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Contributed by: Sharon Hall

Etta Pearl Moore Colston/Coulston

My great-grandmother was an ordained minister in 1930, I have no idea if she was the first or among the first women to be ordained. Her name was Etta Pearl Moore: born to James and Lizzie (Barnett) Moore  on November 25, 1887 in Clarksville, Arkansas.

Her grandparents were Henry and Sallie (Adams) Moore   She married William (Willie) Colston in Chocktaw Nation on August 20, 1902 (somehow the Colston name was changed to the Coulston spelling and we have yet to find out when and why).

She lived in Hartshorne, Oklahoma when she was ordained by the Apostolic  Church of Jesus Christ.
Certificate is from the church and a picture of her in  hopes that it will be of interest. I know that the Baptist Ministry did not ordain any women until the mid 1940's, so this I think is sort of amazing, but then she knew her Bible and lived in her belief as very few can do.