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REYNOLDS HISTORICAL GENEALOGY COLLECTION
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 02167 844 3
SKETCHES AND PORTRAITS
OF THE
VIRGINIA CONFERENCE.
TWENTIETH CENTURY EDITION.
BY JOHN J. LAFFERTY, D. Litt.
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. 1901.
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FORE-WORDS.
This volume marshals material for the historian of Virginia Methodism. The careers recorded diselose the hand of God in the lives of His servants. Its value is too obvious for comment.
There is precedent for this work. Luke wrote of the workers in the Church while they were yet alive. It was the custom of John Wesley to publish in the Arminian Magazine short accounts of his preachers, accompanied by their re- spective portraits. Bishop MeTyeire gave opinion that "In reading history or biography one is busy forming a conception of the hero of the story-how the poet, the speaker, or the man, in whatever capacity, looked. A true picture of Paul would be a commentary on his Epistles. The artist helps the writer."
The portraits have received commendation for strength and accuracy. If. perchance, there is an indifferent likeness, it is chargeable to an inferior photo- graph. Remembering that men on mountain missions or circuits, distant from a city, could not command a best camera, the success of the engraver is exeep- tional.
It is safe to say that these "Acts," pen-sketches of elever writers, will be found engaging, instruetive, and nourishing.
The publisher desires to recognize the obliging aid of many contributors and the good offices of his brethren of the Conference. He is debtor to the Rev. J Carson Watson for skilled attention to the proof. Mr. Freeman, the photog- rapher of Norfolk, favored the ministers with artistic service.
INTRODUCTION .*
Christian biography is the repository of the names and character of the hon- ored servants of God. In this respect it may be compared to a publie conserva- tory of foreign plants, in which the rarest specimens, gathered from every clime, are collected and preserved for the information and admiration of curious and intelligent observers. It subserves the analagous, but nobler, purpose of select- ing and comprising, within accessible limits, those "plants of renown" which have enriched and adorned the garden of the Lord, and whose fragrance would otherwise perish from the memory of the living. It performs the grateful task of rescuing their record from oblivion, of perpetuating their image, of embalm- ing their virtnes, and of transmitting to others the treasure of their usefulness. It is more still. It is a gallery of life-like portraits, taken by the artist from original sources, the indisputable identity of which speaks from the canvas, and whose recognized ideals recall the period and realize the scenes of their conse- crated activity.
The object of the present volume is decidedly peculiar. It does not derive its materials from the realm of the dead, but from the region of the living. Nor does it seek for its pages promiscuous examples of Christian worth. It is more specific. It embraces none but ministers of the Gospel, and only a cer- tain class of then. It proposes to commemorate the persons and the character- isties of the existing members of the Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. And it proposes not to await their departure from the scene of the labors; but, in their behalf, to imitate, without presumption, the devout example of Mary, who, in anticipation of her Lord's death, anointed His feet "with a pound of ointment," which, to her, was "very costly." The prompt- ness and profuseness of her act of devotion exposed her to the cavil of a mis- calculating critic, to whom Jesus said: "Let her alone; against the day of my burying hath she kept this."
With similar approval, we may commend the loving tribute of the author, who desires, while the laborers are yet in the field, to arrest and retain their fugitive forms and to ensure the authenticity of their respective narratives. So much, and no more, is attempted. Veri-similitude is thus effected, without ex- aggeration on the one hand or the risk of miscarriage on the other. The future biographer will fill up the outlines and add the details according to his discre- tion.
The skillful industry which secures these results is not only entitled to our praise for the completeness of its success, but it eonfers a positive benefit upon the Church and upon society. It holds up the mirrored excellence of one gen- eration to the inspection of another, and reproduces the features and the for- tunes of those whose lives, in no small degree, have augmented the sum total of human happiness.
It may well be presumed that a book so unique in its composition, so graphic in its delineations, so authentic in its statements, and so personally interesting in its topics will meet with a reception so cordial as to leave no doubt either of the felicity of its conception or the utility of its publication.
D. S. DOGGETT.
Richmond, Va., July, 1880.
*Introduction to the Sketches of 1880, by Bishop Doggett.
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CONTENTS.
Sketch. Pict.
Sketch.
Pict.
Allen, W. E ..
61 54
Carroll, J. W.
279
278'
Anderson, J. M.
