United States government seized the property of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (in Southern United States), Ames was put in charge of the confiscated property by President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. Such confiscation resulted in complaints of unconstitutional governmental involvement in religion. Death and burial Ames' health was impaired for several years, but he continued his work until a few weeks before his death. He died in Baltimore, Maryland. He is buried in Greenmount Cemetery in that city. See also List of bishops of the United Methodist Church References Cyclopaedia of Methodism, Matthew Simpson, D.D., LL.D., Ed., (Revised Edition.) Philadelphia, Louis H. Everts, 1880. Methodism: Ohio Area (1812–1962), edited by John M. Versteeg, Litt. D., D.D. (Ohio Area Sesquicentennial Committee, 1962). Obituary in Harper's Weekly, May 17, 1879 Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church American Methodist Episcopal bishops People from Athens County, Ohio Ohio University alumni 1806 births 1879 deaths Choctaw American chaplains People of Ohio in the American Civil War 19th-century Methodist bishops McKendree University faculty 19th-century American bishops Presidents of DePauw University Burials at Green Mount Cemetery Methodist chaplains