Excerpt from Church Directory and Yearbook: Published August 1961 Duke Memorial Methodist Church's earliest predecessor came into being on the first Sunday in May, 1886, when a Sunday School known as Bethany Sunday School was established. Its first quarters were in a spacious section of one of the Duke tobacco plants. There were thirty-three members, with the Rev. Amos Greg son serving as preacher in this informal location. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.