Evans Tyree

Bishop Evans Tyree (August 19, 1854 - November 12, 1920) was a doctor and Bishop in the A.M.E. Church in Nashville Tennessee.

Early life and education Tyree was born enslaved in DeKalb County, Tennessee. In 1865 after emancipation he and his mother lived and worked on a farm in a DeKalb County. He learned to read in 1866 and shortly thereafter joined the Methodist Church. He was "licensed to preach at fourteen, joined the conference at eighteen, and was made elder at twenty-two." In 1900 he was elected bishop in Columbus, Ohio, the Senior Bishop of the five Bishops elected at that General Conference.