Renaldo M. Everts (15th October, 1788 - 20th July, 1865) was a Methodist circuit rider.
Everts was born in Salsbury, Connecticut. He converted to Methodism at a camp-meeting in Rhinebeck, New York in September of 1807.[1]
He was licensed to preach on 31st May, 1812, and in the subsequent July admitted on trial as a circuit rider by the Genesee conference. In 1812, he was assigned to the Caledonia circuit. This was followed with assigned to the Bloomfield circuit in 1813, Wyalusing circuit in 1814, Northumberland circuit in 1815, Lycoming circuit in 1816, and the Bald Eagle circuit in 1817. In 1818, he was assigned to the Ottawa circuit in Upper Canada, where he laboured alongside Ezra Adams.[2] In 1819, he was reassigned to the Augusta circuit, where he rode alongside Robert Jeffers and C. N. Flint. Membership in the Episcopal church increased by 105 on the Augusta circuit that year.[3] In 1820, he was assigned to the Black River circuit.[4]
He retired from circuiting riding in 1834, having laboured in central Pennsylvania, western New York, and Upper Canada. After his death in 1865, his remains were buried in Leon, New York.[5]
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edit- Carroll, John (1869). Case and his cotemporaries, or, The Canadian itinerants' memorial constituting a biographical history of Methodism in Canada, from its introduction into the Province, till the death of the Rev. Wm. Case in 1855. Vol. II. Toronto: Wesleyan Conference Office.