Minutes of the Annual Conferences of The

MINUTES

OF THE

fit j - Annual Conferences

OF THE

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH,

FOR THE YEAR

1874 .

Nashville, Tenn.: SOUTHERN METHODIST PUBLISHING HOUSE. 1875 •BY 239 1 #M 1 ^ •g'74- <29^ |

BISHOPS

OF THE

Dftdhodiat (Sspiatopl ^hurth, ^outh.

ROBERT PAINE, D.D., Aberdeen, Miss.

GEORGE FOSTER PIERCE, D.D, Sparta, Ga.

HUBBARD HINDE KAVANAUGH, D.D., Louisville, Ky.

WILLIAM MAY WIGHTMAN, D.D.,

Charleston,- S. C.

ENOCH MATHER MARYIN, D.D., St. Louis, Mo.

DAVID SETH DOGGETT, D.D., Richmond, Va.

HOLLAND NIMMONS McTYEIRE, D.D, Nashville, Tenn.

JOHN CHRISTIAN KEENER, D.D, New Orleans, La.

cjAOHY UWVtRSU Y V 'HEOlOGy i tRR AB MINUTES

I. —BALTIMORE CONFERENCE.

Held at Staunton, Va., March 4-12, 1874.

Bishop Doggett, President; John S. Martin, Secretary.

Question 1. "Who are admitted on trial? Henry C. Pitzer, La Fayette Fox, Oliver C. Answer. Robert M. Williams, John Robert Beall, Gotleib Meyer, James T. Williams. 5. Alfred Gearhart, Charles E. Sim- Andrew, C. Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected mons, John Frederick Bagges, John D. G. deacons? Hanna, John Wesley Shreve, Oscar F. Burgess, William E. Tetzell, Hamilton W. Leslie. 2. Thomas Nevitt, J. Ashury Regester, Rufus G. Samuel Rushton, colored. 1. M. Wheeler, Daniel L. Bush, Michael P. Scan- Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained lan. 13. deacons? trial? Ques. 2. Who remain on William E. Tetzell, Hamilton W. Leslie. 2. Lewis L. Lloyd, Gotleib Meyer, John G. Samuel Rushton, colored. 1. Knight, James M. Reese, James T. Williams, Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are William F. Caruthers, Alfred H. Way, Vin- elected elders? cent W. Wheeler, William M. Hiner, Wash- John S. Hutchinson, Jefferson W. Duffy, ington Varner, J. Wesley Steele. 11. Richard S. Shreve, Beverly W. Bond, Francis Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? A. Strother, James W. Compton, Burton S. None. Highly. 7.

Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- tion ? dained elders? J. Timothy Smith, John C. Sedwick, Henry James W. Compton, Francis A. Strother, C. Pitzer, La Fayette Fox, Oliver C. Beall, Burton S. Highly, Beverly W. Bond, John S. William L. Lynch, Sydnor G. Ferguson, James Hutchinson, Jefferson W. Duffy, Richard S. W. Compton, Francis A. Strother, John Han- Shreve. 7. non. 10. Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Ques. 6. Who are readmitted? elders? None. Robert S. D. Hieronimus. 1. Ques. 15. Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from What local preachers are ordained other Conferences? elders? Robert S. Oscar Smithson. 1. D. Hieronimus. 1. Ques. 16. Who are located this year? Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Oscar Smithson, Thomas A. Griffiths, Wil- George W. Lightner, J. Rembert Smith, liarp R. McNeer. 3. William E. Miller, James F. Follin, Ashury C. Ques." 17. Who are supernumerary? McNeer. 5. , _ Samuel Kepler, Francis M. Mills. John Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected W deacons? Boteler, J. Newman Hank, Francis H. Richey, Joseph N. Spangler, William J. Perry, George Henry C. Pitzer, La Fayette Fox, Oliver C. Beall, R. Jefferson, Ephraim L. Kregelo, Edward F. Gotleib Meyer, James T. Williams. 5. Heterick, Maybury G. Balthis, William R. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Stringer, Ashury R. Martin, John P. Hyde, dained deacons? James C. Hummer, Jehu Hank. 16.

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Ques. 18. "Who are superannuated? joys of the.better life. Brother Cross was a man Norval Wilson, Thomas B. Sargent, Henry of more than ordinary intellectual strength. Hoffman, P. S. E. Sixeas, Elias Welty, Wil- His reading, though not extensive, was well liam H. Wheelwright, John W. Tongue, Wil- digested. In the branches of human learning liam H. D. Harper, Jason P. Etchison, Thomas his favorite study was mental philosophy. He Briley. 10. reasoned much, and dealt more in principles Ques. 19. What preachers have died during than in the details of their application. He the past year? was a strong and useful preacher, and left be- William G. Cross, John Wesley Bull, Lewis hind him the savor of his ministry wherever Henley. 3. he had gone preaching the gospel of God. His piety was uniform, characterized by a rich, William G. Cross was horn, in Morgan co., deep experience, a holy walk, and a most win- Va., Jan. 17, 1822, and died, near Leesburg, ning cheerfulness of aspect. He possessed a Loudon co., Va., Aug. 1873. He was in- child-like simplicity was in his 4, ; warm attach- ducted into the blessed mysteries of the new ments, ardent and faithful in his friendships. birth when he was about twenty-two years of His absence from our Annual Conference-gath- age. Eor several months he had been deeply ering makes a void indeed; but he has gone concerned on the subject of his soul’s salvation, where the weary rest from their labors, and and in the quietude of his own chamber, while where he has already heard from the lips of poring over the precious word of life, was that Master whom he served so long, and with happily converted to God. Not long after such unfaltering fidelity, the words of divine this happy change, he felt called to preach the approval, “"Well done, good and faithful serv- gospel, and was duly licensed as a local preacher. ant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord!” In 1846 he was admitted on trial into the Bal- timore Conference, and in 1848 was received John Wesley Bull was born, in Baltimore into full connection and ordained deacon. In co., Md., Sept. 6, 1819, and died, in Alexandria. this Conference he adhered to the Methodist Va., Dec. 25, 1873. In early life he became Episcopal Church, South, and was appointed the subject of religious impressions, and at to King William Circuit. In 1849 he was about eighteen years of age was converted to stationed at Elizabeth City, and in 1850 at God at the Union Meeting-house, Baltimore Charlottesville. In 1851 he was appointed to co., near his father’s homestead. In March, Culpepper Circuit; in 1852, to Harrisonburg 1843, he was admitted on trial by the Balti- and Keezletown; in 1853, to Leesburg; in more Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church. 1854, to Fredericksburg; in 1855, to Manches- He was appointed at that Conference to the ter; in 1856, to Brunswick Circuit; and in Great Falls Circuit, as the colleague of Rev. 1857, to Warren ton. In 1858-9-60 he served Richard Brown. In 1844 he was appointed to as Presiding Elder of Washington District. Covington Circuit; in 1845, to Newcastle Cir- In 1861-2 he was appointed to Bedford Cir- cuit. At the Conference, when he received cuit; in 1863-4, to Nottoway Circuit; and in the latter appointment, he was ordained deacon 1865-6, to Prince Edward Circuit. At the by Bishop Waugh. In 1846 he v as assigned Virginia Conference, held at Petersburg, Nov., to Berwick Circuit; and in 1847 was ordained 1867, he was transferred to the Baltimore Con- elder, and appointed to Patapsco Circuit. In ference, and was successively appointed by 1848 he was assigned to East Harford Circuit; that body to Berkeley, Shepherdstown, and in 1849, to Harford Circuit; and in 1850, to Lexington. His health had been for some Canton and Asbury, Baltimore. During this time gradually declining, and, while at Lexing- year he was married to Miss Valinda Brown, ton, he became so prostrated that at the ensu- of Alexandria, Va. In 1851-2 he was ap- ing Annual Conference, held in Baltimore, pointed to Foundry and Asbury, Washington 1873, which he was unable to attend, he was City; in 1853, to Havre de Grace. In 1854 placed on the superannuated list. From this he was granted a supernumerary relation, in time to the close of his life he was a great suf- which he continued till 1866. In the last- ferer, but under all his sufferings was both mentioned year, with a number of his brethren submissive and cheerful. A few days before of the Baltimore Conference, he united his his death his countenance was lit up with an fortunes with the Methodist Episcopal Church, uncommon brightness, as if already reflecting South. In that and the succeeding year be was the glory of the upper world. His wife, ob- appointed to Laurel Circuit; in. 1868, to Great serving it, remarked, “You look so bright Falls Circuit; and in 1869, as Conference Mis- just as you used to look.” He replied,"with sionary to Virginia. At this time his health great earnestness, “I feel as I used to feel. failed, and he was granted a supernumerary How I long to preach again!” On the day relation, which he sustained until death ter- that terminated his mortal life, while he and minated all his earthly relations and cares. his wife were walking together to visit a rela- Brother Bull was a devoted Christian, and a tive near by, he suddenly fell at her side and faithful, earnest minister of the gospel of expired. Stunning and unexpected, however, Christ. In April, 1873, he attended the funeral as was the stroke, she was sustained under it of a friend, where he contracted a severe cold, by the sweet assurance that his sudden demise which finally resulted in his death. Although was only an immediate transit from the suf- indisposed for several months before bis death, ferings and trials of earth to the unspeakable he was confined to his bed only ten days before : : 1

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he passed away. To his brethren who visited Baltimore District ( continued). freely him during his last illness he spoke of White Cord I.oc'1 approaching death, and expressed his entire Mem's. Mem's. Pr s. to his resignation to the will of God. He said 182 1 wife, just before dying, that he felt like shout- 192 ing aloud the praises of God; but his body was 150 1 216 too feeble to allow him to give audible expres- sion to his joy. While the Christian world 20 were celebrating the advent of the Saviour, he 3397 3 20 went to behold his glory, and abide forever in his presence. East Baltimore District. Baltimore Lewis Henley was born, in Wythe co., 320 1 116 Va., July 6, 1850, and was converted to God at 182 Creek, in Asbury Camp-ground, on Cripple 125 Sept., 1866. He was licensed to preach in Dec., 75 1 1871, and was employed as a supply on the 165 202 3 White Sulphur Circuit in July, 1872. He was 80 I admitted on trial by the Baltimore Conference 82 of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at 313 1 79 re- its session in Baltimore, March, 1878, and 255 turned to the White Sulphur Circuit. Here 296 2 he served the Church with the utmost fidelity 310 2 224 and zeal until Jan. 19, 1874, when, in the vigor of early manhood, and in the midst of his use- 2890 9 ful labors, he was called away. Brother Hen- ley was characterized by great devotion to his Washington District. work. At each of his appointments on White Washington City: 284 Sulphur Circuit, during the brief time he was Alexandria and City Mission 347 1 1 in charge, he was blessed with a gracious revival 430 2 of religion, and many souls were brought to 172 2 123 1 1 Christ through his instrumentality. It may 223 1 2 seem mysterious to us that one so young, and 247 1 so full of promise to the Church, should thus 525 1 528 early calls laborers be removed, but He who 250 20 1 into his vineyard knows when it is best to re- Warrenton 134 2 1 mand them to himself. While we mourn the 385 1 230 3 loss rejoice that the of our beloved brother, we 453 2 Redeemer reigns, and that though the work- Fredericksburg 201 men die, yet under his providential care “the 4532 30 13 work goes on.” Brother Henley died in great readiness, an peace, expressing not only a but Winchester District. anxiety, to depart and be with Christ. Winchester Station 554 . 1

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Ques. 20. Aro^ill the preachers blameless in Frederick Circuit 54 . 1 Front Royal 295 2 2 their life and official administration? Berryville 288 Their names were called over, one by one, Martinsburg 139 1 and their characters examined and passed. Berkeley 162 Charlestown 147 I. Randolph Finley, withdrawn. .*. Jefferson 200 , Ques. 21. What is the number of local preach- Shepherdstown 250 Gainsboro 287 6 1 ers and in several members the circuits, stations, Morgan and missions of the Conference? Shannondale ...S Wardensville 241 I, Baltimore District. 333t| 8 9 1

White Col'd I.oc'1 Jtockingham District. Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. Staunton 350 Baltimore 275 Central 155 5 Shenandoah Iron Works 61 St. Paul’s 306 Mt. Sidney 158 Emmanuel 169 2 Churchville 275 Frederick Avenue 49 Bridgewater 241 Calvary 150 2 Sangersville 130 Baltimore Circuit 332 2 East Rockingham 214 Hookstown and Pikesville 67 1 Rockingham 163 Frederick City 109 1 194 Linganore “ 179 1 New Market 130 Rockville. 419 2 Woodstock 348 Hillsboro 295 1 2 Luray 240 Montgomery 220 1 Howard 162 1 2779 6 Baltimore Conference . , 1874

Roanolce District. Ques. 22. How many infants have been baptized during the year? White Cold Loe'l Mem's. Mem s. Pr's. 1270.

Salem Ifvt Ques. Roanoke 23. How many adults have been bap- 203 2 2 tized during the vear? Blacksburg 00 1 Christiansiburg 171 1 1130. F incastle 337 Lexington Circuit 155 Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday- James River 152 l schools? New Castle 82 377. Catawba 01 1 Sinking Creek 18T 2 Ques. La Fayette Mission 140 2 25. What is the number of Sunday- New Hope no 2 school teachers? 3436. 1886 2 12 Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- Lewisburg District. school scholars?

Lewisburg 161 20,179. Frankford 245 2 Ques. 27. White Sulphur ... 30 What amount is necessary for the White Sulphur Circuit 100 1 superannuated preachers, and the widows and Levelton..* 134 orphans of preachers? F.dray Mission 75 1 2 Green Bank 232 i $4,100. Centre ville 160 1 Union 76 Ques. 28. W hat has been collected on the Peterstown 163 foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Summers 100 i plied? Hillsdale Mission 85 i 1 Blue Sulphur 202 3 Collected, $4,100. Applied to claimants.

1763 4 10 Ques. 29. What has been contributed for missions. Lexington District. $5,440 80. Lexington 172 1 Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of Collierstown 114 1 the Fairfield 204 1 Conference be held? Greenville 60 At Mt. Vernon Place Church, Washington Augusta 213 City, H. C. West Augusta 68 2 T Upper Botetourt .. 137 2 Ques. 31. W here are the preachers stationed Covington 156 1 Alleglfany 134 2 this year? Monterey 203 2 Doe Hill*. 70 4 Crab Bottom 130 1 BALTIMORE DISTRICT. Highland 115 2 Jackson’s River and Warm Springs.. 114 2 1 E. F. Busey P. E. Green Valiev , 16 Baltimore: • 1906 13 9 Central, John A. Kern; S. Kepler, J. N. Hank, Sups.

Moorefield, Districtt. St. Paul’s, Robert R. S. Hqugh.

Moorefield 109! 1 / Emmanuel, James L. Shipley. Petersburg 172 2 \ Frederick Avenue, Burton S. Highley. Franklin Mission 231 2 Calvary, Dabney Ball. South Branch 226 1 Baltimore Springfield 198 f Circuit, L. R. Jones, Daniel L. 97 1 Bush, L. Lloyd, William R. j Stringer, Lost River and Beans 69 1 S Piedmont 214 1 "P- 1 Arlington Frostburg and ) and Pikesville, George G. Brooke, Somerset 69 1 2 [ | Cumberland 92 f Frederick City, George T. Tyler. 1 Flint Stone 168 l 1 \ Linganore Circuit, David Bush. 1645 4 Rockville Circuit, P. H. Whisner, J. W. Comp- 1 7 ton. Recapitulation. Montgomery Circuit, William A. McDonald, A. C. McKeer. Baltimore District 3397 3 20 East Baltimore “ 2890 9 Howard Circuit, J. G. Knight. Washington “ 4532 30 13 Beltsville Circuit, S. W. Haddaway, William Winchester “ 3334 8 9 J. Perry, Sup. Rockingham “ 2770i 12 16 Roanoke “ I88t1 2 12 Laurel Circuit, G. W. Lightner, one to be sup- “ 176.'! Lewisburg 1 4 10 plied. Lexington “ 190Ci 13! 9 “ South River Circuit, Robert Smith. Moorefield 164£> 4 7 Bladensburg Circuit, F. A. Mercer, one to

Total . this year 24,132 7(:i 105 be supplied.

Total last year . 23,451 63! 100 1 { Emory, B. W. Bond.

Increase 681, 13; 5 German Mission, Gotleib Meyer. Baltimore Conference, 1874 . 7

EAST BALTIMORE DISTRICT. Charlestown, William G. Hammond. Jefferson, F. C. Tebbs. Samuel Rodgers P. E. , Shepherdstown, A. A. P. Neale. Baltimore: Gainsboro, L. G. Martin. Trinity, John Hannon, E. R. Smith, Sup. Morgan, M. A. Taylor. Spangler, Hampden, to be supplied, J. N. Harper’s Ferry Mission, Andrew Robey. { Sup. Wardensville, L. C. Grabill, Wm. Hedges, Sup. East Baltimore, S. G. Ferguson, A^R. Mar- tin, Sup. ROCKINGHAM DISTRICT. North Baltimore, H. E. Johnson. Baltimore, William K. Boyle. John S. Martin, P. E. Brown. Taylor Circuit, Thomas W. Staunton, S. S. Roszell. Circuit, W. W. Watts, j West Harford Harrisonburg, I. W. Canter. Sedwick. \ East Harford Circuit, J. C. Shenandoah Iron Works, J. F. Liggett. Smithson, C. E. Simmons. Talbot Circuit, R. Mount Sidney, J. M. Grandin. Trappe Station, J. R. Smith. Churchville, John W. Wolff, George R. Jef- Kent Circuit, Wesley Hammond. ferson, Sup. Torreyson, J. D. Queen Anne Circuit, C. L. Bridgewater, J. H. Temple. Reese. Sangersville Mission, George B. Allen. Steele. Severn Circuit, John W. East Rockingham, J. H. March. West River Circuit, G. Mauzee, John D. C. Rockingham, A. A. Eskridge. Hanna. Elk Run, L. Fox. Andrew. Calvert Circuit, J. R. Yanhorne, J. R. Broadway Mission, Alfred H. Way. Prince George Circuit, W. K. Seat, W. E. New Market, W. H. Wilson. Miller. Woodstock, William 0. Ross, F. H. Richey, Charles Circuit, H. W. Kinzer. Sup. Methodist, . S. Editor of Baltimore Episcopal W Luray, J. T. Maxwell. Baird. Powell Fort Mission, Aaron Boone. DISTRICT. Wesleyan Female Institute, Wm. A. Harris, WASHINGTON President. Head P. E. Nelson , Washington City: ROANOKE DISTRICT. Place, A. Wilson, J. W. Mt. Vernon W. James E. ArmstrongT P. E. Boteler, Sup. Salem, J. Duffey. Alexandria, J. H. Waugh, F. M. Mills, Sup. W. Circuit, J. J. Engle. Fairfax Circuit, E. H. Henry, Robert M. Wil- Roanoke Blacksburg, C. Maloy. liams. W. Christiansburg Mission, J. W. Ewan. Falls Church Circuit, L. H. Crenshaw. Fincastle* C. A. Joyce, John W. Shreve. Farmwell Circuit, L. D. Nixon, J. C. Ham- Circuit, A. P. Boude, E. L. Kregelo, mer, Sup. Lexington Sup. Leesburg Circuit, J. M. Follansbee. James RiveT, J. T. Williams. ( Hamilton and Grove, J. C. Dice. Castle Mission, Robert Ross. Potomac Mission. J. P. Hall. New ^ Williamson Harris. Hillsboro, C. G. Linthicum, one to be supplied. Catawba, Sinking Creek, J. F. Folin. Loudon Circuit, H. H, Kennedy, F. Furr. L. Butt. Piedmont, A. B. Dolly, W. T. Caruthers. La Fayette Mission, Mission, to be supplied (by H. Linden, F. A. Strother. New Hope W. iTarrenton, O. C. Beall. Leslie). College, S. Keener Cox, Fauquier Circuit, H. A. Gaver. Montgomery Female Prince William Circuit, H. M. Striekler. President. Stafford Circuit, S. F. Butt, J. T. Smith. Fredericksburg Station, J. S. Gardner. LEWISBURG DISTRICT. Agent for Mt. Vernon Place Church, Washing- Wm. O. Coe, P. E. ton City, John Poisal. Lewisburg, P. B. Smith. WINCHESTER DISTRICT. Frankford, J. J. Crickenberger, O. F. Burgess. White Sulphur, H. C. Pitzer. Samuel Regester, P. E. White Sulphur Circuit, W. M. Hiner. Winchester Station, T. E. Carson. Levelton, L. H. Baldwin. Winchester Circuit, W. G. Eggleston, J. A. Edray Mission, John W. Canter. Regester, M. G. Balthis, Sup. Green bank, Leslie H. Davis. Frederick Circuit, George Stevenson, E. F. Centreville, to be supplied (by W. W. Hed- Heterick, Sup. rick). Front Royal Circuit, J. H. DuLaney. Union, W. T. Quinn. Berry ville Circuit, S. Townsend, J. F,Bagges, Peterstown, to be supplied, Jehu Hank, Sup. J. P. Hyde, Sup. Summers, V. W. Wheeler. Martinsburg Station, L. C. Miller. Hillsdale Mission, Rufus H. Wheeler, Berkeley Circuit, C. L. Dameron. Blue Sulphur, W. L. Lynch, *

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LEXINGTON DISTRICT. MOOREFIELD DISTRICT. David Thomas P. E. John L. Gilbert P. E. , , Moorefield, W. A. Wade. Lexington, John L. Clarke. Petersburg, J. N. Gray. Collierstown Mission, A. Q. Flaherty. Franklin, S. R. Snapp. Fairfield, J. S. Porter. South Branch, J. S. Hutchinson. Greenville, H. D. Bishop. Springfield, James H. Wolff, Thos. G. Nevitt. Augusta, A. Weller. North River, H. C. Gearhart. West Augusta, S. B. Dolly. Hardy, W. Varner. 1 F pper Botetourt, R. S. Shreve. Piedmont, John Landstreet. Covington, B. F. Ball. Frosthurg and Somerset, L. W. Haslup. Alleghany, J. Higgins. Cumberland, George H. Zimmerman. Monterey, Thomas Flintstone, J. Beatty. Hildebrand, M. P. Scan- * lan. South Fork Mission, E. B. Duncan. Crab Bottom, R. H. Wilson. J. B. Fitzpatrick transferred to Florida Con- Highland, S. S. Ryder. ference. Bath, F. H. Shipley., C. C. Werten baker transferred to Virginia Green Valley Mission, to he supplied. Conference.

II.—VIRGINIA CONFERENCE.

Held at Elizabeth Cm', N. C., November 18-25, 1874.

Bishop Marvin, President; Paul Whitehead, Secretary.

Question 1 . are admitted Who on trial? Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Answer. Franklin C. Woodward, Wm. H. deacons? Atwell, H. James Dalby, Charles D. Crawley, Robert H. Mullen, Alfred Stables, William Benjamin S. Herring, William J. Twilly. 6. H. Dameron, James E. Bristow, Willis White- Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? head, Joseph Smith, James Smith. 7. Abra- Wm. R. Smithey, John H. Kabler, Henry ham Carter, colored. 1. C. Paulett, John H. Patteson, Frederick Bickel, Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained Charles H. Green, Herbert M. Hope, James H. deacons? Maynard, John T. Moore, Wm. E. Mitchell, Robert H. Mullen, William H. Dameron, Wm. R. Cobb. 11. James E. Bristow, Willis Whitehead, Josephr Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? Smith. 5. Thomas M. Simpson. 1. Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- elected elders? 7 tion? James A. Hughes, Daniel G. C. Butts, James Thomas H. Campbell, Christian Evers, Lewis T. Lumpkin, James F. Twitty. 4. A. Guy, Richard J. Moorman. 4. Ques. 13. "VVhat traveling preachers are or- Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? dained elders? None. James A. Hughes, Daniel G. C. Butts, James Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from T. Lumpkin, James F. Twitty. 4. other Conferences? Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Robert A. Compton, Charles C. Werten baker, elders? Fishburn. P H. 3. Robert A. Lee. 1. Ques. 7. are Who the deacons of one year? Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained Werter H. Gregory, Lewis A. Guy, Chris- elders? tian Evers. 3. Robert A. Lee. 1. Ques. 8. traveling What preachers are elected Ques. 16. Who are located this year? deacons? Charles W. Pettit, Thomas Diggs. 2. Richard J. Moorman. 1. Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- John J. Lafferty, Thomas H. Early, William dained deacons? H. Camper, James A. Riddick, William J. Nor- Richard J. Moorman. 1. fleet, Joseph E. Potts, Robert B. Beadles. 7.

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Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? Lynchburg District. George W. Nolley, James Me Aden, Robert White 1 Col’d ll-oc’l Michaels, Joseph Carson, Benjamin Devany, Mem’s. Mem's. Pr’s. Garlick, Jacob Shough, Benjamin M. John C. Lynchburg Benjamin T. Williams, Samuel T. Moorman, ( Centenary 310 84 Ames, William A. Robinson, Leighton J. t City Mission 351 Henry B. Cowles, Fielding A. Court Street Hansberger, Amherst 227 Davis. 14. West Amherst 264 preachers have died during Bedford 275 Ques. 19. What Jackson 192 the past year? . . South Bedford 446 None. - '• Bedford Springs 250 Liberty and Salem 83 Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in Nelson 445 their life and official administration? Appomattox 460 f Campbell 577 Their names were called 'over,, one by one, ( German Mission. and their characters examined and passed. Buckingham 517 Prospect 357 Ques. 21. What is the number of local preach- Leesville Mission .. 163 ers and members in the several circuits, stations, 5001 14 16 and missions of tjjie Conference?

b Farmville District. Richmond District. Farmville 118 White Col’d Loc’l Mount Pleasant 132 Mem’s. Mem’s. Pr’s. Lunenburg 438 1 Lewiston 298 4 2 Richmond: Boydton 57 2 392 2 Boydton Circuit 287 4 1 76 1 Mecklenburg- 795 2 333 Clarksville Mission. 52 1 Broad Street 360 i 1 Brunswick 786 4 40 Nottoway...... 480 1 143 Amelia 350 15 3 130 Powhatan 135 1 430 1 Cumberland...... 321 393 3 South Brunswick.... 395 1 285 2 Henrico and Charles City 489 1 2 4644 251 17 280 2 King William 276 2 1 Matthews 940 1 1 Petersburg District. Gloucester.....' 900 1 1 64 Petersburg: 532 2 and Blandford 200 3 5531 8 15 Wesley Chapel Market Street 320 3 462 1 154 Charlottesville District. 556 5 179 1 278 1 Albemarle 500 6 365 390 5 3 329 1 472 2 2 443 1 4 401 8 1 147 1 573 90 2 340 1 Batesville 517 15 1 345 1 88 2 1 4471 3 21 297 i 330 80 Goochland Murfreesboro District. 280 1 1 315 l Murfreesboro - - — 138 9 Northampton 582 3 2 4577 208 15 3 4 429 1 3 48 Danville District 796 1 2 589 2 Danville Elizabeth City 204 i .. 197 2 Main Street 190 Lynn Street 190 1 878 2 Charlotte 269 450 1 West Charlotte 132 2 1 328 1 1 South of Dan 497 2 3 376 3 1 Ringgold 85 273 Bannister 290 2 3 Pittsylvania 303 4 1 5731 21 19 Franklin 738 10 2 Henry 297 Patrick 159 17 Norfolk District. Dan River Mission 151 10 2 Halifax 408 1 Norfolk: Alleghany Mission 15 Cumberland Street 573 3 Granby Street 364 3731 47 16 Berkeley ?. 85 : 7

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District is Norfolk ( continued). Ques. 25. What the number of Sunday- school teachers? White Col'd t.oc'l Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. 5984. Portsmouth Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- Monumental 386 1 school scholars? Central 240 1 31,991. 117 1 193 Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the 164 1 superannuated preachers, and the widows and South Norfolk Circuit 3 557 orphans of Indian Ridge 562 2 preachers? Princess Anne 847 4 $5,801 74. York 511 1 Ques. 28. • Hampton and Fox Hill 240 What has been collected on the Smitlifield 203 1 foregoing account, and how has it been applied? Isle of Wight 190 1 Collected, $5,801 74 Jamestown Circuit 60 Applied as follows: 5292 1 18 To superannuated preachers, 1,250 00 To widows and orphans, 4,519 00 Eastern Shore District. Balance retained in hands of treas- urer of Joint Board of Finance, 32 74 Eastville 274 Bell Haven... 78 Pungoteague 704 $5,801 74 Atlantic 395 Pocomoke.... 163 Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Wicomico 200 missions? Salisbury 63 62. Berlin 130 $8,677 Dorchester... 315 Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of Cambridge... 76 the Conference be held 2398 14 At Danville, Ya. Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed Randolph Macon District. this year? Rappahannock 350 4 Rappahannock Mission RICHMOND DISTRICT. Culpepper 58 Culpepper Circuit 294 3 1 Davis P. Wills, P. E. 200 5 1 409 1 Richmond: 416 i / Trinity, Adam C. Bledsoe. 445 4 1 Nicholson Street, Herbert T. Bacon. 460 4 \ 185 12 Centenary, John E. Edwards, 447 2 Lancaster ; f Broad Street, John C. Granberv. 474 i German Mission, Erederick Bickel. 525 i \ 100 i Sidney, George C. Vanderslice. 692 2 16 Oregon, Lewis A. Guy. Clay Street, Benjamin P. Woodward. 5055 31 29 Union, Henry C. Cheatham. Manchester, William McGee. Recapitulation. Henrico and Charles City, William G. Wil- 5531 8j 15 liams. 4577 208 15 3731 47 16 New Kent, Thomas P. Wise. 5001 14 16 King William, Charles H. Green. 4644 17 Matthews, Alexander M. Hall, William H. 4471 3 21 5731 21 19 Atwell. 5292 1 18 Gloucester, Oscar Littleton. 2398 1 14 Williamsburg Circuit, James W. Connelly. 5055 31 29 Editor Richmond Christian Advocate William , 46,431 359 180 W. Bennett. 44,674 599 181

1857 CHARLOTTESVILLE DISTRICT. Decrease 240 1 Joseph Proctor A. , P. E. Ques. 22. How many infants have been bap- Charlottesville, James F. Twittv. tized during the year?. Albemarle, Robert W. Watts, John J, Lafferty, 1139. Sup. Ques. 23. How many adults have been bap- Madison, John W. Hilldrup. tized during the year? Louisa, Joshua S. Hunter. 2330. Scottsville, James E. Gates. Ques. 24. "What is the number of Sunday- Fluvanna, John W. Howard. schools? Batesville, William W. Spain. &67. Gordon sville, John T. Moore. . :

