PASTORS
Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcopal Church belonged to four different circuit/charges, with Conference-Appointed Pastors as our church developed through the years.
According to conference journals, Sidney R. Trawick was the founder and the first Pastor of Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcopal Church South in 1870.
Records prior to 1870 were not included in this record because the circuit that Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church was on could not be determined.
1871 – 1895 Rolesville Circuit
1871 – 1873 Betts, Alexander Davis
1873 – 1874 Thompson, John Ervin
1874 – 1875 Reeks, Thomas Branch
1875 – 1878 Holding, Lucien Jerome
1878 – 1881 Shell, Lemon
1881 – 1883 Nash, Leonidas Lidwell
1883 – 1885 Buie, John Duncan
1885 – 1888 Greening, Philip
1888 – 1892 Alred, Barzillai, C.
1892 – 1895 Holmes, Kenneth Dawson
1895 – 1937 Millbrook Circuit
1895 – 1898 Ashby, James Monroe
1898 – 1899 McFarland, Miles Mebane
1899 – 1903 Seabolt, Nathaniel L.
1903 – 1905 Rood, George Robert
1905 – 1909 Simmons, George Thomas
1909 – 1910 Marlowe, Jesse M.
1910 – 1913 Greening, Philip
1913 – 1914 Martin, Jesse W.
1914 – 1914 Parker, Albee Swindell
1914 – 1917 Sawyer, Louis Edward
1917 – 1921 Williams, John Cephas
1921 – 1922 Mitchell, H. H.
1922 – 1923 Ervin, M. G.
1923 – 1924 Harris, W. R.
1924 – 1927 Starnes, Shirley Judge
1927 – 1930 Elliott, William Franklin
1931 – 1933 Hough, Thomas Bryan
1933 – 1935 Pattishall, Lauder Beaman
1936 – 1937 Chester, Harley Archibald
1938 – 1944 Jenkin Memorial Charge
1938 – 1940 Dailey, James Adolphus
1940 – 1943 Penny, William Burbank
1943 – 1944 Hinson, Obed I.
1944 – 1945 Dowd, Orren W.
1945 – 1961 Westover Charge
1945 – 1947 Wenberry, Herman S.
1947 – 1947 McDonald, Walter Neal
1948 – 1949 Huston, Hollis Wilburn
1949 – 1952 McGill, George Caskey
1953 – 1955 Crumb, John Hammond
1956 – 1957 Worley, William Earl
1957 – 1961 Summey, Raymond Clifton
1961 – Present Station Church
1961 – 1962 Hunter, Jack L.
1963 – 1964 Wilson, Ben H.
1965 – 1966 Wilson, William Carlton
1967 – 1969 Johnson, Clarence Reginald
1970 – 1972 Payne, Argel Harold
1973 – 1976 Taylor, Bruce D.
1977 – 1982 Bradshaw, Francis Connor
1983 – 1986 Loy, James C.
1987 – 1990 Campbell, Curtis William
1991 – 1993 Dulaney, Earl George
1993 – Minnick, Jay
The Methodist Episcopal Church merged with Methodist Episcopal Church, South and Methodist Protestant Church in 1939 to become Methodist Church.
In 1961 Pleasant Grove Methodist Church became a Station Church led by the Reverend Jack Hunter.
The merger in 1968 that formed the United Methodist Church brought together the Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church.