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Reverend EUGENE VERDOT LEVERT first came to North Alabama (from VA) in 1819 at which time he joined the Methodist revival.. One of the founding fathers of the Methodist-Episcopal churches in Alabama, Rev. E. V. LeVert was at one time a circuit rider serving Oakmulgee, Marengo, Tuscaloosa District, Demopolis District, Marion, Erie, Havana, Pine Grove,Forkland, Summerfield, Hamburg, Macon (Mississippi), Dayton and Glennville.
He was delegate to the General Conference, 1840, and one of the original trustees, 1842, of Centenary Institute at Summerfield, Dallas County, Alabama.
Reverend LeVert was anti-slavery and once lost his church in Greensboro because he sent his assistant to stop a man who was beating a slave in the church parking lot. The story goes that Reverend LeVert would come every Sunday and preach his whole sermon, hymns and all, before an empty sanctuary. One day, when it was warm and the windows were down, a man heard Reverend LeVert preaching a fiery sermon, He peeked inside to see who was delivering the sermon. To his surprise, no one was there. He sat down in the back row and heard the remainder of the sermon. The next Sunday he brought some of his friends and this is how Reverend LeVert's congregation eventually grew back. According to Heritage Books, Harris, on the last day of his life Reverend LeVert attended the Episcopal Church in Marion and said the closing prayer.
Reverend LeVert is my third Great Grandfather. He was first married to Martha Patton in 1823 and to Emeline Moore (Widow of Dr. M.W. Fletcher) in 1847, His father was Dr. Samuel Claudius LeVert who came to America from France as ship's surgeon on DeRochambeau's "The Independence." Reverend E.V.'s mother was Ann Lee Metcalfe. His Grandparents were Francois LeVert and Marguerite Verdot who remained in Lyon, FRA. His brother was Dr. Henry Stracey LeVert whose wife was Madame Octavia Celeste Valentine Walton.LeVert, writer and women's rights activist, who gave the name Tallahasse to the captial of Florida.
Reverend LeVert is buried beside his first wife in the Mt Hermon Hale County Church near Greensboro, Alabama. There is no tombstone on his grave. See West's History of Methodism for more info on Reverend LeVert.
Submitted by: Nannette Worrell Serra
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