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Cumberland, James R. Waggener. Orange Circuit, John H. Kabler, Wm. H. John P. Woodward. Camper, Sup. South Brunswick, Farmville College, Paul Whitehead, President. Greene, William E. Payne. Goochland, Benjamin C. Spiller. West Hanover, John McCleland. PETERSBURG DISTRICT. Piedmont, to he supplied (by Geo. W. Baily). Leroy M. Lee, P. E. LYNCHBURG DISTRICT. Petersburg: Washington Street, Wm. Wallace Duncan. Blackwell P. E. supplied. John D. , Blandford, to be M. Wright. Lynchburg: Wesley Chapel, George Robert Sledd. Centenary, William H. Christian. Market Street, N. ( Street and Battersea, m. G. Lumpkin. J City Mission, to be supplied (by Lawrence High W John Baylev. F. Way). Ettricks, [ Richard Ferguson. Court Street, William E. Judkins, Thos. H. Chesterfield, Clover Hill, William T. White. Early, Sup. ( Coalfield and -1 to be supplied (by James Amherst, Thomas A. Ware. Chesterfield Mission, West Amherst, Thomas H. Campbell. [ Baily). . ( Dinwiddie, Robert A. Armistead. J Amherst Mission, to be supplied (by Elisha Merritt. De Witt). West Dinwiddie, Joseph B, ( H. Riddick, James A. Riddick, Bedford, Edgar H. Pritchett. Sussex, Joseph Jackson, Christian Evers. Sup. Rowzie. South Bedford, John T. Weaver. Hicksford, William B. H. Proctor. Bedford Springs, Travis J. Taylor. Prince George, Jacob William E. Allen. Liberty, George W. Langhorne. Surry, Nelson, Hartwell H. Gary. Appomattox, James E. McSparran. MURFREESBORO DISTRICT. Bain. J Campbell, William F. Lemuel S. Reed P. E. \ Leesville, James H. Dalby. , Buckingham, Joshua L. Garrett. Murfreesboro, Franklin C. Woodward. esley C. uden Prospect, W V Northampton, Benjamin F. Tennille. Meherrin, James D. Lumsden. DANVILLE DISTRICT. Bertie, Wm. P. Wright, Wm. R. Smithey. Edenton, William P. Jordan. John M. Saunders P. E. , Hertford, James C. Watson. Danville: Pasquotank, James W. Compton, Wm. R. Cobb. Main Street, Samuel S. Lambeth. Elizabeth City, James C. Martin. Lynn Street, James W. Bledsoe. Suffolk, George E. Booker. Charlotte, Esmond A. Gibbs. Gates, Thos. L. Williams. West Charlotte, James A. Hughes. Southampton, to be supplied (by Geo. Rives). South of Dan, John D. Southall. Chuckatuck, Charles E. Hobday. Ringgold, to be supplied (by John Forbes). North Southampton, John N. Jones. Bannister, to be supplied (by John G. Baily). Dare, to be supplied (by Newton H. Cox). Pittsylvania, David F. Hodges. Wesleyan Female College, William G. Starr, Franklin, John W. Tucker. President. East Franklin, P. H. Fishburn. Henry, to be supplied. Patrick, Benjamin S. Herring. NORFOLK DISTRICT. Dan River, to be supplied (by Walter S. P. A. Peterson, P. E. Creasy). Norfolk: Halifax, Henry C. Bowles. Cumberland Street, Edward M. Peterson. Granby Street, Wm. E. Edwards, Wm. J. FARMVILLE DISTRICT. Norfleet, Sup. City Mission, to be supplied. Francis M. Edwards P. E. j , \ Berkeley, Wilbur F. Robins. Farmville, Jacob Manning. Portsmouth Mount Pleasant, Joseph S. R. Clarke. Monumental, James P. Garland, Lunenburg, James O. Moss. f Central, Hezekiah P. Mitchell. Lewiston, George H. Ray. \ Second Street, James H. Crown. Boydton, James Jameison. Norfolk Circuit, James C. Reed. Clarksville, Henry C. Paulett. East Norfolk Circuit, Joseph H. Davis. Boydton Circuit, Joseph Lear. South Norfolk Circuit, Joseph J. Edwards. Mecklenburg, Thomas M. Beckham. Indian Ridge, John Q. Rhodes. Brunswick, David M. Wallace. Princess Anne, Thomas J. Bayton. Nottoway, James W. Blincoe. York, Robert N. Crooks. Amelia, Charles D. Crawley. Hampton, James L. Spencer. Powhatan, James T. Lumpkin. Smithfield, Robert A. Compton. 12 . Western Virginia Conference , 1874

Isle of Wight, to be supplied (by Alexander Hanover, John B. Laurens, Robt. B. Beadles, Doniphan). Sup. Superintendent of German Missions, Edward Ashland, John H. Patterson, Joseph E. Potts, N. S. Blogg. Sup. Norfolk Collegiate Institute, Hubert M. Saun- Randolph Macon College, James A. Duncan, ders, Principal. President; Alex. G. Brown, Financial Sec- retary. RANDOLPH MACON DISTRICT. Agent Virginia Bible Society, John G. Rowe. Sunday-school Agent, Leonidas Rosser. Edward P. Wilson P. E. , f Rappahannock, Milton L. Bishop. EASTERN SHORE DISTRICT. (Rappahannock Mission, James F. Finnell. Culpepper Station, Richard J. Moorman. John B. Dfy, P. E. Culpepper Circuit, Edward M. Jordan. Spottsyl vania, James H. Maynard. Eastville, Lloyd Moore. Caroline, James F. Bran n in. Bell Haven, to be supplied (by Edward He- King George, Thomas H. Boggs. bard). Westmoreland, A. T Wm. Crocker. Pungoteague, Beverly W . Daugherty. Heathsville, David G. C. Butts. Onancock, Joseph H. Amiss. Montross, John W. White, Walter C. Taylor, Atlantic, James M. Anderson. Sup. Pocomoke, Wm. J. Twilly. Lancaster, Alfred Wiles. Wicomico, Chas. C. Wertenbaker. Middlesex, Josiah D. Hank. Salisbury, Peter F. August. King and Queen, Chas. E. Watts, Wm. E. Berlin, Werter H. Gregory. Mitchell. Dorchester, Major S. Colonna. Logan Mission, to be supplied. Cambridge, Herbert M. Hope.

III.—WESTERN VIRGINIA CONFERENCE.

Held at Philippi, W. Va., - September 16 22 , 1874 .

Bishop Doggett, President ; Wm. Gaines Miller, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Answer. Charles L. Hanlon, William C. dained deacons? Leech, John W. Taylor. 3. F. Golden, M. Taylor. 2. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected C. W. Cook, M. W. Trippett, F. M. Yates, deacons? J. W. Bashaw, J. L. Smith, J. F. Lambert, J. None. W. Ramsey, E. M. Murrell, T. N. Wilson, C. Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained W. Shearer. 10. deacons? Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? B. Weller. 1. J. W. Umstead, Q. A. Wheat, C. E. Harbour, Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are C. C. Board. 4. elected elders? Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- Thomas Cooper, Adam Given, James O. A. tion ? Vaught, L. H. Mead. 4. F. Golden, M. Taylor, J. W. Satterfield. 3. Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? dained elders? None. Adam Given, James O. A. Vaught, Thomas Cooper, L. Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from H. Mead. 4. other Conferences? Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected N. G. Robinson, from Kentucky Conference. elders? Ques. 7. Who are'the deacons of one year? Wm. Hardwick, W. C. Leech, W. N. Chil- R. C. Wiseman, C. Dean. 2. dress. 3. Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained deacons? elders? , F. Golden, M. Taylor. 2. W. C. Leech, W. N. Childress. 2. . 13 Western Virginia Conference , 1874

Qaes. 16. Who are located this year? Catlettsburg District. E. Wasson. 1. Joseph White Col'd Loc'l Mem's. Pr's. Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? Mem's. W. Kennedy, B. Spurlock, R. Bias, J. K. 122 3 Hedges. 4. 123 73 Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? 587 1 5 Joseph A. West. 1. 312 8 230 2 Ques. 19. What preachers have died during 120 the past year? 1 7 310 1 2 None. 200 3 Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in 2235 3 30 their life and official administration? Their names were called over, one by one, Recapitulation. and their characters examined and passed. 2786 1 25 Ques. 21. What is the number of local preach- 2019 5 15 ers and members in the several circuits, stations, 1833 3 9 and missions of the Conference? 3215 1 25 2235 3 30

Parkersburg District. 12,088 13 104 11,657 18 93 White Cold Loc'l Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. 431 17 5 30b 2 Decrease Parkersburg Circuit 24b 1 1 323 2 Ques. 22. How many infants have been bap- 427 2 tized during the year? 3 66 392. 2:54 4 434 3 Ques. 23. How many adults have been bap- 190 2 tized during the vear? 3 238 1 771. 58 2 Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday-

‘ 2786 1 25 schools? | | | 176.

Charleston District. - Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday- school 141 1 teachers? Charleston Circuit 394 1 5 1235. 102 1 19 Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- 17b school scholars? Fayette Circuit 270 4 3 7098. 1 170 Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the 232 1 superannuated preachers, and the widows and 163 3 orphans of preachers?

2019 5 15 1 000 . $ , Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Huntington District. foregoing account, and how has it been applied? Huntington and Guvandotte Circuit.. 151 1 1 Collected, $520 94

Barbours ville .*. 1 Circuit 338 1 Applied as follows. Wayne Circuit 561 1 1 Coa'lsmouth Circuit 82 Mrs. S. Field, 80 00 Hurricane Bridge Circuit 186 1 Mrs. Hargiss, 80 00 Newport Circuit". 85 1 Mrs. Williams, 80 00 Round Bottom Circuit 195 2 Logan Mission 160 2 Mrs. Rankin, 80 00 Winfield Mission 75 Elizabeth Fox, 50 00 Ida Emma Fox, 50 00 1833 3 9 William Fox, 50 00 Rev. J. A. West, 50 94 Clarksburg District. Clarksburg Station 66 $520 94 Weston arid West Milford Circuit 135 2 Glenville Circuit 269 4 Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Braxton Circuit 4 missions? Jacksonville Circuit 287 3 83. Philippi Circuit 233 3 $782 St. George Circuit 338 Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of Marion Circuit 690 3 held? Greene and Monongalia 488 i the Conference be Randolph Mission.r. 174 At Guyandotte, Cabell co., 1 W. Va. , Blacksville Mission 170 Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed 3215 l 25 this year? —

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PARKERSBURG DISTRICT. Coalsmouth Circuit, William F. Claughton. William Downtain, P. E. Hurricane Bridge Circuit, Marion Taylor, one to be supplied. Farkersburg Station, W. Gaines Miller. Newport Circuit, to be supplied (by J. G. "Wesley Chapel, Thomas S. Wade. Grobe). St Mary’s, Thomas Cooper. Logan Mission, B. S. Chambers. Lubeck Circuit, John C. Crooks. Winfield Mission, W. C. Leech. Spencer Circuit, Elias Kendall. Ripley Circuit, Warwick Briscoe. CLARKSBURG DISTRICT. Ravenswood Circuit, H. S. Williams. James H. Burns P. E. Point Pleasant Circuit, C. F. Crocks. , New Martinsville Circuit, Granville S. Mo Clarksburg and West Milford, J. M. Lauck. Cutchen. Glenville Circuit, to be supplied (by W. Ver- Newark, John W. Satterfield. den). Grantsville, Thomas N. Wilson. Braxton Circuit, J. S. Pullin, J. K. Hedges, Sup. Palestine, F. M. Yates. Jacksonville Circuit, J. W. Taylor. Mason Mission, to be supplied (by H. C. Thomp- Philippi Circuit, James W. Lambert. son). St. George Circuit, Luther H. Mead. Randolph Mission, R. E. Walden, W. Kennedy, CHARLESTON DISTRICT. Sup. Louis B. Madison P. E. Marion Circuit, A. P. Sturm. , Charleston Station N. G. Robinson. Rivesville, Fletcher Golden. Greene, C. L. Hanlon. Charleston Circuit, W. R. Chambers. Brownstown and Cedar Grove, Joshua C. Tins- ley. CATLETTSBURG DISTRICT. Fayetteville Circuit, E. M. Murrell. Walter Shearer, P. E. Fayette Circuit, C. W. Cook. Catlettsburg Station, S. T. Mallory. Sugar Grove Circuit, Samuel Black. Ashland Station, Frank B. Carroll. Summersville Circuit, Joseph L. Smith. Louisa Station, J. O. A. Vaught. Webster, M. W. Trippett. Big Sandy Circuit, John Martin. Newton, John Cook. Paintsville Circuit, John W. Bashaw. Kanawha Salines, A. Given. Elliott Mission, to be supplied. Raymond City Mission, to be supplied. Grayson Circuit, R. C. Wiseman. Greenup and Pond Run, Hiram Moore. HUNTINGTON DISTRICT. Greenup Circuit, John F. Medley. Stephen K. Vaught, P. E. Mt. Zion and Liberty, Charles W. Shearer. Prestonburg, to be supplied. Huntington and Guyandotte, J. T. Johnson. Piketon, Clifton Dean. Barboursville Circuit, George W. Young, Ro- Upper Sandy, to be supplied. land Bias, Sup. Wayne Circuit, R. A. Claughton, J.W. Ramsey, W. S. May transferred to North Texas Con- Burwell Spurlock, Sup. ference. Round Bottom Circuit, to be supplied (by S. T. W. B. Kavanaugh transferred to Kentucky Crabtree, J. F. Lambert). Conference.

II IV.— HOLSTON CONFERENCE.

Held at Asheville, N. C., October 14-21, 1874.

Bishop Doggett, President; F. Richardson, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? H. Sensabaugh, Isaac S. Ross, William M. Answer. Samuel B. Smitteel, Morton S. Crawford, Winfield S. Jordan, James I. Cash, Watts, James N. Lotspeich, Richard T. Barton, Ayres Kincaid, Samuel S. Weatherly, Isaac George C. Rankin, David H. Dickey, W. B. Hoskins, Jacob O. Shelley, Robert A. Hut- Reese, Joseph P. Reynolds, Frank N. Atkins, sell. 12. 10. Pinkney P. McLean. Ques. 8. Who are discontinued? Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Benjamin F. Smith, Daniel W. Rucker, .lames K. Wolf, Elbert L. Barrett, Joseph James M. MeCampbell. 3. Holston Conference , 1874

Sutherland, Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- Charles M. Greer, Alexander C. 8. tion ? John• Prather. John M. Wolfe, Leander W. Thompson, Ques. 16. What local preachers are ordained H. Price, John H. Kennedy, John W. William elders?e Edward S. Shelley, T Smith, Ballard R. Wilburn, Charles M. Greer, Barnard G. W ild. 2. Bogle, William Joseph B. Davis, Erastus H. T Ques. 16. ho are located this year? H. Dawn, James Atkins, jr., John R. Hixon, W Stephen T. M. McPherson, Joseph A. Bilden- A. Q. Harmon. 1. back, Charles B. Fugate, John H. Robinson. 16. Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? William Hicks, John D. Baldwin, Charles Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? Miller, Rufus M. Hickey. R. W. Pickens, Sterling V. Bates, Gaston M. Massey, John K. John Reynolds, John Alley, J. N. S. Huffaker, R. Stradley. 3. Jacob Smith, Joseph B. Davis, W. P. Doane, received transfer from Ques. 6. Who are by H. M. Bennett. 12. other Conferences? Ques. 18. are superannuated? S. D. Gaines. 1. Who R. A. Giddens, Wm. Robeson, Joseph Has- Ques. 7. are the deacons of one year? Who kew, L. D. Crouch, Timothy Sullins, Wiley B. Carter, William D. Mountcastle, David W. Winton. 6. W. R. Barnett, John C. Runyan, Robert E. Smith, Return J. Only, John P. Dickey, John Ques. 19. What preachers have died during H. Parrott, George W.. ;Simpson, J. H. Keith, the past year? Geo. A. Frazier. 11. Samuel Alexander, Edward F. Lyons, Ed- ward W. Marsh, Jacob Brillhart, Samuel B. Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected Harwell, bt deacons? Wolfe, Leander W. Thompson, John M. Samuel Alexander was born Feb. 16, 1836, Smith, John H. Wm. H. Price, John W. and died Feb. 15, 1874. He professed religion Kennedy, Ballard R. Wilburn, Edward S. and joined the M. E. Church, South, at Turkey- Shelley, Joseph B. Davis, Erastus H. Bogle, town Camp-ground, Carter co., Tenn., under William H. Dawn, James Atkins, jr., John the ministry of the Rev. J. Haskew, in 1858. R. Hixon, Stephen T. M. McPherson, Joseph In 1857 his father’s family removed to Mis- A. Bilderback, Charles B. Fugate. 15. souri, and in the autumn of 1860 he received a Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- license to preach, and was received on trial dained deacons? into the Missouri Conference, in which he Leander W. Thompson, John M. Wolfe, continued a laborious and efficient traveling Wm. H. Price, John W. Smith, John H. preacher till the autumn of 1872, when he Kennedy, Ballard R. Wilburn, Edward S. came to Marion, Ya., to recuperate his failing Shelley, Joseph B. Davis, Erastus H. Bogle, health. At the session of the Holston Confer- William H. Dawn, James Atkins, jr., John ence, meeting in Marion, Va., Oct., 1873, be R. Hixon, Stephen T. M. McPherson, Joseph was transferred to the Holston Conference, and A. Bilderback, Charles B. Fugate. 15. appointed to the Saltville Circuit. His health was too feeble to enter upon bis work till Jan., Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected 1874, when, from strong desire, though not yet deacons? restored, he ventured to Saltville; preaching George C. Rankin, Pinkney P. McLean, morning and night. He literally fell at his Joshua Curtis, George W. Sharp, J. W. Whit- post. Returning home on Monday, Jan. 26, he tington, James A. Lyon, G. H. Chaffin, Louis took his bed, strangely and seriously prostrated. E. Miller. 8. His disease was softening of the brain. He was Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained united in marriage to Miss Isabella C. Rooker, deacons? in Missouri, Sept. 29, 1863. Widowhood is left Wm. B. Gale, George C. Rankin, Pinkney to her, with three young children. In the Mis- P. McLean, Henry E. Joiner, “Enola,” or souri Conference he filled the following ap- Black Fox, of Echota Indian Mission. 5. pointments: Chillicothe Mission, 1860; Buck- Gallatin Circuit, Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are lin Circuit, 1862-63-64; 1865; elected elders? was supernumerary by reason of his feeble Thomas R. Handy, William D. Mitchell, health in 1866-67-68; Millville, 1869; and Sal- isbury, 1870. During these vear8 he received William C. Carden, Wiley J. Phillips, James| K. P. Ball, Daniel H. Atkins, Timothy P. into the Church about eight hundred souls. Darr. 7. They were years of peril and trial in Missouri. Some lost their lives—others went to prison. Ques. 18: traveling preachers What are or- Brother Alexander was arrested, and refused dained elders? to take the test-oath, and finally was compelled Thomas R. Handy, William D. Mitchell, > to give security for his good behavior! But William C. Carden, Wiley J. Phillips, James5 preach he must and would. As a preacher he K. P. Ball, Daniel H. Atkins, Timothy P. • was industrious and laborious, having above Darr. 7. three score written sermons. His voice was

Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected1 full and musical, sometimes, in hanpy seasons, elders? swelling to a trumpet-b’ast. Asa Christian his —

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piety was thorough and consistent, always pos- converted at Philip’s Chapel, in the same sessing a cheerful and happy spirit, hut never county, Jan., 1866, while a student of the now vain or trifling. The first conviction on the sainted Brother T. K. Munsey, from whom he, mind of strangers, when he appeared in private with many other young men, received the im- or public, was that he aspired to be pure and press of divine truth as few men on earth could holy above all else. Take him all in all, his impart it. He was married to a godly young brethren do not hesitate to pronounce his life lady in 1867, who only lived to bless him with one of holiness. His affliction was such that her love five months, when she passed away to little communication could be had with him be an angel. He was licensed to preach at his hearing and speech both being impaired. Winston’s Chapel, Kingston Circuit, Dec. 12, He suffered little, if any, pain. All his thoughts 1868; was engaged in teaching, which he con- during seasons of mental wandering had rela- tinued for a few months, after which he spent tion to the labors and triumphs of his former the remainder of that Conference-year with the ministry. On one occasion, arousing from deep Rev. D. H. Atkins on Tracy City and Spencer stupor, he requested all around him to unite in Mission with great acceptability. He joined prayer, leading the prayer in appropriate lan- the Holston Conference, at Abingdon, Va., Oct., guage while utterly unconscious. In the earlier 1869, and was appointed to, and traveled, Tracy stages of his sickness he was in full ecstasy City and Spencer Mission. His second year he whenever singing and prayer were joined in. traveled Hamilton Circuit. His third and His zeal literally consumed himl He felt in- fourth years were spent on Spencer Mission dividually employed by the Master—the work and at Burritt College, located at Spencer, was great—the time was short—he must hasten where, as in every field, he labored with great out to improve the light as it lasted. He is success. He was ordained deacon at Morris- gone—the sun went out at noon—but not be- town, by Bishop Pierce, at the close of his sec- neath clouds. He rests in heaven. ond year; and, as his health gave way at the close of his fourth year, he was not with us at Edward Earrell Lyons was born,in Knox- our last annual session, at Marion, Va. Dur- ville, Tenn., June 6, 1836, and dedicated to God ing the latter part of last year, while labor- by baptisnj in his infancy. Blessed with pious ing in a protracted revival on his work, cold parents, from the first dawnings of reason he settled on his lungs, when consumption began was carefully instructed in the truth that its fearful work, and rapidly wasted his manly maketh wise unto salvation, and taught to re- strength. His sufferings were intense, but vere the house of God and his ministry, with never was displayed more fortitude under suf- whom he was constantly associated in child- fering. By grace he conquered the last enemy, hood and youth, his home being also the home and gloriously triumphed over the grave. His of the Methodist preacher. Under these cir- sun set not behind a cloud, but, on the 4th of cumstances, it is not strange that he grew up March, 1874, it melted away into the brighter to mature manhood with a most profound re- glory of heaven, as the morning star before gard for sacred things. Early in life he was the rising day. A short time before he “ fell impressed with the conviction that it was his on sleep” he said to a young friend and class- duty to preach the gospel. Holding then and mate, “I have been lingering near the king- ever the most elevated views of the dignity dom all day.” and responsibility attaching to this office, he shrank from it under a sincere sense of un- Jacob Brillhart was born Sept. 16, worthiness. In the pulpit his manner was al- 1808, in York co., Pa.; was married Sept. 18, ways serious and impressive. Preparing his 1830, to Louisa Meyers; was converted Sept., sermons with care, and delivering them with 1834. In 1839 he removed to Richmond, Ky., an unstudied grace and native eloquence, he and was licensed to preach at that place, and never failed to gain the attention of his con- after serving the Church for several years as a gregations. Possessed of a rich, musical voice, local preacher, he joined the Kentucky Con- of. great flexibility and compass, expressing ference, at Flemingsburg, in 1848. He was with rare truthfulness every emotion, when he sent the first year to Jackson Circuit, and in pleaded with God in public prayer his fervent 1849 to the Liberty Circuit. The Western appeals awakened responsive echoes in every Virginia Conference being organized in 1850, heart, and impress^ every one with the con- he became a member of that Conference, and viction, “ He is praying for me.” His voice is traveled in it about fourteen years, on the fol- hushed now, and his. work on earth finished. lowing circuits and District: Coalsmouth, Brax- He died fighting for the Master, and although ton, Summersville, and Leesburg Circuits, and his blows may have fallen faint and fainter at Kanawha District. In 1865 he was trans- the last, yet were they struck with unfaltering ferred to the Holston Conference by Bishop trust in an omnipotent Lord. Farewell, broth- Early, and appointed to the Franklin District. er, but not forever! We shall meet again where In the autumn of 1865 lie was appointed to the storms of life are over, and rest from the the Athens Circuit, where he traveled two weariness of earth under the shade of the years. In 1867 he was appointed to the Jones- beautiful trees, by the river of life. boro Circuit, where he traveled two ypars, after which, in 1870, having been stricken with pa- Edward Waverly Marsh was born, in ralysis, he was superannuated, which relation Rhea co., Tenn., Nov. 27, 1847; was soundly he sustained to the Conference until his death,

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calmly and meekly re- Jeffersonville District continued). Aug 10, 1874. He ( afflictions, and died in great signed to his TThite Cold I.oc'l Mem's. Mem s. Pr's. peace, saying to his companions, “I am ready —I am going home.” 660 4 Seddon Circuit 720 3 6 Samuel B. Harwell.—Of the early life of 532 5 we have no record. 242 i this most excellent man 305 Confer- He was admitted into the Tennessee Buchanan Mission 219 1 2 ence on trial in the year 1819, with David 32 Adams, Thomas Maddin, and Robert—now 4183 19 Bishop—Paine. He was at that session of the Conference appointed to White Circuit, Nash- Abingdon District. the ville District. In 1820 he was in charge of Abingdon Station 138 Wayne Circuit, Cumberland District. In 1821 440 1 deacon, and appointed in 416 9 he was ordained 235 8 1 1822 charge of the Nashville Circuit. In he Bristol Circuit 658 2 4 traveled the Knox Circuit, and in 1823 the 419 65 Circuit. The General Min- Tennessee Valley 669 5 utes show that in 1824 he remained a deacon, 650 2 hut no reference to his appointment. In 1825 Estillville Circuit 713 4 4 434 1 5 on the roll of the Holston Gladeville Circuit his name appears 60 1 Conference, and is left without any appointment. In 1826 he returned to the local ranks. 4897 17 30 He was received hack into the traveling connection about the year 1846—was appointed to Jonesboro District. the Maryville Circuit, where he traveled two 375 1 2 years with great acceptability and usefulness. 132 2 5 Soon after this time he was placed on the 706 Rheatown Circuit 275 4 superannuated list, and sustained this relation 260 5 to the Conference at the time of his death, 303 3 185 l which occurred Aug. 16, 1874, at his home 159 1 in Roane co., Tenn. Samuel B. Harwell was a man of vigorous mind, familiar with the 2395 1 23 doctrines of the Bible, and unswerving in his devotion to the Church. As a preacher he Morristown District. was far above mediocrity. During a long life Morristown and Mossy Creek Station. 368 2 he maintained a consistent Christian character. Morristown Circuit.: 323 1 3 He lingered long on the shores of mortality, Rutledge Circuit 238 i 166 afflicted with dropsy, of which he died. He Bean’s Station Circuit.. Rogersville Circuit 328 3 was patient in suffering, unwavering in his Kingsport Circuit 375 6 trust on the merits of Jesus Christ, and de- Rye Cove Circuit 344 1 3 Valley Circuit 597 40 5 parted in the blissful hope of eternal life. Powell’s Jonesville Circuit 800 25 5 Tazewell Circuit 252 2 2 Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in their life and official administration? 3791 69 30 Their names were called over, one by one, and their characters examined and passed. Knoxville District. Ques. 21. What is the number of local preach- Knoxville: ers and members in the several circuits, stations, Church Street Station 345 4 Broad Street Station 247 and missions of the Conference? Mabry Street Station 51 i Maryville and Louisville Circuit 391 1 3 356 2 Wytheville District. Knox and Lenoir Circuit Clinton Circuit 272 4 Maynardsville Circuit 362 2 White Cold I.oc'l 308 : 2 Mem s Mem's. Pr's. Jacksboro Circuit Dandridge Circuit 571 1 2 Wytheville Station 1C1 1 Sevierville Circuit 206 1 2 Wytheville Circuit 1080 7 Newbern Circuit 542 i 2 3109 3 22 Hillsville Circuit 418 10 Jacksonville Circuit 155 3 Athens District. Grayson Circuit 1176 8 Jefferson Circuit 990 1J 8 128 Marion Circuit 790 3 5 Circuit 3>o 3 2 Watauga Circuit Athens 500 4 234 1 Philadelphia and Loudon 260 1 5812 5 48 308 6 354 4 Jeffersonville District. Riceville Circuit 349 1 1 333 4 Jeffersonville Station 264 1 116 Liberty Hill Circuit 4 5 East Tazewell Circuit 604 11 8 2467 4 21 2 Holston Conference, 1874 .

