Tazewell Methodist Episcopal Church
Was there an attempt to form an African Methodist Episcopal Church in Tazewell and what happened to it? I have a picture above of what I know to be the Old Methodist Episcopal Church South, which was active even after the United Methodist Church was built. What happened to this structure? The pictures of the Diary book below was given my aunt Ruth Phillips, who married Jack Avent, in 1924 by the Tazewell Methodist Episcopal Chruch South. Evidently sometime between the time my grandfather made this film in 1916 and 1924 my mother's mother Birdie Mae Stone began attending Church at the Tazewell Methodist Episocpal Church South. My grandfather was a Prohibition Agent, could that have had something to do with it??? And was there ever an A.M.E. Chruch in Tazewell, TN? Click on the pictures for more information.
