1848
Minister Absent - Wm. Gayle
Friday afternoon - Brother Wm. Gayle offered reasons for absence which were received as satisfactory.
[Source: Minutes of Tennessee Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, October 13, 1848, pages 1 & 2]

1849
Minister Present - Wm. Gayle
[Source: Minutes of Tennessee Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, April, 13, 1849, page 14]

1849
Minister Present - W. Gayle
[Source: Minutes of Tennessee Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, October 12, 1849, page 28]

1850
Minister Present - W. Gayle (without pastoral relations)
[Source: Minutes of Tennessee Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, April 12, 1850, page 39]

1850
Minister Present - Wm. Gayle
On motion the Stated Clerk was ordered to prepare Bro. Wm. Gayle a letter of dismission & recommendation.
[Source: Minutes of Tennessee Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, October 4, 1850, pages 55 & 58]

1851
Rev. Wm. Gayle, presented a letter of dismission and recommendation, formerly received from this Presb. upon which he was received, & took his seat as member of the same.
[Source: Minutes of Tennessee Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, October 3, 1851, pages 113-114]

1852
Minister Present -William Gayle
[Source: Minutes of Tennessee Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, April 2, 1852, page 129]

1852
Minister Absent - Wm. Gayle
Bro. Wm. Gayle appeared & rendered satisfactory reasons for tardiness.
[Source: Minutes of Tennessee Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, October 1, 1852, pages 147 & 150]

1853
Minister Present - Wm. Gayle
[Source: Minutes of Tennessee Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, April 1, 1853, page 166]

1853
Minister Present - Wm. Gayle
[Source: Minutes of Tennessee Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, September 30, 1853, page 177]

1854
Minister Present - Wm. Gayle
[Source: Minutes of Tennessee Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, March 31, 1854, page 209]

1854
Minister Present - Wm. Gale
[Source: Minutes of Tennessee Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, September 29, 1854, page 234]

1855
Minister Present - Wm. Gayle
[Source: Minutes of Tennessee Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, March 30, 1855, page 255]

1855
Minister Absent - William Gayle
[Source: Minutes of Tennessee Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, October 5, 1855, page 278]

1856
Minister Present - Wm. Gayle
[Source: Minutes of Tennessee Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, April 1, 1856, page 295]

1856
W. Gayle, Elkton, Tennessee
Tennessee Presbytery - Columbia Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1856, page 63]

1856
Minister Present - Wm. Gayle
[Source: Minutes of Tennessee Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, October 3, 1856, page 320]

1857
Minister Absent - William Gayle
[Source: Minutes of Tennessee Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, April 3, 1857, page 343]

1857
W. Gale, Elkton, Tennessee
Tennessee Presbytery - Columbia Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1857, page 75]

1858
William Gayle was pastor of Paint Rock Cumberland Presbyterian Church until Aug. 14, 1858.
[Source: Session Records of Paint Rock Cumberland Presbyterian Church, July 20, 1888 - September 1938; July 1961 - September 1962; contains brief outline of information from 1850-1887]

1862
March 29, 1862 - October 14, 1867
William Gayle was pastor of Holly Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
October 1, 1860, according to act of the Jackson Presbytery the name of the Church was changed from Paint Rock to Holly Grove.
[Source: Session Records of Paint Rock Cumberland Presbyterian Church, July 20, 1888 - September 1938; July 1961 - September 1962; contains brief outline of information from 1850-1887]

1868
Gayle, William, Princeton, Ala.
Jackson Presbytery - Columbia Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1868, page 103]

1868
March 21, 1868 - March 20, 1870
William Gayle was pastor of Holly Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
[Source: Session Records of Paint Rock Cumberland Presbyterian Church, July 20, 1888 - September 1938; July 1961 - September 1962; contains brief outline of information from 1850-1887]

1869
Wm. Gale, Princeton, Ala.
Jackson Presbytery - Columbia Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1869, page 81]

1870
Wm. Gale, Larkin's Fork, Alabama
Jackson Presbytery - Columbia Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1870, page 76]

1871
Wm. Gale, Larkin's Fork, Alabama
Jackson Presbytery - Columbia Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1871, page 77]

1872
Gayle, William, Princeton, Ala.
Jackson Presbytery - Columbia Synod
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1872, page 121]

1873
Mortuary List
Gale, W., Presbytery of Jackson
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1873, pages 15 & 106]