McBrayer - Charles Nelson
Source: Lafayette Journal – Courier 1 Oct 1971 p4
The Rev. Charles Nelson McBrayer who served in the Methodist ministry nearly 50 years in many church in northwest Indiana died at 3:20 a.m. today at Asbury Towers, Greencastle where he resided about three years. Death followed a long illness. The Rev. Mr. McBrayer, 86 had been in the ministry since 1917. He last served the Waveland-New Market church as a member of the Northwest Indiana Conference of the Methodist Church. Among churches in which he served were ones at Wheatfield, DeMotte, Tefft, Valparaiso, Clarks Hill, Kirkpatrick, Raccoon, Monon, Reynolds, Remington, Boswell and Waveland. His wife, Lanora, preceded him in death. The Rev. Mr. McBrayer is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Henry Profitt of Dunnellon, Fla; three sisters, Mrs. Net Utt of Greencastle, Mrs. Jesse Burt of Canfield, Ohio and Mrs. Alice Bentley of Terre Haute and a brother, Thomas G. McBrayer of Akron, Ohio. - kbz
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Source: Terre Haute Tribune Sun 1 Dec 1957 p 46
C.N. McBrayer of Waveland, a well known minister of the Northwest Indiana Conference of the Methodist Church will fly from Chicago to New York City Thursday Dec 5 on the first leg of a 17,000-mile visit to nine countries on three continents. The journey will be made by 34 other persons and they will visit Paris, Rome, Athens and Cairo for two days each and spent 14 days in Palestine with Jerusalem as headquarters. It is intended that every site of Biblical history will be visited and studied. Returning, the party will visit Zurich and London. Rev. McBrayer has held pastorates in Terre Haute, Hammond, Monon, Remington, South Bend and other places where his many friends will be interested in his tour. When pastoring in Terre Haute, he served the Liberty Avenue Methodist Church. Before entering the ministry,
he belonged to the Seelyville Methodist Church. - kbz