Leonidas Lydwell Nash

Background

Nash, Leonidas Lydwell was born on August 2, 1846 in in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, United States. Son of Hugh W. and Martha Jane (Mullen) Nash.

Education

Public school and military education. Read law and medicine in Virginia. Studied theology, passed Conference Course in North Carolina.

Doctor of Divinity, Rutherford College, North Carolina, 1889.

Career

Ordained deacon, 1876, elder, 1878. Member North Carolina Conference Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and 15 years on circuits as follows: Bath Circuit, 3 years, Williamston Circuit, 2 years, Greenville Circuit, 4 years, Rolesville Circuit, 2 years, Leasburg Circuit, 4 years Stationed Central Church, Raleigh, 4 years, Fifth Saint Church, Wilmington, 3 years, Centenary Church, Newbern, 1 year, Hay Saint Church, Fayetteville, 3 years, Washington, North Carolina, 3 years, Rocky Mount, 2 years, Henderson, 3 years, Saint John and Gibson, 2 years, Hamlet, North Carolina, February 1, since 1911. Now conference evangelist, for North Carolina, Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

Achievements

• Leonidas Lydwell Nash has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member North Carolina Conference Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and 15 years on circuits as follows: Bath Circuit, 3 years, Williamston Circuit, 2 years, Greenville Circuit, 4 years, Rolesville Circuit, 2 years, Leasburg Circuit, 4 years Stationed Central Church, Raleigh, 4 years, Fifth Saint Church, Wilmington, 3 years, Centenary Church, Newbern, 1 year, Hay Saint Church, Fayetteville, 3 years, Washington, North Carolina, 3 years, Rocky Mount, 2 years, Henderson, 3 years, Saint John and Gibson, 2 years, Hamlet, North Carolina, February 1, since 1911. Now conference evangelist, for North Carolina, Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Served a short time in Confederate Army, Civil War.

Connections

Married Louise Taylor, December 2, 1873.

Father:

Hugh West. Nash

Mother:

Martha Jane (Mullen) Nash

Spouse:

Louise Taylor