Mother Consuella York

CTL-E-1398 · Person · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Baptist woman minister ordained by Rev. Clay Evans; described by Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church and community press as the first Black woman ordained into the Baptist clergy in Chicago; later presided over a church.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from SCI-004; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-SCI-004:consuella-york; source research type(s): leader. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church official site (primary); The Final Call, Dec 2019 (secondary) (primary source)
The Final Call, Dec 2019 (quoting Rev. Janette Wilson)

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