The Southern States mission was organized at the April Conference of 1867 when John Brown and several others were called to reopen the southern states of the U.S. to missionary work.
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Southern States (1876 - ?) Profile
![Missionaries in an Airplane](https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-history-people/bc/missionaries/southern states/John Mason Shelley in airplane on his mission.jpg)
Missionaries in an Airplane
![Southern States Missionaries](https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-history-people/bc/missionaries/southern states/william-pardoe-1868-fs.jpg)
Southern States Missionaries
![Missionaries of the Southern States Mission](https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-history-people/bc/missionaries/southern states/Dyal_Kossuth 14 Jan 1883.jpg)
Missionaries of the Southern States Mission
![United States Mission Presidents](https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-history-people/bc/missionaries/US_presidents-PH 2543_f0001_i0001_00001.jpg)
United States Mission Presidents
![Publications Office Staff](https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-history-people/bc/missionaries/central states/Missionary_staff_Liahona_the_Elders_Journal.jpg)
Publications Office Staff
![Mississippi Conference](https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-history-people/bc/missionaries/southern states/charles-a-matthews-1863-fs-3.jpg)
Mississippi Conference
![First Annual Conference of the Presidents in the Southern States Mission](https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-history-people/bc/missionaries/southern states/PH_2666_item_1-First_annual_conference_of_the_presidents_in_the_Southern_States_Mission_held_at_Chattanooga_Tennessee.jpeg)
First Annual Conference of the Presidents in the Southern States Mission
![Arriving Elders](https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-history-people/bc/missionaries/southern states/Elders bound for the Southern States, April 1896 - PH 3793_b0001_f0001_i0005_00001.jpg)
Arriving Elders
![East Tennessee Conference, 1895](https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-history-people/bc/missionaries/southern states/1895-East TN Conference-Tues Oct 15.jpg)
East Tennessee Conference, 1895
![South Carolina District Conference, November 1928](https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-history-people/bc/missionaries/southern states/samuel-a-roos-1902-fs-3.jpg)
South Carolina District Conference, November 1928
![Arriving Elders](https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-history-people/bc/missionaries/southern states/Arriving elders, Southern States, 16 Nov 1896 - PH 3793_b0001_f0001_i0010_00001.jpg)
Arriving Elders
![Southern States Mission Photograph, circa 1910](https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-history-people/bc/missionaries/southern states/Southern States 1910 Photograph.jpg)
Southern States Mission Photograph, circa 1910
![Florida Conference](https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-history-people/bc/missionaries/southern states/southern-states-mission-1904-CH81546.jpg)
Florida Conference
![Southern States Mission Headquarters](https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-history-people/bc/missionaries/southern states/PH 2474_f0001_i0001_00001.jpg)
Southern States Mission Headquarters
![Missionaries in North Carolina](https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-history-people/bc/missionaries/southern states/Southern States Mission Photograph 1914.jpg)
Missionaries in North Carolina
![New Arrivals](https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-history-people/bc/missionaries/southern states/james-apollos-thornton-1864-fs-3.jpg)
New Arrivals
![Missionaries at Lookout Mountain](https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-history-people/bc/missionaries/southern states/CHL-PH-3793b3fd6it001alt02-1.jpg)
Missionaries at Lookout Mountain
![Conference Presidents of the Southern States Mission](https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-history-people/bc/missionaries/southern states/Conference presidents of the Southern States Mission - PH 2374_f0001_i0001_00001.jpg)
Conference Presidents of the Southern States Mission
![Arriving Elders](https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-history-people/bc/missionaries/southern states/Elders who arrived at Chattanooga, 1897 April 20 - PH 3793_b0001_f0001_i0014_00001.jpg)
Arriving Elders
![1902/11: South Carolina Conference - Southern States Mission, 1902 November 15](https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-history-people/bc/missionaries/southern states/PH 4286_f0001_00007-group picture-southern-ststes-mission-1902.jpg)
1902/11: South Carolina Conference - Southern States Mission, 1902 November 15
![Southern States Mission Caricature 1907, Circa 1907](https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-history-people/bc/missionaries/Southern -States-Mission-Caricature-1907.jpg)
Southern States Mission Caricature 1907, Circa 1907
![Missionaries from the Southern States Mission about 1926, Between 1925 October – 1927 November](https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-history-people/bc/missionaries/Missionaries from the Southern States Mission.jpg)
Missionaries from the Southern States Mission about 1926, Between 1925 October – 1927 November
![Southern States Mission, about 1926, Between 1925 November – 1927 November](https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-history-people/bc/missionaries/Southern States Mission around 1926.jpg)
Southern States Mission, about 1926, Between 1925 November – 1927 November
![First Southern States Mission Home, Circa 1867](https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-history-people/bc/missionaries/first-southern-states-mission-home-1867-fs-1.jpg)
First Southern States Mission Home, Circa 1867
![Jacksonville, Florida Chapel, Circa 1926](https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-history-people/bc/missionary photos/charles-herman-turley-1899-fs-4.jpg)
Jacksonville, Florida Chapel, Circa 1926
![Southern States Mission Companions with John Henry Gibbs and William Shanks Berry, 1884](https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-history-people/bc/missionaries/southern states/Southern States Mission Companions with John Henry Gibbs and William Shanks Berry.jpg)
Southern States Mission Companions with John Henry Gibbs and William Shanks Berry, 1884
![Tribute to Elders William Shanks Berry and John Henry Gibbs, Circa 1884](https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-history-people/bc/missionaries/southern states/Tribute to WS Berry and JH Gibbs.jpg)
Tribute to Elders William Shanks Berry and John Henry Gibbs, Circa 1884
![Southern States Mission Home in Chattanooga, Tennessee](https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/church-history-people/bc/missionary photos/lorenzo-erastus-hansen-1879-fs-02.jpg)
Southern States Mission Home in Chattanooga, Tennessee