47
43
Carson, E. V.
323
304
Askew, J. B.
337 282
Carson, A. L ..
391
254
Amiss, J. H ..
29
30
Carey, J. F ..
458
412
Atwill, W: H.
147
12-4
Chandler, R. M
167
112
Austin, D. B.
355
208
Clarke, J. L ..
33
122
Babcock, J. O.
361
168
Clarke, R. T ..
339
216
Bacon, H. T
195
198
Crawley, C. D ..
145
116
Bain, W. F.
12
13
Cheatham, H. C.
117
123
Baker, J. W
389
250
Clements, P. H.
463
376
Bane, C. L ..
301
240
Christian, W. A.
391
246
Banks, L. L ..
453
406
Bargamin, V. W.
251
188
Colonna, M. S. 57
50
Barrett, R. E.
467
350
Colonna, M. S., Jr. 428
213
132
Battin, S. J.
451
368
Compton, R. A ..
113
123
Banghan, R. S.
425
352
Conrad, W. A. S
315
232
Bayton, T. J.
101
123
Cooper, W. A.
355
308
Blankenship, R. B.
247
194
Blankenship, C. E.
450
372
Bradley, Paul.
203
202
Crowder, W. R.
319
282
Brannin, J. F
10
11
Dadmun, E. T.
403
300
Brav, J. L. .
345
224
Davidson, M. A.
257
260
Beadles, R. B.
41
36
Davis, W. F
253
186
Beadles, R. F.
393
274
Davis, F. G.
130
290
Beanchamp, W. B
405
296
Beckham, B. M
363
218
Bell, P. M.
325
324
DeShazo, J. E. 141
66
Bennett, R. H. 333
220
Dey, J. B. 103
123
Bentley, R. E.
379
242
Dev, Bascom
321
174
Berryman, A. C.
181
98
Betty, L. B ..
225
194
Driscoll, Asa 369
210
Bledsoe, J. W. 85
84
Duke, T. P ..
237
194
Bledsoe, A. C .. 474
412
Dunkley, H. W
460
392
Boggs, C. H.
107
123
Early, T. H. 117
123
Boggs, W. G.
391
350
Early, L. H. 459
388
Booker, G. E.
405
292
67
60
Bosman, J. T.
239
140
Edwards, W. H.
155
110
Bowles, H. C.
111
123
Edwards, T. O.
187
150
Brooks, J. E.
457
388
Edwards, F. M.
73
62
Brown, H. J ..
377
350
Bullard, W. E
289
172
Eggleston, J. R.
462
438
Burch, W. G.
474
406
Elliott, M. S.
349
212
Burruss, Frank.
400
Franklin, A. L .. 444
356
Burton, J. M.
173
128
Ferguson, Richard.
89
88
Busby, R. L .. 485
416
Forkner, J. D.
287
162
Butts, D. G. C. 121
78
Foushee, N. B.
159
106
Cain, C. W. 385
350
Galloway, C. II. 365
206
Campbell, T. H.
131
86
Garland, J. P. 55
46
Cannon, James, Jr
446
350
Garland, R. C. -154
360
Crider, J. W .. 109
123
Bates, W. G ..
208
142
Comer, C. F ...
Crocker, W. A.
9
Crooks, R. N.
37
36
Day, S. W. 359
252
DeBerry, J. B. 263
262
Drewry, S. R. 466
438.
Evans, W. R .. 461
438
Edwards, W. E.
298
Sketch. Pict.
Sketch. Pict.
Rhodes, J. Q.
93
92
Wamsley, C. S. 329
282
Routten, J. T.
Ware, W. L ..
437
Rowe, E. II.
249
148
Waterfield, R. T
424
30%.
Royall, W. W ..
151
114
Watkins, G. W.
490
438
Rueker, McDaniel.
255
170
Watson, J. C
63
52
Sawyer, W. W.
299
282
Watts, R. W
51
46
Watts, C. E.
211
194
Shackford, J. W
233
194
Wray, G. W.
229
230
Starr, W. G.
65
56
Wray, T. J ..
217 160
Shearer, L. C ..
439
Stevens, Ernest
285
182
Steel, S. A.
265
266
Wiley, G. H.
289
166
Simpson, T. MeN
175
126
Williams, W. T.
319
282
Smith, B. F.
373
350
Williams, M. L.
