Carlile, Stephen

Carlile, Stephen a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in Arkansas about 1818. He professed religion in 1837; soon became class-leader and exhorter; received license to preach in 1839, and was admitted into the Arkansas Conference, in which he served until his death, April 14, 1860. Mr. Carlile filled, with credit to himself and honor to the Church, many of the most important appointments in this conference. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M. E. Church South, 1860, p. 283.