Amateur Mormon Historian

In general conference we get an annual report. Such has been the pattern for many years. Below is one such report for the two conferences that made up Tennessee for the year 1898. Membership was small at the time, just over a thousand.

	East Tenn	Mid Tenn	Total
High Priests	-	-	-
Seventies	38	36	74
Elders	4	8	12
Priests	7	7	14
Teachers	-	1	1
Deacons	-	1	1
Members	232	427	659
Total Officers & Members	281	480	761
Children of Record (COR)	94	158	252
Total Souls	375	638	1,013
Baptized	29	52	81
Baptized COR	4	-	4
Received	-	-	-
Received COR	7	-	7
Blessed	42	48	90
Removed	-	13	13
Removed COR	-	-	-
Died	-	8	8
Died COR	1	2	3
Excommunicated	1	-	1
Miles Walked	49,881	44,883	94,764
Families Visited	48,421	84,305	132,726
Families Revisited	5,324	8,368	13,692
Rejected Testimonies	8,542	602	9,144
Refused Entertainment	3,708	1,118	4,826
Tracts Distributed	91,244	62,487	153,731
Books Distributed	4,381	3,186	7,567
Meetings Held	9,278	8,111	17,389
Gospel Conversations	20,782	87,701	108,483
Gospel Letters	1,088	519	1,607
Sunday Schools organized	-	8	8
Branches Organized	4	-	4

I believe that the number of branches and Sunday schools only includes the number organized during that year. Though, because of emigration, there might not have been any branches left in Middle Tennessee by 1898. In addition, the majority of the Seventies listed were likely the missionaries at the time. Does anyone reading this know when the practice of ordaining missionaries as Seventies changed?