379
350
Smith, A. C ..
269
284
Williams, W. J. 464
226
Smith, G. E. B.
436
346
Williams, C. H
375
386
Smith, H. H.
477
138
Williams, L. T.
434
338
Stiff, J. W.
311
282
Wilson, R. T. 295
192
Scott, R. B .. 183
118
Winn, J. B. 375
238
Spooner, G. H.
367
214
Winn, J. A ..
478
444
Sturgis, J. R.
167
158
Wingfield, R. L. 435
334
Taylor, T. J ...
75
6-4
White, J. E. 156
408
Taylor, G. W. M.
484
390
Whitehead, Paul.
14
15
Traynham, D. J.
163
146
Whitley, J. T ..
97
96
Twilley, W. J ..
333
282
Whitmore, A. A.
475
318
Thomas, J. A ..
379
234
Wright, W. P.
81
82
Tompkins, W. A.
343
282
Wright, S. O.
476
402
Tudor, W. V ..
31
32
Woodward, J. P.
27
28
Turner, C. W
385
350
Young, W. J. .
191
154
Vaden, W. C.
69
59
Younger, R. H .. 235
236
Wallace, J. S.
189
134
Founders and Pioneers 494
493
..
Wertenbaker, C. C .. 199
194
Weston, H. L.
484
402
438
Sharpe, A. B .. 486
219
138
Sketch. Pict.
Sketch. Pict.
Garner, E. F
357
196
Lennon, J. G .. 293
164
Gates, J. E.
129
76
Lillaston, J. W., Jr. 485
...
Gayle, R. F.
185 130 Lipscomb, B. F 231
194
Gee, J. W
471 406 Littleton, Osear. 103 123
Grant, W. E.
327
382
Lumpkin, R. P.
483
406
Green, C. Il.
217 194
378
Mastin, J. T.
171
102
Greene, G. F 449
406
Maxey, R. M. 293
176
Gill, J. R. .
423
348
McCartney, J. E.
179
366
Griffith, J. R
275
288
McCulloch, J. E 480
362
Hall, E. F. 413
Mc Faden, G. H. 283
190
Hank, J. D.
45
40
McGhee, C. H. 245
156
Hannon, John
263
261
McSparran, J. E.
119
123
Hardy, Porter
313
244
MeSparran, F. B.
460
358
Harrell, E. E.
281
280
Merritt, J. B. 115
123
Harry, J. C.
463
406
Merritt, D. T 488
438
Hartness, R. N.
472
394
Moore, J. T. 137
74
Ilatcher, S. C.
409
344
Moore, W. E.
466
410
Hayes, W. F ..
227
136
Moore, W. B. 468
438
Haynes, W. T. A.
443
406
Moore, L. C. . 470
438
Heckman, J. W
353
204
Moss, James O. 45
38
Herrink, B. S.
149
120
Moss, John O.
241
194
Hitt, L. T ..
395
286
Moss, J. H. 313
472
432
Holman, J. K.
481
370
Newton, J. C. C.
273
272
Hope, H. M.
135
90
Nicholson, J. W.
291
178
Hosier, J. D.
441
364
Ogden, T. W. 471
455
38-4
James, C. R.
307
256
490
438
James, R. G. 399
301
Parham, E. P.
347
282
Jett, W. B. 452
406
Parrish, J. W.
430
317
Johnson, S. H.
277
276
Payne, J. T. 433
303
282
Johnson, T. E.
431
314
Phaup, L. J ..
341
20
Jolliff, J. K.
397
270
Peerman, E. L. 456
380
Jones, A. A.
309
180
Pell, E. L .. 122
328
Jones, G. W 429
294
Peters, J. S.
415
332
Jones, W. L .. 467
400
Pleasants, C. E.
482
398
Jordan, W. P.
215
19-4
Pribble, J. L.
387
350
Jordan, E. M.
243
222
Potts, J. E. 18
19
Jordan, A. C ..
371
350
Potts, R. H.
223
144
Judkins, W. E.
23
25
Potts, T. N.
245
152
Kabler, J. H.
137
Potts, E. A ..
492
320
Kesler, G. T.
478
372
Potts, E. J.
4.33
306
Lafferty, J. J.
417
420
Proctor, W. R.
331
228
Lambeth, S. S.
