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[Portrait of Rev. James D. Shaw]

Description: Portrait of Rev. Dr. James D. Shaw, senior pastor of the Fifth Street Methodist Church of Waco, Texas. Rev. Dr. Shaw (1841-1926) later left the ordained ministry in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and became a "free thinker." He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Waco, Texas, where a VA grave marker was later placed on his grave. He is visible from the chest-up and wears a dark-colored three-piece suit and a bow tie.
Date: unknown
Creator: Jackson, W. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Photograph of Mattie Wright]

Description: Photograph of Mattie Wright, whose father was Reverend Samuel P. Wright of Waco, Texas. She poses for her picture wearing a long-sleeved dark dress, gloves, and a large hat. She was the first consecrated Deaconess in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Date: unknown
Creator: Mitchell
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

Journal of the Central Texas Conference, Fifty-Fourth Annual Session (which is the tenth session since division), Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Description: Journal proceedings of Central Texas Conference include a list of members, committees, condensed minutes of the proceedings, reports of boards and committees, appointments, memoirs, index, statistical tables, and advertisements.
Date: 1919
Creator: Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Archives of the Central Texas Conference United Methodist Church

Journal of the Forty-third Annual Session, Northwest Texas Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Description: Journal proceedings of Northwest Texas Conference include a list of members, committees, formal minutes of the proceedings, appointments, reports of boards and committees, memoirs, statistical tables, and advertisements.
Date: 1908
Creator: Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Archives of the Central Texas Conference United Methodist Church

[Winn Family Death and Marriage Scrapbook Page]

Description: Collection of clippings and notes on a single page that mark the deaths and marriage of members of the Winn family of Waco, Texas. Several family members are buried in the First Street Cemetery of Waco. This page was purchased at an estate sale in Austin, Texas.
Date: 1857-10-09/1870-11-30
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Texas Historical Commission Marker: St. James Methodist Church]

Description: Photograph of Texas Historical Commission Marker for St. James Methodist Church in Waco, Texas. Text: One of Waco's oldest churches, St. James Methodist Church was organized in 1874 by Father Anderson Brack (d. 1905). From the first worship services, conducted in a house near the Brazos River that served as a school for the black community, the congregation built several sanctuaries before completing work on this building in 1924. Designed in a modified Gothic revival style, it features decorat… more
Date: 2012
Creator: Willis, T. Bradford
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Postcard of Austin Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church]

Description: Postcard of Austin Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, South. According to a note on the photo, the church was erected in 1901-1902 and dismantled in 1935. The edifice was located at Austin Avenue and 12th Street in Waco and was designed by William A. Cann of St. Louis.
Date: [1902..1935]
Creator: Cann, William A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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