Dau. of Joseph WOODFIELD.
She married 1772 to James BRENTON, a widower with four minor sons. She had four more children, two sons and two daughters.
She raised all six of the boys to become Methodist ministers, and several of her grandsons and great-grandsons became ministers. She is known as the "mother of Methodism" in Kentucky and Indiana.
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A deed of sale in 1800 names Mary BRENTON; her two step sons James BRENTON and John BRENTON and their wives; Mary BRENTON's son Robert BRENTON with wife Sarah (SPILMAN); daughter Nancy with husband Thomas SPILMAN; daughter Mary with husband James McCLAIN; and son Henry BRENTON unmarried Methodist minister. All of them moved together at that time to the Mount Tabor area in now Trimble County, Kentucky. Reverend Henry BRENTON built a log church on the corner of his property, which became widely known as the Brenton Meeting house. It was the social center for the community. Subsequently it was called the Mount Tabor Methodist Episcopal Church. When C. F. BRENTON visited there in 1978, the older people told him that the old church had finally fallen down in the 1890's. The cemetery was still there and SPILMANS were buried there, for they all went to Henry BRENTON's church. - Information provided by C. F. Brenton of Spokane, Washington.
"Mary (WOODFIELD) BRENTON is listed in Methodist circles in Kentucky where she lived in then Gallatin now Trimble County, to where one Methodist author says of her "The church owes its influence in the early county there largely to Mary BRENTON and her family who spread a salutary influence through out the whole area."
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"We do not know the exact dates of the arrival of several local preachers who aided in building up the (Methodist) Church in this State (Kentucky), but it was about 1790 that they came. Besides Francis CLARK and W. J. THOMPSON, who settled in Mercer County, Nathaniel HARRIS and Philip TAYLOR settled in Jessamine; Gabriel and Daniel WOODFIELD in Fayette; Joseph FERGUSON in Nelson; Edward TOLBERT in Shelby; William FORMAN in Bourbon, and others in various sections. --- Gabriel WOODFIELD was a local preacher of more than ordinary ability. He came to Kentucky at an early day, and was very helpful in building up Methodism. He lived first in Fayette, then in Shelby county. He was said to be an excellent preacher, and a very useful man. Twice he entered the traveling connection and was appointed to the Lexington and Shelby circuits. --- In the county of Trimble lived the Rev. Henry BRENTON. He came to Kentucky from Pennsylvania about 1800. His widowed mother (Mary (WOODFIELD) BRENTON) was a member of the Methodist Church before coming to this State, and it was largely through her influence that Methodism was established in the county of her adoption. Her son organized the first Society in Trimble county, known for many years as Mount Tabor." - Rev. W. E. Arnold, D.D., A HISTORY of METHODISM in KENTUCKY (1935), Vol.1, pp.69-70,352.
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She married 1772 to James BRENTON, a widower with four minor sons. She had four more children, two sons and two daughters.
She raised all six of the boys to become Methodist ministers, and several of her grandsons and great-grandsons became ministers. She is known as the "mother of Methodism" in Kentucky and Indiana.
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A deed of sale in 1800 names Mary BRENTON; her two step sons James BRENTON and John BRENTON and their wives; Mary BRENTON's son Robert BRENTON with wife Sarah (SPILMAN); daughter Nancy with husband Thomas SPILMAN; daughter Mary with husband James McCLAIN; and son Henry BRENTON unmarried Methodist minister. All of them moved together at that time to the Mount Tabor area in now Trimble County, Kentucky. Reverend Henry BRENTON built a log church on the corner of his property, which became widely known as the Brenton Meeting house. It was the social center for the community. Subsequently it was called the Mount Tabor Methodist Episcopal Church. When C. F. BRENTON visited there in 1978, the older people told him that the old church had finally fallen down in the 1890's. The cemetery was still there and SPILMANS were buried there, for they all went to Henry BRENTON's church. - Information provided by C. F. Brenton of Spokane, Washington.
"Mary (WOODFIELD) BRENTON is listed in Methodist circles in Kentucky where she lived in then Gallatin now Trimble County, to where one Methodist author says of her "The church owes its influence in the early county there largely to Mary BRENTON and her family who spread a salutary influence through out the whole area."
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"We do not know the exact dates of the arrival of several local preachers who aided in building up the (Methodist) Church in this State (Kentucky), but it was about 1790 that they came. Besides Francis CLARK and W. J. THOMPSON, who settled in Mercer County, Nathaniel HARRIS and Philip TAYLOR settled in Jessamine; Gabriel and Daniel WOODFIELD in Fayette; Joseph FERGUSON in Nelson; Edward TOLBERT in Shelby; William FORMAN in Bourbon, and others in various sections. --- Gabriel WOODFIELD was a local preacher of more than ordinary ability. He came to Kentucky at an early day, and was very helpful in building up Methodism. He lived first in Fayette, then in Shelby county. He was said to be an excellent preacher, and a very useful man. Twice he entered the traveling connection and was appointed to the Lexington and Shelby circuits. --- In the county of Trimble lived the Rev. Henry BRENTON. He came to Kentucky from Pennsylvania about 1800. His widowed mother (Mary (WOODFIELD) BRENTON) was a member of the Methodist Church before coming to this State, and it was largely through her influence that Methodism was established in the county of her adoption. Her son organized the first Society in Trimble county, known for many years as Mount Tabor." - Rev. W. E. Arnold, D.D., A HISTORY of METHODISM in KENTUCKY (1935), Vol.1, pp.69-70,352.