53
4-4
Proctor, F. W
443
406
Lambeth, G. H 401
330
Pullen, T. G. 157
108
Langley, J. D.
465
366
Pruden, N. J.
421
420
Lathan, J. N. 469
312
Rawlings, E. H. 351
200
Laughon, W. A. 79 Lavinder, J. B. 462
406
Reed, J. C.
205
194
Lear, W. W ..
179
100
Rice, A. S. J. 491
Ledbetter, B. E.
99
68
Riddick, W. H. 177
104
Leftwich, C. W
371
350
Robins, J. W. S. 271
268
Leitch, T. S.
468
406
Robertson, N. H 255
184
Green, W. T. 303
282
Marks, R. H .. 487
438
Martin, H. F. B. 171
102
Green, J. T. 477
Gregory, W. H. 127
94
MeAden, R. H. 487
438
336
218
Hobday, C. E ..
197
194
Murphy, W. L.
Hunter, J. S.
125
72
Oyler, J. E.
Paee, W. C ..
Johnson, H. E. 259
258
Payne, R. O.
382
350
Rav, G. H. 20
21
80
BISHOP W. W. DUNCAN, Presided at the Virginia Conference of 1900.
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6
3
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BISHOPS OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH.
1. J. C. KEENER. 2. A. W. WILSON. 3. JOIN C. GRANBERY. 4. R. K. HARGROVE. 5. W. W. DUNCAN. 6. C. B. GALLOWAY. 7. E. R. HENDRIX. 8. JOSEPH S. KEY. 9. O. P. FITZGERALD. 10. W. A. CANDLER. 11. H. C. MORRISON.
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LIBERAL GIVERS.
1. R. W. MILLSAPS. 2. R. M. Serveas. 3. J. S. CARR. 4. SAMUEL CUPPLES. 5. J. B. PACE.
THE LOG MEETING HOUSE.
The Cradle of American Methodism. Erected 1764, on Sam's Creek, Maryland.
COURT STREET CHURCH. Erected 1901, in Lynchburg, Virginia.
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VIRGINIA CONFERENCE LAYMEN.
1. F. W. SHERPEY, 2. I. L. PRICE. 3. W. H. VINCENT, 4. J. W. BRADBURY. 5. T. B. FITZ- GERALD. 6. R. S. PAULETT. 7. J. P. BRANCHI. 8. B. T. BOCKOVER, 9. E. G. MOSE- LEY. 10. THOMAS F, GOODE. 11. RICHARD IRBY. 12. R. I. ANDERSON.
Sketches and Portraits of the Virginia Conference.
REV. WILLIAM A. CROCKER.
There is no page so engaging as the story of a worthy life. . Where unsel- fish work is done under stress of bodily pain and untoward surroundings, the interest is heightened. Mr. Crocker pressed forward in his holy vocation, often handicapped by a spinal malady and other ills, sometimes with nerves almost wrecked, sometimes in the midst of war, and then among the ruins of the civil strife. God has owned his faithful servant. The Church is his debtor. His sermons have the grace and strength that come from study and polish. They are not without the holy metion. The Conference love and honor such men. There is a peculiar drawing of the heart toward him whose early Christian life has the gentle leadings of Providence, as seen in the lines that follow this para- graph. It is better to listen to him than to attempt to narrate in our own words this part of the sketch.
"I was born in Isle of Wight county, Va., November 4, 1825. My father died when I was about four years old. His triumphant Christian death, as related to me by my mother, made an early impression on my mind. As far back as I can recollect, there was fixed in my mind the purpose to be a good man, like my father. This pious resolution was cherished and confirmed by her care- ful religious instruction. Recalling the experience of my early childhood, I cannot doubt that I was the subject of divine grace at an early age. I did not, however, make a formal profession of religion until the summer of 1841, in the sixteenth year of my age. This occurred at Benn's meeting-house, near Smith- field, during a revival conducted by Brother Michaels. From a little child I had cherished a desire some day to be a preacher. No sooner was I converted than this early wish was revived, and the conviction made upon my mind that I must become a minister. There was no doubt in my mind that such must be my future calling. I was but a boy, and much preparation was to be made, but this one idea was in my mind, and shaped my thoughts and plans. Though not yet a prophet, I felt that I was a son of the prophets, and the spirit of prophecy had fallen upon me. In a few weeks after my conversion, I found myself actually engaged in a missionary work among the negroes of the plan- tation-reading the Seriptures to them on Sunday evenings around their cabin doors and holding praver-meetings among them. As the result of these juve- nile efforts, a most powerful revival took place among them, and numbers of our own servants and others of the neighborhood were converted.
