List of Pastors for Chilmark Church

PASTORS OF CHILMARK METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

LATER KNOWN AS CHILMARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

AND CHILMARK COMMUNITY CHURCH

  • * Circuit preachers

  • Other pastors may have served in more than one church

1797 Joshua Hall*

1798 Joseph Snelling*

1799 Epaphras Kibby- 3mos*

1810 Erastus Otis

1811 William Hinman

1812 Edward Hyde

1813 William Frost

1814 John W. Hardy

1815 Benjamin Haselton

1816 Shipley W. Wilson

1817 Thomas Tucker

1818 S.W. Wilson

1819-20 Eleazer Steele

1821-22 John Adams

1823 Francis Dane

Frederick Upham

1824 Edward T. Taylor

William Allen

1825 David Culver

Caleb Lamb

1826 John Adams

1828 William Barstow

1829 Hezekiah Thatcher

1830-31 Thomas G. Brown

1832-34 Louis Jansen

1834 Philip Crandon

1835 James Bicknell

1836 Elijah Willard

1837 Joseph Brown

1838 None appointed

1839 Otis Wilder

1840 Thomas D. Blake

1841 Charles D. Cushman

1842 Ebenezer Ewins

1843 William Nanscoin

1844 George W. Wooding

1845-46 Nahum Tainter

1847 O.P. Farrington

1848 Henry Mayo

1849 Lewis Bates

1850-51 Thomas Slater

1852-53 Robert C. McGonegal

1854-55 John Tasker

1856 William Sheldon

1857 John F. Fogg

1858-59 Franklin Sears

1860 James H. Cooley

1861-62 George D. Boynton

1863-65 Abel Alton

1866-68 Josiah C. Allen

1869-70 Seth B. Chase

1871-73 Daniel J. Griffin

1874 B.K. Bosworth

1875-77 E.S. Fletcher

1878-80 Heflin S. Smith

1881-83 Isaac C. Sherman

1884-86 John N. Patterson

1887-88 Winfield W. Hall

1889-91 Charles T. Hatch

1892-94 Charles S. Thurber ( see: And God Caught a Whale by

Ethel F. Blaisdell)

1895 B.K. Bosworth

1896-98 J.S. Bell

1899-1901 C.W. Ruoff

1902-04 B.F. Raynor

1905-07 A.Stanley Muirhead

1908 J.M. Von Deck

1909-11 Charles G. Johnson

1912-14 George F. Locke

1914-16 Arthur F. Leigh

1917-21 S.M. Harris

1921-24 John F. Lowden

1924-26 George E. Davis

1926-28 William J. Crawford

1928-29 J.I. Bartholomew

1929-37 Harlow Graham (see inscription on pulpit)

1937-39 Joseph M. Harrell

1939-43 George W. Wiseman Harshfield

1943-46 John Rosengrant

1946-48 Carl Saunders

1948-53 James M. Gage

1953-56 George and Marguerite Hill

1956-58 John P. McCallum

1958-61 Kenneth L. Miner

1961-62 J. Gorden Allen

1962-69 George and Marguerite Hill

1969-78 Carl Sikberg

1978-80 Paul McCauley

1980-84 Lee and Helen Oliver

1984-86 Thomas and Sally Zadaraka

1986-92 John Wesley Taylor

1992-03 Rev. Arlene Bodge

2003-06 Nancy Collins

2006-09 Rev. Susan Heyfield/ Richard Rego

2009-2010 Pamela Goff

2011-12 Rev.Arlene Bodge

2013-2015  Seongmoon Ahn

2015-2017 Revs. Armen and Vicky Hanjian

2017-2019  Rev. Dr. Charlotte Wright

2019-2022  Rev. Ernest Belisle

2022-            Rev. Dr, Charlotte Wright