Chattanooga District. Ques. 24. "What is the number of Sunday- schools? White Cord Loc'l Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. 413. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday- 208 2 137 2 school teachers? Ooltawah Circuit 300 6 2581. Cleveland Circuit 375 2 1 Charleston and Calhoun 212 Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- Hamilton and Chickamauga Mission 151 3 school scholars? Trenton Circuit and L. Mission 650 9 19,336. Cleveland Station 172 Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the 2265 2 22 superannuated preachers, and the widows and orphans of preachers? Pikeville District.t. $1,700. 398 1 6 Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Pikeville Circuit 243 1 1 foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Washington Circuit. 237 7 411 4 2 plied? 135 Collected, $1,310 85 Battle Creek and Elk River 228 i 4 Applied as follows: Altamont Mission 153 3 Spencer Mission 70 Mrs. Swisher, 150 00 Jamestown and Wartburg Mission.. 153 1 Mrs. Smith, 45 00 Crossville and Bonair 192 5 T. Sullins, 110 00 2220 8 28 Mrs. Mitchell, 95 00 Mrs. Boring, 60 00 Mrs. Patton, Asheville District,t. 45 00 Brother Ballew’s children, 65 00 Asheville Station. 180 1 Mrs. Goodykoontz, 35 00 Asheville Circuit. 715 8 612 4 Mrs. Fleming, 25 00 Brevard Circuit 320 1 Mrs. Stevens, 25 00 Hendersonville Circuit.. 339 3 2 T. K. Munsey’s two youngest children, 100 Catawba Circuit 445 2 00 Burnesville Circuit 292 4 Mrs. Keener, 50 00 Bakersville Circuit 285 Mrs. Cunningham, 50 00 265 3 Mrs. Brillhart, 20 00 3453 3 25 W. B. Winton, 120 00 Mrs. Foster, 95 00 Mrs. Alexander, jFranklin District. 100 00 Mrs. Lyons, 100 00 Franklin Circuit 642 7 Miss Bettie Waynesville Circuit 800 3 Wagg, 20 00

Hayesville Circuit ; 312 3 Ducktown Circuit 149 $1,310 00 Murphy Circuit 320 4 These being regarded the most necessitous Webster Circuit 327 1 1 Charleston Mission 150' 1 of the superannuated preachers, widows and Echota (Indian) Mission 2 orphans of preachers who have died in the work. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for missions? $4,240 61. ^Recapitulation. Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of Wytheville District 5812 5 48 the Conference be held? Jeffersonville “ 4183 19 32 At Knoxville, Tenn. Abingdon “ 4897 17 30 Jonesboro “ 2395 1 23 Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed Morristown “ 3791 69 30 this year? Knoxville ** 3109 3 22 Athens “ 2467 4 21 WYTHEVILLE DISTRICT. Chattanooga “ 2265 2 22 Pikeville “ a 2220 8 28 G. W. Miles P. E. , Asheville “ 3453 3 25 2700 21 Wytheville Station, D. W. Carter. Wytheville Circuit, B. W. S. Bishop, W. B, Total this year 37.292 131 302 Reece. Total last year 35,205 171 291 Newbern Circuit, W. H. Price, John W. Smith. Indians, 150—increase, 21 2087 11 Jacksonville and New Hope Circuit, W. J. Decrease 40 Phillips. Hillsville Circuit and Carroll Mission, J. M. Ques. 22. How many infants have been bap- Wolfe. tized during the year? Independence Circuit, J. Mahoney. 1376. Elk Creek Circuit, B. F. Nuckols. Ques. 23. How many adults have been bap- Jefferson Circuit, E. Yerdigans. tized during the year? Marion Circuit, J. H. Keith, G. C. Rankin. 2207. Watauga Circuit, I. S. Ross. Holston Conference, 1874 . 19

JEFFERSONVILLE DISTRICT. Rogersville Circuit, W. H. Dawn. Sneedville Mission, J. D. Baldwin, Sup. George Stewart P. E. , Kingsport Circuit, W. H. Barnes. Jeffersonville Station, H. C. Neal. Bye Cove Circuit, W. H. Cooper. Liberty Hill Circuit, Morton F. Watts, S. S. Jonesville Circuit, F. A. Farley. Weatherly. Powell’s Valley Circuit, D. R. Smith. East Tazewell Circuit, W. H. Kelley, one to Tazewell Circuit, A. E. Woodward. be supplied. Editor of Holston Methodist and Agent of Pearisburg Circuit, P. S. Sutton, G. W. K. Asheville Female College, R. N. Price. Green, Sup. Conference' Book Agent, Jacob Smith. Seddon Circuit, Ayres Kincaid, W. Hicks, Sup. Princeton Circuit, B. R. Wilburn. KNOXVILLE DISTRICT. Bluestone and Flat Top Mission, W. M. Craw- ford. C. Long P. E. , Buchanan Circuit, S. B. Smitteel. Knoxville: McDowell Circuit, to be supplied (by J. N. Church Street, W. G. E. Cunnyngham. Boyd). Broad Street, J. L. 31. French. Editor of Religious Herald Wm. Hicks. , Mabry Street, W. C. Carden. Maryville and Louisville Circuit, T. F. Glenn. ABINGDON DISTRICT. Unitia and Morganton Circuit, J. R. Payne. Knox and Lenoir Circuit, W. H. Bates. E. W. Moore P. E. , Clinton Circuit, J. M. Marshall. Circuit, Abingdon Station, J. S. Burnett. Maynardsville J. C. Runyan. Abingdon Circuit, J. W. Dickey, J. B. Davis, Jacksboro Circuit, F. Richardson, C. K. Miller, Sup. Sup. Emory Circuit, T. F. Smith. Dandridge Circuit, J. S. W. Neal; E. L. Bar- Bristol Station, J. T. Frazier. rett, J. N. S. Huffaker, Sups. Bristol Circuit,. James K. Wolfe, W. P. Doane, Sevierville Circuit, J. H. Hoskins. Sup. Saltville Circuit, S. D. Gaines. ATHENS DISTRICT. Lebanon Circuit, C. E. Wiggins. J. McTeer P. E. Diekinsonville Circuit, H. W. Bays. M. , Estillville Circuit, W. H. Weaver. Athens Station, T. R. Handy. Gladeville Circuit, R. E Smith. Athens Circuit, T. T. Salyer, R. M. Hickey, McClure Mission, to be supplied. Sup. Emory and Henry College, E. E. Wiley, Pres- Sweetwater Circuit, to be supplied (by R. H. ident; J. A. Davis, Professor. Parker, C. D. 3IcTeer). Sullins College. David Sullins, President. Philadelphia and Loudon Circuit and Tennes- Abingdon District High-school, G. A. Frazier, see River Mission, Pyott, Rob- President. W. W. J. W. ertson. JONESBORO DISTRICT. Madisonville Circuit, J. N. Lotspeich. Eleazar Circuit and Tellico Mission, to be supplied (by H. D. Brandon). G. Taylor, P. E. Riceville Circuit, W. B. Mountcastle. Jonesboro Station, J. Atkins, jr. Decatur Circuit, D. H. Carr. Jonesboro Circuit, L. C. Delashmit. Mouse Creek and Loco Circuit, J. T. Smith. Blountville Circuit, M. L. Clendennen. Hiwassee College, J. H. Brunner, President. Rheatown Circuit, G. W. Callahan. Athens District Female Institute, R. H. Parker, Greeneville Circuit, R. Barnett, W. C. M. Principal. Brown. St. Clair Circuit, W. P. Waugh. Newport Circuit, G. W. Simpson. CHATTANOOGA DISTRICT. Fall Branch Circuit and Horse Creek Mission, J. Atkins sr., P. E. F. D. Crumley. , Elizabetbton Circuit and Taylorsville Mission, Chattanooga Station, W. W. Bays, J. 0. Shel- G. T. Gray. ley. Blountville Female Institute, J. H. Torbitt, South Chattanooga Station, F. N. Atkins. Principal. Ooltawah Circuit and Chickamauga Mission, B. O. Davis. MORRISTOWN DISTRICT. Cleveland Station, L. L. H. Carlock. Charleston and Calhoun Station, K. C. Atkins. J. Boring P. E. , Cleveland Circuit, E. H. Boyle. Morristown Station, G. D. French. Benton Circuit and Ocoee Mission, A. T. Mossy Creek Station, J. K. P. Ball. Brooks. Morristown Circuit, J. M, Crismond. Hamilton Circuit, J. A. Bilderback. Rutledge Circuit, D. B. Carter. Trenton Circuit, to be supplied (by J. H. Par- Bean’s Station Circuit, L. W. Thompson. rott, J. A. Darr). ,

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PIKEVILLE DISTRICT. Asheville Circuit, S. V. Bates. R. A. Hutsell. S. R. Wheeler P. E. Sulphur Springs Circuit, J. H. Robinson, J. , Reynolds, Sup. Pikeville Circuit, J. I. Cash, J. R. Hickson. Brevard Circuit, R. T. Barton. Jasper Circuit, M. P. Swain; D. H. Dickey, J. Hendersonville Circuit, W. D. Mitchell. Alley, Sups. Catawba Circuit, G. M. Massey. "Washington Circuit, W. S. Jordan. Burnsville Circuit, L. M. Renfro. Poplar Creek Circuit and Wartburg Mission,. Bakersville Circuit, G. W. Martin. S. T. McPherson. Marshall Circuit and Pine Creek Mission, J. Kingston Circuit, S. Philips, G. W. Renfro. P. Reynolds, R. W. Dickens, Sup. Tracy City Station, J. H. Kennedy. Asheville Female College, J. S. Kennedy, Pres- Summerfield Circuit and Cove Mission, T. P. ident. Darr. Shiloh and Altaraont Circuit and Mountain FRANKLIN DISTRICT. Mission, to he supplied (by W. S. Brown). Spencer Mission, to be supplied. T. J. Pope, P. E. Jamestown Circuit and Huntsville Mission, P. Franklin Circuit, L. K. Haynes, E. S. Shelley. P. McLean. Waynesville Circuit, W. M. Kerr. Crossville' Circuit and Bonair Mission, W. W. Hayesville Circuit, J. A. Wiggins. Neal. Ducktown Station, D. H. Atkins. Pikeville District High-school, J. P. Dickey, Murphy Circuit, J. A. Sensabaugh. Principal; R. J. Only, Assistant Principal. Webster Circuit, J. W. Bird. Cashier Mission, C. B. Fugate. ASHEVILLE DISTRICT. Graham Mission, W. L. Turner. Echota Mission, J. R. Long. A. J. Frazier P. E. , Keomee High-school, J. W. Bowman, Princi- Asheville Station, C. T. Carroll. pal.

V. — NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE.

Held at Raleigh, N. C., December 2-8, 1874.

Bishop Marvin, President ; B. Craven, Secretary'.

T Question 1. W ho are admitted on trial? R. F. Bumpass, Jeremiah Johnson, James Answer. Joseph W. Shackford, N. M. Jur- Wilson, F. D. Swindell, E. Howland, James ney, J. F. Craven, W. S. Rone, J. T. Gibbs, J. Mahoney, R. M. Brown. 7. W. Randle, L. L. Nash. 7. Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? deacons? N. G. Whittington, J. R. Scroggs, C. A. Jesse H. Gwinn, Philip Greening, T. A. Gault, M. W. Boyles, J. M. Lumley, L. W. Coon. 3. Pigott, L. J. Holden, N. S. Norton, L. E. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Stacey, P. F. W. Stamy, W. H. Watkins, dained deacons? William H. Cuninggim, D. P. Goode, J. C. Jesse H. Gwinn, Philip Greening, T. A. Smith. 14. Coon. 3. Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected W. N. Conoly. 1. deacons? Ques. 4. are admitted into full connec- Who James B. Floyd, Brecken Dixon, Gray C. tion? Garris. 3. Jesse H. Gwinn, Philip Greening, Jonathan Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained Sandford, T. A. Coon, W. C. Norman. 5. deacons? Ques. 5. are readmitted? Who James B. Floyd, Brecken Dixon, Gray C. Smith, Jeremiah Johnson. 2. Thomas W. Garris. 3. 6. are received transfer Ques. Who by from *Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are other Conferences? elected elders? J. Carden, from Denver Conference; J. C. J. John T. Bagwell, Joseph J. Renn, A. A. Crisp, from South Carolina Conference. 2. Boshamer, L. H. Gibbons, A. M. Long, H. F. Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Wiley, Wm. B. Maness. 7. :

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Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- some out-door exercise, occasionally attended dained elders? Church, and even attempted to perform some John T. Bagwell, Joseph J. Renn, A. A. manual labor, though from the first attack he Boshamer, L. H. Gibbons, A. M. Long, H. F. was never well in body nor sound in mind. Wiley, Win, B. Maness. 7. Early in the spring of the present year his health again began to fail and his mind to give Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected way, till his body was reduced to a skeleton, elders? and his mind was almost a blank, for weeks E. J. Eudailey, W. H. Thompson, H. Farrar, and months previous to his death. With a E. D. Hoover. 4. frail frame, weak and sinking, with a clouded Ques. 15. local preachers are ordained What intellect, he lay remarkably quiet, almost as elders? helpless and unconscious as an infant, but no Farrar, John H. Wm. H. Thompson, H. murmur or complaint was ever heard to escape E. D. Hoover. 4. Anderson, his lips. On account of the state of his mind Ques. 16. Who are located this year? he could leave no dying testimony. No doubt R. S. Moran, W. R. Fergerson (at their own he is now reaping the reward of a good and request), J. W. Abernethy. 3. faithful servant. His funeral - sermon was Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? preached by his Presiding Elder, the Rev. J. J. H. Hill, W. C. Wilson. 2. S. Nelson, from Phil. i. 21, after which his mortal remains were consigned to the silence Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? of the tomb, to await the resurrection of the J. C. Thomas, J. D. Buie, John Jones, D. C. just. He leaves a wife and six children, the Johnson, B. T. Blake, J. W. Floyd, S. B. most of them small, in quite a helpless condi- Dozier, G. E. Wyche, W. F. Clegg, W. W. tion. They appeal silently, but eloquently, for Albea, W. D. Meacham, Henry Gray, C. W. comfort and support to the Church which he King, W. M. D. Moore. 14. so faithfully and efficiently served. Ques. 19. What preachers have died during the past year? Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in C. E. Land. 1. their life and official administration? Their names were called over, one bv one, Chambers Edgar Land was born, in Spar- and their characters examined and passed. tanburg, S. C., May 8, 1833, and died, in Mon- Ques. 21. What is the number of local preach- roe, N. C., Oct. 21, 1874, aged forty-one years, ers in the several circuits, stations, five months, and thirteen days. Pie made a and members profession of religion and joined the Methodist and missions of the Conference? Episcopal Church, South, in Columbia, S. C., in 1857, under the ministry of the Rev. H. C. Raleigh District.

' Parsons. He connected himself with the South White Cord Loci Carolina Conference in 1858, and was ordained Mem's. Mem's. Prs. deacon by Bishop Paine, at Columbia, S. C., Raleigh Dec. 16, 1860, and elder by Bishop Early, at 480 4 Spartanburg, S. C., Dec. 14, 1862. He was 88 370 1 • 2 an acceptable, effective, and useful itinerant 445 1 minister for thirteen years, in the following 430 2 appointments—viz.: 1859-60, Waccamaw Mis- Tar River 780 4 4 142 1 sion; 1861, Black River Mission; 1862-3-4-5, Granville. 945 2 4 Lancaster Circuit; 1866, on account of the un- 40 settled state of the country, he was left with- Henderson — 613 2 490 1 out an appointment; 1867-8, Dallas Circuit; 6 Wilson Circuit 308 3 1 1869, Rock Spring Circuit; 1870-71, Pleasant 5104 20 18 Grove Circuit. He was transferred in the ter- 1 ritory transferred from the South Carolina Conference by the General Conference of 1870, Hillsboro District.

and remained in the North Carolina Confer- Hillsboro 319 i 2 ence. In the summer of 1871 his health so Alamance 440 i i far failed that he was compelled to desist from 451 8 539 2 preaching, though he continued in charge of 388 the circuit till the close of the year. He was Deep River 510 3 0 447 1 2 placed on the superannuated list at the session Leasburg 370 of the Conference held at Charlotte in 1871. i Soon after Conference he removed, with his 141 family, to Monroe, where his health continued Flat River 592 33 2

gradually to fail till the summer of 1872, when 445G| 40 22 | he was partially paralyzed, and continued almost helpless, with his mental faculties seri- Greensboro District. ously impaired, for about twelve months. He « Greensboro 279 then gradually improved, physically and men- tally, for several months, and was able to take South Guilford 2 .

Trinity College 048 3 Carthage... 533 3 Thomasville and High Point 388 1 Jonesboro 462 1 Davidson 650 1 Buckhorn., 529 1 5 Carraway 190 Forsythe 845 5442 149 23 Winston 183 Stokes Madison 389 Wilmington District. Wentworth 550 1 Wilmington: a Front Street 323 7 Fifth Street 77 1 Topsail 334 2 Salisbury District. Kenansville 215 1 Magnolia 331 Salisbury 145 1 Clinton 476 11 3 Salisbury Circuit 6(4 2 Cokesbury 585 3 Mt. Zion 588 2 Bladen 474 3 Statesville 116 Elizabeth 387 Statesville Circuit Whiteville 496 3 1 Moeksville 972 2 Smithville 433 3 Iredell 556 1 Onslow 300 Alexander 686 1 Wilkes 348 1 4431 21 17 Mountain Mission Yadkinville 743 Mt. Airy 258 Ncivbern District. Surry 230 Goldsboro Sauratown Mission 98 201 Wilson 213 Wayne 500 Mt. Olive 434 Kinston 92 Shelby District. Snow Hill 460 Neuse Shelby Swift Creek Mission „ 140

Shelby Circuit Jones • 203 Double Shoals Lenoir 363 South Mountain Mission Newbern 257 Cherry Mount Newbem Circuit 186 Rutherfordton Beaufort 196 Columbus Mission Trent 308 Marion Straits 218 Upper Broad River Mission. Morganton 3771 3 19 Lenoir Happy Home Newton Washington District. Rock Spring Washington and South Fork Greeneville 300 3 Warrenton 47 1 Dallas Warren Lincolnton 595 1 Roanoke™ 845 7 Tarboro 136 William ston 422 3 Plymouth 131 1 Charlotte District. Columbia Bath 273 i Charlotte: Mattamuskeet 644 2 Tryon Street 370 2 Portsmouth and Ocracoke 110 1 Calvary Mission 48 1 Cape Hatteras 409 i 6 South Charlotte 475 2 2 Pineville 221 1 3912 4 23 Pleasant Grove 427 Monroe 153 1 Monroe Circuit 394 3 Recapitulation. Concord 254 Raleigh District 5104 20 18 Mount Pleasant 763 2 Hillsboro “ 4456 46 22 Albemarle 512 4 2 Greensboro “ 4648 56 22 Stanley 312 Salisbury “ 5144 12 24 Ansonville 416 4 2 Shelby “ 7052 17 39 Wadesboro 159 Charlotte “ 5143 11 16 Wadeshoro Circuit 344 1 Fayetteville “ 5442 149 23 Lilesville Circuit 295 Wilmington “ 4431 21 17 Newbern “ 3771 3 19 5143 11 16 Washington “ 3912 4 23

Fayetteville District. Total this year 49.703 339 223 Total last year 48,912 465 225 Fayetteville.. 284 .. Cumberland. 275 11 Increase 791 Robeson 790 123 Decrease 126 2

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Rockingham . 495 .. Ques. 22. How manv infants have been bap- Pedee 563 11 tizedj during thea.. year?o Uwharrie 553 |... Montgomery., 534;.. . 23 North Carolina Conference , 1874

Ques. 23. How many adults have been bap- South Guilford, Z. Rush, tized during the year? f Thomasville and High Point, P. L. Herman. 2723. \ Trinity, B. Craven. Davidson, C. H. Phillips, R. F. Bumpass. Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday- Randolph, J. F. Craven. schools? Forsythe, J. W. Lewis. 586. Winston, J. F. Heitman. is the number of Sunday- Ques. 25. What Stokes, J. R. Scroggs. school teachers? Madison, L. E. Stacy. 3395. Wentworth, W. C. Norman. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- Trinity College, B. Craven, President; V. A. school scholars? Sharpe, Agent. 24,864. Greensboro Female College, J. A. Cuning- Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the gim, Agent. superannuated preachers, and the widows and orphans of preachers? SALISBURY DISTRICT.

6 000 . $ , D. R. Bruton P. E. , Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Salisbury, L. W. Crawford. foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Salisbury Circuit, T. L. Triplett, D. P. Goode. plied? Mooresville, T. A. Coon. $4,700 26. Applied to claimants. Statesville, J. W. Wheeler. contributed for Ques. 29. What has been Statesville Circuit, J. N. Somers. missions? Mocksville, L. Shell, W. C. Wilson, Sup. $4,988 75. Iredell, M. L. Wood.

% Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of Alexander, H. F. Wiley. the Conference be held? Wilkes, J. C. Smith. At Wilmington, N. C. Yadkinville, R. T. N. Stephenson. Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed Mount Airy, S. M. Davies, this year? f Surry, W. B. Maness. \ Sauratown Mission, A. M. Long. RALEIGH DISTRICT. J. P. Moore P. E. SHELBY DISTRICT. ,

Raleigh: L. S. Burkhead, P. E. Eden ton Street, A. W. Man gum. Shelby, H. T. Hudson. Person Street, N. M. Jurney. Shelby Circuit, J. W. North, Cary Circuit, J. E. Thompson. f Double Shoals, S. D. Peeler. Rolesville, T. B. Reeks. South Mountain Mission, J. C. Crisp. Smithfield, J. P. Smoot. \ Cherry Mountain, C. A. Gault, Tar River, H. H. Gibbons. f Rutherford ton, S. Leard. Louisburg Station, F. L. Reid. Columbus Mission, N. S. Norton. Granville, J. R. Griffith. \ Marion, J. T. Harris. Henderson, A. A. Boshamer. Upper Broad River Mission, N. G. Whit- Nashville and Rocky Mount, L. J. Holden. tington. Youngville, M. J. Hunt. Morganton, J. S. Ervin. Editor of Raleigh Christian Advocate J. B. , Lenoir, G. W. Ivey. Bobbitt. Happy Home, J. C. Hartsell. Newton, D. May. HILLSBORO DISTRICT. Rock Spring, J. W. Puett. L. L. Hendren P. E. South Fork, C. M. Anderson. , Dallas, P. F. W. Stamy. Hillsboro, H. P. Cole. Lincolnton, R. G. Barrett. Alamance, R. S. Webb. Davenport Female College, W. M. Robey Chapel Hill and Haw River, H. Moore. W. President.

. Pittsboro, C. C. Dodson. Yanceyville, John Tillett. Deep River, T. C. Moses. CHARLOTTE DISTRICT. Leasburg, J. W. Jenkins. J. S. Nelson P. E. , Person, W. M. Jordan. Charlotte:

Durham, J. J. Renn. f Tryon Street, P. J. Caraway. Flat River, T. J. Gattis. \ Calvary Mission, W. S. Haltom. South Charlotte, P. Greening. GREENSBORO DISTRICT. Pineville, W. D. Lee. Pleasant Grove, T. H. Edwards. N. H. D. Wilson P. E. , Monroe, C. M. Pepper. Greensboro, W. H. Bobbitt. Monroe Circuit, M. W. Boyles. North Guilford, S. H. Helsabeck. Concord, O. J. Brent. 24 South Carolina Conference . , 1874

Concord Circuit, M. C. Thomas. Onslo.w, L. W. Pigott. Mount Pleasant, M. V. Sherrill. Church of the Strangers, New York. C. F. Albemarle, T. P. Ricaud. Deems. Stanley, E. Howland. Ansonville, A. D. Betts. Wadesboro, B. B. Culbreth. NEWBERN DISTRICT. V adesboro Circuit, J. H. Gwinn. E. A. Yates P. E. Lilesville, M. H. Hoyle. , Goldsboro, J. R. Brooks. Wilson, F. H. Wood. FAYETTEVILLE DISTRICT. Wayne, R. A. Willis. S. D. Adams P. Mount Olive, R. , E. P. Bibb. Kinston, James Fayetteville, E. W. Thompson. Wilson. Snow Hill, J. P Simpson, Cumberland, I. W. Avent. f Neuse, J. J. Carden. Robeson, I. T. Wycbe. Swift Creek Mission, Laurinburg, T. W. Guthrie. I W. H. Cuninggim. Jones, N. A. Hooker. Rockingham, Joseph Wheeler. Lenoir, J. N. Pedee, T. A. Boone. Andrews. Newbern, C Gannon. Uwharrie, Gaston Farrar. W. Craven, D. Culbreth. Montgomery, I. F. Keerans. Beaufort, J. H. Carthage, L. H. Gibbons. Wheeler. Carteret, J. Mahoney. Jonesboro, B. C. Phillips. Straits, to be supplied (by G. Buckhorn, W. S. Chaffin. W. Hardison).

WILMINGTON DISTRICT. WASHINGTON DISTRICT. W. S. Black, P. E. W. Closs, P. E. Wilmington: Washington and Greeneville, A. R. Raven, W. Front Street, J. E. Mann. H. Call. Fifth Street, J. T. Gibbs. Warrenton, J. W. Shackford. Topsail, R. M. Brown. Warren, S. V. Hoyle. Kenansville, Joseph B. Martin. Roanoke, R. O. Burton. Magnolia, J. W. Randall. Tarboro, F. D. Swindell. Cape Fear Mission, to be supplied. Williamston, J. Johnson. Clinton, J. B. Alford. Plymouth and Jamesville, S. Roan. Cokesbury, W. T. W. Smith. Columbia, W. H. Watkins. Bladen, J. Sandford. Bath, L. L. Nash. Elizabeth, J. T. Bagwell. Mattamuskeet, Miles Foy, I. H. Hill, Sup. Whitesville, J. B. Bailey. Portsmouth and Ocracoke, J. M. Lumley. Smithville, T. P. England. Cape Hatteras, to be supplied (by B. Dixon)

VI.—SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE. Held at Greenville, S. C., December 16-22, 1874.

Bishop Marvin, President; William C. Power, Secretary.

Question L Who are admitted T on trial? Ques. 3. W ho are discontinued? Answer. John Lemacks Stokes, Felix Har- None. tin, William W. Williams, Murdoch M. Fer- Ques. guson, Anderson W. Jackson, James W. Woll- 4. Who are admitted into full connection? ing, Oliver Nelson Rountree, Jephtha Cal- William A. Rogers, Coke houn Counts, Edward M. Merritt, Junius J. D. Mann, J. Wal- ter Dickson, George Neville, William Hamilton Ariail, Samuel D. H. Pooser, Robert W. Barber, Vaughan. 12. James C. Davis, A. Coke Smith, A R. Danner. 8. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? T S. Ques. 5. ho W. F. Wightman, Edgar L. Archer, J. Q. W are readmitted? Stockman, James F. G. W. Walker, M. H. Pooser, W. J. Smith, T. Sumter Daniel. 2. Whitman, H. F. Chrietzberg, W. H. Kirton, Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from C. D. Rowell, LeRoy F. Beaty, John 0. Will- other Conferences? son, James C. Bissell, John E. Carlisle. 13. None. South Carolina Conference, 1874 . 25

in co., near Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Carolina, and located Beaufort D. D. Dantzler, Dove Tiller, J. K. McCain, where the village of Yarnsville now stands; Carolina J. B. Willson, C. C. Fishburne. 5. was received on trial into the South Conference Dec., 1872. The first year he was Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected assigned to Westfield Creek Mission, where he deacons? labored with remarkable success, and endeared W. S. F. Wightman, Edgar L. Archer, J. Q. himself to a large circle of friends. His sec- Stockman, George W. Walker, W. A. Rogers, ond and last year he was assigned to Conwa}’- C. D. Mann, J. Walter Dickson, R. W. Bar- boro and Bucksville, where he labored with a ber, J. C. Davis, A. Coke Smith. 10. popularity and success unprecedented in that traveling preachers are or- Ques. 9. What work until he was stricken down by fever, sup- dained deacons? posed to have been induced by fatigue and ex- L. Archer, J. W. S. F. Wightman, Edgar Q. posure. Unable to provide a horse, he walked A. Rogers, Stockman, George W. Walker, W. to his appointments, when he could not pro- Dickson, R. Bar- C. D. Mann, J. Walter W. cure conveyance. Domestic aflliction, the care Smith. 10. ber, J. C. Davis, A. Coke of the Churches, lack of transportation in an Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected enervating climate, taxed his feeble frame be- deacons? yond its power of endurance, and he fell a John C. C. Brandon, John H. Turner, Simeon martyr to his work in Conwayboro, S. C., Aug. Campbell, H. F. Chrietzberg. 4. 27, 1874. From his youth he was a thorough Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained student. He avoided synoptical works and deacons? sought exhaustive ones. With becoming mod- John H. Turner, H. F. Chrietzberg. 2. esty, he was an independent thinker. He assidu- ously used all the means in his reach to improve Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are and store his mind; even while in the army plpplprl plrlprQ? he continued his studies with systematic regard George M. Boyd, R. Toland Hodges, R. N. to the curriculum of Wofford College. The Wells, George W. Gatlin, A. G. Gault. 5. issue of the war forced him to abandon the traveling preachers are or- Ques. 13. What idea of a collegiate training, but he did not dained elders? consent to give up his noble aspirations. He Hodges, R. N. George M. Boyd, E. Toland turned his attention to the study of medicine, Gatlin, G. Gault. 5. Wells, George W. A. without a dollar to assist him; he succeeded. Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected When yet the early dew of youth was upon elders? his brow, he won golden opinions for his McKenzie Mazingo, Samuel B. Hutchings. 2. knowledge and skill in medicine and surgery. Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained Called of God to preach the gospel, and con- elders? vinced of the duty, he yielded all hope of McKenzie Mazingo. 1. earthly emolument without regret. From the first he was imbued with the missionary spirit. Ques. 16. Who are located this year? Only by the earnest entreaty of his mother, R. B. Tarrant, C. Y. Barnes, H. W. Whita- who sought the influence of Bishop Paine, was ker. 3. he deterred from going to a Western field; he, supernumerary? Ques. 17. Who are however, concluded to put himself at the dis- R. D. Smart, W. H. Lawton, J. A. Wood, F. posal of the Missionary Board at the close of M. Morgan, J. R. Little. 5. the present year. He possessed a moral mag- Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? netism that was almost irresistible; he drew R. R. Pegues, M. A. Connolly, J. W. Town- men to him, and molded their opinions, seem- send, David Derrick, A. McCorquodale, W. C. ingly without an effort. A prominent gen- Patterson, John Watts, Lewis Scarboro, E. J. tleman said of him: : ‘He could make men Pennington, D. D. Byers, Simpson Jones, D. willingly do more than any man I have ever W. Seale. 12. known.” His piety was deep, his preaching Ques. 19. What preachers have died during clear and persuasive. He preached as one the past year? having authority—with the spirit of his Heav- enly M. Y. Wood, S. B. Green, C. H. Pritchard, Master. The closing scene of his bright life jr. 3. and happy was glorious. At times the room seemed to be flaming with the glory of Malcolm Yesuvius Wood, son of the Rev. the Divine presence, and even the most heavily Landy and Mrs. A. E. Wood, of the South smitten forgot to grieve, and burst forth in Carolina Conference, was born, in Greenville, loud shouts of praise. Of this chastening of S. C., Feb. 12, 1846; was baptized by the Rev. the Lord he said, “I am anxious he should John A. Porter, Rutherford, N. C., July, consume the dross—all of it.” When asked if 1848; was converted under his father’s minis- he was prepared for the worst that might be try and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, feared, he replied: “I suppose so. I have tried South, in Lincolnton, N. C., April 1856; to examine my position as well as I can de- 27, ; was graduated at the Charleston Medical Col- termine, it is all right. Jesus is all; he is all- lege March, 1867; was married to Miss Re- sufficient.” On the morning of the day before becca A. Yarn Dec. 31, 1868, and removed to his death he said to the physician, “ Doctor, Union co., Arlc.; in 1871 he returned to South tell me just where I am now.” The doctor 26 South Carolina Conference, 1874 . replied, “Brother Wood, it is my painful duty he said, “I shall soon go now.” Settled down to inform you that you have but a short time into a holy calm, with eyes fixed, he seemed to live.” “Then,” said he, “call my father lost to all around; but when asked, “Do you and mother, that I may see them alone; after- know the Lord Jesus Christ?” he promptly ward, let me see my wife, my dear Anna, replied, “O yes; he is my Saviour.” His last alone.” These interviews were short. The articulation was to the ear of his mother, doctor, who was also a steward of the church, heard by others, also. She said, “ My son, my was recalled, and given minute instructions dear son, shall I never hear you speak again? ’ about the finances of the Church. He gave Can you not say, ‘ Ma? ” He responded, directions concerning his burial, and said, “I faintly, “Ma! Anna! Mu! Anna!” Mother believe I am the first pastor to die here, and, and wife were the last earthly names pro- if you please, I should like to be buried just nounced, and he then passed over to the disem- behind the pulpit.” He then desired to see bodied saints, who wait beyond the river. His one of his brethren, and asked that he be sent body was laid away, amid the sincere grief of for, and that he be requested to preach his the community, in the rear of the pulpit of the funeral-sermon and lay his body away. He church in Con way boro, S. C. pronounced solemn and affectionate blessings upon his wife and children, each separately, Henry Bass Green, son of Glenn and “in the name of the Father, and of the Son, Mary Green, was born, in Colleton co., S. C., in and of the Holy Ghost.” He also earnestly 1844, of pious parents, who dedicated him to the invoked the Divine blessing upon his father, Lord by baptism in his early infancy. He was mother, and absent sister. While blessing his remarkable for a kind and noble spirit from elder son, he prayed if it please the Lord to his early childhood to mature manhood. Truth, make him a minister of the gospel. He asked justice, and honor were prominent traits in his his wife, “What message shall I carry to An- character through life, and were shown in all nie Laurie (their little girl gone before) for his intercourse and dealings with others. When you?” He sent messages to each of the the war came on, and his country was invaded, Churches under his charge. He charged his he felt, though a youth, that justice and honor father to say to his classmates in Conference: required that he should bear his part in her “Green has gone ahead; I am on the way, and defense. In accordance with this conviction, shall soon be at home. Be faithful—make full he joined the Confederate army at the age of proof of your ministry; meet me in heaven.” about eighteen years, and passed through all He began to sing, “How firm a foundation, ye the trials and hardships of camp-life without a saints of the Lord.” His voice failed on the blot upon his moral character. Such were his second stanza. He then said,“0 sing to me activity, fidelity, and endurance as a soldier, of heaven.” He joyously assisted his father his adherence to right principles under the in singing, “Jesus, I love thy charming name,” most trying circumstances, and his bearing to- dwelling with exultation upon the last stanza, ward his fellow-soldiers, that he endeared “I’ll speak the honors of thy name.” With himself to all who knew him. After the war great rapture, assisted by Brother Walsh, he closed he entered upon mercantile life near sang, “Nearer, my God, to thee.” A little Savannah, Ga. Such were his diligence and later his father said he could add nothing to fairness in dealing, together with his kind and his comfort, as he was passing through the social spirit, that prosperity smiled upon him. dark valley. He replied, “No, pa, it is not He seemed evidently on the highway to wealth. dark here; only the dim shadow of death lies At no great distance in the future arose before across my pathway. The valley is all lit up him encouraging prospects of wealth and hap- with the presence of Jesus.” Gathering him- piness; but in all these he thought only of this self up in bed, he exclaimed, in tones of tri- world and the life that now is. At a meeting umph, “0 death, where is thy sting? O grave, held at Salem Church, on the Walterboro Cir- where is thy victory? Thanks be unto God, cuit, in 1869, by Drs. Williams, Pierce, and who giveth me the victory, through our Lord others, he was awakened to see and feel that Jesus Christ.” Observing that his hands and he was a sinner, guilty and condemned. Ho feet were growing colder, and his breathing at once made up his mind to seek the Lord in more labored, he said, “1 am now entering the the pardon of his sins, and, with characteristic waters.” A little later, “The waters are to earnestness and perseverance, he became a sin- the ankles.” Still later, “Now it is knee-deep.” cere penitent. A short time after this, near Another pause, “The water is deeper—to the the home of his mother on Salkahatchee River, loins, now.” Another pause, “There is light in the house of Brother William Hains, he ahead, and Jesus is with me.” Another and found peace in believing. Immediately after longer pause, then in a whisper, “Nearer, his conversion he began to exert his influence my God, nearer.” Then suddenly, in an in- for the conversion of others. He talked of creasingly louder tone, “Higher! Higher! Christ and his religion to all he came in con- HIGHER!” These words he evidently ex- tact with, held prayer-meetings, and exhorted pected to be his last, and so did his weeping sinners at all times and places to seek the friends; but he again rallied, and when some Lord. He felt deeply impressed that it was one suggested that he might recover, he said, his duty to preach the gospel; but, feeling in- “No, this is only the momentary glow of an competent and unworthy of so high a calling, expiring taper.” When he began to sink again he refused to yield, and lost his peace. In this — ,

