James O'Kelly, Marker G-41
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N 35° 55.120 W 078° 57.740
17S E 683850 N 3976845
Early North Carolina Clergyman James O'Kelly.
Waymark Code: WM90V
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 03/15/2006
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James O'Kelly was a prominent clergyman. In the late 1700's, he broke ranks with Methodist leaders in the region and organized a "Republican Methodist Church," afterward called the "Christian Church." The aim of the new church was to restore the simplicity of the original Christian community and to oppose authoritarian church government. By 1829, it included several thousand parishioners in its membership, most of them in North Carolina and Virginia.
From 1782 till 1792 O'Kelly was stationed almost constantly in Virginia, and presided over a large district of the best circuits in the faith.
He was opposed to slavery, and denounced it, not a popular move for a prominent Southerner, but a move that made his churches popular with African Americans. Throughout southern Virginia and the adjoining counties of North Carolina his influence was considered to be very great.
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