. Bishop Monroe Franklin Jamison

"The East Texas Conference met at Marshall, November 6, 1872. Bishop Miles, writing of that session, says:
Rev. Daniels, presiding elder of the district, had made an arrangement with the officers of the Methodist Espiscopal Church to hold the Conference sessions in there church. After religious services, serveral women came in, claiming to be members of that church, and ordered us out. One very old lady, bending over a long staff, said "My God, brethern; I am a radical all over! Go away from here, you conservatives!" I felt sorry for the old lady, to think that politics had so deranged an old lady who was nearly in the grave. I withdrew the Conference from their church in good order. I told the brethern not to say anything; and we march up to the Public Square, and halted in front of the courthouse, where the Cumberland Presbyterians offered us the use of their church. We did well after that and had a good time. We brought a lot on which to build a church. The East Texas Conference is doing well. They had an increase of 1,620 members, and ten preachers were admitted on trail."

Except from: The History of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America
Phillips, C. H. (Charles Henry), 1858-1951.

CHRISTIAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH The first CME church in Texas was established at Marshall in Harrison County. The East Texas Conference was one of the original conferences recognized at the Jackson organizational meeting. A West Texas Conference was organized in 1871. The first East Texas Annual Conference was held at Marshall on November 6, 1872. Later a Northwest Conference was organized, and in 1894 the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church established Texas College in Tyler, the center of the Colored Methodist Episcopal population in East Texas. Bishop M. F. Jamison is given much of the credit for the establishment and success of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in Texas.

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