The Reverend Charles Fletcher Mitchell, son of the Reverend Barney E. Mitchell, who was born in North Carolina and his wife, Mary Ann Rouse, who was born in South Carolina, was born on November 3, 1869, in Greene County, North Carolina and died at Oklahoma City on September 11, 1945.
He was graduated from Hiram and Lydia College, Altus, Arkansas, in 1895, and in October of that year he rode to the Ardmore Indian Mission Conference and being admitted on trial served as pastor for twenty-five years, in the following charges: Fanshawe Circuit, Antlers, Okmulgee, Miami, Tahlequah, Claremore, Holdenville, Muldrow, Pauls Valley, First Church at Sulphur, Stillwater, Temple, Martha, and Checotah. He served thirteen years as presiding elder of four districts: Lawton, Mangum, Chickasha, and Clinton, and as superintendent of the Methvin Institute at Anadarko, a school for Indian boys and girls, and since his retirement in 1933 he resided at Weatherford, Oklahoma.
He was united in marriage on September 3, 1896 to Anna Welch of Altus, Arkansas. To this union came five children, all of whom survive: Elbert H., County Supt. of Schools, Arapaho, Oklahoma; Mis Mary Mitchell, English teacher in Austin High School, El Paso, Texas; Thomas E. Mitchell, Weatherford, Oklahoma; Charles F. Mitchell, Jr. with the National Biscuit Company of Oklahoma City; and Rev. Paul D. Mitchell, Methodist pastor at Verdun, Oklahoma, and a half-brother, Elbert Munsey Mitchell of Broken Bow, Oklahoma.
He was one of the commissioners from first Oklahoma Methodist Conference in the establishment of the Southern Methodist University of Dallas, Texas, and Trustee of the Oklahoma Methodist College at College Park, a suburb of Oklahoma City, now defunct, but whose graduates are alumni of Oklahoma City University. In his will he left a gift to Oklahoma City University which will provide an award each year to the Senior who has achieved most during the year in scholarship and service to the school.
He was graduated from Hiram and Lydia College, Altus, Arkansas, in 1895, and in October of that year he rode to the Ardmore Indian Mission Conference and being admitted on trial served as pastor for twenty-five years, in the following charges: Fanshawe Circuit, Antlers, Okmulgee, Miami, Tahlequah, Claremore, Holdenville, Muldrow, Pauls Valley, First Church at Sulphur, Stillwater, Temple, Martha, and Checotah. He served thirteen years as presiding elder of four districts: Lawton, Mangum, Chickasha, and Clinton, and as superintendent of the Methvin Institute at Anadarko, a school for Indian boys and girls, and since his retirement in 1933 he resided at Weatherford, Oklahoma.
He was united in marriage on September 3, 1896 to Anna Welch of Altus, Arkansas. To this union came five children, all of whom survive: Elbert H., County Supt. of Schools, Arapaho, Oklahoma; Mis Mary Mitchell, English teacher in Austin High School, El Paso, Texas; Thomas E. Mitchell, Weatherford, Oklahoma; Charles F. Mitchell, Jr. with the National Biscuit Company of Oklahoma City; and Rev. Paul D. Mitchell, Methodist pastor at Verdun, Oklahoma, and a half-brother, Elbert Munsey Mitchell of Broken Bow, Oklahoma.
He was one of the commissioners from first Oklahoma Methodist Conference in the establishment of the Southern Methodist University of Dallas, Texas, and Trustee of the Oklahoma Methodist College at College Park, a suburb of Oklahoma City, now defunct, but whose graduates are alumni of Oklahoma City University. In his will he left a gift to Oklahoma City University which will provide an award each year to the Senior who has achieved most during the year in scholarship and service to the school.
The Reverend Charles Fletcher Mitchell, son of the Reverend Barney E. Mitchell, who was born in North Carolina and his wife, Mary Ann Rouse, who was born in South Carolina, was born on November 3, 1869, in Greene County, North Carolina and died at Oklahoma City on September 11, 1945.
He was graduated from Hiram and Lydia College, Altus, Arkansas, in 1895, and in October of that year he rode to the Ardmore Indian Mission Conference and being admitted on trial served as pastor for twenty-five years, in the following charges: Fanshawe Circuit, Antlers, Okmulgee, Miami, Tahlequah, Claremore, Holdenville, Muldrow, Pauls Valley, First Church at Sulphur, Stillwater, Temple, Martha, and Checotah. He served thirteen years as presiding elder of four districts: Lawton, Mangum, Chickasha, and Clinton, and as superintendent of the Methvin Institute at Anadarko, a school for Indian boys and girls, and since his retirement in 1933 he resided at Weatherford, Oklahoma.
He was united in marriage on September 3, 1896 to Anna Welch of Altus, Arkansas. To this union came five children, all of whom survive: Elbert H., County Supt. of Schools, Arapaho, Oklahoma; Mis Mary Mitchell, English teacher in Austin High School, El Paso, Texas; Thomas E. Mitchell, Weatherford, Oklahoma; Charles F. Mitchell, Jr. with the National Biscuit Company of Oklahoma City; and Rev. Paul D. Mitchell, Methodist pastor at Verdun, Oklahoma, and a half-brother, Elbert Munsey Mitchell of Broken Bow, Oklahoma.
He was one of the commissioners from first Oklahoma Methodist Conference in the establishment of the Southern Methodist University of Dallas, Texas, and Trustee of the Oklahoma Methodist College at College Park, a suburb of Oklahoma City, now defunct, but whose graduates are alumni of Oklahoma City University. In his will he left a gift to Oklahoma City University which will provide an award each year to the Senior who has achieved most during the year in scholarship and service to the school.
He was graduated from Hiram and Lydia College, Altus, Arkansas, in 1895, and in October of that year he rode to the Ardmore Indian Mission Conference and being admitted on trial served as pastor for twenty-five years, in the following charges: Fanshawe Circuit, Antlers, Okmulgee, Miami, Tahlequah, Claremore, Holdenville, Muldrow, Pauls Valley, First Church at Sulphur, Stillwater, Temple, Martha, and Checotah. He served thirteen years as presiding elder of four districts: Lawton, Mangum, Chickasha, and Clinton, and as superintendent of the Methvin Institute at Anadarko, a school for Indian boys and girls, and since his retirement in 1933 he resided at Weatherford, Oklahoma.
He was united in marriage on September 3, 1896 to Anna Welch of Altus, Arkansas. To this union came five children, all of whom survive: Elbert H., County Supt. of Schools, Arapaho, Oklahoma; Mis Mary Mitchell, English teacher in Austin High School, El Paso, Texas; Thomas E. Mitchell, Weatherford, Oklahoma; Charles F. Mitchell, Jr. with the National Biscuit Company of Oklahoma City; and Rev. Paul D. Mitchell, Methodist pastor at Verdun, Oklahoma, and a half-brother, Elbert Munsey Mitchell of Broken Bow, Oklahoma.
He was one of the commissioners from first Oklahoma Methodist Conference in the establishment of the Southern Methodist University of Dallas, Texas, and Trustee of the Oklahoma Methodist College at College Park, a suburb of Oklahoma City, now defunct, but whose graduates are alumni of Oklahoma City University. In his will he left a gift to Oklahoma City University which will provide an award each year to the Senior who has achieved most during the year in scholarship and service to the school.
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