BIO: John W. Mevis, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY

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Chaffee, Amasa Franklin. History of the Wyoming 
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904, pages 211-212.
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  MEVIS, JOHN W., was born in the town of Caroline, Tompkins County, 
N.Y., on January 9, 1835, and died in Oxford, Chenango County, N.Y., on 
April 27, 1896.  His departure was sudden and painless. After reading 
Scripture and offering prayer, just after breakfast, a change came over 
him as he sat in his chair.  He folded his arms over his breast, closed 
his eyes, and, without a struggle, a word, or a sigh, passed away.  He 
was buried at Oxford, N.Y., in which village he lived after his 
superannuation until death.
  He was orphaned in early boyhood, and at about nine years of age was 
received into the home of his mother's brother, James Eaton, of Lisbon, 
Otsego County, N.Y., where he remained until sixteen years of age, his 
uncle dying in the meantime.
  When thirteen years of age he attended a camp meeting at Bowe Hill, a 
short distance above Laurens, in Otsego County, N.Y., and was led to 
consecrate himself to Christ.  Soon after his conversion he joined the 
Methodist Episcopal Church at Mount Vision, N.Y.
  At seventeen years of age he entered a tin shop in Laurens, Otsego 
County, N.Y., as an apprentice.  His employer dying, he went to Oneonta 
and engaged himself for two years to J. P. & S. P. Van Woert, tinners.  
During these years he was resisting the call of the Church and of the 
Holy Spirit.  At last he surrendered himself to God's call.  
Preparatory to the work of the ministry he spent some time in 
Cooperstown Seminary and in Cazenovia Seminary.
  In 1859 he joined Oneida Conference and became a member of Wyoming 
Conference with the accession of Oneida territory in 1869.
  On April 10, 1860, he married Miss Darlisca White, of Ames, N.Y., who 
survived him.  To them was born a daughter, who preceded him by a few 
months to the better land.
  His pastoral record is as follows:  1859, Schuyler's Lake; 1860-61, 
Worcester; 1862-63, Edmeston; 1864-65, Westford; 1866, sy.; 1867-69, 
Laurens; 1870, Morris; 1871-73, Otego; 1874, Plymouth, N.Y.; 1875-76, 
Butternuts; 1877-79, Unadilla; 1880-81, Great Bend; 1882, Plains; 1883-
85, Oxford; 1886, Sherburne; 1887-89, East Worcester; 1890, Milford; 
1891, Milford and Westville; 1892, Clinton Street, Binghamton; 1893-96, 
sd.