The Methodists’ Sunday school, called “the first”
In 1852 Tyler’s Methodists organized what the city’s National Register documentation calls “the first Sunday School,” in the home of Reverend Wells, four years after an 1848 revival led them to leave the town’s union services.
Note
“The first Sunday School” is the documentation’s phrase. Read in context it is the Methodists’ first, not necessarily the town’s.
Sources
- National Register Multiple Property Documentation Form: Historic and Architectural Resources of Tyler, Texas (Diane E. Williams, 2000; THC Atlas)atlas.thc.texas.gov
In 1852, the Methodists organized the first Sunday School in the home of Reverend Wells.
A revival was held in 1848, the first of many in Tyler
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