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J.B. Cain Archives of Mississippi Methodism: Conference Records & Registers

Conference Records & Registers

About District Records and Registers

The District Registers and Records include minutes of District Conferences, Presiding Elders' Record Books and Minutes, District Steward Journals, and Records and Reports of the Presiding Elder/District Superintendents' Office. They include some individual church records as noted. They are arranged alphabetically by District and then methodically. This collection is a primary source for church history.

District Records

District Conferences
Name Headings Dates
Aberdeen District DC 25 1890-1898
DC 26 1907-1916
DC 27 1917-1924
DC 28 1925-1929
   
Brookhaven District

DC 01

1930-1934

     
Brookhaven District (Stewards meetings)

DC 01.1

1909-1915

     
Columbus District DC 05.1 1892-1895
DC 05.2 1901-1907
DC 05.3 1908-1916
DC 05.4 1917-1924
DC 05.5 1930-1942
   
Columbus District (Macon u. 1876)

DC 05

1871-1886

     
Corinth District

DC 06

1901-1907

     
Durant District

DC 20

1913-1920

     
Greenville District DC 07 1886-1884
DC 08 1904-1909
DC 09 1914-1919
DC 10 1922-1924
DC 22 1925-1929
DC 23 1944-1945
DC 23 1949-1950
DC 23 1957-1958
   
Greenwood District DC 21 1914-1933
DC 21.1 1934-1950
DC 21.2 1951-1968
   
Grenada District

DC 11

1883-1906

     
Hattiesburg District

DC 01.2

1939

     
Holly Springs District DC 12 1871-1893
DC 13 1901-1905
   
Jackson District

DC 02

1883-1884

     
Natchez District

DC 03

1905-1910

     
Sardis District DC 18 1939-1964
DC 19 1965-1969
   
Starkville District DC 19 1944-1963
DC 19.1 1966, 1967
   
Vicksburg District DC 04 1901-1909
DC 04.1 1954-1961
   
Winona District (Starkville 1871-1874, Yazoo 1871-1874) DC 14 1868-1882
DC 15 1883-1889
DC 16 1892-1906
DC 17 1907-1913
Presiding Elder - District Superintendent
DISTRICT: Dates File Names Dates
HATTIESBURG DISTRICT: Presiding Elder report 1936
  Petition from Bonhomie Church no date
     
JACKSON DISTRICT: Presiding Elder report 1936
     
MERIDIAN DISTRICT: Quarterly Conference Roll and Record 1940-41
  Reports to Quarterly Conference 1940-41
     
SEASHORE DISTRICT: Presiding Elder report 1936
  Mentorum Charge report to Quarterly Conf. 1911
  Columbia Charge report to Quarterly Conf. no date
     
EAST JACKSON DISTRICT: 1965-1993 Administrative Reports: Charge Conference  
  Reports, District Reports, District Conference  
  Reports (see list of churches in District Records notebook finding aid)  
     
GREENWOOD/GRENADA DISTRICT: 1974-1997 Administrative papers, correspondence, reports,  
  blueprints, closed church files (see list of files in District Records notebook finding aid)  
     
SENATOBIA DISTRICT: 1952-1988 Administrative reports: Charge conference reports  
  (See list of churches in District Records notebook finding aid)  
     
SARDIS DISTRICT: 1965-1976 Administrative reports: Charge conference reports (See list of churches in District Records notebook finding aid)  
     
Name Heading Dates
Columbus District

DS 02

1887-1917

Sardis-Grenada District

DS 01

1932-1940

District Heading Dates
Aberdeen District PE 01 1900
  PE 02 1901
     
Brookhaven District PE 03 1909
  PE 04 1910
  PE 05 1911
  PE 06 1912
  PE 06.1 1913
  PE 07 1917
  PE 08 1918
  PE 09 1919
  PE 10 1920
  PE 10.1 1931
     
Columbus District PE 11 1902
  PE 12 1903
  PE 13 1904
  PE 14 1905
  PE 15 1917
     
Greenville District PE 16 1897
  PE 17 1898
  PE 18 1899
  PE 19 1900
  PE 20 1912
     
Hattiesburg District PE 21 1917
  PE 22 1918
  PE 23 1919
  PE 24 1920
  PE 25 1928-1929
     
Jackson District PE 26 1929
  PE 26.1 1924
  PE 26.2 1926
  PE 26.3 1928
  PE 27 1930
  PE 28 1931
  PE 29 1932
     
Meridian District PE 30 1894
  PE 31 1913
  PE 32 1914
  PE 33 1915
  PE 34 1916
  PE 34.1 1922
  PE 35 1936
  PE 36 1937
  PE 37 1938
  PE 38 1939
  PE 39 1940
     
Natchez District PE 40 1908
  PE 41 1909
     
Newton District PE 42 1916
  PE 43 1917
  PE 44 1918
  PE 45 1919
     
Sardis District PE 46 1912
  PE 47 1913
  PE 48 1914
  PE 49 1915
     
Seashore District PE 50 1908-1909
  PE 51 1909-1910
  PE 52 1911
  PE 53 1912
  PE 53.1 1929
     
Vicksburg District PE 54 1892
  PE 55 1923-1924
  PE 56 1925
  PE 57 1926
  PE 58 1927
  PE 59 1928
  PE 60 1933-1934

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