The Cain Archives is the repository for historical records of the Mississippi Conference, United Methodist Church, and its antecedent groups. The conference was established in 1813 as the Mississippi Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, following Tobias Gibson's appointment from South Carolina to the Natchez Territory in 1799.
Collections
CC Registers: Church Conference Records
QC: Quarterly Conference Registers
CR Church Registers: Membership, Sunday School, Women's Societies
ChR Church Records: Local Churches
Conference Records and Registers
District Records and Registers
DC - District Conference Records
DR - District Records and Reports: Presiding Elders/District Superintendents
DS - District Stewards' Journals
PE - Presiding Elders' Minutes
Exhibits
Antecedents to the Mississippi Conference, UMC
Digital Exhibits
Memoirs and Obituaries of Ministers
Mississippi Conference (and Antecedents) Annual Journals
Mississippi Conference (and Antecedents) Histories
Mississippi Methodist Historical Society Publications
Published Histories of Mississippi Methodism
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