Cemetery Cemetery

Old Fountain Head Commemorative Stone --
Photo

Submitted by Jean Bradley Brock
© 2002

Stone



NEAR THIS SPOT STOOD OLD FOUNTAIN
HEAD MEETING HOUSE OF THE
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
HERE THE TENNESSEE CONFERENCE
HELD ITS FIRST SESSION IN 1812
BISHOPS ASBURY AND MCKENDREE
PRESIDED

NEAR HERE BISHOP MCKENDREE
LIVED AND WAS BURIED. LATER
HIS BODY WAS MOVED TO THE
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY CAMPUS

ERECTED AUGUST 15, 1942



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