South Carolina Conference 1874 . 27 state of mind he continued for some weeks, to sink. His colleague visited him a few days greatly distressed. While riding on the cars before his death, and found him up, going on a certain day he became suddenly and aw- about the house, and cheerful. He asked his fully impressed that, unless he yielded at once colleague how long it would be before he could and consented to preach the gospel, he would be at his work again; and when the opinion meet an untimely end and be lost. This sud- was expressed that his work was done, he den impression threw him into the deepest smiled, and said: “Well, I am perfectly indif- agony of spirit. He prayed and wept as the ferent as to what the Lord may do with me; I train moved rapidly on. After riding several am perfectly resigned to his will. If I live, I miles in this state of mind he yielded, and will work for him; if I die, I will go and live gave himself, soul and body, to the Lord, to do with him in heaven. There is not a cloud be- and suffer whatever the Lord might require of tween me and my God. I have often heard him. Having thus fully and unreservedly of dying regrets; I know nothing about them consecrated himself to the Lord, the burden —I have none. From the time I was con- was removed, and a feeling of joy unspeakable verted till now, I have done all I could do for and full of glory filled his soul, and he went the Lord, and done it as well as I knew how. on rejoicing. He applied for license to preach, As for my sins, they are all pardoned and gone, which was granted by the Third Quarterly and I have nothing more to do with them; it Conference of the Walterboro Circuit, held at is my business to leave them behind and press Mt. Carmel Camp-ground in Oct., 1869. Feel- onward. No, sir, I have no dying regrets. ing himself now fully committed to the work When the memorial-service comes up at the of the ministry, and fearing his temporal busi- next Conference the name of H. B. Green will ness might prove a hinderance or a snare, he be announced. Tell my brethren I fell at sold his possessions, that he might devote him- my post, with the harness on, and my face to self entirely to the study of the Scriptures and the foe; meet me in heaven.” He sank rapidly. the work of the ministry. In Dec., 1869, he The day he died he suffered much. He gave was happily married to Miss Ellen Solomons, directions to his wife and mother concerning of Beaufort co., S. C., a most estimable woman, his affairs and his burial. After his attendants who, to him, was truly a helpmeet. In 1872 had given him his last dose, which he swal- he was employed by the Presiding Elder of the lowed with difficulty, as they were laying him Charleston District as a supply on the Walter- down on his pillow, he said, “ Lord Jesus, re- boro Circuit, as a junior preacher. He entered ceive my spirit,” and expired, July 31, 1874. upon the work in the spirit of the Master Thus passed away our beloved brother and full of zeal and the Holy Ghost. He did his fellow-laborer, Henry Bass Green, full of faith work faithfully, acceptably, and successfully. and the Holy Ghost. May our last end be in In Dec., 1872, he was received on trial into the peace, like his! South Carolina Conference, and appointed junior on the Walterboro Circuit by special re- Claudius H. Pritchard, jr., son of the Rev. quest. During this Conference-year he studied C. H. and Mrs. Mary B. Pritchard, was born, in hard, worked faithfully, and won many souls Fayetteville, N. C., Aug. 23, 1850; joined the to Christ and many friends to himself. In Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Cam- Dec., 1873, he was reappointed to the Walter- den, S. C., in 1866; was licensed to preach boro Circuit, as junior preacher, at the earnest while a student at Wofford College, in 1873, request of the officers and members of the cir- by the Quarterly Conference in Spartanburg; cuit. He entered in due time upon the labors was admitted on trial in the South Carolina of this Conference-year in excellent health, in Conference in Dec., 1873, and appointed as the full vigor of manhood, and in the spirit of junior preacher on Cokesbury Circuit. Ho a man of God. As a student he applied him- equipped himself much after the olden style, self with all diligence to the study of the and, with his whole heart in the work, was at Scriptures and his course of studies for the his post a few days in advance of the first ap- year. Whenever he was not engaged in his pointment. He had not completed the first ministerial work he was constantly engaged round on his circuit, when he was stricken with his books. As a laborer he was ever with paralysis; and, after six days of intense about his Master’s work; the burden of souls suffering, he died at the house of his colleague, was upon him. In the pulpit, in the family, the Rev. S. P. H. El well, in Greenwood, S. C., by the wayside—everywhere—he was at work Jan. 20, 1874, aged twenty-three years, four for the Master. He would alight from his months, and twenty-seven days. His remains horse and pray for sinners in the public road, were carried by his parents to Greenville, and in by-ways—anywhere. He visited from house there interred. While successfully engaged in to house, and inquired of all — parents, chil- the practice of dentistry, for which he had pre- dren, and company—as to their state in grace pared himself under the eminent Drs. Rey- and hope of heaven. He professed entire nolds, of Columbia, Dr. Pritchard felt it his sanctification, and urged all to seek earnestly duty to enter the itinerancy. With character- the same blessing. In June his health began istic promptitude, he turned from the promis- to fail. Though he was not able to preach, he ing future of a skillful and respected dentist was not thought to be dangerously ill. His to embrace the probable toils and cares of the physician thought a little rest and a little med- itinerant ministry. He very soon endeared icine would soon restore him; but he continued himself to those whom he was appointed t*> ,

28 South Carolina Conference 1874 . serve, and gave satisfactory evidences of ac- Charleston District ( continued). ceptability and usefulness. His early release from the Christian warfare is a providence White Cold I.oc'l Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. hard to he understood, but one doubtless for which the ardent young soldier was prepared. Bamberg Circuit 327 2 Walterboro Circuit 626 186 2 The nature of his affliction prevented his talk- Colleton Circuit 557 3 1 ing much. In great suffering he said, “If it Allendale Circuit 311 were not for the help of the Lord I could not Black Swamp Circuit 150 2 1 !” Yemassee Circuit 192 1 stand it.” “ What a blessed privilege is prayer Hardeeville Mission 61 When near his end, he said to his father and mother: “You have done much for me, and -5017 314 19 feel a great interest in me, but if my Heavenly Father had not done more for me it would be Orangelurg District. bad for me.” After he died there was found Orangeburg Station 142 1 in his pocket a folded piece of paper with Eastern Orange Circuit 260 2 these words written: “Cast thy burden upon Branchville Circuit 246 Providence Circuit the Lord, and he shall sustain thee.” To the 450 6 1 St. Matthew’s Circuit 276 sorrowing and burdened hearts these words Upper St. Matthew’s Circuit 205 seemed to be a message from the departed Upper Orange Circuit 406 2 Edlsto Circuit loved one, as well as from God. While there 526 2 1 Upper Edisto Mission 8 6 is great consolation in reflecting on his pure Graham Circuit 289 1 and devoted life, and in the assurance that he Williston Circuit 221 2 Ellington Circuit now sleeps in Jesus, the sudden removal of 12 Aiken Mission 28 i this young servant of God from a life of Graniteville and Langley Mission 190 2 l prospective usefulness in the world was a severe and unexpected blow on fond and hoping 3259 17 li hearts. As the results of his early training, on the threshold of manhood he evinced a Columbia District. maturity of riper years. Among the promi- Columbia: nent traits of his character were integrity and Washington Street 315 Marion Street a marked devotion to whatsoever things are 245 3 Columbia Circuit 476 true and pure. The appearance, at times, of Richland Fork Circuit 395 great frankness was but a sign of his abiding Winnsboro and Ridgewav 74 1 Blackstock Circuit.^. .*. 113 3 sympathy with, and jealousy for, the right and Fairfield Circuit 488 3 the good, in whatever association they might East Chester Circuit 419 1 be found. He was warm and constant as a Chester Circuit 497 Rock Hill Circuit 283 friend, and gained the affections of others as Yorkville Station 167 he was more fully known. It was the priv- York Circuit 208 ilege of comparatively few to know his worth Lexington Circuit 485 2 500 before he was taken away; and, now that we 3 Edgefield Circuit 203 1 see him no more, the recollections of dear “ Claud” are more precious even as we approx- 4808 6 11 imate the loss to us, but the gain to him. His memory is, to the hearts most sorely bereaved, Sumter District. what the Scriptures say of the death of the Sumter Station 184 1] saints in the sight of the Lord—“precious.” Sumter Circuit 553 1 Bishopville Circuit 478 Camden Station 93 Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in Santee Circuit 293 2 their life and official administration? Fulton Mission 62 1 Manning Circuit Their names were called over, one by one, 449 Lynchburg Circuit 418 3 and their characters examined and passed, Tlmmonsville Circuit 353 2 except J. H. C. McKinney, who was expelled. Darlington Station 104 Darlington Circuit 833 5 Ques. 21. What is the number of local preach- Cheraw Station 97 1 ers and members in the several circuits, stations, Cheraw Mission 132 2 1 Chesterfield Circuit and missions of. the Conference? 727 4 'Zoar Circuit and Mission 290 1 Lynch’s Lake Circuit 266 5 Hanging Rock Circuit 318 Charleston District. Lancaster Station 91 Belle Air Circuit 219 i White Cold Loc'l Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. 5960 8 22 Charleston: 322 1 Marion District. Bethel 293 1 319 Marion Station 268 172 Marion Circuit 596 443 123 2 Buck Swamp Circuit 686 207 4 Little Rock Circuit 766 404 2 Bennett-sville 1060 116 North Marlboro 326

St. George’s Circuit 508 2 Florence and Liberty Chapel .. 145 1 :

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Ques. 23. How many adults have been bap- Marion District ( continued). tized during the vear? While Cora Loc'l Mem's. Mem's. Prs. 1697. Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday- Creek Circuit 430 Lvnch’s schools? Kingstree and Johnsonville Circuit.. 624 2 4 Gourdin and Sampit 490 2 447. 174 is the number of Sunday- Conwayboro and Bucksville 168 Ques. 25. What Conwayboro Circuit 778 2 4 school teachers? Waecamaw Circuit and Mission 273 2 2763. 6784 5 27 Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- school scholars? Spartanburg District. 17,864. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the Spartanburg Station . 370] 6 Spartanburg Circuit 215 superannuated preachers, and the widows and 470 Cherokee Circuit j orphans of preachers? 545, 2 Rich Hill Circuit $6,944 45. Pacolet Circuit.... 296 60 Fair Forest Circuit 478 6 1 Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Unionville Station 81 foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Goshen Hill Circuit 140 1 Belmont Circuit 399 plied? Cane Creek Circuit 241 Collected, $5,415 30. Disbursed among the Circuit 225; Clinton ^ claimants, according to their respective neces- Laurens Circuit 682 o sities. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for missions. Cokesbury District. $5,167 48. Cokesbury Station 156 1 Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of Cokesbury Circuit 479 1 the Conference be held? Abbeville Station 94 Abbeville Circuit 400 At Orangeburg, S. C. South Abbeville Circuit 759 • 3 Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed Lowndesville Station 264 Tumbling Shoals Circuit 363 1 this year? Greenwood Circuit 403 Newberry Station 130 1

698 i 3 DISTRICT. Newberry Circuit j CHARLESTON Lit5.e Saluda Circuit 383 2 Wm. P. Mouzon P. E. , Charleston Trinity, G. H. Wells, R. D. Smart, Sup. Greenville District. Bethel, J. T. Wightman. Spring Street, W. T. Capers. Greenville Station 207 Summerville Circuit, D. J. Simmons. Greenville Circuit 485 Reidville Circuit 657 Berkeley Circuit, S. D. Vaughan. Buena Vista and Batesville 224 Santee Mission, A. G. Gault. 97 Williamston Station Mission, Bird, Brushy Creek and Belton 294 { Cooper River IJ. S. Anderson Station 113 f Cypress Circuit, J. H. Zimmerman. Anderson Circuit and Mission 372 \ St. Paul's Mission, A. Nettles. Pendleton Circuit 819 Circuit, A. Clarke. Pickensville Circuit 533 St. George’s W. Walhalla Circuit 375 Bamberg Circuit, P. F. Kistler. Cheohee Mission 275 Colleton Circuit, T. Raysor, O. N. Rountree. Seneca Circuit and Mission 346 W’alterboro Circuit, J. L. Sifley. 4797 3 14 Allendale Circuit, T. E. Wannamaker. Black Swamp Circuit, J. W. Humbert. Recapitulation. Yemassee Circuit, G. H. Pooser. Hardeeville Mission, J. R. Coburn. Charleston District 5017 314 19 Orangeburg “ 3259 17 11 Columbia “ 4868 6 11 ORANGEBURG DISTRICT. Sumter “ 5960 8 22 “ 6784 5 27 Wm. Martin P. E. Marion , Spartanburg “ 4140 66 13 Cokesbury “ 4129 12 Orangeburg Station, J. B. Campbell. “ 14 Greenville 4797 3 Orangeburg Circuit, D. D. Dantzler.

Total this year 38,954 419 129i Branchville Circuit, J. W. McRoy. Total last year 36,432 645 1181 Providence Circuit, Wm. Hutto. St. Matthew’s Circuit, T. J. Clyde. Increase 2522 11 Decrease 226 Upper St. Matthew’s Circuit, B. G. Jones. Upper Orange Circuit, A. R. Danner. Ques. 22. How many infants have been bap- Edisto Circuit, M. L. Banks. tized during the year?' Upper Edisto Mission, to be suppbod (by E 1775. { A. Price). 30 South Carolina Conference, 1874 .

Graham Circuit, A. J. Cawthen. Kingstree Circuit, J. J. Workman. Williston Circuit, J. B. Massabeau. Johnsonville Circuit, C. C. Fishburne. Ellenton Circuit, J. C. Bissell. Gourdin and Sampit Circuit and Mission, H. J. Aiken Mission, S. H. Browne. Morgan. Granileville and Langley Mission, L. C. Loyal. Georgetown Station, L. Wood. Waccamaw Circuit and Mission, W. H. Kir- COLUMBIA DISTRICT. ton. f Bucksville, Wm. Thomas. Wm. H. Fleming P. E. , \ Con way boro, D. Tiller. Columbia: Conwayboro Circuit and Mission, Wm. Car- Washington Street, A. C«>ke Smith, son, one to be supplied. Marion f Street, W. D. Kirkland. Marion Circuit, R. N. Wells. \ City Mission, A. W. Walker. Columbia Circuit, E. L. King. SPARTANBURG DISTRICT. Richland Fork Circuit, C. D. Rowell. H. M. Mood P. E. Winnsboro and Ridgeway, A. J. Stafford. , Blackstock Circuit and Mission, J. J. Neville. Spartanburg Station, J. A. Porter. Fairfield Circuit, J. M. Boyd. Spantanburg Circuit, Felix Hartin. East Chester Circuit, J. W. Kelly. Cherokee Circuit, J. F. Smith. Chester Circuit, Thos. Mitchell, G. W. Walker. Rich Hill Circuit, A. P. Avant. Rock Hill Circuit, T. W. Munnerlyn. Pacolet Circuit, I. J. Newberry. f Yorkville Station, J. W. Dickson. Fair Forest Circuit, J. B. Willson. York Circuit, L. \ A. Johnson. Unionville Station, A. H. Lester. Lexington Circuit, G. Gatlin. W. Goshen Hill Circuit, J. E. Watson. Leesville Circuit, J. A. Clifton. Belmont Circuit, M. A. McKibben. Edgefield Circuit, G. F. Round. Cane Creek Circuit, J. C. Miller. Columbia Female College, S. B. Jones, Presi- Clinton Circuit, G. M. Boyd. dent. Laurens Circuit, J. B. Tray wick, W. H. Ariail. W'offnrd College, A. M. Shipp, President; W. SUMTER DISTRICT. Smith, Professor; H. A. C. Walker, Finan- A. M. Chrietzberg P. E. cial , Secretary. Editor of Southern Christian Advocate F. M. Sumter Station, F. Auld. , Kennedy. Sumter Circuit, L. M. Little, W. A. Rogers. Carolina Orphans’ Home, R. C. Oliver, Bishopville Circuit, S. J. Hill. Super intendent. f Camden, H. F. Chrietzberg. \ Kershaw Mission, E. M. Merritt. Santee Circuit and Mission, J. L. Shuford, M. COKESBURY DISTRICT. M. Ferguson. Manning Brown P. E. , Manning Circuit, J. B. Platte. Cokesbury Station, R. Barber. Lynchburg Circuit, W. J. Whitman. W. Cokesbury Circuit, Timmonsville, W. L. Pegues. S. P. H. El well. Abbeville Station, J. A. Mood. Darlington Station, J. O. Willson. Abbeville Circuit, T. Daniel, Darlington Circuit, L. M. Hamer, W. W. Wil- S. C. D. Mann. liams. South Abbeville Circuit, J. C. Counts. North Edgefield Circuit, Cheraw Station, J. E. Carlisle. G. W. M. Creighton. Lowndesville Station, C. H. Pritchard. J Chesterfield Circuit. J. C. Russell. Tumbling Shoals Circuit, N. R. Melton. I Zoar Circuit and Mission, A. Ervine. Greenwood Circuit, J. Murray, Hanging Rock Circuit, D. J. McMillan. W. W. S. F. Wightman, W. H. Lawton, Sup. / Lancaster Station, R. L. Harper. Newberry Station, R. P. Franks. \ Belle Air Circuit, J. F. England. Newberry Circuit, T. G. Herbert, L. F. Beaty. Little Saluda Circuit, M. H. Pooser. MARION DISTRICT. C. GREENVILLE DISTRICT. W. Power, P. E. 0. A. Darby P. E. Marion Station, A. J. Stokes. , Buck Swamp Circuit, W. W. Jones, one to be Greenville Station, E. J. Meynardie. supplied. Greenville City and Marietta Mission, J. C. Little Rock Circuit, J. C. Stoll, James W. Davis. Wolling, J. R. Little, Sup. Greenville Circuit, R. R. Dagnall. South Marlboro Circuit, J. T. Kilgo. Reidville Circuit, J. K. McCain. Bennettsville Circuit, J. M. Carlisle, J. L. Welford Circuit, J. A. Wood, Sup. Stokes. Fork Shoal Circuit, J. Attaway. North Marlboro Circuit, E. T. Hodges. Williamston Station, S. A. Weber. Florence and Liberty Chapel, G. T. Harmon, Brushy Creek Circuit, Wm. Bowman. f Lvnch’s Creek Circuit and Mission, R. L. Anderson Station, W. W. Mood. 4 Duffie. Anderson Circuit, W. A. Hodges. I Lvnch’s Lake Circuit, J. S. Beasley. Pendleton Circuit, J. Finger. . North Georgia Conference , 1874

Lander, Pres- Pickensville Circuit, J. Q. Stockman. "WiHiamston Female College, S. Pickens Mission, to be supplied (by T. P. Phil- ident. ips). Walhalla Circuit, E. L. Archer, F. M. Morgan, G. J. Griffeths transferred to South Georgia Sup. Conference. Cheohee Mission, A. W. Jackson. Con- Seneca Circuit and Mission, to be supplied (by J. W. Crider transferred to Virginia F. Smith). ference.

VII.— NORTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE.

Held at Cartersville, Ga., December 2-7, 1874.

Bishop Wightman, President; J. W. Heidt, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Answer. James E. England, Jesse I. Harris, deacons? Charles L. Pattillo, Thos. J. Edwards, Wm. H. Ism a W. Thomas, R. Campbell, J. M. Bishop, Trammell, Jas. W. Lee, Urban W. Norton, G. T. King, W. H. Tigner, J. Cohron, A. S. Franklin M. T. Brannon, Edward A. Gray, Smith, G. M. Robinson, A. G. Banks, A. Thos.’R. Kendall. 10. Johnston, J. B. Britton. 11. W. D. Owen recognized. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Ques. 11. local preachers are ordained W. T. Laine, T. J. Adams, G. W. Thomas, What deacons? J. W. G. Watkins, W. L. Wootten, W. H. L. Campbell, Speer, C. E. Dowman, W. L. Yarbrough, J. Isma W. Thomas, Robert J. Cohron, A. S. Smith, G. M. Robinson, J. B. W. Bentley, W. R. Foote, jr., J. D. Gray, G. Britton, T. Rodgers (elected 7. E. Bonner, W.W. Lampkin, S. A. Mitchell. 14. J. 1873). Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? plppfpfl pldpUQ? W. 0. Butler, J. F. Jones. 2. W. M. LaPrade, J. B. McFarland, W. R. Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- Branham, jr., J. N. Myers, J. S. Bryan. 5. tion? Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- C. C. Cary, Eli Smith, M. L. Underwood, dained elders? B. F. Fariss, J. H. Mashburn, jr., W. H. J. B. McFarland, W. R. Branham, jr., J. N. LaPrade, S. P. Jones, J. T. Richardson, Wil* MyerSj J. S. Bryan, W. H. LaPrade. 5. liam P. Smith. 9. Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? elders? None. R. A. Eakes, B. W. Allison, T. Turner, W. Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from E. Jones, W. «T. Roladar, C. C. Davis. 6. An- other Conferences? thony Smith recognized. W. E. Shackleford, Isaac G. Parks, J. F. Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained Mixon, F. Lewis, H. H. Parks, T. W. John elders? Richardson, Miller H. White. 7. Thomas Turner, William J. Roladar, Chris- Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? topher C. Davis, Franklin M. T. Brannon J. S. Embry, J. R. Pate, J. M. Parker, H. C. (elected 1873). 4. Christian, R. P. Martyn, G. W. Hardaway. 6. Ques. 16. Who are located this year? Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected T. H. Gibson, B. W. Williams. 2. deacons? Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? J. D. Gray, C. C. Cary, Eli Smith, J. H. Ebenezer G. Murrah, John S. Norris, Robert Mashburn, jr., W. P. Smith, J. T. Richardson, A. Seale, John P. Howell, Peter A. Heard, M. L. Underwood, S. P. Jones. 8. Alexander Means, John M. Lowery, Joshua M. Parker, P. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Robert Martyn, E. K. Aiken. 10. dained deacons? Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? J. D. Gray, C. C. Cary, Eli Smith, J. H. Jesse W. Carroll, Robert A. Conner, Henry Mashburn, jr., W. P. Smith, J. T. Richardson, Cranford, Andrew J. Deavors, John M. Bright, M. L. Underwood, S. P. Jones. 8. James M. Armstrong, John P. Duncan, Mil- : j

North Georgia . 32 Conference , 1874 ford G. Hamby, Samuel J. Bellab, John B. C. Gainesville District. Quillian, Goodman Hughes, Morgan Bellah, Claiborne Trussell, John W. Knight, Noah White Cora I.oc'1 Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. H. Palmer, William Af. Florence, Miles W. Arnold, M. H. White, K. J. Harwell. 19. Dahlonega 164 3 Porter Springs Mission 173 Ques. 19. What preachers have died during Dawson ville 415 7 the past year? Gumming 460 4| 8 461 1 None. Canton 692 8 Cherokee 496 2 Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in 731 9 their life and official administration? 343 3 Their names were called over, one by one, Morganton 109 1 Gainesville Circuit 415 4 and their characters examined and passed. 252 3 Geo. R. Kramer withdrawn. Hall 436 5 Lawrenceville 475 2 Ques. 21. "What is the number of local preach- Logansville 164 1 ers and members in the several circuits, stations, Duluth 260 4 Ellijay 262 3 and missions of the Conference? Jasper 541 5

6840 | 69 Augusta District.

White Col'd Loc'l Rome District. Mem's. Mem’s. Pr's. 336 4 Augusta Rome Circuit 361 1 St. John’s .... 308 3 9 5 City Mission. 119 2 St. James’s .. 604 1 550 4 Asbury 545 1 213 4 4 Richmond 501 3 305 1 Belair Mission. 197 1 630 6 Appling 286 1 173 1 2 Thomson 355 3 242 5 Warrenton 740 7 260 1 Sparta 207 212 3 Hancock 596 1 498 10 Crawfordville.. 273 1 642 7 Milledgeville... 246 400 4 Baldwin 210 324 2 501 2 5068 22 6322 7 63

Athens District. Dalton District. Athens: Athens Station... 348 4 Dalton 221 4 Oconee Street .... 110 Dalton Circuit 620 3 4 Factory Mission. 228 i i Ringgold 450 2 2 Watkinsville 650 4 7 Summersville 540 1 4 Madison 105 Subligna 345 2 Morgan 342 1 La Fayette 500 6 Greensboro 217 2 McLemore’s Cove 428 5 % White Plains 369 3 Spring Place 314 2 2 Lexington 162 1 Resaca 340 2 Winterville 319 3 Murray 218 3 Washington 120 3 Calhoun 500 1 Broad River 238 13 1 Kingston 618 7 Little River 211 2 Eatonton 133 4994 S, 42 | Putnam 540 3

4092 21 28 La Grange District.

La Grange 251 Elberton District. West Point 160 2 Newman 220 1 192 2 Troup 404 5 499 4 Long Cane 341 5 146 1 Whitesville 454 8 284 1 Greenville and Trinity 231 2 342 1 Chalybeate Springs 362 1 522 6 Grant vi lie 475 3 250 3 Pierce Circuit 176 1 Hogansville 370 3 335 2 Senoia 638 2 9 520 3 Palmetto and Jones’s Chapel 233 3 545 2 4 Fairburn 473 4 194 26 3 Carrollton 414 1 5 87 1 Bowden 365 5 219 1 Franklin 361 1 200 1 Heard Mission 136 1

4335 29 32 6019 | 8| 54 . North Georgia Conference , 1874

Atlanta District. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- school scholars? White Col'd Loc'l Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. 25,109.

