W. H. Ballengee
Pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Berryville for two years, who in March 1922 asked to be retired on account of his health and planned to live in Winchester.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of March 16, 1922 reports that Rev. W. H. Ballengee, pastor of the Methodist Church, South, at Berryville, would ask to be placed on the retired list at the next conference on account of his health, and would make his home in Winchester after leaving his charge on April 1, after two years at Berryville. It prints the resolution of the Fourth Quarterly Conference of the Berryville Charge thanking him for his services.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of March 16, 1922 reports that Rev. W. H. Ballengee, pastor of the Methodist Church, South, at Berryville, would ask to be placed on the retired list at the next conference on account of his health, and would make his home in Winchester after leaving his charge on April 1, after two years at Berryville. It prints the resolution of the Fourth Quarterly Conference of the Berryville Charge thanking him for his services.
What the source supports
That W. H. Ballengee was pastor of the Berryville charge of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for two years to April 1922, and asked for retirement on account of his health.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The body of the item prints the name "Ballengcc" and "Rallen gec." The praise is the paper's and the conference's own.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The March 16, 1922 item on his retirement and the quarterly conference's resolution.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., March 16, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-03-16 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, item "Rev. W. H. Ballengee Will Ask Retirement"
Relevant passageREV. W. H. BALLENGEE | WILL ASK RETIREMENT ... Rev. \V. H. Ballengcc [Ballengee], pastor 'of the Methodist Church South, 'and one of the most beloved ministers in the Baltimore Conference, will ask to he [be] placed on the j retired list at the next conference | on account of his health. He will make his home in Winchester after he leaves his charge i here April 1st. ... His two years of /service here lias [has] ! made for him hundreds of devot • led friends
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The resolution printed with it.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., March 16, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-03-16 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, item "Rev. W. H. Ballengee Will Ask Retirement," resolution of the quarterly conference
Relevant passageThe folowing resolutions were f Passed by the Fourth Quarterly 'Conference of the Berryville ! Charge,. M. E. Church South: ... we, the members of the Rerryvillc [Berryville] quarterly conference, hereby express to him our appreciation of Kis [his] faithful seryiccs [services] during the past two years ... Jas. W. Gaver, Secretary.
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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