Alderman, Elisha Gilbert

Collection — Container: Pastor 1

Identifier: KUMA-02-638

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Folder 1. Handwritten notes, one page, with data on E. G. Alderman (undated) Letter to Joanne Black, archivist, from Lynne Wagner, great-great-great-granddaughter of a Rev. Alderman in Ohio (February 28, 1998) (It is not certain that the Alderman referred to in the 1998 letter is E. G. Alderman. The letter-writer is referring to an Alderman who was in Ohio and who had a son who was living in Ohio in 1844. According to the notes in the file and the memoir in the Conference minutes, E. G. Alderman was born eight years after that.)

Dates

Existence: 1852-1942

Biographical or Historical Information

Elisha Gilbert Alderman, born in West Virginia in 1852, became a member of the Virginia Conference in 1800. In 1892, he entered the Northwest Kansas conference from the Missouri conference. Rev. Alderman married Martha (Mattie) E. Alderman (1867-1943); their daughter was M. E. Gilberta Alderman. He became a supernumerary in 1895 and was superannuated in 1900 from the Northwest Kansas Conference. In 1942 he died in Thermal, California; he is buried in Coachella Valley Public Cemetery, Coachella, Riverside County, California. Rev. Alderman's memoir appears in the minutes of the Central Kansas Conference (1942).

Note written by Sarah St. John

Extent

1.00 folders

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

This collection contains two documents mentioning E. G. Alderman, who retired from the Northwest Kansas Conference in 1900.

Other Descriptive Information

Information from Kansas West card file (discarded): first name: Elisha 1852 - born in West Virginia 1880 - Viginia Conference 1892 - entered Northwest Kansas from Missouri Conference 1895 - supernumerary 1900 - superannuated 1942 - died in Thermal, California, memoir Central Kansas Journal (p.483)