Ordained Ministry
Elijah was licensed to preach in the M.E. Church, South, at Jonesboro on 8 February 1866. He was admitted on trial to the Holston Annual Conference 29 September 1869, and was ordained in 1870. His first appointment was Jonesboro (Jonesborough United Methodist Church). The first person he received into church membership was his own father. He was then appointed to Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1870.
In July 1872 he transferred to California to the Pacific Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (M.E.C., S.). He was appointed to San Francisco. He then transferred to the Western North Carolina Annual Conference in 1875 and was appointed to Asheville.
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