Elder George Devoll was never mentioned in any currently available records of the Church during his Pastorate. He came to Manlius as a licentiate in 1853. It is possible he was a Seminary student at Hamilton as was Elder Morton. There has been some question of the spelling of George W. Devoll's last name with some Church Historians spelling it Revoll and others Devoll. The Onondaga Association's minutes from September, 1854, however, listed George W. Devoll as the ordained minister from the Pompey and Manlius Baptist Church and Society. The condensed version of the Pompey and Manlius annual letter to the Association noted that Brother Devoll was ordained Pastor on February, 1854. This was confirmed by a newspaper article, which appeared in The Central New Yorker, a Syracuse newspaper. The author had attended the ordination and felt that the relationship between the new Elder Devoll and the congregation was not as it should be, and that the practical relations between the Elder and congregation should not be severed for slight causes." (From the Pompey and Manlius Baptist Church and Society folder at the Onondaga Historical Society archives.)
In the Pompey and Manlius Baptist Church and Society letter to the Association (February, 1854) the Clerk described the Sabbath School and Bible Class small but pleasant, and reported that the Church was grateful for the small mercy drops which have fallen on them. Apparently, the author of the Central New Yorker article was correct in his observations since Elder Devoll's pastorate was of a very short duration. He left in the Spring of 1855. In the letter for the September 1855 meeting the Clerk reported the lack of a pastor (Elder Devoll left in the Spring of 1855) and that the Church kept up its prayer and conference meetings when they had no preaching. Brother Melancthon Stillwell, a licentiate, now preached to them. "The Church mourns over the low state of Zion."
Melancthon Stillwell, first recorded Sunday School Superintendant (August 5, 1848), was born at Eagle Village in 1814. He was a graduate of Hamilton College. He became the Principal of the Fayetteville and Baldwinsville Union Schools, after which he entered the study of the ministry. Owing to impaired health he was unable to continue the work which he believed he was called to do, although he did not relinquish his work for his Master. He was a devoted worker in the Sunday School and was Bible Class Teacher for many years boath at Manlius and Eagle Village and a Deacon of the Church (from the Fayetteille Recorder, February 15, 1894.)
