W. R. Fayle

I believe the rector of Houston’s Methodist church left to affiliate with the northern denomination, working with Elias Dibble, and later became a judge in Reconstruction Houston.

See brief sketch of him (with portrait) in Blandin’s History of Shearn Church. According to this sketch, he was born in Manchester, England.

Is he possibly the letter writer who signs his name “F.” in this 1866 issue.

A brief history of Methodism in Texas in the Southwestern Advocate signed by “W. R. F.” and praising the church’s interracial mission.