Ques. 27. What amount is necessary .for the 508 1 superannuated preachers, and the widows and 461 5 orphans of preachers? Trinity 52o525 7 City Mission 35 $9,105. Evans and Oakland 347 St. Paul’s 257 1 Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Edgewood 740140 foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Fulton 550590 7 plied? East Point 599 3 Decatur 500 1 2 Collected, $5,540 68. Paid to claimants. Flat Shoals : 255 10 5 Norcross 467 1 Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Covington and Mount Pleasant 256 1 1 missions? 713 3 Newton* $7,994 78. Conyers 370 G Oxford and Social Circle 254 20 9 Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of Shiloh 160 1 Newborn 380 4 the Conference be held? Montieello 210 At Griffin, Ga. 133 424 3 Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed this year? 7584 32 64 *No report for 1874. Beport of 1873 inserted. AUGUSTA DISTRICT.

Griffin District. R. W. Bigham, P. E. Griffin 365 ‘ 1 Augusta: . Zebulon 495 1 f St. John’s, C. A. Evans. 684 9 Jonesboro 492 1 2 \ St. Luke’s Mission, C. W. Key. McDonough 487 1 St. James’s, H. J. Adams. Jackson 215 1 F. Hampton 217 2 Asbury, A. Kimbell. Pleasant Hill 200 Richmond, B. F. Fariss. Pike 406 4 Bel air Mission, to be supplied (by E. P. Barnesville and Salem 245 Bonner). Culloden 241 2 {

County Line .' : 233 Appling, F. P. Brown. Thom'aston 130 2 Thomson, W. P. Hamilton. Upson 457 5 Forsyth 174 Warren ton, J. Lewis, sr., G. W. Hardaway. Forsyth Circuit 300 3 Sparta, G. H. Pattillo. Clinton 166 Sparta Factory Mission, to be supplied (by Jones Mission 141 { J. Purvis). < 5648 2 32 Hancock, J. L. Pierce, J. Newell. Crawfordville, T. J. Adams. Recapitulation. Milledgeville, W. W. Wadsworth. Augusta District 5068 22 Baldwin, W. L. Yarbrough. Athens “ .. 4092 21 28 Elberton “ 4335 29 32 Gainesville “ 6849 27 69 ATHENS DISTRICT. Rome “ 6322 7 63 Dalton “ 4994 8 42 T. F. Pierce P. E. La Grange “ 6064 8 54 , Atlanta “ 7584 32 64 Athens: Griffin “ 5648 2 32 f Athens Station, W. II. Potter, P. A. Heard, Total this year 50,956 134 406 J Sup. Total last year 47,696 140 416 Oconee Street, A. W. Williams. . ] [Factory Mission, to be supplied. Increase 3260 Decrease 6 10 Watkinsville, W. W. Oslin, W. H. Tram- mell. Ques. 22. How many infants have been bap- Madison, A. T. Mann. tized during the year? Morgan, J. L. Lupo, B. Hume. 1251. Greensboro, F. G. Hughes. Ques. 23. How many adults have been bap- White Plains, W. F. Smith. tized during the year? Lexington, W. R. Foote, jr., E. G. Murrah.

3302. Sup. . Winterville, C. A. Conaway. Ques. 24. "What is the number of Sunday- Washington, Jesse Boring. schools? Broad River, W. F. Quill ian. 538. Little River, W. W. Lampkin. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday- Eatonton, J. Lewis, jr. school teachers? Putnam, B. J. Johnson, W. L. Wootten. 3524 State University, E. W. Speer, Professor. 1874 . 34 North Georgia Conference ,

ELBERTON DISTRICT. Douglasville, Isaac G. Parks. ] A. O. Worley, P. E. AVesleyan Female College, AV. F. Cook, Pro- fessor. Elberton, AV. P. Rivers, J. H. Grogan. Elbert, D. Kelsey. DALTON DISTRICT. North Lincoln, C. C. Cary. D. J. Myrick, P. E. South Lincoln, E. A. Gray. Jefferson, AV. A. Fariss. Dalton, T. A. Seals. Mulberry, D. L. Anderson. Dalton Circuit, G. AV. Thomas. ( Carnesville, AV. P. Smith. Ringgold, J. T. Richardson. supplied (by Summersville, AV.P. Lovejoy. \ Franklin Springs Mission, to be Subligna, J. B. McFarland. [ AV. A. Swift). Danielsville, B. Sanders. La Fayette, P. G. Reynolds. Homer, J. AY. G. AVatkins. McLemore’s Cove, H. C. Christian. Belton Mission, to be supplied (by L. D. Spring Place, to be supplied (by J. M. Sul- { Parrish). livan). Hartwell, AV. T. Norman. Resaca, to be supplied (by T. J. Simmons). Clarksville, AY. F. Lewis. Calhoun, A. C. Thomas. Clayton Circuit and Mission, G. E. Bonner. Kingston, J. J. Singleton, R. A. Seale, Sup. Murray and Mission, to be supplied (by J. DISTRICT. Oates). GAINESAMLLE Dalton Female College, AV. A. Rogers, Presi- R. Parker P. E. J. , dent. Dahlonega and Jones Chapel, M. L. Under- LA GRANGE DISTRICT. wood. ( Porter Springs Mission, to be supplied (by J. W. Heidi, P. E. E. L. Stephens). [_ La Grange, H. H. Parks. Dawsonville, C. L. Pattillo. AVest Point, P. M. Ryburn. Cumming, L. P. Neese. Newnan, A. M. Thigpen. Alpharetta, J. S. Embry, Troup, L. Rush. f Canton, AV. G. Hanson. Long Cane, J. R. Mayson, J. P. Howell, Sup. \ Cherokee, J. N. Myers. 'Whitesville, J. T. Lowe. Cleveland, Eli Smith. f Greenville and Trinity, J. H. Baxter. R. Branham, jr. Xacoochee, AV. \ Chalybeate Springs, J. Jones. Blairsville, T. J. Edwards. Grantville, AV. J. Cotter. j Arwood). j \ Morgan ton, to be supplied (by P.W. \ AVhitesburg, AV. A. Simmons. Gainesville, J. M. Dickey. Hogansville, F. M. T. Brannon. 7 Flowery Branch, A\ . E. Shackleford, R. P. j Senoia, R. F. Jones, E. K. Aikin, Sup. Martyn, Sup. t Palmetto and Jones Chapel, J. S. Bryan. Hall, J."H. Mashburn, sr. Fairburn, J. M. Bowden, R. R. Johnson. f Lawrenceville and New Hope, f Carrollton, J. AV. Stipe, ^ Logansville, J. H. Bentley. t Bowden, to be supplied (by A. C. Reese). Duluth, M. H. Eakes. Franklin, AV. H. Speer. f Elliiay, to be supplied (by J. M. Hale), Heard Mission, to be supplied (by T. Turner). i Jasper, J. J. Harris. Missionary to China, Y. J.‘ Allen. District Superintendent American Bible So- ROME DISTRICT. ciety, AV. A. Parks.

IP. P. Pledger, P. E. Rome, AV. M. Crumley. ATLANTA DISTRICT. Circuit and De Soto Mission, F. F. J. E. Evans P. E. Rome , { Reynolds. Atlanta: C P. Harrison, Means, Forestville, D. J. AVeems. f( First Church, AV. A. ( Cedar Town, AV. H. LaPrade. S«p. \ J Cedar Valley Circuit, to be supplied (by J. I( Payne’Payne’s Chapel, T. H. Timmons. Trinity, AV. J. Scott, J. M. Parker, Sup. ( AV. Traywick). J Spring, B. E. L. Timmons. Evans and Oakland, J. H. Harris. J Cave t \ Floyd, J. AV. Lee. City Mission, AV. C. Dunlap. Van AVert, S. P. Jones. f St. Paul’s, AV. A. Dodge. Axilla Rica, J. Chambers. \ Edgewood, H. J. Ellis. Haralson Mission, to be supplied (by D. J Fulton, AV. D. Heathe. { Stripling). \ East Point, AV. J. AVardlaw, A. G. Dempsey Cartersville, A. J. Javrell, J. T. Norris, Sup. j Decatur, G. J. Pearce. Marietta, AV. F. Glenn. \ Flat Shoals, J. E. England. Acworth, T. S. L. Harwell, R. H. Jones. Norcross, AV. T. Laine. Roswell, AV. Manning, one to be supplied. Conyers, AV. T. Caldwell. Powder Springs, S. Leake. Covington and Mount Pleasant, AV. R. Bran- Dallas, J. AV. Baker. ham, sr. South Georgia Conference, 1874 . 35

Nekton, J. TV. Yarbrough. Jackson and "West Ocmulgee Mission, W. T. Oxford and Social Circle, F. B. Davies. Me Michael. Newborn, M. F. Malsbv. Pleasant Hill, to be supplied (by J. G. Bol-

Montieello, A. Gray. . ton).

Ocm ul gee Circuit and Mission, J. H. Mash- f Barnesville and Salem, G. G. Smith. burn, jr. \ Milner, to be supplied (by J. R. Smith). Monroe, J. F. Mixon. Culloden, Thomas R. Kendall. Emory College, M. Callaway, Professor. County Line, C. A. Mitchell. Sunday-school Secretary, and Associate Mis- Thomaston and Rock, J. B. Payne. sionary Secretary, A. G. Hay good. Upson, S. A. Mitchell. Superintendent Orphans’ Home, J. Carr. Forsyth, D. D. Cox. Agent Orphans’ Home, W. R. Foote. Forsyth Circuit, J. A. Reynolds. Clinton, to be supplied (by J. TV. Knight). GRIFFIN DISTRICT. Jones Mission, to be supplied (by E. G. W. Yarbrough P. E. Wood). , Griffin, L. J. Davies. / Zebulon, D. Nolan. W. Watkin Hicks, C. E. Dowman, trans-

I Flint River Mission, W. H. Graham. ferred to Florida Conference. Fayetteville, G. E. Gardner. Urban W. Norton transferred to South Jonesboro, J. R. Tate. Georgia Conference. j McDonough, A. TV. Rowland. A. Odom transferred to Pacific Confer- L Hampton, J. D. Gray. ence.

VIII.— SOUTH GEORGIA CONFERENCE.

Held at Savannah, Ga., December 9-14, 1874.

Bishop Pierce, President ; Stephen D. Clements, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? J. Green, Geo. C. Thompson, John B. Cul- Answer. Isaac C. Rabun, Milton A. Clark, pepper, Summerfleld N. Tucker, John TV. Thaddeus I. Nease, Charles D. Adams, Robert Glenn. 7. B. Bryan, Wm. C. Lovett, Robert M. Boothe, Ques. 8. TVhat traveling preachers are elected Joseph TV. Roberts, Urban W. Norton, Ham- deacons? ilton W. Leslie. 10. Benjamin TV. Key, Howard TV. Key. 2. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Howard TV. Key, Benjamin W. Key, Isaac dained deacons? C. Carey, TVm. J. Flanders, Richard TV. Benjamin TV. Key, Howard W. Key. 2. Rogers, Edwin I. Smith, Cornelius Boland, Pleasant H'. Grumpier, Walker Lewis, James Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected E. Rorie, Joseph W. Weston, Wilber F. deacons? Bearden, Barnard H. Lester. 13. Isaac C. Rabun, Ignatius F. Griffith, Hart- well S. Andrews, Burrell S. Key, Wm. ,T. Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? Green, Harrison Stubbs, Cornelius M. Clark, John J. Boring, W. H. Rogers, at their Matthew Sweat. 8. own request. 2. Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- deacons? tion ? Isaac C. Rabun, Ignatius F. Griffith, Peter S. Twitty, Albert M. Williams. 2. Wm. J. Green, Cornelius M. Clark, J. Slowman Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? Ashmore, TVm. H. Tigner. 6. Thomas S. Griffiths, Robert D. Gentry. 2. Ques. 12. TVhat traveling preachers are Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from elected elders? other Conferences? Walker Lewis, Joseph P. Wardlaw, Albert Urban W. Norton, from North Georgia Con- M. Williams, Robert L. Honiker, Peter S. ference. 1. Twitty. 5.

Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- John W. Domingos, Boling H. Sasnett, Wm. dained elders? —

36 South Georgia Conference, 1874 .

"Walker Lewis, Joseph 1*. Wardlaw, Albert of the life and character of such .a man as M. "Williams, Robert L. Honiker, Peter S. Brother McHan. Without those shining tal- Twitty. 5. ents which attract the attention, excite the admiration, and win the applause of the world Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected dwelling in comparative obscurity, and being elders? so much afflicted — his influence was much James R. Hays. 1. like certain undercurrents in the physical Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained world, which are always felt but rare’y recog- elders? nized. Although he had not shining talents, John W. Watts. 1. he had zeal and power. His heart was warm with love for his Master, and his 2eal for the Ques. 10. Who are located this year? cause of Christ was bounded only by his Wm. G. Boothe, at his own request. 1. strength; yea, it went beyond his strength. Ques. 17. "Who are supernumerary? He longed to be in the field with the armor Robert F. Williamson, John W. Glenn, L. on, waging incessant war with the adversary. G. R. Wiggins. 3. His zeal for Christ and love for souls led him, at times, to believe that he was able to take an Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? and would therefore ask to W. H. Thomas, T. B. Lanier, D. O. Driscoll, appointment, he James Spence, Wyatt Brooks, Henry P. Pitch- be taken off the superannuated roll and made effective. It is not remembered, however, ford, Thos. C. Coleman, Young F. Tigner, R. he ever clamorous in making this re- H. Luckey, John W. Talley, Wm. S. Baker, that was quest. When he made his request, and gave S. G. Childs, Jacob R. Owen, Capel Raiford, F. his reasons for it, there was an end of the mat- R. C. Ellis, James Dunwodv, David Crenshaw, ter, so far as he was concerned. If his breth- L. C. Peek, James Harris, David Blalock. 20. ren differed from him, and continued him on Ques. 19. What preachers have died during the non-effective list, he did not impugn their the past year? motives, and become sour in spirit toward Wm. B. McHan, Wm. W. Griffin. 2. them, but cheerfully submitted to his lot, without murmur or complaint. He was genial William B. McHan, a pure Christian and and social in his intercourse with his fellow- a devoted and useful minister of the gospel of men, particularly so with his brethren of the Christ, departed this life and entered into his ministry. All the members of this Conference, rest on Jan. 18, 1874, in the forty-sixth year and all other ministers who knew him, will of his age. But little is known of Brother readily call to mind the warm greetings and McHan’s life, outside of his Conference his- cordial welcomes of Brother McHan on all oc- tory, and during most of this he was the sub- casions when and where it was their fortune to ject of such deep afflictions that he was not meet him. He bore his many and severe af- able to leave on the records of earth that which flictions with becoming fortitude and submis- it was in his heart and purpose to leave; but sion to the Divine will. In his sufferings, the his record is in heaven, and perhaps the more grace of God was well-nigh, if not quite, as glorious there, by virtue of his disappointed much magnified as in his labors. He passed hopes here. He was born and reared in the under the rod with such humility, submission, State of North Carolina. From the best in- patience, and confidence in God, that those formation at our command, we judge his op- who beheld him said, “See how God is glori- portunities for culture and improvement, in fied in the sufferings of his servant!” While early life, were very limited. Taking into ac- as a preacher he was more zealous than gifted, count the meagerness of his early advantages, he was one of that large class of preachers and the severe and protracted afflictions of his who accomplish as much by a warm heart, de- manhood years, the wonder is not that he did votion to duty, and zealous, untiring effort, as so little, but that he was able to accomplish so many of another class who possess superior much. He was happily converted to God, and gifts. His preaching was “good to the use of joined the M. E. Church, South, in Lumpkin edifying, and ministered grace unto the hear- co., Ga., in the year 1841. Not long after this, ers.” He delighted to preach Jesus, and feed he was licensed to preach. He was admitted on the word which he offered to others. Though on trial into the Georgia Conference, at Au- he was for so long a time a superannuated gusta, Ga., in Jan., 1849. There is no record of preacher, he never failed, except through un- his first appointment. In 1851, he w’as admit- avoidable hinderance, to attend the annual ses- ted into full connection, and ordained deacon. sions of the Conference. He always took a In 1853, he was ordained elder. For eleven deep interest in the deliberations and labors of years, except one or two years, or parts of the Conference. Ever feeling a deep interest years, when his health was extremely feeble, in the welfare of his brethren, he was ready to he traveled circuits and missions with great “ weep with those who wept, and to rejoice acceptability, and much usefulness. At the with those who rejoiced.” That Brother McHan close of 1869, he was superannuated, on ac- was faultless, we dare not assert; but whatever count of his feeble health. He remained on his faults were, they were not such as marred the superannuated roll, except one or two either the beauty or force of his Christian and piety was deep and years, until his death. It is difficult—yea, it is ministerial character. His almost impossible—to form a proper estimate constant. His love for the Church of Christ : : , 1:

South Georgia Conference, 1874 . 37 was never-failing. Owing to severe family years of his life. Eor a long while before his afflictions, he was not able to attend the last death he was confined to his room, and for a session of the Conference, hut his heart was great portion of the time was entirely help- there. About the close of the Conference, he less. The death of his wife, some fifteen was attacked with typhoid fever, with which months before his own. fell heavily upon him. he lingered about a month, and then fell on She had been his angel of mercy. She died sleep, and was gathered unto his fathers, after suddenly, but grace sustained him in that sad giving repeated, and the most satisfactory, as- hour. He rallied, and was spiritually cheerful surances of his readiness to meet death. and happy. Through all his painful afflictions he always spoke of himself as happy, and only "William W. Griffin was born in Putnam waiting for the summons to depart and be at co., Ga. When hut a small hoy, his widowed rest. On a few occasions he was carried, in a mother removed with him to De Kalb co., Ga., chair, to church; and it was perhaps on his where he continued to reside until he was last visit to the church that he sat in the altar grown up to manhood. What were his ad- and addressed the children of the Sabbath- vantages in youth we have not been able to school. Thus, when nearing his reward, and ascertain; this, however, is not material. Be- out of the midst of utter physical helplessness, ing the eldest son of a widowed mother, on did he obey that Divine command, “Feed my whom devolved the whole responsibility of lambs.” training her children, it is very probable that in early life he learned much of the cares and Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in duties of home life. In 1832, he was married their life and official administration? to Miss A. C. Yeal, daughter of John Yeal, of Their names were called over, one by one, De Kalb co., Ga., with whom he lived in holy, and their characters examined and passed. happy union for more than forty years. He Ques. 21. What is the number of local preach- Spirit in was born of the at Rock Chapel, De ers and members in the several circuits, sta- co., with the Church, in Kalb and united M. E. tions, and missions of the Conference? 1838. His conversion was of that quick, clear, demonstrative type, much more common in District. those than in these days. Whether Brother Savannah

Griffin’s conversion had aught to do with his White Col'd r.oc'l after experience or not, it matters but little; Mem's. Mem's. Prs. it is sufficient to know that that experience was Savannah bright, cheerful, and satisfactory, throughout f Trinity, 488 most, if not the whole, of his Christian career. t Wesley Church and Mission. 280 Springfield 4G0 Having been called into the kingdom of God f Syl vania. 37 through faith in Christ, it was not the will of \ Millen Mission 107; God that he should stop there. During the Bethel 245 Alexander 51 8 year 1839 he felt called of God to preach the Waynesboro 3001 | gospel of to dying men. He obeyed the o>! Jesus ( Herndon 414 call —asked for authority to preach the word, Bethany Louisville 448 which was granted him. Feeling convinced Sandersville 117 that he could be more useful as an itinerant Washington and Davisboro 7oo than as a local preacher, he applied for, and Gibson 283 obtained, admission into the Georgia Confer- 4797 > ence in that same year, 1839. His first appointment was in Liberty co., Ga. He soon Macon District. became afflicted with rheumatism, from which he suffered until his death, although he con- Macon Mulberry Street 2 active itinerant until tinued an 1862, when, for East Macon want of sufficient physical ability to do the First Street 324 1 work of an itinerant preacher, he superannu- Macon Circuit 432 Jrwinton 351 2 ated. Most of his labors as a traveling preacher Jeffersonville 500 4 were performed in the bounds of the Florida Fort Valley 405 5 Conference, which, up to the time of his super- Crawford 415 5 Perry 184 0 annuation, embraced all of South Georgia. Hayneville 4:io When South Georgia was retroceded to the Hawkinsville 138 !

( Georgia Conference, he came with that terri- Pulaski 65 1 Wilcox Mission 70 2 tory into the South Georgia Conference a su- \ perannuated preacher, and continued in that 3906 30 1 relation until his death, which occurred at Stone Mountain, Ga., Sept. 29, 1874. A good, Columbus District. holy, and useful man and minister of the gos- Columbus: pel of Christ is gone, leaving behind him a St. Luke’s 491 2 “good name,” which is “better than precious St. Paul’s 9 >0 ointment,” and “rather to be chosen than great Broad Street 186 Girard and Trinity 365 riches.” His large heritage of afflictions was Cataula 290 greatly augmented during the last two or three Hamilton 282 3 1 , .

Columbus District

Talbotton..'. Reidsville Talbot Holmesville Geneva Omulgee Butler South Coffee Mission, Glenalta and Mission, Cusseta

Recapitulation.

Americus District. Savannah District. Macon “ Americus Col uni lws “ Sumter Americus “ Ellaville Dawson “ Smithville... Thoniasville “ Oglethorpe.. Altamaha “ Montezuma Vienna Total this year. Cuthbert Total last year Weston Stewart Increase Buena Vista, Decrease Lumpkin. Dooly Mission. Ques. 22. How many infants have been baptized during the vear?

Dawson District. Ques. 23. How many adults have been bap- Dawson 5 tized during the year? Terrell and Morgan 5 1876. Fort Gaines and Blakely g ( Arlington l Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday- ui£; iTiinoiuii 1 It Springapi Creek Mission.. schools? Bainbriage Trinity Decatur Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday- Cairo Camilla and Mission school teachers? J Albany and Mission 2 1819. t Leesburg Worth Mission 3 Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- Georgetown 1 school scholars? Spring Vale 2 12,326. Ocklockonee and Cedar Spring Mis - Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the 51 superannuated preachers, and the widows and orphans of preachers? Thomasville District. $7,850. Thomasville 5 Ques. 28. What has been collected on the f Boston 1 foregoing account, and how has it been ap- ( Spring Hill plied? Quitman \

f Morven 2 Collected, $4,521 05. Applied to claimants. Moultrie j Ques. 29. What has been contributed for ( Valdosta 1 1 Lowndes and Echols Mission missions? Nashville $7,717 34. ( Stockton Mission % \ Waresboro 7 Ques. 30. Where shall the pext session of Jessup 2 the Conference be held? Blackshear At Americus, Ga. f Centre Village T 1 St. Mary’s Ques. 31. W here are the preachers stationed Camden..'. Brunswick "2 this year? Darien Hinesville f SAVANNAH DISTRICT. \ Bryan Mission J. 0. A. Clark P. E. , Savannah: Trinity, E. H. Myers. A Itamaha District. Wesley Church and Mission, A. M. Wynn. Scarboro Springfield, J. S. Jordan. Dublin Syl vania, J. D. Mauldin. Wrightsville Milieu Mission, It. Rogers. Eastman Mission .... W. ( Swainsboro Bethel, R. B. Bryan. 1 Canuchee Mission. Alexander, N. D. Morehouse. Jacksonville Oconee...., Waynesboro, F. A. Branch. , ,

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T Bethany, Stephen D. Clements. DAW SON DISTRICT. Louisville, E. J. Burch. McGehee P. E. E. A. H. , Sanders ville, B. H. Sasnett. Dawson, G. C. Clarke, Washington, P. H. Crumpler. f Terrell, J. R. Littlejohn. Davisboro, J. B. Culpepper. Calhoun Mission, H. C. Fentress, Gibson, T. I. Nease. \ f Fort Gaines and Blakely, P. S. Twitty.

( Cedar Spring Mission, to be supplied. MACON DISTRICT. Arlington, A. P. Wright. Spring Creek Mission, to be supplied (bv J. J. W. Hinton P. E. B. McCullers). Macon: Bainbridge, R. L. Honiker. Mulberry Street and Vineville, A. Wright. Trinity, J. J. Morgan. East Macon, S. S. Sweet. Decatur, T. K. Leonard. First Street, George G. N. MacDonell. Cairo, W. M. Watts. Macon Circuit, T. A. Griffiths. Camilla and Newton, R. F. Evans. Jones Chapel, J. W. Simmons. Albany and Mission, G. J. Griffiths. Irwin ton, U. W. Norton. Harmony, to be supplied (by W. M. Russell). Jeffersonville, C. J. Toole. Worth Mission, R. M. Boothe. Fort Valley and Marshall ville, R. B. Lester. Spring Vale, P. C. Harris. Crawford and Mission, W. W. Tidwell, E. 1. Ocklockonee, to be supplied (by J. B. Jackson). Smith. Gordon, W. C. Lovett. Perry, W. F. Robison. THOMASVILLE DISTRICT. Hayneville, W. M. D. Bond. J. M. Austin, P. E. Hawkinsville, W. M. Hays. Thomasville, J. O. A. Cook. Associate Editor of Southern Christian Advo- Spring Hill, W. J. Green. cate, John W. Burke. Boston, J. E. Sentell. Emory College, O. L. Smith, President. Quitman, W. Lewis. Wesleyan Female College, W. C. Bass, Presi- Morven and Nashville, J. A. Rosser, C. D. dent; C. W. Smith, Professor. Adams. Moultrie Mission, W. F. Bearden. COLUMBUS DISTRICT. Valdosta, G. C. Thompson, Lowndes and Echols, H. W. Leslie. J. B. McGehee P. E. f , Stockton Mission, to supplied. Columbus: \ be Blackshear and Waycross, S. N. Tucker, St. Luke’s, R. J. Corley. f Jessup, J. L. Williams. St. Paul’s, J. O. Branch. Wayne Mission, to be supplied. Broad Street, B. F. Breedlove. \ ( St. Mary’s and Mt. Zion, L. A. Darsey. Girard and Trinity, L. B. Payne. Charlton, to be supplied. Cataula, H. W. Key. \ Camden, J. W. Roberts. Hamilton, G. S. Johnson. Brunswick and Mission, N. B. Ousley. Talbotton, Walter Knox. Darien, R. M. Lockwood. Talbot Circuit, W. W. Stewart, J. W. Weston, Hinesville and Mission, J. M. Marshall. L. G. R. Wiggins, Sup. Geneva, J. P. Wardlaw. Butler, E. J. Rentz. ALTAMAHA DISTRICT. Glenalta, B. H. Lester. J. V. M. Morris, P. E. Cusseta, J. B. Wardlaw. Dublin, Williams. Conference Missionary, Lovick Pierce. A. M. Laurens Mission, J. E. Rorie. Wrightsville, W. J. Flanders. AMERICUS DISTRICT. Eastman Mission, W. M. C. Conley. Swainsboro, C. A. Moore, Joseph H. Key P. E. , f Reidsville, J. J. Giles. Americus, Thomas T. Christian. \ Bryan Mission, to be supplied. Sumter, J. T. Ainsworth, B. W. Key. Montgomery, C. C. Hines. Ellaville, W. Lane. Pendleton’s Creek Mission, D. G. Pope. Oglethorpe, J. M. Potter. Telfair, W. F. Conley. Leesburg and Smithville, T. S. Armistead. Holmesville, I. F. Carey. Montezuma, to be supplied (by H. R. Felder). Ocm ul gee and Wilcox Mission, W. F. Roberts, Vienna, G. T. Embry, C. E. Boland. one to be supplied. Cuthbert and Georgetown, R. W. Dixon. South Coffee Mission, I. C. Rabun. Weston, R. L. Wiggins. Waresboro, D. Morrison. Stewart, J. W. Domingos. Bullock Mission, to be supplied (by James Buena Vista, D. R. McWilliams. Ware). Lumpkin, A. J. Dean. Rocky Mount, S. R. Weaver. H. H. Parks transferred to North Georgia Agent, of Orphans’ Home, Samuel Anthony. Conference, and stationed at La Grange. 40 Florida Conference, 1874 .

L. S. Hopkins transferred to North Geor- ence, and appointed Professor in Martha Wash- gia Conference. Professor in Emory Col- ington College. lege. R. I). Gentry, R. H. Howren, transferred to J. F. Mixon, W. E. Shackleford, transferred Florida Conference. to North Georgia Conference. M. A. Clark transferred to Denver Confer- H. P. Myers transferred to Holston Confer- ence.

IX. — FLORIDA CONFERENCE.

Held at Live Oak, Fla., December 16-20, 1874.

Bishop Wightman, President; F. Pasco, Secretary.

