Texas Women Religious

I have a number of Texas Women Religious friends (ministers) and have been thinking about them and about students who might enjoy reading about the history of Texas women in the ministry. I will post a few entries here to get us started. Join as a Follower and then respond to this post in the comment area to let me know what you think. It would be great if you would, sometime during using this post, send me info (primary or secondary sources) re Texas women ministers. Let's preserve their history!

Books, Pamphlets, and Reports:
Brown, Fay. Lady of the Lord: An Autobiography. Channing, Tex.: F. Brown, 1991. [Biography of a Methodist minister.]

Fields, Ann Brown. A Time to Speak: A History in Celebration of Clergywomen of the Southwest Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church. [San Antonio, Texas]: Commission on the Status and Role of Women, Southwest Conference of the United Methodist Church, 2006. Content includes: Early ordination of women in Texas; Just the beginning: The Methodist Church approves full clergy rights for women; The Southwest Texas Conference ordains a woman; and The floodgates begin to open: our foremothers in the Southwest Texas Conference.

Fisher, Annie May. Woman's Right to Preach: A Sermon Reported as Delivered at Chilton, Texas. San Antonio, Tex.: The Author, 1900. Reprinted 2004 (Oklahoma City, Ok: Charles Edwin Jones, 2004) [See Archives below for copy of her sermon]

Jernigan, C.B. 1863-1930 (Charles Brougher). Pioneer Days of the Holiness Movement in the Southwest. Oklahoma City, Ok: Charles Edwin Jones, 2002, 1919. Content includes: Women preachers.

Lambert, Marie, Sister. Called to Trace New Patterns: A Story of the Women Religious of the Diocese of Galveston-Houston. [Houston, TX]: The Diocese, 1980-1989?

United Methodist Church (U.S.). Southwest Texas Comference. Commission on the Status and Role of Women. Clergy Women in the Southwest Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church. S.l.: s.m. 1980.

Articles:

Butler, Amy Dill. "When a Woman Answers God's Call," The Baylor Line 55, no. 4(Fall 1993): 46-49. ["Once limited to service in the foreign mission field, today women are also preparing to serve as ministers in local Baptist churches. Amy Butler '91 speakes frankly of the challenges faced."]

Chiodo, Beverly Ann. "Real County," The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 65, no. 3 (January 1962): 348-365. [References to the work of a female Holiness preacher and to a local Irish woman healer. "Miss Annie Thomas was the first teacher in the Real County area to receive pay out of the public fundss." p. 356. Also includes references to the Order of the Eastern Star.]

"Folsom, Mariana Thompson" In Handbook of Texas Online. [available to the public by the Texas State Historical Association. Handbook of Texas Online.]

Oral histories:
Allison, Nancy Ellett. Oral Interview. Institute for Oral History. Baylor University, Waco, Texas. Interviewed by Rosalie Beck on July 23, 1986, in Dallas, Texas. [Nancy Allison was an ordained minister and the only female Baptist associate pastor in the city of Dallas at the time of the interview. She discusses her childhood, family history, Christian experiences, education, family's reaction to her call to the ministry, reactions to a woman pastor, church service, marriage, missionary work.]

Clanton, Jann Aldredge. Oral Interview. Institute for Oral History. Baylor University, Waco, Texas. Interviewed by Rosalie Beck on three occasions from July 31, 1986, to September 25, 1986, in Waco, Texas. [Jann Aldredge Clanton was Associate Minister at Saint John's United Methodist Church in Waco, Texas. She discusses childhood, being a "preacher's kid", call to Christian ministry, education, courtship and marriage, resistance to women in the ministry, prospects for women in the ministry, and advice to young women in ministry.]

Storms, Valerie Ruth. Oral Interview. Institute of Oral Hisotry. Baylor University, Waco, Texas. Interviewed by Rosalie Beck on July 12, 1986, in Houston, Texas. 3 hrs., 113 pp. index, 2 pp. [She was the pastoral intern working with single adults at Willow Meadows Baptist Church in Houston, Texas. Includes her advice to young women called into Christian ministry.]

Archives:

Fisher, Annie May. Woman's Collection. Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas. [Includes 1 Vertical File]. "Early twentieth century advocate of women's religious freedom." Includes "Her sermon, "Woman's right to preach," published by Berachah Printing Company (Dallas, tex.) ca. 1900).

Folsom, Mariana Thompson. Archives Division. Texas State Library, Austin, Texas. [Includes 7 items of Reverend Mary C. Billings, 1904, a Universalist minister and friend of Mariana. She died in Hico, Texas. Address book and six newspaper obituaries.]

Henry, Elizabeth. 1900- Woman's Collection. Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas. [Includes 1 Vertical File] "Red top (Brazos) early pioneer doctor who ministered to settlers and helped to establish a Presbyterian Church in her home while helping run her husband's plantation."

Media:

Vaccariello, Carol P. "A Healer's Journey." El Paso, TX: El Paso Community College, Center for Instructional Telecommunications, 2000. Series: Emerging Renaissance TV Interview Series, no. 195. Taped February 28, 2000. Videocassette (28 min): sd., col.; 1/2 in. Subjects include: Women clergy -- Texas -- El Paso