Robert Paine was stationed here, 1819–1820, and later became President of Lagrange College and finally for sixteen years was a bishop of the various conferences. Ford's Chapel had two other members who preached here their first year who have served the North Alabama Conference - E. Hobson Clarke in Education and Thelmer Vaughn in Finances. In fact, being a poor, small country church we received many young ministers - and we helped train them in the way they should go. Most of the time they were students from Athens College. Athens College was, at that time, a Methodist School and was less than twenty miles away.