Question 1 . Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained Answer. James A. A. Casteal, W~m. Rob- elders? ertson. 2. John C. Pelot, "Willis P. O’Cain. 2. Ques. 2 Who remain on trial? Ques. 16. Who are located this year? Robert Martin, Thomas J. Phillips, Andrew John M. Bridges, Thomas A. Carruth. 2. A. Barnett, Wm. H. F. Robarts, Joseph E. A. Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? Van Duzer, McKendree F. McCook. 6. E. F. Gates, C. D. Nicholson, S. W. Car- Qnes. 3. are Who discontinued? son. 3, Samuel D. Robinson, J. D. McDonnell. 2. Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- James A. Wiggins, Isaac Munden, Samuel tion? A. McCook, A. Johnson, J. M. Stokes, W. David W. Core, Wm. F. Lewis, Junius S. Williams, G. W. Fagg, John Penny, S. Gard- Collier, Julius D. Rogers. 4. ner. 9. Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? Ques. 19. Wbat preachers have died during John-M. Hendry, Anderson Peeler, Thomas the past year? A. Carruth, M. M. Michau. 4. George Bright. 1. Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from other Conferences? George Bright departed this life, in Key Hicks, W. Watkin Chas. E. Dowman, Over- West, Fla., Sept. 20, 1874, in the sixty-second ton Ransom, R. D. W. Gentry. 4. year of his age. It is to be regretted that we Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? are not in possession of those facts connected Robert M. Ellzey, William F. Lewis. 2. with the life and labors of our lamented brother which are essential to the drawing Ques. 8. Wbat traveling preachers are elected of deacons? a suitable memoir. Brother Bright was a native of Virginia. When a Thomas J. Phillips. 1. young man he removed to Georgia, and, having a fair academic Ques. 9. W hat traveling preachers are or- education, devoted himself for several years dained deacons? to teaching. He was inducted into the ministry Thomas J. Phillips, Overton W. Ransom. 2. under the administration of the late John W. Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Glenn, his license bearing date Oct. 24, 1840. deacons? He joined the itinerancy in 1841, and, in the Asa H. Crowder, James S. Hall, Nathan course of a few years, became a prominent Singletary, John R. Mays. 4. member of his Conference. He occupied many Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained and important fields of labor, chiefly in the deacons? upper part of Georgia, and, for a series of years, Asa H. Crowder, James S. Hall, Nathan filled the responsible office of Presiding Elder Singletary, John R. Mays. 4. with credit to himself and great usefulness to the Church. There was no interruption Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are in his itinerant career, elected elders? save one year, when, on account of impaired health, he was William F. Lewis. 1. compelled to rest. Some years since he was transferred to Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- the Missouri Conference, then to the Louisiana, dained elders? and, two years ago, to this. Last year (1873) William F. Lewis. 1. he was in charge of Madison Circuit, and this Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected year (1874) was stationed at Spark’s Chapel, elders? Key West, where, at the post of duty, and in John C. Pelot. 1. the active and faithful discharge of pastoral — : 1

. 41 Florida Conference, , 1874 and ministerial obligations be was smitten ‘That is it, that is it; repeat it again!’ We down by the hand of death. The Rev. Charles repeated it a second and a third time, and then A. Fulwood writes: “On Monday night, Sept. joined in prayer. Within an hour after he 14, 1874, about midnight, he was seized with a sank into an unconscious state, from which he chill, followed by a high fever. The doctor never rallied. He lingered until near noon the was called in at once, and the next afternoon following day, and then passed away without pronounced hitn very ill. I visited him daily. a struggle. On Monday he was buried, with He remained much the same until Friday, suitable solemnities, in a plat of ground already when the symptoms became alarming; but, rendered sacred to Methodism by the sleeping even then, we had strong hopes of a change dust of Rivers, Sparks, and McCook.” for the better. Saturday A. M. he did not seem to be any worse, but in the afternoon the indi- Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in cations all pointed to a fatal issue. Having been their life and official administration? informed that he was worse, he requested that Their names were called over, one by one, I should be sent for. I hastened to his bed- and their characters examined and passed. side, and found him in an extremely critical Ques. 21. What is the number of local preach- condition. Meanwhile, another physician had ers and members in the several circuits, stations, been summoned for consultation. I requested and missions of the Conference? them to examine his condition carefully, and make out a prognosis. They did so, and in- Tallahassee District. formed mg that nothing more could be done, except to palliate his sufferings; that he might White Col'd T.oc'l Mem's. Mem's. Frs. live twelve hours, but could not possibly sur- vive twenty-four. This information I broke as 140 1 148 gently as possible to his grief-stricken daugh- Cravvfordville Circuit 266 1 2 ters; then, at their request, to him. He seemed 134 not to be surprised or startled in the least, but 300 3 161 2 calmly remarked, ‘Well, it is about as I ex- 128 pected.’ After a protracted pause, he asked: 214 4 ‘How long do they (the physicians) think I 215 1 118 1 will retain my faculties?’ I answered, ‘Only 113 1 a few hours at the most, and if there is any thing on your mind of which you desire to speak, 1937 1 15 perhaps it would be best to do so at once.’ He immediately turned himself in bed, placed his Live Oak District. hand in mine, and, looking me steadily in the Live Oak and Ellaville 128 4 479 7 face, said: ‘My brother, death is a solemn or- 260 3 deal, but to those who rest by faith in Christ 129 Jesus it hath no terrors. I have tried, to the 504 4 120 best of my ability, to preach the gospel, for Newnansville Circuit 1 203 4 more than thirty years, agreeably to the theo- 512 logical standards of our Church. I have not 32 done so on the ground that consistency de- 352 2 manded it of me as a Methodist preacher, but 157 6 because the doctrines of the Methodist Church 2876 31 are, according to my understanding, the doctrines of the Bible. These doctrines have suf- Jacksonville District. ficed for me to live by; they now suffice for me to die by. They support and brace me on Jacksonville every hand. I am content. I feel secure in First Charge 160 2 Second Charge 63 1 Christ Jesus.’ Resting a few moments, he re- Palatka and Green Cove Mission. 75 2 sumed: ‘You have known me for a long time. Mellonville 35 1 I have passed through many reverses during Middleburg Circuit. 100 1 Dunn’s Lake Circuit 120 2 the latter years of my life, but I have been won- Nassau Circuit 129 derfully sustained and comforted by Divine Femandina 43 1 grace. I have made many crooked paths Cedar Keys Waldo Circuit 260 3 erred in judgment often; but I have intended Micanopy and Gainesville 147 to do right, and I am assured that God accepts Key West: me for Christ’s sake.’ There was no excite- First Charge 156 Sparks’s Chapel 123 ment, no gush of joy, no rapture, no exultant triumph, but the calm passage of a soul into 1411 13 eternity, with a majestic composure which be- spoke thorough resignation and perfect con- Tampa District. fidence. Two hours later, just before his mind 57 1 began to waver, he requested us to sing ‘Rock 64! 4 of Ages.’ After we had sung, he asked us to 225 4 178 3 repeat the 7 23d Psalm. We did so, all present 147 4 repeating it together. At the close, he said, Fort Myers . 42 Florida Conference , 1874

Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of Tampa District ( continued). the Conference be held? White Col'd Loc'l Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. At Quincy, Fla. stationed Fort Ogden Circuit 64 1 Ques. 81. Where are the preachers Clear Water Circuit 208 3 this year? Brooksville Circuit 307 4 Sumter 249 3 220 1 TALLAHASSEE DISTRICT. Ocala Circuit 153 1 Ocklawaha Mission 143 1 Samuel Woodberry, P. E.

2015 8 29 Tallahassee, Josephus Anderson. Leon Circuit, E. L. T. Blake. Recapitulation. Crawfordville Circuit, Robert Martin. Oeklockonee Mission, to be supplied. Tallahassee District 1937 1 15 2876 31 Gadsden and Liberty Circuit, J. M. Hendry. 1411 13 Quincy Circuit, Charles E. Dowman. “ 2015 8 29 Tampa Little River Circuit, Thomas J. Phillips. Total this year 8,239 9 88 Monticello, James P. De Pass. Total last year 7,167 20 80 Waukeenah Circuit, R. H. Howren. Union Circuit, to be supplied (by W. G. Increase 1,072 8 Decrease 11 Booth). Ancilla Mission, to be supplied (by W. O. Ques. 22. How many infants have been bap- Hampton). tized during the year? Appalachicola Mission, D. W. Core. 541. Ques. 23. How many adults have been bap- LIVE OAK DISTRICT. during the year? tized Anderson Peeler P. E. 515. , Live Oak Circuit, M. M. Michau. Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday- Knight. schools? Welborn Circuit, E. J. Circuit, Collier. 99. Hamilton W. C. Lake City, Henry E. Partridge. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday- Columbia, S. E. Phillips. school teachers? Newnansville, J. J. Seally. 526. Bronson, T. R. Barnett. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- Madison Circuit, E. S. Tyner, William Rob- school scholars? ertson. 3115. Taylor Mission, J. S. Collier. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the La Fayette Mission, J. A. Casteal. superannuated preachers, and the widows and Benton Mission, to be supplied. orphans of preachers? Lake Butler Circuit, R. M. Ellzey. $2,555. St. Mary’s, to be supplied. Ques. 28. What has been collected on the foregoing account, and how has it been ap- JACKSONVILLE DISTRICT. plied? Pasco E. F. , P. Collected, $863 00 Jacksonville, J. B. Fitzpatrick. Applied as follows: La Villa, T. W. Tomkies. Sister John W. Rhodes, 45 00 Fernandina, to be supplied (by G. W. Persons). Sister J. K. Glover, 50 00 Palatka and Mandarin Mission, T. W. Moore. Sister J. H. Capers, 100 00 Mellonville, R. H. Barnett. Sister J. L. Gerry, 50 00 Middleburg Mission, to be supplied. Sister Mary Davis, 67 00 Fruitland Mission, R. D. Gentry. Sister A. J. Woldrige, 67 00 Nassau Mission, B. Davies. Brother Henry Smith’s children, 39 70 W. Ocala Circuit, G. C. Leavel. Brother L. Giles’s children, 27 30 Ocklawaha, to be supplied (by L. J. A. Brown). Brother A. Johnson, 67 00 Orange, Overton Ransom. Brother John Penny, 33 50 W. Micanopy and Gainesville Circuit, J. C. Ley. Sister R. J. McCook, 36 65 Waldo, to be supplied (by E. B. Duncan). Sister D. L. Kennedy, 63 35 Indian River Mission, A. A. Barnett. Sister Richards, 33 50 Jackson, 63 35 Sister E. A. TAMPA DISTRICT. Brother J. M. Stokes, 83 00 . Brother James A. Wiggins, 36 65 A. A. Robinson, P. E. Tampa, M. F. McCook. $863 00 Key West: Ques. 29. What has been contributed for First Charge, Charles A. Fulwood. missions? Sparks’s Chapel, W. R. Johnson. $1,074 07. Cuban Mission, J. E. A. Van Duzer. . 43 Alabama Conference , 1874

Alafia Circuit, E. H. Giles. Brooksville Circuit, J. D. Rogers. Manatee Circuit, E. E. Gates, Sup. Crystal River Circuit, to be supplied. Bartow Circuit, W. C. Jordan, S. W. Car- Sumter Circuit, O. Eady. son. Withlacoochee Circuit, to be supplied (by J. Pease Creek Circuit, to be supplied (by W. P. Pen well). McEwen). Miami River Mission, W. W. Hicks. Fort Myers Circuit, William H. F. Robarts. Clear Water Circuit, to be supplied (by J. W. William F. Lewis transferred to the North Wells), C. D. Nicholson, Sup. Georgia Conference.

X. —ALABAMA CONFERENCE.

Held at Opelika, Ala, , December 9-15, 1874.

Bishop Doggett, President; R. B. Crawford, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? mett W. Solomon, Jas. L. Mathison, Philip H. Answer. John O. Keener, Richard S. Hol- Moss, Benjamin G. Blackwell. 6. combe, Christopher H. Kelley, James M. Crews, Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Ritchie J. Briggs, Miles M. Dawson, Francis deacons? M. Peterson, John P. Sanders, James S. Rench- Thomas G. McGowan, John W. Burge, er, Robert Walker, J. Lamar, Wil- J. Andrew George W. Fagan, Evander M. Johnston, liam D. Owens. 12. Jehu P. Skinner, Hezekiah Huggins. 6. Ques. 2. remain on trial? Who Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained Ransom A. Miears, Preston G. Nash, Lean- deacons? dor C. Calhoun, Briggs, William G. Waverly Thomas G. McGowan, William J. Crook, A. Rice, John A. Green, Wade H.Weatherby, William M. Boswell, Benjamin H. Reynolds, Thos. S. 9. Y. Abernathy, Joshua Peavey. Jesse H. Moore. 5. Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Isaac F. Bilbro, Thomas W. Dyer, at their elected elders? request. 2. own Peyton B. Saffold, James M. Mason. 2. Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- tion? dained elders? Joseph H. James, John S. Frazer, James O. Peyton B. Saffold, James M. Mason. 2. Andrew, Asbury C. Hundley, Philip H. Light- Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected foot, Charles R. Williamson, Emmett W. Sol- elders? onion, A. M. L. Douglas, Philip H. Moss, James Travis C. Hildreth, Christopher H. Kelley, L. Mathison, Benjamin G. Blackwell. 11. James Paul. 3. Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained None. elders? Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from Christopher H. Kelley, James Paul, James other Conferences? W. Crossley. 3. None. Ques. 16. Who are located this year? Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Jordan A. Wethers, at his own request. 1. Joseph H. James, James 0. Andrew, John Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? A. Peterson, David C. Standley, William S. John H. Lockhart, C. W. Calhoun, W. H Wade, George Bancroft, Thomas C. M. Gol- Morris, W. B. Adams. 4. land. 7. Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected T. S. Abernathy, H. J. Hunter, W. C. Rob- deacons? inson, Z. Dowling,“ E. W. Storey, J. T. Talley, John S. Frazer, Charles R. Williamson, Em- J. W. Jordan, 1. 1. Tatum, J. T. Roper, Charles mett W. Solomon, Jas. L. Mathison, Philip H. Strider, F. L. B. Shaver, E. Y. Levert, Jemison Moss, Benjamin G. Blackwell. & Scaife. 13. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Ques. 19. W7 hat preachers have died during dained deacons? the past year? John S. Frazer, Charles R. Williamson, Em* Isaac Spangler. 1. ; — :

44 Alabama . Conference , 1874

Isaac Spangler, M.D., died in Tuskegee, Their names were called over, one by one, Ala., April 23, 1874. Of the early life and la- and their characters examined and passed. P bors of our deceased brother we know but lit- John A. Spence withdrawn. 3 tle. We are, however, reliably informed that Ques. 21. What is the number of local preach- for many years he was a member of the Vir- ers and members in the several circuits, ginia Conference of the Methodist Protestant stations, and missions of the Conference? Church; and that he was regarded by his Con- ference as one of its ablest and most efficient ministers. In the year 1854 he was transferred Mobile District. to the Alabama Conference of the same Church,

and was stationed at Robinson Springs. This White Cold I.oc’l was, so far as we are informed, the last regular Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. pastoral charge he ever served in that Church. Mobile From this time until 1869 he was engaged in Franklin Street 30ft various secular pursuits, but continued to St. Francis Street 27o 1 Eastern Shore Mission preach and maintained a good character, both 18 as a Christian and minister in his Church. At St. Paul’s 290 1 the session of the Montgomery Conference, Grand Bav Mission Ot) Whistler Station 132 1 held at Union Springs in 1869, he came prop- Citronelle Circuit 185 1 erly recommended from his own Conference, St. Stephen’s and Wash. Mission 202 1 and was received as an elder into the traveling Pensacola Station 101 1 connection of the M. E. Church, South, and I Milton Station 94 1 received the appointment of Sunday-school Black Water Mission 280 2 If Agent. In 1871 and 1872 he traveled the 31 Pollard Circuit 255 4 Tuskegee Circuit, where he preached accept- 204 3 ably and usefully. Many souls were converted under his ministry, and the Church greatly 2502 5 16 enlarged. At the Conference held in Eufaula in 1872, he was stationed at Uniontown, where Demopolis District he closed his active ministry. In this, his last field of labor, he was eminently fitted by special Demopolis Station 107 1 providence and grace for the sudden and sad Livingston Station 36 1 Belmont Circuit 137 1 attack that carried slowly to the grave. him Gaston Circuit 379 1 His preaching at this place evinced, to those Cuba Circuit 186 3 who knew him best, a depth of spiritual life Butler Circuit 420 2 Oktuppee Mission never before exhibited by him in this country. 460 2 For about four months "he did his work well, Forklanif Circuit 90 and had promise of the most successful year of Gainesville Circuit 120 Greene Circuit 285 3 his ministerial life. His congregation was not Eutaw Station 01 1 pleased, but delighted and edified. On % only the fourth Sabbath -in April he preached with 2281 15 unusual unction and power, and at night com- It menced the regular service, but was suddenly II Selma District. and violently attacked with paralysis while preaching to a large and attentive congrega- 323 tion. This attack closed his ministry — he East Selma and Benton 95 i Uniontown Station 125 never recovered, but lingered on for nearly a Dayton Circuit 217 2 whole year. At the ensuing Conference, held Orrville Circuit 173 2 in Selma last year, he was placed upon the su- Rembert Hills Circuit 303 2 Choctaw Corner Circuit 308 4 perannuated list, soon after Conference re- and Lower Peach-tree Circuit 310 1 moved to Tuskegee, where he died. His death, Suggsville Circuit 178 though long expected, was, after all, very sud- Jackson Circuit 209 Tallahatta Circuit 210 den. After holding appropriate religious wor- 1 Summerfield Station 150 1 ship with his children, he retired in his usual health, with no apparent symptoms of any 2721 14 change in his condition. At twelve o’clock the messenger came; his children heard him strug- Greensboro District. gling, and arose to find him in the arms of death. He attempted to raise himself from Greensboro Station 203 9 his bed, but fell back upon his pillow, and in Newbern and Mt. Hermon 148 Marion Station 133 a moment passed away. Truly, it may be said Havana Circuit 504 3 of him: Brush Creek Circuit 365 3 The voice at midnight came— Autaugaville Circuit 362 2 He started up, to hear Autauga and Clanton Mission 561 i A mortal arrow pierced his frame Prattville Station 181 He fell, but felt no fear. Randolph Circuit 360 Perryville Circuit 102 Ocmulgee Mission 140 1 Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in their life and official administration? 3059 1 18 :

1874. 4 o Alabama Conference ,

Montgomery District. Recapitulation.

White Col'd I.oc'l White Cold I.oc'l Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. Mem’s. Mem's. Pr’s. 2502 5 16 Montgomery 2281 15 445 1 2721 14 Miss.. 87 1 Heron Street and Mt. Meigs 3059 1 18 595 7 4575 39 280 6 2650 34 20 404 3 3653 18 30 120 1 2732 5 26 718 7 3605 10 16 413 6 507 3 73 194 2 27,784 27,751 104 216 230 2 259 33 72 1 Decrease 31 22 4575 39

Ques. 22. How many infants have been baptized during the year? Eufaula District. 1055. 256 4 Ques. 23. How many adults have been bap- 1 73 tized during the vear? 111 1 233 2 1509. 208 2 24. is the number of Sunday- 340 4 Ques. What 200 schools? 252 3 333. Henry Circuit 480 34 2 503 l Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday- school teachers? 2656 34 20 2192 . Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- Marianna District. school scholars? 13,223. 67 Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the 208' 3 300 ‘21 superannuated preachers, and the widows and Calhoun Mission 180 10 3 orphans of preachers? 250 3 8 100 . 1036 8 $ , 258 6 Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Creek Circuit 450 6 4 Big has it been ap- 150 foregoing account, and how 754 3 plied? Collected, $3,851 43. Disbursed to claim- 3653 18 30 ants. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Camden District. missions? $4,468 94. Camden Circuit 223 4 3 Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of Pineville Circuit 229 1 Pleasant Hill Circuit 120 l the Conference be held? Lowndesboro, H., and Union. 105 At Greenville, Ala. Monterey Circuit 200 3 Georgiana Circuit 655 9 Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed Sepulga Circuit 567 3 this year? Monroeville Circuit 207 Evergreen Circuit 326 7 Brewton Mission 100 MOBILE DISTRICT.

2732 5 26 P. S. H. Cox, E. Mobile: Franklin Street, E. Wadsworth, Union Springs District. J t City Mission, Jefferson Hamilton* Union Springs Station 167 Eastern Shore, A. J. Lamar. Union Circuit 311 2 St. Francis Street, W. Shapard. Pine Level Circuit 481 St. Paul’s, J. Barker. Rockv Mount Circuit 400 Fort Deposit Circuit 240 3 Grand Bay Mission, J. H. James, C. W. Cal- Greenville Station 226 2 houn, Sup. Greenville Circuit 450 8 2 Whistler Station, W. M. Winn. Rutledge Circuit 600 2 3 Troy and Brundidge Station. 206 3 Citronelle Circuit, F. M. Peterson. Troy Circuit 350 St. Stephen's Mission, M. M. Dawson. Elba Circuit 168 l

3605 10 16 * He died immediately after Conference adjourned. 46 Alabama Conference . , 1874

f Pensacola Station, J. T. Curry. Georgiana Circuit, M. M. Graham. I Navy Yard and Perdido Mission, P. G. Nash. Sepulga Circuit, J. M. Scott. Milton Station, J. O. Andrew. Camden Circuit, George F. Ellis. Yellow River Mission, to be supplied (by Pineville Circuit, Jacob L. Skipper. W. M. Shockley). Monroeville Circuit, Joshua S. Peavey. Pollard Circuit, W. Hargrave Morris. Evergreen Circuit, J. S. Rencher. Black Water Mission, I). C. Standley. Brewton Mission, Robert R. Smilie. Mount Pleasant Circuit, B. G. Blackwell. Bladon Springs Circuit, W. H. Wild. Oktuppee Mission, to be supplied (by G. W. MONTGOMERY DISTRICT. Fagan). W. A. McCarty P. E. , Montgomery: DEMOPOLIS DISTRICT. Montgomery Station, A. S. Andrews. A. H. Mitchell P. E. Heron Street, to be supplied (by T. , K Armstrong). Demopolis Station, R. B. Crawford. Wetumpka Station, E. W. Solomon. Livingston Station, R. S. Holcombe. Elmore Circuit, R. F. Perdue. Belmont Circuit, J. M. Patton. Tallassee Mission, M. C. Turrentine. Gaston Circuit, C. B. Dubose. Notasulga Circuit, W. B. Neal. Cuba Circuit, George Bancroft. Tuskegee Station, T. F. Mangum. Butler Circuit, D. j. Wright. Tuskegee Circuit, D. M. Hudson. Forkland Circuit, John S. Frazer. Auburn Station, E. L. Loveless. Gainesville Circuit, A. Hood. Opelika Station, W. M. Motley. Greene Circuit, J. W. McCann. Salem Circuit, L. F. Dowdell, "j. H. Lockhart, Eutaw Station, C. R. Williamson. Sup. Greensboro Station, 0. R. Blue. Crawford Circuit, W. W. Graham. Havana Circuit, G. Hawkins. Hurtville Circuit, W. K. Norton. Southern University, John S. Moore, Pro- Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College, fessor. - B. B. Ross, President. General Book Editor, and Editor of Christian Alabama Female College, Henry D. Moore, Advocate T. 0. Summers. , President. American Bible Society, T. J. Rutledge, Su- SELMA DISTRICT. perintendent.

A. J. Briggs P. E. , Selma: UNION SPRINGS DISTRICT. Selma Station, M. S. Andrews. S. P. Richardson • , P. E. East Selma and Benton Mission, P. H. Light- foot. Union Springs Station, E. P. Birch. Uniontown and Cedar Grove, G. Waverly Union Circuit, W. S. Wade. Briggs. Pine Level Circuit, W. P. H. Connerly. Dayton Circuit, W. A. Edwards. Rocky Mount Circuit, B. L. Selman. Orrville Circuit, Ritchie J. Briggs. Fort Deposit Circuit, W. F. Norton. Rembert Hills Circuit, C. H. Kelley. Greenville Station, Henry Urquhart. Choctaw Corner Circuit, J. M. Crews, Greenville Circuit, P. H. Moss, W. H. Morris,

f Bigbee Mission, P. B. Satfold. Sup. \ Peach-tree Circuit, W. A. Montgomery. Rutledge Circuit, A. M. Jones. Suggsville Circuit, E. M. Turner. Troy and Brundidge, J. A. Peterson. Grove Hill Circuit, W. Ira Powers. Troy Circuit, A. S" Dickinson. ( Summerfield Station, R. S. Woodward. Elba Mission, to be supplied (by W. H. Hasty). \ Perryville Circuit, Benjamin F. Blow. Gilmer Mission, to be supplied. Marion Station, John E. Foust.. Troy High-school, Robert J. Walker, Presi- Brush Creek Circuit, Billups D. Gayle dent. Newbern Circuit, John 0. Keener. Centenary Institute, A. D. McYov, President. ETTFAULA DISTRICT. W. H. Ellison P. E. , PRATTVILLE DISTRICT. Eufaula Station, E. M. Bounds. T J. W. Shores P. E. Villula Circuit, J. W . Solomon, , Beulah Circuit, D. C. Crook. Prattville Station, J. W. Rush. Enon and Midway, Jere. S. Williams. Autaugaville Circuit, A. C. Hundley. Perote Circuit, W. S. Turner. Clanton Circuit, W. H. McDaniel. Pea River Mission, John M. Brown. Randolph Circuit, R. A. Miears. Clayton and Louisville, S. A. Pilley. Lowndesboro Circuit, J. M. Mason. Henry Circuit, T. C. M. Golland. Pleasant Hill Circuit, T. Y. Abernathy. White Pond Circuit, J. L. Mathison. Monterey Circuit, Neil Gill is. Glennville Station, J. W. Glenn. . 47 North Alabama Conference , 1874

MARIANNA DISTRICT. William Murrah, S. M. Thames, J. F, Evans, transferred to North Mississippi Con- M. E. Butt P. E. , ference. Marianna Station, W. A. Rice. E. S. Smith transferred to South-west Mis- Circuit, H. M. Gillis. Greenwood souri Conference. Holmes’s Valley Circuit, J. P. Sanders. Calhoun Mission, W. H. Weatherby. A. J. Coleman transferred to Mississippi Con- Columbia Circuit, L. Patterson. ference. Newton Circuit, L. C. Calhoun. J. M. Johnston transferred to Louisiana Con- Echo Circuit, A. M. L. Douglass. ference. Geneva Circuit, John A. Green. T. O. Summers, jr., transferred to Tennessee Big Creek Circuit, D. Owens. W. Conference. Cerro Gordo Mission, to be supplied (by John "Wesley). J. B. Cottrell transferred to Louisville Con Ozark Circuit, Angus Dowling. ferenee. Marianna District High-school, E. Phillips, I. Z. T. Morris transferred to Little Rock Principal. Conference.

XI.—NORTH ALABAMA CONFERENCE.

Held at Huntsville, Ala., November 11-17, 1874.

Bishop Doggett, President ; John A. Thompson, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected Answer. William M. P.Rippv, Robert Mc- dea ••ns? Kel vey, Robert T. Blackwell, David C. Strange, Henry D. Hill, John Wesley Baine, Marcus Sion L. Hill, Samuel M. Hosmer, James E. E. Tumlin, James W. Christian, James L. Brit- Sams, Julian C. Brown, John L. Ferguson, John ton, Reuben S. Price, Jesse F. Ellis, John R. B. Stedham, James S. Glasgow, Moses N. Mor- S larue. Robert G. Isbell, Jephthah N. Scott, ris, Allen P. Taylor, William M. Taylor. 14. Aaron N. Lowrie. 11.

Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Robert F. Winston, Charles A. Allday, Hugh dained deacons? P. Berry, Jas. T. Miller, John B. Gregory. 5. Henry D. Hill, John Wesley Baine, Marcus E. Tumlin, James W. Christian, James L. Brit- Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? ton, Jesse F. Ellis, John R. Sharpe, Robert Samson H. Williams, James K. Armstrong, G. Isbell, Jephthah N. Scott. £h Julius W. Linn, Priestley E. Nicholson. 4. Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- deacons? tion ? Henry S. Webb, Benj. E. Finch, James B. John Wesley Baine, Marcus E. Tumlin, J. Sams, Moses N. Morris, Matthew Woodruff, W. Christian, James L. Britton, Reuben S. Randolph Ward, William K. Williams, Isaac Price, Jesse F. Ellis, John R. Sharpe, Robert G. Gilmer Gross, Robert T. Blackwell, John R. Isbell, Jephthah N. Scott, Aaron N. Lowrie. 10. Taylor, William N. Martin, George J. Hall, Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? Simon Jewell, Washington L. Smith, Jesse H Thos. G. Slaughter, Geo. L. W. Anthony. 2. Moore, Chalmers F. Hamil. 16.'

Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained other Conferences? deacons? William R. Williams, Moses L. White. 2. James Kirby Sams, Moses N. Morris, Mat- thew Woodruff, Randolph Ward, William K. Ques. 7. Who are the deacons' of one year? Williams, Isaac Gilmer Gross, Robert T. Black- George W. Hamilton, Edgar W. Jones, John well, John R. Taylor, George J. Hall, Joseph B. Cole, Joseph B. Perkins, R. J. Wilson, G. B. Sebo, In M. W’heat, Asa B. Brindley. 12. Wilson, James H. Cameron, John Wesley J Baine, Marcus E. Tumlin, James W. Christian,” Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are James L. Britton, Reuben S. Price, Jesse F. elected elders? Ellis, John R. Sharpe, Robert G. Isbell, Jeph- Zachariah A. Parker, Isaac Q. Melton, Wm. thah N. Seott, Aaron N. Lowrie. 17. C. McCoy. 3. North Alabama Conference, 1874 .

Ques 13. What traveling preachers are or- Huntsville District. dained elders? White Col'd Loci Zachariah A. Parker, j Isaac Q. Melton, Wm Mem's, Mem's. Pr’s. C. McCoy. 3. j Huntsville Station 388 2 Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Madison Station 143 Madison Circuit 387 2 elders? Athens Station 167 William M. P. Hippy, John H. Tucker, Bruce Athens Circuit 430 1 3 Peltusville Circuit 457 3 Harris, Miles G. Foust, David C. Strange, Maysville and New Market 449 3 Joseph W. Oswalt, Alvine S. Davison, Win. Scottsboro Circuit 450 1 6 G. H. Crump. 8. Paint Rock Circuit 209 1 2 Stevenson Circuit 347 4 4 T Ques. 15. W hat local preachers are ordained Woodville Circuit 279 1 elders? Vienna Circuit 550

William M. P. Hippy, John H. Tucker,* 4256 7 26 David C. Strange, William G. H. Crump, Rufus Nicholson, William Moore, William A. Mc- Guntersville District. Donald, James B. Lentz. 8. Guntersville Station 40 1 Ques. 16. Who are located this year? Guntersville Circuit 289 7 M. B. Johnston, Joshua C. Phelps, at their Cotaco Mission 174 1 Tennessee Valley Circuit 269 own request; L. M. Wilson. 3. Bristoe’s Cove Circuit... 87 1 1 T Valiev Head Circuit 330 2 Ques. 17. ho are supernumerary? W Van Buren Circuit 476 3 Henry P. Turner, John M. Hamer, James T. Cedar Bluff Circuit 461 3 8 Bartee, James M. Towles, E. B. McClellan. 5. Center Circuit 257 n Gadsden Circuit 350 1 Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? Sulphur Springs Circuit 238 5 Robert S. Scales, Williams, John N. Du- W. 2971 4 37 pree, E. McMeans, J. N. Glover, R. J. Mason, Charles W. Smith. 7. •Talladega District. Ques. 19. What preachers have died during Talladega Station 182 the past year? White Plains Circuit 543 4 None. Talladega Circuit 562 9 Alexandria Circuit 420 2 Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in Jacksonville and Anniston 174 3 their life and official administration? Cross Plains Circuit 353 2 4 Colvin Mountain Mission 1G6 2 were called over, one one, Their names by Fayetteville Circuit 480 5 and their characters examined and passed. Ha'rpersville Circuit 363 4 Columbiana Circuit 6 Ques. 21. What is the number of local preach- Montevallo Circuit 435 3 ers and members in the several circuits, stations, Blue Mountain Mission 188 1 1 Coosa River Mission 375 and missions of the Conference? 4494 3 43 Florence District. La Fayette District. Whi*f> Col'd . Mem's. Mem’s. 224 1 G Florence Station 176 373 Rogersville and Driskill’s Chapel Ct. ISO Fredonia Circuit 460 7 Lentzville Circuit 411 Louina Circuit 565 4 Lexington Mission 181 Pinckney ville Circuit . 650 45 7 Cypress Circuit 465 Dadeville Circuit 292 4 Oakland Circuit 286 Socapatoy Circuit 353 Waterloo Circuit 213 Lineville Circuit 214 Tuseumbia Station 101 Arbaeoochee Circuit... 563 8 Valley Station 212 227 3 Chickasaw Circuit. 283 Hatchet Creek Mission. 126 1 Frankfort Circuit 106 4047 46 57 Colbert Mission 1

2985 1 Birmingham District.ict.

