Fountain E. Pitts

Fountain E. Pitts (Yuli 4, 1808 - Mayu 22, 1874) ministan Methodist ne na Amurka kuma limamin Confederate. Ya kafa manufa ta Methodist a Brazil da Argentina a 1835-1836. A lokacin yakin basasa na Amurka, ya kasance limamin coci kuma Kanar a cikin Rundunar Sojojin Kasa, kuma an san shi da "Fighting Parson". Bayan yakin, shi ne fasto na farko na Cocin McKendree (daga baya aka sani da West End United Methodist Church) a Nashville, Tennessee, Amurka Ya kuma girma poppies don yin opium.

Aiki
An nada Pitts a matsayin mai wa'azin Methodist a 1824.[1] Bishop Joshua Soule ne ya nada shi a matsayin dattijo a 1828. A cikin 1835 – 1836, ya tafi Brazil da Argentina, inda ya kafa wuraren mishan waɗanda mutanen Amurkawa suka aika da Cocin Methodist. Pitts ya mallaki aƙalla bawa ɗaya mai suna David, wanda ya mutu a shekara ta 1855.

A lokacin yakin basasar Amurka na 1861 – 1865, Pitts ya shiga Sojan Jihohin Confederate, na farko a matsayin limamin coci a cikin 11th Tennessee rejist na tsawon watanni shida, daga baya kuma a matsayin Kanal a cikin 61st Tennessee rejist a cikin Babban Tsaunukan Smoky. Ya kuma yi yaƙi da "kwale-kwalen bindigogi na Tarayya na kusan watanni biyar a Vicksburg."  Ya zama sananne da "Fighting Parson." 

Rayuwarsa Duniya da Mutuwa
Pitts ya zauna a Gallatin Pike a Edgefield, wanda yanzu ake kira Gabashin Nashville, Tennessee.

Pitts ya mutu da ciwon huhu a ranar 22 ga Mayu, 1874, a Anchorage, Kentucky kusa da Louisville. John Berry McFerrin ya rufe idanunsa, wanda shi ma ya gudanar da jana'izarsa, kuma an binne shi da girmamawar Masonic a makabartar Dutsen Zaitun. A 1883, an ƙara wani abin tunawa a saman kabarinsa.
Washington Bogart Cooper ne ya zana hotonsa, kuma an sanya shi a cikin zane-zane na Cocin Methodist na West End United (wanda aka fi sani da Cocin McKendree) a cikin 1903.
Death of Rev. Fountain E. Pitts". The Pulaski Citizen. May 28, 1874. p. 2. Retrieved December 11, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
Weaver, Blanche Henry Clark (November 1952). "Confederate Immigrants and Evangelical Churches in Brazil". The Journal of Southern History.
West End United Methodist Church. Retrieved December 20, 2017.

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