The North Mississippi Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, now the United Methodist Church, was organized one block east on November 30, 1870. It was created from portions of the Memphis, Alabama and Mississippi Conferences, with Bishop D. S. Doggett as president and John Barcroff as secretary. In 1879 the Minister's Relief Association was organized, and in 1898 the Mississippi Orphan's Home, M.E.C.S., was built here. This was also the site of seven North Mississippi Annual Conferences.