Background
Chappell, Clovis Gillham was born on January 8, 1882 in Flatwood, Tennessee, United States. Son of William B. and Mary Chappell.
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Clovis Gillham Chappell
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Preparatory education, Webb School, Bell Buckle, Tennessee. Student Duke University, 1902-1903, Harvard, 1904-1905. Doctor of Divinity, Duke University, 1920, Centenary College of Louisiana, 1920.
Doctor of Literature, Birmingham-Southern College, 1936.
Career
Ordained ministry Methodist Episcopal Church South., 1908. Pastor successively Polytechnic, Texas, Gatesville, Texas, Epworth Church, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Highland Park, Dallas, Texas, Mount Vernon Place Church, Washington, District of Columbia, First Methodist Episcopal Church, Memphis, Tennessee. Later pastor First Methodist Episcopal Church, Houston, Texas.
Pastor First Church, Birmingham, 1932-1936, Saint Luke’s Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Oklahoma City, 1936-1941, Galloway Memorial Methodist Church, Jackson, Mississippi, 1941-1945, First Church, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1945-1949.
Retired since 1949. Author: The Village Tragedy, 1921. Sermons on Bible Characters, 1922.
More Sermons on Bible Characters, 1923. Sermons on New Testament Characters, 1924.
Sermons on Old Testament Characters, 1925.
Home Folks, 1926. Familiar Failures, 1927. Christ and the New Woman, 1928.
Men That Count, 1929.
The Sermon on the Mount, 1930. Sermons from the Psalms, 1931. Sermons from the Parables, 1933.
Sermons on the Lord’s Prayer, 1934.
Special Sermons, 1936. Sermons from the Miracles, 1937.
Ten Rules for Living, 1938. Values That Last, 1939.
The Road to Certainty, 1940.
Faces About the Cross, 1941. Feminine Faces, 1942. Sermons from Revelation, 1943.
Living Zestfully, 1944.
If I Were Young, 1945. And the Prophets, 1946.
Questions Jesus Asked, 1948. When the Church Was Young, 1950.
Annointed to Preach, 1951.
The Seven Words, 1952. In Parables, 1953; Meet These Men, 1956. Sermons From Job, 1957.
Sermons from Simon Peter, 1959.
The Cross Before Calvary, 1960. Living with Royalty, 1962.
Surprises of the Bible, 1967. Home: Waverly, Tennessee
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Married Cecil Hart, April 15, 1908. Children: Clovis Gillham, Bob Hart.
