INCIDENTS AND CHARACTERS IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF METHODISM IN
CHARLESTON, SC, AND ALABAMA

By

The Reverend John Elmore DuBois

Edited by Elizabeth A. DuBois
(c) 1998  DuBois Publishing Co. All rights reserved.

THREE [cont.]
Settling In

 January, 1821, found us safe in our new home, surrounded by the friends
of earlier days who had preceded us to the wilds of Alabama.

       Thos. Ledbetter commenced farming with an experienced farmer from
Georgia, and continued in the business a year or so, but the Lord called
him from the plow to the itinerant field, and he left the business in
the hands of his partner, Marshal Mims.  He traveled several years in
Alabama, and then returned with his mother to her old home, and
connected himself with the South Carolina Conference, where, in 1822, he
was stationed in Charleston.

    Vernon was laid off into town lots by Mr. Seaborn Mims, who improved
the place in various ways, built an academy, and established a
first-class school under the supervision of Daniel McLeod, a teacher of
experience and ability, from Georgia.

   As there was only one other house in the place, it fell to the lot of
Mr. Mims to board many citizens, and to hold his house as a sort of
general hotel for the accommodation of transient custom.  This he did
very much to the satisfaction of day boarders and the traveling public.

[To be cont...]

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