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Dau. of Joseph WOODFIELD.
She married 1772 to James BRENTON, a widower with four minor sons. She had four more children, two sons and two daughters.
She raised all six of the boys to become Methodist ministers, and several of her grandsons and great-grandsons became ministers. She is known as the "mother of Methodism" in Kentucky and Indiana.
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A deed of sale in 1800 names Mary BRENTON; her two step sons James BRENTON and John BRENTON and their wives; Mary BRENTON's son Robert BRENTON with wife Sarah (SPILMAN); daughter Nancy with husband Thomas SPILMAN; daughter Mary with husband James McCLAIN; and son Henry BRENTON unmarried Methodist minister. All of them moved together at that time to the Mount Tabor area in now Trimble County, Kentucky. Reverend Henry BRENTON built a log church on the corner of his property, which became widely known as the Brenton Meeting house. It was the social center for the community. Subsequently it was called the Mount Tabor Methodist Episcopal Church. When C. F. BRENTON visited there in 1978, the older people told him that the old church had finally fallen down in the 1890's. The cemetery was still there and SPILMANS were buried there, for they all went to Henry BRENTON's church. - Information provided by C. F. Brenton of Spokane, Washington.
"Mary (WOODFIELD) BRENTON is listed in Methodist circles in Kentucky where she lived in then Gallatin now Trimble County, to where one Methodist author says of her "The church owes its influence in the early county there largely to Mary BRENTON and her family who spread a salutary influence through out the whole area."
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"We do not know the exact dates of the arrival of several local preachers who aided in building up the (Methodist) Church in this State (Kentucky), but it was about 1790 that they came. Besides Francis CLARK and W. J. THOMPSON, who settled in Mercer County, Nathaniel HARRIS and Philip TAYLOR settled in Jessamine; Gabriel and Daniel WOODFIELD in Fayette; Joseph FERGUSON in Nelson; Edward TOLBERT in Shelby; William FORMAN in Bourbon, and others in various sections. --- Gabriel WOODFIELD was a local preacher of more than ordinary ability. He came to Kentucky at an early day, and was very helpful in building up Methodism. He lived first in Fayette, then in Shelby county. He was said to be an excellent preacher, and a very useful man. Twice he entered the traveling connection and was appointed to the Lexington and Shelby circuits. --- In the county of Trimble lived the Rev. Henry BRENTON. He came to Kentucky from Pennsylvania about 1800. His widowed mother (Mary (WOODFIELD) BRENTON) was a member of the Methodist Church before coming to this State, and it was largely through her influence that Methodism was established in the county of her adoption. Her son organized the first Society in Trimble county, known for many years as Mount Tabor." - Rev. W. E. Arnold, D.D., A HISTORY of METHODISM in KENTUCKY (1935), Vol.1, pp.69-70,352.
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She married 1772 to James BRENTON, a widower with four minor sons. She had four more children, two sons and two daughters.
She raised all six of the boys to become Methodist ministers, and several of her grandsons and great-grandsons became ministers. She is known as the "mother of Methodism" in Kentucky and Indiana.
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A deed of sale in 1800 names Mary BRENTON; her two step sons James BRENTON and John BRENTON and their wives; Mary BRENTON's son Robert BRENTON with wife Sarah (SPILMAN); daughter Nancy with husband Thomas SPILMAN; daughter Mary with husband James McCLAIN; and son Henry BRENTON unmarried Methodist minister. All of them moved together at that time to the Mount Tabor area in now Trimble County, Kentucky. Reverend Henry BRENTON built a log church on the corner of his property, which became widely known as the Brenton Meeting house. It was the social center for the community. Subsequently it was called the Mount Tabor Methodist Episcopal Church. When C. F. BRENTON visited there in 1978, the older people told him that the old church had finally fallen down in the 1890's. The cemetery was still there and SPILMANS were buried there, for they all went to Henry BRENTON's church. - Information provided by C. F. Brenton of Spokane, Washington.
"Mary (WOODFIELD) BRENTON is listed in Methodist circles in Kentucky where she lived in then Gallatin now Trimble County, to where one Methodist author says of her "The church owes its influence in the early county there largely to Mary BRENTON and her family who spread a salutary influence through out the whole area."
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"We do not know the exact dates of the arrival of several local preachers who aided in building up the (Methodist) Church in this State (Kentucky), but it was about 1790 that they came. Besides Francis CLARK and W. J. THOMPSON, who settled in Mercer County, Nathaniel HARRIS and Philip TAYLOR settled in Jessamine; Gabriel and Daniel WOODFIELD in Fayette; Joseph FERGUSON in Nelson; Edward TOLBERT in Shelby; William FORMAN in Bourbon, and others in various sections. --- Gabriel WOODFIELD was a local preacher of more than ordinary ability. He came to Kentucky at an early day, and was very helpful in building up Methodism. He lived first in Fayette, then in Shelby county. He was said to be an excellent preacher, and a very useful man. Twice he entered the traveling connection and was appointed to the Lexington and Shelby circuits. --- In the county of Trimble lived the Rev. Henry BRENTON. He came to Kentucky from Pennsylvania about 1800. His widowed mother (Mary (WOODFIELD) BRENTON) was a member of the Methodist Church before coming to this State, and it was largely through her influence that Methodism was established in the county of her adoption. Her son organized the first Society in Trimble county, known for many years as Mount Tabor." - Rev. W. E. Arnold, D.D., A HISTORY of METHODISM in KENTUCKY (1935), Vol.1, pp.69-70,352.
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