"In October of this year, at my own request, I was sent to Windsor Theo- logical Institute, near Baltimore, then conducted by the venerable Francis Waters, D. D. There I remained about two years, and such was the ardor with which I prosecuted my studies that my health completely broke down, and I was compelled to return home and seek recreation and rest. In the fall of 1843 the Virginia Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church was held at Smithfield. My health being still too feeble to return to my studies, I was advised by Drs. Thomson and MeGuigan, Brother Whitfield, and other leading
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members of the Conference, to enter the itineraney. I was but eighteen years of age and in feeble health, wholly unqualified, in my own judgment, for so high and holy a calling as that of the Christian ministry. I earnestly desired to spend at least three more years in preparing for it. But they urged that it would be a benefit to my health and was in the line of my preparation-that I might do some good ; and so soon as my health was sufficiently recovered I could return to school. Influenced by these considerations, I timidly consented, and was sent to Charles City and New Kent Circuit, as assistant to Rev. Thomas Taylor. The good people showed me much affection, and God blessed my labors greatly among them. At the next Conference I proposed to return to school; but, fortunately or unfortunately, God only knows, my brethren would not con- sent to it, and I was thus led from year to year to postpone it until it was too late, and, as a consequence, I have never realized the hope of my early years- of being an 'able minister of the New Testament.'
"During the first years of my ministry I was much excreised on the subjeet of becoming a missionary to the heathen. My own Church not being prepared to send out any missionaries, I made application to the American Board of Foreign Missions, thinking they were organized on the catholic plan of the American Tract Society ; but when I learned from them that I must subscribe to the doctrine of Calvinism, I withdrew my application. The hope of be- coming a missionary was cherished for several years, but in this also I was dis- appointed."
Ile has filled successively the following charges, viz. : Charles City and New Kent, from November, 1843, to November, 1844; Hampton, 1844-'45 ; Sussex, 1845-'46; Abingdon, 1846-'47; Hampton, 1847-'48 (in November of this year he was married to Frances K. Jennings, daughter of William Jennings, of Hampton ) ; Sussex, 1848-'50. From November, 1850, until November, 1853, on account of the ill-health of his wife, he was left without appointment, at his own request. In November, 1853, he was assigned to Princess Anne Cir- cuit ; in 1854-'56, to Heathsville Circuit ; 1856-'57, Lynchburg; 1857-'58, Prin- cess Anne Cirenit; 1858-'59, Norfolk. At the close of this year he was so dis- abled that suspension of ministerial work was a necessity. His nervous system was much shattered. Ile found a suitable retreat on the shores of Currituck Sound, in North Carolina, where he resumed pastoral work. Dr. MeGuigan, the President of the Conference, dying about this time, he was called upon to fill his unexpired term. The war prevented the discharge of the duties of the office, and he resigned it and entered the army as Chaplain, and continued to the fall of 1863. Bad health and the exigencies from invasion by the enemy compelled him and his family to retire to Campbell county. In 1865 he began to serve his old charge at Ileathsville-a year of remarkable success. "At Fairfield, on the first Sunday in 1866, at the elose of the afternoon sermon an invitation was given to penitents, and sixty kneeled for prayer." A great re- vival ensued. Ilis own heart was blessed during this pastorate.
At the end of the year, at his suggestion, a needy preacher was put in this place, and he undertook to restore the walls of Zion in the ruined town of Hamp- ton, where there was at that time no minister, either in the county of Elizabeth City or Warwick. One hundred dollars was all that could be raised. There was no parsonage. God blessed the effort to rebuild the waste place. In 1867 eighty were converted.
In November, 1870, there was a union of the Virginia Conference of the
REV. WILLIAM A. CROCKER.
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Methodist Protestant Church with the Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Sonth. Mr. Crocker, with other ministers of the former, received appointments from the latter body, he first going to Heathsville Circuit, and in 1872 to Westmoreland, serving four years; in 1876, Presiding Elder of Northern Neck District. In 1878 the district was consolidated with Ran- dolph-Macon District, and he was assigned to Richmond Circuit. He has also served on Brunswick and King and Queen; but infirmity of vision compelled him, in ISST, to become a superannuate. He resides on the Northern Neck of Virginia.
