Record #:

15231

Author(s):

Erwin, Robert A.

Abstract:

In was 18 years ago that the Rev. Hannah Jewett Powell, said to be North Carolina's first ordained woman minister went to Inman's Chapel in Haywood County. For fifteen years, Powell occupied the pulpit of Inman's Chapel and began a series of vigorous religious activity among the Haywood County mountaineers.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 7 Issue 23, Nov 1939, p15, 28

Subject(s):

Ministers--Women; Powell, Hannah Jewett, 1866-1954