Martha Jayne Keys
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Martha Jayne Keys (August 25, 1892 – December 22, 1975) was an American Christian minister. She was the first woman to be ordained in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and was president of the West Kentucky conference branch for five years. She was also the author of a 1933 gospel drama, The Comforter.
Keys was born in Mayfield, Kentucky, United States, to Thomas J. and Lizzie A. Keys.[1] In the 1910s, she graduated from Payne Theological Seminary.[2] She earned her Doctor of Divinity from the same university in 1930.[1] On April 12, 1933, she copyrighted the single act drama, The Comforter, [D 22176], under the name Evangelist Dr. Martha Jayne Keys Marshall.[3]