2nd Pastor
Jacob Tapisco
- Birth Date: August 19, 1854
- Consecrated: May 23, 1900
- Death Date: November 12, 1920
Bishop Evans Tyree was born August 19, 1854, in De Kalb County, Tennessee, and led to give his heart to God when but twelve years of age. So genuine was his conversion, so intense his desire to lead others “into the kingdom,” that Rev. J. W. Early, in 1869, licensed him as a Minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Three years afterward he was admitted into the Traveling Connection, and before he reached his twenty-third year had been ordained as Deacon, in 1874 and Elder, in 1886. He was ordained Bishop May 23, 1900.
He died November 12, 1920.
Information taken from: The Sons of Allen: together with a sketch of the rise and progress of Wilberforce University by Horace Talbert, 1 906. p. 234.
And from: The Budget of 1904: containing a complete organization of the Church of AME Church edited by Benjamin William Arnett.
Good article, not reproduced here but information taken from, Colored American newspaper of Washington DC, Saturday, 28 July 1900.
