EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1800; MARY LEE CAGLE P/55

                                                                                                                                                                           

In this story I will continue to focus on a woman named Mary Lee Cagle. She lived from 1864 - 1955. Mary and her husband organised many new churches and were widely recognised as district leaders. Mary was the lead pastor when Lubbock First Church of the Nazarene was founded in 1909. She was also instrumental in founding Abilene First Church. She is referred to as "The Mother of Holiness in West Texas."

Mary and her husband, furthermore, conducted revivals and organise churches in New Mexico, Arizona and Wyoming.She organised at least 28 congregations. She served in the elected position of District Evangelist for the New Mexico and Abilene Districts and always chaired one or more district committees. Through 1928, she was always elected a ministerial delegate to her denomination's General Assembly: she was usually the first clergy person elected to the delegation.

She preached her final sermon on her 90th birthday, blind and supported by aids on either side. Mary died in 1955.