TYREE, EVANS

(1854); a bishop: b. in DeKalb county, Tenn., s. of Harry and Winnie Tyree. He was educated in theology and medicine. He was converted in 1866, was licensed to exhort in i869, then after being a local preach or became a deacon in 1874, an elder in 1876 and bishop of the A. M. E. Church May 23, 1900. T (4/4) t (4/4)