He has given to the Church a number of sermons in print, and published Studies in the Prophecy of Daniel, and also Studies in the Book of Revelation, which have been well received and highly commended for thought and style.
REV. JAMES FIELDING BRANNIN.
Our Melanethon-gentle and devoted Brannin! He had for years the poison of malaria in his veins, and was the victim, too, of a cruel and predatory invading army; yet neither disease nor the ills suffered from the ruthless sol- diery could make morose his amiable spirit or dim his faith in God. A man preferring a quiet corner in the Conference, yet sought out by his brethren and saluted with hearty good will. The flocks he has cared for have in fond recol- lection his faithful service. He wins their love. God blesses the work of his hand.
He is a native of Fauquier county, Va. His birth was on April 6, 1826. His father, Fielding A. Brannin, was the grandson of an Irish rebel, and his mother the granddaughter of a French Huguenot. The former was driven from his native land by political oppression, and settled in what was then Spottsylvania, but now Culpeper county, about the same time that the latter fled from religious persecution and settled in Prince William county, Va. The father of Mr. Brannin moved to Level Green, Culpeper county, when our preacher was a small boy, where he was reared, receiving such educational ad- vantages as the neighborhood afforded. He was converted and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church at Providence, in August, 1839; joined the Virginia Annual Conference in 1845, and was appointed as junior preacher to Lonisa Cirenit, then embracing the whole of Orange, the greater part of Louisa, and all of Spottsylvania except Fredericksburg. In his twentieth year, at the Conference of 1846, he was made pastor of Mathews Cireuit, then embracing six churches, four local preachers and an aggregate membership of over five hundred. There, by excessive work, in what was then the most sickly section of the State, his health was greatly impaired and his constitution received a shock from which it has never entirely recovered; but at the following Confer- enee, held in Charlottesville ( where he was ordained deacon by Bishop Andrew and received into full connection ), he was appointed to Union Hill Station, Rich- mond. At the close of 1848 he was compelled to ask for rest, and the Conference granted him leave to travel a year for the improvement of his health. He did not cease from preaching, but relief from pastoral responsibilities and labors, with aid of the pure water and air of his native region, so far restored his health
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REV. JAMES F. BRANNIN.
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that he was ordained elder by Bishop Andrew at the Conference of 1849, and appointed to Culpeper Circuit. Ilis next work was Orange Circuit; from that to Warrenton, from Warrenton to Fauquier, from Fanquier to Brunswick, from Brunswick to King and Queen, from King and Queen to Orange, from Orange to Louisa, from Louisa to Fauquier and from Fauquier to Westmoreland. In the latter part of 1861, while in charge of Westmoreland Circuit, he was pros- trated by malarial disease, which disqualified him for regular pastoral work for nearly nine years. During this long period of physical disability, and some- times of extreme suffering, he sustained the relation of supernumerary, and re- sided at the old homestead in Culpeper county, surrounded by kind and syni- pathizing relatives and friends. In the midst of camps and battles, he saw and felt the war in all its horrors from March, 1862, till May, 1864. He eould not take the oath required by the Federal authorities without the sacrifice of principle, and so he suffered the loss of all personal property, and was fre- quently subjected to brutal treatment and almost reduced to starvation. But through merey he was enabled to maintain his integrity, and wonderful deliv- erance was wrought out for him by an overruling Providence. After all of our churches were destroyed, as he was able and opportunity offered, he preached in his own house to the neighbors, and occasionally in private houses in other neighborhoods. During the years immediately following the war he was sub- jeet to sudden and severe attacks of neuralgie rheumatism, and did not report for regular work until 1871, when he was assigned to Rappahannock Circuit; from there to Culpeper, then to Caroline, then to Culpeper, then to Nelson, then to Heathsville, then to Henrico, then to Greene. At the close of the second year he was prostrated by overwork on this circuit of nine appointments. He was superannuated for two years, against his will, and then placed upon the ef- fective list and sent to King George; then to Culpeper Circuit. At the Con- ference of 1890 he was granted a superannuated relation.
Of the large class of 1845, he alone remains, but in joyful hope of seeing the King in His beanty. He resides in Culpeper county, Va.
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