Volume 8 , Issue 10

C. S. Warner - Circuit-Riding Preacher...

About 5 years ago (July 15th., 2001), our church choir performed a "special" (I think it was a quartet number rather than the entire choir) singing the novelty number, "Circuit-Ridin' Preacher", and preceded it with the enclosed remarks about my mom's Grampaw Warner. All of the remarks are true and the oil painted portrait hanging in my living room is of Rachel Moore of Felicity, Ohio (the mother of Rachel E. [Moore] Warner), and was painted about 1865.

My Great-Grandfather, Charles Sumner Warner, attended Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio and then became a Methodist circuit Riding Preacher at the Kansas towns of Soldier, Argentine, Green and Lenexa. He had married Rachel E. Moore also of Ohio and while they were in Green, Kansas, my grandmother, Rachel Smith Warner was born. After he came to Shawnee, Oklahoma, his daughter amarried my grandfather, William Orville Lewis and they farmed near Mustang, OK where my mother was born.

Then for several years my great-grandfather pastored the Reno-Avenue Methodist Church in Oklahoma City. He latered preached for awhile at Tecumseh, OK before moving to Houston, TX. he returned to Oklahoma to unite my mother, Rachel Marian Lewis in marriage to my dad, John Chasteen Kendrick at the Britton Christian Church in Oklahoma City. As I said, my great-grandfather, Reverend Charles Sumner Warner was a Circuit Riding Preacher." -- Roy
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