Decatur District. Birmingham Station ... 179 3 Jones’s Valley Circuit. 435 11 Decatur Station Blountsville Circuit 475 10 Trinity Circuit 431 12 Courtland Circuit Gadsden Station*. 192 2 Leighton Circuit Ashville Circuit 475 2 Russell Valley Circuit. Ironton Circuit 95 1 Moulton Circuit Tuskaloosa Circuit... 363 1 Danville Circuit Woodstock Mission.. 150 2 Somerville Circuit Jonesboro Circuit 478 1 Gilmore Mission 418 7 Littlesville Mission 350 6

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TusTcaloosa District Brought forward, $740 00 Mrs. Bailey, 50 00 White Col'd -°. Mem’s. Mem's. -eg2 Mrs. Rhodes, 60 00 Mrs. Norton, 150 00 164 1 456 5 Sheffield Circuit 560 4 $1,000 00 466 3 Ques. 29. What has been contributed for 397 2 189 3 missions? 117 $2,368 25. 310 Yorkville Circuit 400 1 Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of 7 the Conference be held? Vernon Circuit 418 5 At Birmingham, Ala. 650 ii 145 3 Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed- this year? 4826 45 FLORENCE DISTRICT. Recapitulation. John B. Stevenson P. E. , Florence District 2985 1 26 3681 52 Florence and South Florence Station, John A. Huntsville “ 4256 7 26 Thompson. “ 2971 4 37 Guntersville Shoal Circuit, Dawson Phelps. 4494 3 43 La Fayette “ 4047 46 57 Lentzville Circuit, John G. Gibson. 4041 58 Cypress Circuit, George W. Hamilton. 45 4826 Oakland Circuit, Robert T. Blackwell. Total this year 31,301 61 344 Waterloo Circuit, William M. P. Rippy. 29,052 58 328 Tuscumbia Station, Thomas H. Davenport. Valley Station, William H. Armstrong. Increase 2249 3 16 Chickasaw Circuit, Robert F. Winston. Frankfort Circuit, Robert W. McKelvey. Ques. 22. How many infants have been bap- State Normal College, H. Brown, Professor. tized during the year? 759. DECATUR DISTRICT. Ques. 23. many adults have been bap- William E. Mabry P. E. How , tized during the year? Decatur Station, John W. Baine. 2406. Decatur Circuit, James H. Cameron. Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday- Trinity Circuit, Finch P. Scruggs. schools? Courtland Oircuit, Virgil O. Hawkins. 340. Leighton Circuit, John S. Davis. Russell Valley Circuit, Moses N. Morris. Ques. 25. is the number of Sunday- What Littlesville Mission, to be supplied. school teachers? * Moulton and Hillsboro Station, Leander F. 1724. Whitten.

Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- Moulton Circuit, Henry D. Hill. school scholars? Danville Circuit, William E. Cameron. 13,917. Hanceville Circuit, Joseph B. Perkins. Somerville Circuit, Robert J. Sampler, James Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the K. Sams. superannuated preachers, and the widows and Agent for Sabbath-school and Tracts, Zachariah orphans of preachers? Parker. $2,500. HUNTSVILLE DISTRICT. Ques. 28. What has been collected on the foregoing account, and how has it been ap- William R. Kirk, P. E. plied? Huntsville Station. Christopher D. Oliver. Collected, $1,021 70 Madison Station, Philip L. Henderson. Applied as follows: Madison Circuit, Ambrose F. Driskill. Mrs. E. A. West, 45 00 Triana Circuit, William T. Andrews. Mrs. Brown, 60 00 Athens Station, Frank T. J. Brandon. Rev. G. Mason, 50 00 Athens Circuit, Milus E. Johnston. Mrs. Stanley, 60 00 Pettusville Circuit, Crocket Godby. E. McMeans, 50 00 Maysville and New Market Circuit, William C. D. Odom’s children, 100 00 McQueen, Julian C. Brown. Mrs. Abernathy, 45 00 Scottsboro Circuit, Warren D. Nicholson. Mrs. Rebecca Matthews, 45 00 Paint Rock Circuit, Robert D. Evans. Mrs. J. B. Powers, 115 00 Stevenson Circuit, Reuben J. Wilson. W. Williams, 10 00 Woodville Circuit, Jephthah N. Scott, James Mrs. Robinson, 50 00 T. Bartee, Sup. Robert Scales, 10 00 Vienna Circuit, John C. Hunkapilar, John M. Mrs. Andrews 100 00 Hamer, Sup. 50 Louisiana Conference , 1875 .

GUNTERSVILLE DISTRICT. Lineville Circuit, John R. Sharpe. Jeremiah G. Guriy P. E. Arbacoochee Circuit, Jesse F. Ellis, John ±j. , Ferguson. Guntersville Station, John G. Walker. Chattahoochee Mission, John B. Stedham. Tennessee Valley Circuit, Rufus Nicholson. Sulphur Springs Circuit, Reuben S. Price. BIRMINGHAM DISTRICT. Valley Head Circuit, Samuel M. Hosmer. Cedar Bluff Circuit, Dempsey W. Ward. Anson West, P. E. Center Circuit, to be supplied. Birmingham Station, Washington L. C’.ifton. Colvin Mountain Mission, James Cox. Jones’s Valley Circuit, John W. Newman. Gadsden Circuit, Perry B. Brindley. Blountsville Circuit, Anderson G. Copeland. Gadsden Station, James D. Anthony. Asheville Circuit, R. W. Coons, E. B. McClel- Attalla Circuit, Tlieophilus Moody. lan, Sup. Van Buren Circuit, William C. McCoy. Coosa Valley Mission, Charles A. Allday. Bristoe’s Cove Circuit, Aaron N. Lowrie. Ironton Circuit, Allen P. Taylor. Summit Circuit, Benjamin P. Lea. Tuskaloosa Circuit, Evan Nicholson. Woodstock Mission, Hugh P. Berry. TALLADEGA DISTRICT. Jonesboro Circuit, Thomas P. Roberts. Daniel Duncan P. E. Village Falls Circuit, Robert G. Isbell. , T W arrior River Mission, to be supplied. Talladega Station, John H. Anderson. Jasper Circuit, Marcus E. Tumlin. Talladega Circuit, Largus R. Bell. New Castle Mission, Francis M. Grace. White Plains and Oxford Station, Robert A. Timmons. TUSKALOOSA DISTRICT. Alexandria Circuit, Robert G. Reagan. James L. Coleman P. E. Lincoln Circuit, David C. Strange. , Jacksonville Station, Joel W. Whitten. Tuskaloosa Station, Jeremiah M. Boland. Cross Plains Circuit, James H. Neely. North Port Circuit, Daniel S. McDonald. Tecumseh Mission, Cornelius N. McLeod. Sheffield Circuit, Green B. Wilson. Fayetteville Circuit, Thomas G. Slaughter. Fayette Circuit, James E. Andrews. Harpersville Circuit, R. Stripling. Gordo Circuit, George L. W. Anthony. Columbiana Circuit, Cicero L. Dobbs. Carrollton Circuit, Zaehariah A. Parker. Montevallo Circuit, John B. Cole. Fairfield and Pickensville Circuit, Robert D. Carver. LA FAYETTE DISTRICT. Palmetto Circuit, James S. Glasgow. Moses L. Whitten P. i£. Yorkville Circuit, George R. Lynch. , Yellow Creek Circuit, Jephthah F. Randall, La Fayette Station, James L. Britton. Luxapulila Circuit, William R. Williams. Oak Bowery Circuit, Robert F. Mountain. Vernon Circuit, E. F. S. Roberts. Fredonia Circuit, James Christian. W. Bexar Circuit, Cornelius M. Livingston. Louina Circuit, Edgar W. Jones, James M. North River Mission, James T. Miller. Towles, Sup. Pikeville Mission, Moses L. White. Pinckneyville Circuit, William T. Patillo. Tuskaloosa Female College, B. F. Larrabee, Dadeville Circuit, Isaac Melton. Q. President. Socapatoy Circuit, John B. Gregory. Hatchet Creek Mission, to be supplied. William M. Taylor transferred to North- Chandler Springs Circuit, Sion L. Hill. west Texas Conference.

XII. — LOUISIAN A CONFERENCE.

Held at Alexandria, La., January 6-ii, 1875 .

Bishop Paine, President; J. W. Wilkinson, Secretary .

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? T. F. Webb, E. G. Miller. 2. F. Patterson, A. Hoffpauir, G. r Answer. J. Ques. 4. W ho are admitted into full connec- T. Freeman. 3. tion ? Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? J. S. White, J. D. Harper, T. S. Randle, J. A. E. Clay, J. T. Sawyer, W. B. Whatley. 3. J. Billingslv, W. Hart, Thomas Mullett, J. W. Hocutt. 9. Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? Hearne, R. S. Isbell, F. G. Louisiana Conference . , 1875 51

Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? New Orleans District. N. S. Cornell, W. D. Shea. 2. White Dol'd T,oc’l j Mem’s. Mem’s. Prs. Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from i other Conferences? Kew Orleans: J. B. Walker, J. G. Grote, from Texas Con- Carondelet Street 459 to 2 ference; J. M. Johnston, from Alabama Confer- Felicity Street 4<»0 5 Moreau Street 84 J. F. Scurlock, from South-west Missouri ence; Cadiz Street 78 1 Conference. 4. Louisiana Avenue 1 % 78 l Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Lafourche and Mission 15 S. H. Schroeder, E. B. Foust. 2. Baton Rouge 198 Plaquemine and Grosse Tete 13 Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected 1420 6 9 deacons? A. E. Clay, J. T. Sawyer, J. S.^Vhite, T. S. Randle, J. J. Billingsly, W. Hart, J. W. Delhi District. Hearne. 7. Monroe 78 Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Trenton 152 5 2 Bastrop 108 dained deacons? Lind Grove 245 i A. E. Clay, J. T. Sawyer, J. S. White, T. S. Oak Ridge and Prairie Mer Rouge... 88 Randle, J. J. Billingsly, W. Hart, J. W. Rayville 204 1 2 Winnsboro 400 1 Hearne. 7. Waterproof and St. Joseph 85 1 /Tensas Chapel Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected ( Concordia Mission 42 2 deacons? Wesley 65 3 A. Hoffpauir, W. B. Pilley. 2. Delhi 209 3 Lake Providence and Pecan Grove... 60 1 Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained Floyd 295 5 deacons? 2037 OO A. Hoffpauir, W. B. Pilley. 2.

Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Homer District. elected elders? Homer 540 R. S. Isbell, P. Allen. 2. 4 Havnesville 473 2 Minden 370 Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- 3 South Bossier 177 dained elders? Sparta and Ringgold 271 4 R. S. Isbell, P. Allen. 2. Arcadia 7. 7. 250 486 2 Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Castor 337 5 elders? Louisville Ouachita 380 1 W. A. Droddy. 1. 350 2 0

Ques. 15. "VYhat local preachers are ordained 3634 2| 27 elders? W. A. Droddy. 1. Shreveport District. Ques. 1G. Who are located this year? Shreveport 153 F. T. Rawson, J. L. Borden, W. D. Stay- Caddo..* 172 ton. 3. De Soto 192 Mansfield and Pleasant Hill 230 Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? Beulah A. G. Miller, J. Fulton. 2. Many 139 Anacoco and Leasville 402 Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? Springville tforth" Bossier 123 J. S. Davis, E. W. Yancy, J. Saunders, H. C. Thweatt, W. E. Doty, P. Dieffen weirth. 6.

Ques. 19. What preachers have died during the past year? Alexandria District. \ None. Alexandria and Pineville 105 .1 Spring Creek 175 5 1 Ques. 20. all Are the preachers blameless in Chicot, and Ville Platte 40 their life and official administration? Bavou Bceuff 12 Their names were called over, one by one, Evergreen and Big Cane 293 2 Bavou De Glaize and Simsport and their characters examined and passed, ex- Cotile and Dark’s Creek....! cept that of E. B. Foust, whose case was re- Rapides and Mission 20 0. ferred to the Presiding Elder of New Orleans Montgomery 305 14 3 Harrisonburg and Sicily Island 100 1 District, fur investigation. J. G. Miller with- Centerville. .! 247 14 drawn. Trinity 44 1 Columbia and Triune Ques. 21. What is the number of local preach- Caldwell and Dugdemona 135 2 Little River ers and members in the several circuits, sta- Mission 62 tions, and missions Con for on op.? pf the 2033 53 12 imVErsity VQ i theology library 52 Louisiana Conference . , 1875

• Opelousas District. Brought forward, $1,291 20 Widow and orphans of R. R. R. - White Coi a I.oc'l Mem's. Mem's Pr's. Alexander, 150 00 Widow and orphans of J.D. Adams, 150 00 40 Orphans of C. H. Halherg, 126 1 80 00 5S2 4 Orphans of W. J. McFarland, 40 00 9 2 Vermillionville and Kimball’s Chap. 59 118 $1,711 20 222 Ques. 29. What has been contributed for 103 missions? 66 1 145 1 $2,657 90. Ques. 30. shall 291 7 Where the next session of the Conference be held? At New Orleans, La. 1761 2 14 Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed this year? .Recapitulation . Kew Orleans District 1426 6 9 NEW ORLEANS DISTRICT. Delhi “ 2037 9 18 “ 3634 2 27 J. B. Walker P. Homer , E. Shreveport “ 1471 22 10 New Orleans: Alexandria “ 2033 53 12 Carondelet Street, J. Mathews. Opelousas “ 1761 2 14 Felicity Street, J. B. Walker. Total this vear 12.362 94 90 Moreau Street, J. T. Sawyer. Total last year 12,535 179 91 Cadiz Street and Carrollton, J. A. Ivy. Decrease 173 85 1 Louisiana Avenue, L. Parker. Algiers, to be supplied (by L. A. Reed). [There would have been an increase if the German members had not been transferred to the German Mis- Lafourche, to be supplied. sion Conference.—Eo.] Baton Rouge, J. Wilkinson, A. G. Miller, Sup. Plaquemine and Grosse Tete, J. D. Harper. Ques. 22. How many infants have been bap- Editor of New Orleans Christian Advocate L. tized during the vear? , Parker. 845. New Orleans Depository, R. J. Harp. Ques. 23. How many adults have been bap- Institute for the Blind, Baton Rouge, P. Lane. tized during the year? 835. DELHI DISTRICT. Ques. 24. "What is the number of Sunday- C. W. Carter P. E. schools? , 103. Monroe, R. S. Trippett. Trenton, H. O. White. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday- Bastrop, P. Owen. school teachers? W. Lind Grove, T. S. Randle. 740. Oak Ridge, J. L. Wright. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- Boeuff River, G. T. Freeman. school scholars? Winnsboro, A. M. Wailes. 4348. Waterproof and St. Joseph, Baxter Clegg. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the Tensas, W. Hart. superannuated preachers, and the widows and Delhi, B. F. Alexander. orphans of preachers? Lake Providence and Pecan Grove, N. S. Cor- $3,560. nell. Floyd, T. H. McClendon. Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Cothron Mission, to be supplied (by W. Kel- foregoing account, and- how has it been ap- lar). plied? Mexican Mission, Joel T. Daves, Superin- Collected, $1,711 20 tendent. Applied as follows: H. C. Thweatt, 70 00 HOMER DISTRICT. J. Saunders, 70 00 J. A. Miller P. E. F. T. Rawson, 175 00 , P. M. Goodwyn, 200 00 Homer Circuit, W. P. Kimball. * J. S. Davis, 150 00 Lisbon Circuit, to be supplied (by J. L, Wil- E. W. Yancy, 150 00 liams). J. C. Read, 126 20 Haynesville Circuit, T. J. Upton. T W idow of J H. Waters, 70 00 Minden Circuit, M. C. Manly. Widow of F. Bell, 70 00 Sparta Circuit, J. W. Hearne. Widow of R. Randle, 70 00 Arcadia Circuit, J. C. Read. Widow of W. Whatley, 70 00 Vernon Circuit, J. M. McKee. Widow of W. G. McGaughey, 70 00 Castor Circuit, F. G. Hocutt. ; ,

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Downsville Circuit, R. T. Parish. Caldwell Circuit, G. Jackson. Louisville Circuit, A. E. Clay. Dugdemona Circuit, C. R. Godfrey. Farmerville Circuit, R. Parvin. OPELOUSAS DISTRICT. J. E. Cobb P. E. SHREVEPORT DISTRICT. , S. S. Scott P. E. Opelousas, J. F. Scurlock. , Washington and Plaquemine Brule, R. S. Is- Shreveport, A. E. Goodwyn. bell. Caddo Circuit, R. II. Adair. Vermillionville, J. V. Pointer. De Soto Circuit, J. Pipes. Abbeville, A. Hotfpnuir. Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, J. M. Brown. New Iberia, B. F. White. Natchitoches, J. S. White. ^ Franklin, J. W. Medlock. Many and Beulah, J. M. Franklin. Pattersonville and Brashear, R. A. Davis. Anacoco and Leasville, to be supplied (by W. Lake Charles and Sugartown, J. J. Billingsly. A. Droddy). Grand Cheniere, S. H. Cooper. Springville, Philip Allen, Jesse Fulton, Sup. Chicot and Ville Platte, F. White. Webster, J. F. Patterson. Spring Creek, W. V. Taylor. South Bossier, G. M. Liverman. Evergreen and Big Cane, J. M. Johnston. North Bossier, R. Randle. N. M. Skipworth, J. E. Bradley, transferred ALEXANDRIA DISTRICT. to Columbia Conference. R. W. Flournoy transferred to North-west J. H. Stone P. E. , Texas Conference. Alexandria and Pineville, C. Keener. C. F. Evans transferred to Little Rock Con- Rapides and Mission, T. Mullett. ference. Montgomery, to be supplied. W. V. Tudor transferred to St. Louis Con- Harrisonburg and Sicily Island, S. H. Schroe- ference. der. W. D. Shea transferred to North Texas Con- Centerville, W. R. Whatley. ference. Trinity, to be supplied (by D. B. Mitchell). J. A. B. Rabe transferred to Texas Confer- Little River Mission, to be supplied (by P. ence. Sheppard). H. R. Singleton transferred to Mississippi Columbia Circuit, J. F. Wynn. Conference.

XIII.— MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE.

I Held at Hazlehurst, Miss., December 16-22, 1874.

Bishop Paine, President C. G. Andrews, Secretary. 4 Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? W. McLaurin, Thomas S. West, Ralph Brad- Answer. Vernon H. Nelson, Beverly Car- ley, Calvin C. Watkins. 6. radine, Thomas W. Adams, Charles J. Phillips, Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? Joseph Hicks, Charles Reed, John A. Q. W. None. Guice, Curtis D. Cecil, Ruffin T. Davis, Rich- ard F. Flowers, Elias Burkhalter, William W. Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from Hopper, Thomas Cotton, George W. David- other Conferences? son. 14. Andrew J. Coleman, from the Alabama Con- ference; Clarence J. Nugent, from the North Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Mississippi Conference. 2. Daniel C. Langford, Thomas B. Holloman, Clarence A. Powell, Charles R. Benson, Dun- Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? can A. Little, Alexander L. McBride, Albert George M. Gillmore, Jacob H. Holland, Jas. T. Tidwell, John W. Ritchey, Lewis R. Feath- S. Parker. 3. erstun, Joseph W. Hall. 10. Ques. 8. "What traveling preachers are elected Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? deacons? None. John W. Ellison, James W. McLaurin, Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- Thomas B. Holloman. 3. tion? Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- John W. Ellison, Joseph B. K. Smith, Jas. dained deacons? 1

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John W. Ellison, James AY. McLaurin, Vicksburg District. Thomas 13. Holloman. 3.

White Col'd 1 Loc'l Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. \ deacons? Vicksburg: L. Spruill, Benjamin Henry A. Hendrixson, 206 1 Archibald White, William J. Ball, Robert W. 49 Burton. 5. William Nailor, colored. 1. 312 3 20 Ques. 11. What local preachers arc ordained 75 1 deacons? 140 2 239 Henry A. Hendrixson, Archibald White, 112 William J. Ball, Robert W. Burton. 4. Wil- 310 3 liam Nailor, colored. 1. 22 1 188 1 Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Clover Hill 52 elected elders? ion 1

Daniel G. W. Ellis, Thomas B. Walden, Hi- 1825 13 ram R. Singleton, Robert D. Norsworthy. 4. Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Woodville District. dained elders? Woodville Station 224 236 1 Daniel Ellis, G. W. Thomas B. Walden, Hi- 352 3 ram R. Singleton, Robert D. Norsworthy. 4. 150 1 179 6 Ques. 14. AY hat local preachers are elected 260 1 elders? 105 r 72 1 1 John L. A inson. 1. Clinton, La East Baton Rouge 345 1 1 Ques. 15. AYhat local preachers are ordained 325 3 elders? 121 Bayou Sara 177 2 John L. Vinson, AVilliam Hoover. 2. Ques. 16. AYho are located this year? 2546 2 19 J. K. Hamblen, F. AV. Sharbrough, S. R. Summit District. Hyde, J. J. Clark, F. Walker, J. AV. Adams, O. I. Summit 66 H. P. Davis, P. S. Petty, AV. G. Millsaps, G. Holmesville.. 193 AV. Chatfield. 10. McComb City 112 r St. Helena 260 Ques. 17. AA ho are supernumerary? Greensburg .. 230 A. J. Davis, G. T. Vickers, J. N. AVilliams, Union 304 177 E. A. Flowers. 4. Covington Franklinlon.. 168 Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? Big Creek 38 AVm. Spillman, A. Day, J. G. Jones, T. Clin- 1548 i| 9 ton, B. Pipkin, J. G. Higginbotham, AV. Finn, 1 H. Copeland, L. Pearce, j. Long, AV. McCor- Brookhaven District. mick, J. McKay, J. Shanks, Nicholson. 14. J. 140 2 Ques. 19. AVhat preachers have died during Bogue Chilto 208 5 256 the past year? 290 1 None. Crystal Springs 276 2 Terry ? .7. Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in 134 3 their life and official administration?* Zion 100 1 Their names were called over, one by one, Georgetown 196 1 260 and their characters examined and passed. Ravmond 219 1 1 183 Ques. 21. AA'hat is the number of local preach- 1 Monticello 100 3 ers and members in the several circuits, stations, and missions of the Conference? 2387 1 25

Brandon District. Jackson District. Brandon Station. 130 Fannin 445 1 White Col'd I.oc’l j Garlandsville 310 1 Mem's. ! Mem's. Pr's. Raleigh 295 1 , Trenton .. 334 2 Jackson Station 21 8 1 333 Brownsville 301 ”"i Madison 7Si 2 236 3 Canton Station 148 1 328 5 Sharon 170 9 4 285 7 Camden 97 2 312 1 Thomastown 2 339 4 3315 22 Mt. Olivet 257 3 Dover 139 J District. .. Yazoo Citv Station 143 2 Meridian A'azoo Circuit 296 5 263 491

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Brought forward, $281 25 Meridian District ( continued). Thomas Clinton and wife, 112 50 Vliite Col'd I.oc'l 1 93 75 | Mrs. D. Wiggins and child, Mem's. Mem's. 1 Pr'g. l Mrs. W. W. Drake and children, 75 00 Spring Hill 4 Sol 3 Mrs. Berry and children, 75 00 4 Toomsuba and Marion. 609 children, 75 00 i:tn! Mrs. R. J. J< mes and Enterprise Station 56 25 Enterprise Circuit 309 .. 3 Jesse McKay and child, 2 T)e Soto 313 Mrs. L. R. Redding and children, 150 00 71 1 Quitman and Stonewall Mrs. L. Campbell, 75 00 Shubuta 121 Waynesboro loo 2 Mrs. V. Cooper, 37 50 Wayne Circuit 363 3 James Long and wife, 93 75 Paulding 435 4 J. B. Higginbotham, 75 00 4238 32 Mrs. D. Johnson, 18 75 | Mrs. B. M. Drake, 75 00 75 00 Sea-shore District. Mrs. Haney, Mrs. Herbert, 37 50 486 1 75 00 500 4 Wm. McConnell and wife, 175 J. G. Jones and wife, 112 50 101 Mrs. Thomas Nixon, 75 00 115 2 wife, 150 00 335 12 6 Wm. Finn and 220 6 Robert Lambutli’s child, 18 75 253 1 D. M. Wadsworth’s daughter, 18 75 269 Peter Green’s two children, 56 25 Brother Sims’s children, 37 50 2454 12 20 A. Day, 25 00

Recapitulation. $1,950 00 T 2276 12 22 Ques. 29. V hat has been contributed for 1825 13 missions? 2546 2 19 1548 1 9 $1,940. 2387 25 T 1 Ques. 30. here shall the next session of 3315 22 W 4238 32 the Conference be held? 2454 12 20 At Canton, Miss.

20.589 28 162 Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed 19,656 166 this year?

933 28 Decrease 4 JACKSON DISTRICT. E. M. Linfield P. E. W. , Ques. 22. How many infants have been bap- Jackson Station, Charles B. Galloway. tized during the year? Brownsville Circuit, F. M. Williams. 884. Vernon Mission, Beverly Carradine. Ques. 23. How many adults have been bap- Madison Circuit, W. C. Black. tized during the year? Canton Station, Ransom J. Jones. 986. • Sharon Circuit, Thomas B. Holloman. Chapel, Ralph Bradley, A. Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday- Camden and Soule schools? Y. Davis, Sup. 180. Thomastown Circuit, Clarence A. Powell, John W. Hall. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday- Carthage Circuit, Levi P. Meador, Joseph W. school teachers? Halh 1087. Dover Circuit, David W. Dillehay. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- Yazoo Circuit, James H. Shelton. school scholars? Yazoo City Station, Robert D. Norsworthy. 6583. Silver Creek Circuit, V. Hicks Nelson. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the Missionary to China, James W. Lambuth. superannuated preachers, and the widows and Special Agent of Publishing House, Richard orphans of preachers? Abbey. $5,000. DISTRICT. Ques. 28. What has been collected on the VICKSBURG foregoing account, and how has it been ap- F. M. Featherstun, P. E. plied? Vicksburg: Collected, $1,950 00 Vicksburg Station, Josiah Bancroft. Applied as follows: Grove Street, Albert T. Tidwell. Mrs. Vernon Johnson, 93 75 North Warren, George M. Gilmore. Mrs. Dawson, 56 25 Mill Dale and Cane Ridge, L. R. Featherstun. Mrs. Thompson and four children, 131 25 Sunflower Mission, James S. Harris. ,

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South "Warren, John W. Ellison. BRANDON DISTRICT. Cayuga Circuit, Daniel A. J. Parker. IF. B. Hines P. E. Rocky Springs Circuit, John A. B. Jones. , Port Gibson Station, Edwin H. Mounger. Brandon Station, William II. Leith. Fayette Circuit, William B. Lewis, Joseph 0. Fannin Circuit, Walter W. Hurst. Hicks. Garlandsville Circuit, Thomas Cotton. Natchez Station, William L. C. Hunnicutt. Raleigh Circuit, John H. Evans. Kingston Circuit, Richard F. Flowers. Trenton Circuit, Joseph B. K. Smith. Clover Hill Circuit, Thomas B. Walden. Strong River Mission, to be supplied. Mt. Olivet Circuit, Andrew B. Stewart. Morton Circuit, John D. Hays, Charles Reed, Rolling Fork Circuit, H. Walter Featlierstun. J. N. Williams, Sup. 7 Port Gibson Collegiate Academy, J. A. B. Hillsboro Circuit, Lyman CarJe} . Jones, President. Walnut Grove Circuit, Robert A. Sibley. Centerville Circuit, John A. Vance. WOODVILLE DISTRICT. Decatur Mission, Wm. W. Hopper. Forest and Lake Circuit, Claiborne McDonald. C. Green Andrews P. E. ,

Woodville Station, William II. Watkins. MERIDIAN DISTRICT. Buffalo Circuit, James S. Parker. John A. Ellis P. E. Bayou Sara Circuit, Calvin C. Watkins. , Wilkinson Circuit, Daniel C. Langford. Meridian Station, Joshua T. Heard. Jackson, La., and Pipkin’s Chapel, James L. Forsyth. De Kalb Circuit, Andrew J. Coleman. Spring Hill Circuit, James M. Gann. East Feliciana Circuit, James A. Godfrey. Marion Circuit, John C. Brogan. Clinton, La., Station, Alexander M. Campbell. Enterprise Station, Ulysses B. Phillips. Centenary College, C. Green Andrews, Presi- Circuit, Elias Burkhalter. dent. Enterprise Chunkey Circuit, Thomas Y. Armstrong. DISTRICT. SUMMIT De Soto Circuit, Alexander L. McBride.

