Lucinda CORNELIUS - Pioneer Holiness Minister

Lucinda Catherine HUGGINS was born in 1864, in Rome, Georgia. After moving to Alabama, she married Houston CORNELIUS in 1883 and had two children (Emma and Minnie). Houston died in 1886, and in 1891, she married Houston's 2nd cousin, Raymond Robert CORNELIUS. They had three children (Mittie, Myla, and Ruth). About 1894 the family moved from Blount County, Alabama, to Ellis County, Texas.

By Apr 1910 they were living in Carter, Oklahoma. Where, on 29 Oct 1910, Lucinda, known as Lou or Lue Cinda, was ordained as a Home Missionary by F. (Felix) A. Hale. Not long after that they moved to Electra, Texas, where she was instrumental in starting the Electra Assembly of God Church. She held meetings throughout the area, including Plainview, Texas (1912), Corsicana, Texas (1913), Portales, New Mexico (1923).

Raymond & Lucinda CORNELIUS

(1910-1920) Electra, Texas

On 23 Jan 1917, she requested and received credentials as a Home Missionary from the recently organized Assemblies of God. (The A/G was organized in Apr 1914.) In 1922 she was temporarily the pastor of the Electra A/G, and in 1924, pastor of the Vernon, Texas, A/G. From 1925-26, she was again pastor of the Electra church.

Raymond & Lucinda CORNELIUS

(9 Feb 1922) Electra, Texas

In 1927, they moved to Borger, Texas, and started the Assembly of God there, returning to pastor the Electra church in 1929. In 1933 she began a church in Dodd's Corner, Texas, and eventually moved back to Electra, Texas. Raymond died in 1937, in Electra, and the same year, Lucinda was "superannuated" or retired by the Assemblies of God.

1930s-40s

1930s-40s

Nov 1939 (75th Birthday)

Lucinda lived in Electra until her death on 9 Mar 1959. At the time of her death two of her grandchildren were Assembly of God Ministers: R. C. "Keetah" JONES of Florida (son of Mittie), and Mittie Orena (TOWLES) (daughter of Myla), wife of Jeff GIBBS of Idaho.