1872. He was returned to Chester in 1872 - 3. In 1874 he was appointed to Media Circuit. Here everything went well until the following December, when he was suspended from church work. At the sitting of conference, in Harrisburg, June, 1875, he was expelled from the connection. In June of this year he joined Allen Chapel, Philadelphia, Pa., Rev. G. M. Whitten then pastor. He remained until he became a full member, and then joined the Union A. M. E. Church, then situated on Fairmount avenue, Rev. H. H. Lewis then pastor. Finding his enemies were seeking his hurt, and (simply to avoid their persecutions) he joined the M. E. Church in October, 1876, and remained until March, 1870, when he joined the A. M. E. Church, Camden, N. J., Rev. R. J. M. Long then pastor. He entered the N. J. Conference in Trenton, N. J., under Bishop D. A. Payne. In 1879 he married his third and present wife.

REV. S. B. WILLIAMS.

Was born in Columbia, Pa., November 27, 1827. He first entered the ministry in April, 1862, in Canada West. He was ordained Deacon in September, 1862, and Elder in 1864, by Bishop A. R. Green, of the B. M. E. Church, of British North America. He was sent to Colchester Circuit, Canada West, in April, 1862, and was reappointed in September of the same year. In September, 1863, at the Conference at Windsor, he was appointed to Roundeal and reappointed in 1864. In April, 1865, he was transferred to the Ohio Conference and left in the hands of Rev. H. J. Young, (and in his hands was left the work of Michigan until the sitting of the Indiana Conference). Williams was by Rev. H. J. Young appointed to Ypsilanti Circuit. At the sitting of the Indiana Conference, at Springfield, he was

Rev. William H. Yeocum.

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