Historical Marker
Bishop Charles H. Mason
Lexington, Holmes County · Mississippi
Erected by Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 2014
Mason was born in Tennessee to parents who had been enslaved, and he came to preaching after tuberculosis left him, in his telling, healed. Mississippi Baptists told him in 1897 to leave his pulpit for preaching sanctification, which pushed him to the Lexington revival. Years later he went to the Azusa Street revival in Los Angeles, spoke in tongues, and returned to a split with his holiness partners over it. In 1907 he became the first bishop of the Church of God in Christ, headquartered in Memphis, and held the office until he died in 1961.
Where it stands
33.11253, -90.05291 · Directions
Worth the stop nearby
- Triangle Cultural Center — 28 miA 1904 school on Main Street in Yazoo City that survived the great fire of that May and now holds the county's historical museum, in a town rebuilt in brick on the same lots.
More markers nearby
- Lexington — steps away
- Hazel Brannon Smith — steps away
- Holmes County Blues — steps away
- St. Paul Church of God in Christ — 0.7 mi