1947
Mr. Amos
Burroughs presented himself as candidate for the ministry
and on motion by Rev. Cordis Womack was duly accepted and enrolled
as a candidate.
[Source: Minutes
of Chattanooga Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
September 9, 1947, page 9]
1947
The commission
for ordination of Billy
Burroughs and Amos Burroughs was appointed, composed
of Rev.
Hugh Burroughs, Cortley
Burroughs and W. H. Craven.
[Source:
Minutes of Chattanooga Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, December 19, 1947, page 7]
1948
Roll call
of presbytery - Amos Burroughs, Minister
[Source: Minutes of Chattanooga Presbytery of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, April 13, 1948, page 7]
1948
Amos Burroughs
3316 Martin Rd., North Chattanooga, Tenn.
Minister
- Chattanooga Presbytery
Presbyterial Roll of Ministers
Amos Burroughs, Bethel College, McKenzie, Tenn.
Ordained Minister - Chattanooga Presbytery
Ordained
Minsiters-Alphabetical Directory
Ministers Gained By Ordination
Name: Amos
Burroughs
Presbytery: Chattanooga
Time:
December 25, 1947
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1948, pages 229, 245 & 261]
1948
The morning
devotion was led by Rev. Amos Burroughs, of Chattanooga,
Tenn.
A letter of dismissal and recommendation was granted to Rev.
Amos Burroughs.
[Source: Minutes
of Chattanooga Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
September 7, 1948, pages 7 & 9]
1949
Rev. Paul
Snellgrove of Mayfield Presbytery and Rev. Amos Burroughs
of Chattanooga Presbytery, having presented their letters of Dismission
and recommendation to the clerk they were read, and motion carried
that they be received into this Presbytery and their names were
enrolled as ordained ministers of New Hope Presbytery.
[Source: Minutes of New Hope Presbytery of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church, March 10, 1949, page 351]
1949
Amos Burroughs
minister in charge - Coker Cumberland Presbyterian
Church - Coker, Alabama
Amos Burroughs (SS - Stated Supply) - Coker, Ala.
New Hope Presbytery
Presbyterial Roll
of Ministers
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1949, pages 172 & 231]
1950
Amos Burroughs
Minister in Charge - Coke Cumberland Presbyterian
Church - Coker, Alabama
Amos Burroughs (SS - Stated Supply) - Coker, Ala.
New Hope Presbytery
Presbyterial Roll
of Ministers
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1950, pages 174 & 233]
1950
Report No.
2 Pastorates and Supplies
We had placed in our
hands a letter from George T. Hubbard of the U.S.A. Presbyterian
Church stating that Rev. Amos Burroughs had been received
into Nashville Presbytery of the U.S.A. Church.
We would therefore recommend that New Hope Presbytery approve
of the granting of a letter from New Hope Presbytery and that
the name of Rev. Amos Burroughs be dropped from the roll
of this Presbytery.
[Source: Minutes
of New Hope Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
September 29, 1950]
1951
Ordained
Ministers Who Have Left Denomination
Denomination:
Presbyterian, U.S.A.
Name: Amos Burroughs
Presbytery: New Hope
[Source:
Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, 1951, page 287]
1951
Rev. Amos
Burroughs of the Nashville Presbytery, USA was seated as a
visiting brethren.
[Source: Minutes
of Chattanooga Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
September 4, 1951]
PICTURED ABOVE is the "man power" of the Hugh J. Burroughs family, all ministers except one and he is an elder. LEFT TO RIGHT: Rev. Hugh J. Burroughs, father, pastor of the Jasper, Tenn. church; Ewen [sic: Ewing], an elder in the Red Bank church, Chattanooga; Rev. Raymon, dean of Bethel College, McKenzie, Tenn.; Rev. Courtley [sic: Cortley] pastor of the Pana, Ill., Presbyterian church; Rev. Amos, recent B.D. graduate of the Vanderbilt School of Religion, and pastor of the Petersburg, Tenn., and Coker, Ala., churches; and Rev. William, recent A.B. graduate of Bethel College and pastor of the Ebenezer church, Mason, Tenn.
"We can think of no more potential power for Christ and his cause than this one family," states Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Pylant, Petersburg, Tenn., who made this picture available for use here.
[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, June 20, 1950, page 4]