A. B. Nicholson , P. E. Shubuta Circuit, Thomas S. West. Ellisville Mission, to be supplied (by P. C. Summit Circuit, Ira B. Robertson. Wimbush). Magnolia Circuit, Henry P. Lewis. Waynesboro Circuit, James McLaurin. China Grove Circuit, Newton B. Young. Wayne Circuit, Duncan A. Little. Franklinton Circuit, Thomas W. Adams. Paulding Circuit, Jacob H. Holland. Covington Mission, Henry P. Bowen. East Mississippi Female College, J. W. Ad- Amite City Circuit, David P. Bradford. kisson, President; John A. Ellis, Agent. . Hammond Circuit, George W. Davidson. Union Circuit, Thomas Price. St. Helena Circuit, John W. Sandell. SEA-SHORE DISTRICT. Amite Circuit, John Ritchey. G F. Gillespie P. E. East Baton Rouge Circuit, Parmenas Howard. , Meadville Circuit, Curtis D. Cecil, E. A. Flow- Mt. Carmel Circuit, Henry Moore. ers, Sup. Westville Circuit, to be supplied (by J. O. Homocliitto Circuit, Ruffin Davis. Napier). Monticello Mission, Erastus R. Strickland. Taylorsville Mission, C. R. Benson. Rankin Circuit, Louis liendall. BROOKHAYEN DISTRICT. Columbia Circuit, to be supplied (by W. J. H. H. Montgomery P. E. BhU). , Pearlington Circuit, David A. Given. Brookhaven Station, Hiram R. Singleton. Handsboro Mission, John A. Guice. Beauregard Circuit, William E. Ballard. Ocean Springs Station, Robert B. Downer. Scotland Circuit, William Wadsworth. White Plains Circuit, Charles J. Phillips. Brandywine Circuit, Columbus W. Campbell. Black Creek Mission, to be supplied. Hazlehurst Station, James M. Weems. Enon Circuit, David Merchant. Providence Circuit, Pinckney A. Johnston. East Pascagoula Circuit, Benjamin Jones. Zion Mission, Elisha F. Mullins. Chickasaha and Green Mission, to be supplied Georgetown Circuit, Bascom T. Pearson, H. J. (by Sneed Gilmore). Harris. Crystal Springs Station, Clarence J. Nugent. Epaphroditus W. Simmons transferred to Raymond Circuit, George F. Thompson. North-west Texas Conference. Spring Ridge Circuit, James J. Smylie. Corydon Chamberlain transferred to Pacific Whitworth Female College, Harvey F. John- Conference, and stationed at Sacramento City, son, President. Cal. ;

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XIV. — NORTH MISSISSIPPI CONFERENCE.

Held at Aberdeen, Miss., November 2^-December i, 1874.

Bishop Doggett, President John Barcroft, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Aston, John M. Dunn, Richmond P. Goar, Answer. Marlborough C. Pegues, James S. Wm. W. Williams, Noel R. Hamer. 6. Daniel Babb, m. B. Hurrah, Ben- Carlton, W. W Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained jamin F. Phillips, Wm. W. Williams, James deacons? H. Mitchell, Eugene Johnson, W. Babb, John L. W. Hollingsworth, B. W. Aston, R. P. James It. Roberson, Noel R. Hamer. 11. Goar, Wm. W. Williams, N. R. Hamer. 5. Ques. 2. remain on trial? Who Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Peebles, John R. Allen, J. Wm. L. Wm. elected elders? : Chrisenberry L. Bates. 4. 0 Bryant, David 0. Hughes, John McElhannon, Sam- Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? uel W. Miller, Joseph J. Brooks, Peter M. Nimrod P. Johnson, Samuel J. Montgom- Marmon, Samuel C. Stone, Edward H. Moon, ery, Daniel N. Foose, John M. Dunn. 4. Henry E. Smith, Andrew J. Foster. 9.

Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- tion ? dained elders? James Wilkinson, James W. Gooch, Thomas D. O. Hughes, John McElhannon, S. W. J. Taylor, Robert M. Davis, Wm. S. Lagrone, Miller, J. J. Brooks, P. M. Marmon, S. C. John Mitchell, Joseph S. Oakley, David Plews, Stone, E. H. Moon, H. E. Smith, A. J. Fos- Wm. Ira Smith, Reuben A. Ellis, James M. ter. 9. Mitchell, D. Matthews, Daniel S. Hearon, Wm. Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Francis Howarth, Peter Flem- Quincy A. Oats, elders? ing. 16. Thomas J. Young, John W. Wells. 2. Ques. 5. are readmitted? Who Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained Perry. 1. Jesse W. elders? Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from Eden D. Hyde. 1. other Conferences? Ques. 16. 'VVho are located this year? Richard Powers, John H. Scruggs, David M. Wm. T. Ashford, Thomas P. Ramsey, Rufus Plews. 3. Yancy. 3. Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? James T. Cunningham, Robert P. Mitchell, P. J. Eckles, B. D. Brown, H. H. Thacker, Renjamin D. Brown, John W. Lowrance, Ben- Lorenzo Lea, Wm. Irby, W. M. Ross, A. R. jamin F. Morris, Alexius W. Langley, Wm. Hines, J. P. Commander, J. B. Price. 9. B. Mitchell, Lorenzo D. Worsham. 8. Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected Walton J. Reeves, Ivinehen Adams, Wm. S. deacons? Jones, Edmund J. Williams, Lewis H. Davis, Chrisenberry L. Bates, James Gooch, W. William L. Bonner, Humphrey Williamson, Thomas J. Taylor, Robert M. Davis, Wm. S. Wm. C. Green, George Shaeffer. 9. Lagrone, John Mitchell, Joseph S. Oakley, Wm. Ira Smith, Reuben A. Ellis, James M. Ques. 19. What preachers have died during Mitchell, Wm. D. Matthews, Daniel S. Hearon, the past year? Quincy A. Oats, Peter Fleming. 14. Leroy Massengale, Nathanael Thomas, Rob- ert Martin, Elias Jackson. 4. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are ordained deacons? Leroy Massengale died, at his residence C. L. Bates, J. W. Gooch, T. J. Taylor, R. in Noxubee co., Miss., Feb. 9, 1874, at three M. Davis, W. S. Lagrone, John Mitchell, J. S. o’clock p.m., in his sixty-eighth year. He was Oakley, W. Ira Smith, R. A. Ellis, J. M. Mitch- converted to God in his boyhood, and entered ell, W. D. Matthews, D. S. Hearon, Quincy A. the traveling connection of the Methodist Oats, Peter Fleming. 14. Church in the Mississippi Conference in 1825, Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected before the setting off of the Alabama Confer- deacons? ence as a separate body, being then in his nine- Leonidas W. Hollingsworth, Benjamin W. teenth year. He was ordained a deacon in 58 North Mississippi Conference, 1874 .

1827, and an elder in 1829. "When the Ala- pacities of junior preacher, preacher in charge bama Conference was organized lie became a of many of the best circuits, and agent to pro- member of that body, and labored in his office mote the interests of literary institutions. As faithfully and acceptably until the session of a man, he was characterized by many peculiar- 1849, when he asked and received a transfer to ities; as a Christian, he was of blameless life, the Mississippi Conference; but on going to and full of religious fervor; as a preacher, he Conference he found it expedient not to pre- generally evinced no great ability as an ex- sent his transfer, and at the next session of pounder of God’s word, but was striking, bold, the Alabama Conference he returned and re- incisive, forceful, and at times attractively elo- sumed labor in that body, and continued in quent. There was about his pulpit and altar said Conference until the organization of the services a winsomeness, amidst all his peculi- North Mississippi Conference, of which he be- arities—a magic influence, which won the came a member by virtue of his field of labor hearts of the people of all classes, and secured being within the limits of this Conference at him great success. We have daia that will the time of the organization. Our beloved show that during his ministerial life no less Brother Massengale was a self-made man, hav- than fourteen thousand persons were united ing had but few, if any, advantages in his with the Church by his instrumentality. | He youth. He was possessed of strong natural finished his course, at his residence in Lowndes powers of mind. He had strong faith in God; co., Miss., Jan. 4, 1874. His end was full of he rejoiced much in this grace, and was a man resignation and peace, and he rests from his of great power in prayer. He had clear views labors. of his great work as a minister, and was a forceful expounder of the gospel of Christ. Robert Martin died, at his residence in He was emphatically an honest man and true, Water Valley, Miss., Dec. 29, 1873, aged about

; never taking any shape or even semblance of fifty-five years. He was licensed to preach in disguise in any of the relations or transactions 1841, and joined the traveling connection in of life. He truly fought a good fight, and kept the Memphis Conference, M. E. Church, in the faith. He finished his course on earth with the year 1842. He was meek and self-distrust- the respect and love of his Church, and the full ing, and scrupulously conscientious in the dis- confidence of all the people in the sincerity charge of every duty as a Christian and min- and purity of his character as a Christian and ister; instant in season and out of season,

minister. On the morning of Feb. 7, while in always abounding in the work of the Lord. the act of packing his clothing and books in Purity of heart and of life was the great goal

!; his saddle-bags, preparatory to leaving home of his ambition. His social intercourse and for his appointment, he was suddenly struck pastoral work were marked by gentleness and down with apoplexy. He fell from liis chair love. His pulpit deliverances abounded in the with his Bible in his hand. He was taken up pathetic; the tender mercies of God in Christ by his son and the servants of the house, and Jesus and the beautiful graces of the Holy laid on his bed. He never spoke or showed Spirit were his constant and favorite themes. signs of returning consciousness again. He The love of God beamed from every feature of pronounced no note of victory ftr of triumph his face, and the eloquence of tears added per- in the last hour, but he fell at his post, full of suasive power to his sermons. He exhorted years and honors, leaving us to mourn our loss. and reproved with all long-suffering and doc- Having run the race of Christian and ministe- trine; he allowed no man to despise him in rial life lawfully and to the end, we are assured the discharge of the duties of his high and he has obtained the prize and has entered into holy office. Brother Martin was especially life—eternal life. As his brethren in the min- fond of the service of song, and his soul

! istry, we will ever keep in sacred remembrance seemed always attuned to the music of heaven. his virtues and his usefulness, and fondly He compiled and published a valuable volume cherish the hope of a glorious reunion with of songs and hymns, suited to the family and in social ! him heaven. worship of the . Church, entitled “Sacred Gems,” which has obtained a wide circulation, Nathanael Thomas was born, in Wake and met with much favor from the Christian co., N. C., in 1814. In his infancy his parents public. He was an effective traveling preacher died, and he was brought up by his aunt, near from the time of his reception into the Mem- Louisburg, N. C. Being instructed in the phis Conference to the year 1869. This year principles of Christianity, he professed faith he was stricken with paralysis, which com- in Christ his Saviour when yet a boy. He be- pletely disabled him to the time of his death. came exhorter and local preacher while young, But even during these years of physical and and was employed as a supply on several cir- mental wreck, the religion of Jesus shone cuits till about the year 1839, when be was ad- beautifully and attractively in his daily life; mitted on trial into the Virginia Conference. and his speech, though broken and stammer- He was full of zeal and the Holy Ghost, and ing, praised and honored the God he loved. wonderful success attended his labors. Brother His death was peaceful and triumphant. Our Thomas enjoyed to the highest degree the con- brother will preach, and pray, and sing, and re- fidence of his brethren of the Conference, as joice with us no more on earth; but his puri- is evident in the fact of his having occupied fied spirit has gone on before us, and has joined very responsible positions in the various ca- the grand multitude of the redeemed, and his 1

59 North Mississippi Conference , 1874. voice, unfaltering and unbroken, in all its Ques. 21. What is the number of local preach- wonted softness and euphony, is now added to ers and members in the several circuits, stations, theirs, and he is with them engaged in praising and missions of the Conference? God on high, saying with them: “Alleluia, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.” The re- Holly Springs District. moval of our Brother Robert Martin from our White ' Col'd Loe’l fill us with sorrow, hut we I association must Mem’s. Mem's, Pr'i. | | will cherish the memory of his life and labors j with holy pleasure and delight, until we all 183; Holly Springs Circuit 357 3 corpe to meet him in our Fathers house above. 126

371) 1 1 Elias Jackson was horn, in Madison co., 287 277' l Tenn., March 5, 1826. He embraced religion 18li in his youth, and joined the Methodist Church. - 150 i He was admitted on trial into the Memphis Con- 78 | 370 3 ference in 1848, and was appointed junior 327 2 preacher on the Jacinto Circuit, and was sub- — sequently placed in charge, his colleague dying 2706 11 early in the year. Though inexperienced, he did good work—his labors were blessed of God. Hernando District. He was admitted into full connection in 1850, ISO' 1 when, also, he was ordained deacon by Bishop 324 4 Capers; ordained elder in 1852 by Bishop An- 130 4 339 3 drew. He was always effective, and filled 181 acceptably quite a number of prominent ap- 66 pointments. When the Memphis Conference 415 1 480 divided, in 1870, he became a member of the 460 2 North Mississippi Conference; but in the au- 205 tumn of that year he was transferred to the 2749 18 White River Conference, and appointed to the Helena Circuit. He was re-transferred to the Iuka District. North Mississippi Conference in 1871, and for two years in succession he traveled the Cor- 145! 2 422 3 nersville Circuit. In the autumn of 1873 he 266 5 was appointed to Water Valley Station. He 172 1 preached his last sermon in this station on 284 a 270 3 Sunday, Feb. 15, from Daniel vi. 20. That 5C night lie was attacked with meningitis, and for 41c 4 two weeks suffered the most intense pain, but ia- 4051 1 was resigned and patient, and conversed freely 426 1 1 with his brethren and his loved ones of his 2121 2 resignation to the will of God, and of his 531 10 228 1 hopes of heaven. With great earnestness and emphasis he remarked, to a Christian brother 3989 36 j at his bedside, “I would not give one glimpse of the cross of Christ for ten thousand such Verona District. worlds as this.” died in great peace, at He 154 four o’clock, March 2, 1874. Our Brother 81 Jackson was a man of sound mind and good 32? 4 233 heart, a student of the Holy Scriptures and 410 7 good hooks, and well instructed in the sublime 320 doctrines and holy duties of the religion of 579 9 394 6 Christ. ready, fluent, logical, ear- He was a 265 1 nest, and often eloquent preacher, a conscien- 546 6 tious and successful laborer in the Master’s 441 3 250 3 vineyard, a warm friend, a devoted husband and father, and an upright neighbor and citi- 3997 39 zen. His family, the Church of God, and the country, have suffered a great loss in his death. Columbus District. His life of faith in Christ, and of noble well- 208 doing on earth, will shine beautifully on and Columbus Circuit 344 1 ever through the coming ages. 388 4 125 117 1 Ques. 20. all preachers blameless in Are the 83 l their life and official. administration? 5 Their names were called over, one by one, 391 4 260 4 and their characters examined and passed, except Wm. Shepherd, who was expelled. 2679 20 60 North Mississippi Conference , 1874 .

* Macon District. Ques. 22. How many infants have been baptized during the year?" White Cold Loo’. Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. 1176.

Macon Station 134 Ques. 23. How many adults have been bap- Krooksville 281 tized during the vear? Crawfordville 1C1 2 2307. Starkville 236 1 La Grange 636 3 Ques. 24. is the Louisville 400 2 What number of Sunday- Plattsburg 390 3 schools? PerkinsviTle 313 212 . Shuqulak 253 2 Ques. 25. "What is the number of Sunday- 2703 13 school teachers? 1184. Grenada District. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- Grenada Station 130 school scholars? Grenada Circuit 400 3 8509. Water Valiev Station 283 3 Oxford Station 75 2 Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the Oxford Circuit 745 7 Eureka 534 2 superannuated preachers, and the widows and Batesville 229 2 orphans of preachers? Charleston 325 4 $3,381 25. Coffee ville 353 2 Calhoun 676 5 Ques. 28. W hat has been collected on the Banner 578 5 La Fayette Springs 524 2 foregoing account, and how has it been applied? 4852 37 Collected, $2,263 35. Disbursed to claimants. Yazoo District. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Black Hawk 486 4 missions? Winona and Carrollton 108 $2,542 40. Winona Circuit 508 4 Vaiden 357 2 Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of Durant 196 4 the Conference Richland 203 i be held? Attala 211 i At Kosciusko, Miss. Newport 188 Kosciusko and Bethel 213 2 Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed Liberty 354 4 this year? Zilpah" Mission Bellfontaine 415 4 Greenwood HOLLY SPRINGS DISTRICT. McNutt J. D. Cameron P. E. , 3239 26 Holly Springs Station, J. W. Lowrance. Holly Springs Circuit, H. R. Caldwell. Greenville District. Early Grove and Carmel, John H. Scruggs. Greenville Station 35 Byhalia Station, J. W. Honnoll. Deer Creek and Lake Lee 42 New Salem and Philadelphia, T. G. Freeman. Indian Bayou 93 Emory, Samuel M. Jones’s Bayou 86 Thames, P. J. Eckles, Sup. Lake Bolivar and Glencoe 15 Marshall, R. P. Mitchell. Riverton and Beulah 25 Ashland, Thomas Joyner. Concordia Station 70 Salem, M. C. Pogues, Friar’s Point Station 30 B. D. Brown, Sup. Clarksdale and Cherry Hill 40 Hudsonville and" Sylvestria, Joshua K. Morris. Cassida I Cornersville, Peter M. Marmon. Swan Lake 59 Hickory Flat, James Austin Station and Tunica Mission... 17 M. Mitchell. Holly Springs District High-school, Daniel S. 512 Hearon, Principal.

Recapitulation. HERNANDO DISTRICT.

2706 11 Amos Kendall. P. E. 2749 18 I uka “ 3989 36 Hernando and Cold W'ater, Jesse W. Luter. 3997 39 Hernando Circuit, Murdoch M. Dunn. 2679 20 Pleasant Hill, 2703 13 Joseph J. Brooks. 4852 37 Longtown, W. B. Mitchell. 3239 26 Sardis and Davis Chapel, J. W. Knott. Greenville “ 512 Fredonia, Samuel C. Stone. 27.426 200 Senatobia, Joseph W. Poston. Total last year 25.800 212 Cockrum, Henry C. Morehead.

Increase 1626 Chulahoma, Thomas W. Dye. Decrease 12 Mount Vernon, B. B. Brown. 1874. North Mississippi Conference ,

IUKA DISTRICT. Oxford Station, J. J. W heat. Oxford Circuit, A. A. Houston, J. R. Rober- Joseph Johnsob P. E. , son. Iuka Station, Thomas S. Campbell. Eureka, James W. Bates. Iuka Circuit, R. A. Neblett. Batesville, Robert M. Davis. Burnsville, W. E Ellis, H. H. Thacker, Sup. Charleston, W. J. O’ Bryant. Corinth Station, A. P. Sago, Lorenzo Lea, Sup. Coffeeville, G. W. Boyls. Corinth Circuit, Francis Howarth. Calhoun, Ben. H. Bounds. Kossuth, George W. Brown, Eugene Johnson. Banner, G. W. Bachman. Springs, R. A. Ellis. f Jonesboro, D. W. Babb. La Fayette \ Ripley Mission, S. B. Carson, Bellfontaine, L. D. Worsham. f Ripley, J. F. Evans. \ Hatchie Mission, W. Ira Smith. YAZOO DISTRICT. Boonville and Rienzi, Thomas Cameron. Baldwyn, B. W. Stubbs. Kenneth A. Jones, P. E. New Albany, Thomas J. Taylor, Black Hawk, John L. Futrell. f Marietta, James W. Gooch. Winona and Carrollton, John C. Lowe. Springs Mission, James Wilkinson. \ Bay Winona Circuit, Thomas C. Parrish. E. Douglass, Presi- Iuka Female Institute, J. Vaiden, George D. Wade. dent. Durant, A. M. Barrington. VERONA DISTRICT. Richland, James M. Boon, T. Y. Ramsey P. E. r Attala, W. S. Lagrone, W. M. Ross, Sup. , Kosciusko and Bethel, W. P. Barton, A. R. -j Verona Station, John Barcroft. Hines, Sup. Murrali. { Aberdeen Station, William Newport, John Mitchell, J. P. Commander, Athens, Jesse W. Perry. Sup. Vinton, William B. Murrah. Liberty, Joseph D. Newsom. Sparta, Thomas J. Lowry. Zilpah Mission, William D. Williams. Okolona Station, T. C. Wicr. Greenwood, John H. Mitchell. Okolona Circuit, Wm. D. Matthews. Yazoo District Higli-school, T. A. S. Adams, Houston, James M. Hampton, James S. Carl- Principal. ton. Kosciusko Methodist High-school, W. P. Bar- Stone. Tupelo, Joseph B. ton, Principal. Richmond, Samuel W. Miller. Saltillo, John McElhannon. Pontotoc, John F. Markham. GREENVILLE DISTRICT. Fulton, Peter Fleming. Dancer P. E. J. P. , Verona Female College, T. C. Wier, President. Greenville Station, Joseph S. Oakley. Deer Creek and Lake Lee, David Plews. MACON DISTRICT. Sunflower, J. D. MurfF. R. O. Porter P. E. Bolivar, Quincy A. Oats. , Riverton and Beulah, John F. Truslow. Macon Station, William S. Harrison. Concordia Station, David O. Hughes. Columbus Station, Ephraim E. Hamilton. Friar’s Point Station, Noel R. Hamer. Columbus Circuit, Henry E. Smith, T. N. Clarksdale and Cherry Hill, C. L. Bates. Shelton. Cassida, Benj. F. Phillips. West Point and Tibbee, W. L. Peebles. Jonestown, James A. Babb. Line Creek, T. W. Castles. Starkville Station, Edward H. Moon. Crawfordville, John R. Allen. Philip Tuggle, D. L. Cogdell, transferred to Brooksville, James T. Cunningham. Los Angeles Conference. Cooks ville, A. W. Langley. A. C. Allen, R. M. Powers, transferred to Shuqulak, B. F. Morris. North Texas Conference. Perkinsville, J. O. Woodward. James A. Peebles transferred to Arkansas Louisville, J. G. Carlisle. Conference. Plattsburg, A. J. Foster. Francis A. Owen transferred to St. Louis La Grange, W. R. Rainey. Conference. Samuel R. Brewer transferred to Louisville GRENADA DISTRICT. Conference. James M. Owen, Isaac N. Reeves, Moses L. J. H. Brooks P. E. , Martin, transferred to North-west Texas Con- Grenada Station, Tilmon Page. ference. Grenada Circuit, H. D. Howell. Clarence J. Nugent transferred to Missis- Water Valley Station, A. B. Fly. sippi Conference. Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained Answer. John S. Harris, Walter T. Burke, deacons? Thomas C. Holmes, William G. Hefley, Leon- Robert A. Mickleberry, Hardin J. Turner, idas G. Rogers, Erasmus K. Bransford, Wm. Edward H. Arnn, Jonathan A. Mooney, Enoch D. Senter, Jos. H. Collins, Francis M. Bone, G. Thompson, John J. Smith, Joab A. Russell, Joab A. Russell, George W. Wilson Seth B. Wm. M. Davis. 8. Bush. 12. Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? elected elders? Wm. W. Scott, Joseph M. Maxwell, George James W. Atkinson, Junius P. Walker, H. Martin, James G. Clark, John H. Priddy, James C. Hooks, Reuben R. Nelson. 4. Albert F. Hendrix, Henry C. Gamble, Amos Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- B. Jones, David Leith, Charles Y. Rankin, dained elders? Wm. L. Duckworth, Oliver P. Parker, Jacob James W. Atkinson, Junius P. Walker, Sullivan, Wm. H. Evans. 14. James C. Hooks, Reuben R. Nelson. 4. Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Wm. M. Leatherwood, James M. Beard, elders? Benj. H. Burrow, L. Green Watkins. 4. Elbridge L. Fisher, Richard Gilmoore, Thos. Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- L. Wood, Wm. D. Padgitt, James Burnham, tion? Adam C. Cole, James H. Spicer, Abraham S. Daniel A. Ross, Thomas A. Atkinson, Rich- Brown, John W. Jones, Patterson D. Smith, ard L. West, Wm. C. Sellars, F. B. Davis. 5. Henry P. Lowry. 11.

Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained None. elders? Elbridge L. Fisher, Richard Gilmoore, Thos. Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from L. Wood, Wm. D. Padgitt, James Burnham, ether Conferences? John W. Jones, Patterson D. Smith, Henry P. David C. Wells, from Denver Conference; Lowry. 8. Warner T. Bolling, from Arkansas Conference; Constantine D. Davis, from South-west Mis- Ques. 16. Who are located this year? souri Conference. 3. Thomas R. Luter, Samuel A. Mason. 2.

Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? Wm. O. Lanier, Henry M. Sears, Samson T. M. D. Robinson, W. M. McFerrin, R. V. Lane, Samuel B. Love, Robert A. Sawrie, Taylor, Nathan Sullivan, T. C. Ellis, D. M. K. Thomas J. McGill, William Hay, Thomas G. Collins, D. C. Wells, R. S. Swift, J. E. Beck, Randle, Thomas E. Hall (an elder), Thomas T. F. Sanders, J. G. Glasgow. 11. F. Sanders, Nathanael Futrell, J. G. Glasgow Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? (an elder). 13. James M. Major, Jeremiah Moss, Clement Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected C. Glover, Thomas J. Neely, James W. Mathis, deacons? R. H. Burns, Benj. Peeples, Thos. P. Davidson, Thomas A. Atkinson, William C. Sellars, F. J. C. Crews. 9. B. Davis, Amos B. Jones. 4. Ques. 19. What preachers have died during Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- the past year? dained deacons? Benjamin H. Bishop, Wm. D. Scott, Henry Thomas A. Atkinson, William C. Sellars, F. Bell. 8. B. Davis, Amos B. Jones. 4.

• Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Benjamin H. Bishop was born, in Christian deacons? co., Ky., Dec. 6, 1832. In 1845 he removed Robert A. Mickleberry, A. Hartwell Fisher, with his parents. Joseph and Elizabeth Bishop, Anderson C. Farmer, Edward H. Arnn, Wm. to Ballard co., Ky., where he remained till he M. Davis, Enoch G. Thompson, John J. Smith, came to the age of manhood. His parents J«vnes I. Miller. 8. were members of the Methodist Church, and . Memphis Conference , 1874 63 noted for piety. His religious impressions circle was made cheerful and happy by daily were received in childhood, and at an early religious habits. His last illness was protracted age he professed religion, and took upon him- and painful. He approached the grave slowly, self the vows of the Methodist Episcopal but calmly and peacefully. True, the care of Church, South. While a youth, he felt it to his devoted wife, who had watched and waited he his duty to preach the gospel. He, how- through many a weary midnight, and of his ever, struggled against this conviction until dear little boy, weighed heavily upon his mind; the year 1853, when he was licensed to preach but he confidently committed this precious by the Quarterly Conference of Lovelaceville trust to his Heavenly Father, and, having whis- Circuit—W. H. Leigh, Presiding Elder. He pered a few parting blessings upon them all, was admitted on trial into the Memphis Con- gently fell on sleep, and is no more. ference the same year, and appointed to the Clinton Circuit. In 1855 he was appointed to William D. Scott, son of Robert and Eliz- Jersey Station, Paducah. Nov. 18 of that abeth Scott, was born, in Mecklenburg co., Va., year he was ordained deacon, by Bishop Kava- in Feb., 1808. He was blessed with early edu- naugh. In 1856 he traveled the Dyersburg cational advantages, which, constituted the Circuit with the Rev. John Randle; in 1857, foundation of a life marked with great useful- the Madrid Bend Circuit; in 1858 he was sta- ness. On March 2, 1830, he graduated at the tioned at Dresden, Tenn., and ordained elder, Medical University of Philadelphia, and shortly Nov. 14, by Bishop Paine. In 1859 he trav- after immigrated to Dyer co., Tenn. In 1832 eled the Fulton Circuit. In I860 he was sta- he removed to Trenton, Gibson co., where he tioned at Columbus, Ky.; in 1861, at Paris, established himself in a large and lucrative Tenn.; in 1862, at Brownsville. Then his practice, and in 1835 was happily married to health failed, and, as the country was overrun Miss Amanda G. Gilchrist. It was mainly with armies, he was granted a supernumerary through her prayers and holy influence that he relation at his own request. He continued in was converted and led to the cross in the re- this relation five years, residing in the city of mission of his sins. Simultaneously with his Brownsville, where, to this day, his name is conversion was his call to the ministry. His embalmed in the memory of many dear friends. record is as follows-: Licensed to exhort by T. In 1868 he was appointed to Humboldt and J. Neely, July 28, 1840; licensed to preach by Milan Station, but the work was too heavy. George W. D. Harris, on Trenton Circuit, He toiled through with much difficulty. Weary Aug. 15, 1840; admitted into the traveling con- and sick, and, wo may add, discouraged, he nection, in Trenton, in 1841; ordained deacon moved to the home of his boyhood, where he by Bishop Andrew, at Holly Springs, Miss., enjoyed a small patrimony left him by his Nov. 6, 1842; ordained elder by Bishop E. S. father, expecting soon to enter upon his re- Janes, at Somerville, Tenn., Nov. 25, 1844. He ward; but his strength returned in a measure, was appointed to Trenton Circuit after his ad- and at the solicitation of many friends, he was mission in 1840; Dresden Circuit in 1841; appointed, in the autumn of 1871, to the Bland- Brownsville Circuit in 1842; and in 1843 to ville Circuit. Here he continued in charge till the Trenton African Mission. In 1845 his the day of his death, which took place April 25, health failed, and he was placed in a superan- 1874, in the forty-second year of his age, and nuated relation, after which he removed to the twenty-first year of his ministry. Brother Shelby co., Tenn., where he remained until Bishop was a man of medium stature and frail 1848, when he moved back to his former resi- constitution, but was of sound mind and cheer- dence, in Gibson co., in May, 1849. In 1850 ful disposition. He never murmured at his he was reported effective, and appointed to infirmities, but endured them with patience, the Dresden Circuit; in 1851 to the Trenton and contributed to the life and joy of every Circuit, where his health again failed. At the company where he was. Some thought him a ensuing Conference he was once more placed little eccentric; but his eccentricities, if such in the superannuated relation, and there con-

they may be called, were slight, and by no tinued until his death, Oct. 3, 1874. In his means objectionable in his character. As a marriage relations he was especially blessed. preacher he deserved, and always received, the He had the misfortune to lose his first wife commendations of his brethren. He was par- soon after entering upon his ministry. In ticularly fond of the doctrines of the Church. 1843 he was married to Mrs. Eliza Jane Greene, He had nothing to do with speculations or daughter of the Rev. John Henning, in whose doubtful theories; his discourses were made up happy companionship he was allowed to re- of the great principles of redemption. System- main only a few years. After her death he atic, plain, often pathetic, he was a useful was married to Miss L. E. Webb, daughter of and acceptable minister of the gospel wherever Wm. T. Webb, who was spared to him as he went. But, above all, he was admired for a loving and devoted wife until the day of his his integrity and great moral worth. As said death. He leaves behind two sons and one above, he was pious from his childhood; as he daughter, worthy children of a noble father. advanced in life he became more and more It was in the spirit of self-sacrifice that our established in the love of God. Religion was Brother William D. Scott deliberately re- a subject of constant meditation and frequent nounced the worldly gains of a profession in conversation with him. Among men, he lived which he had become eminent to take upon away above reproach, and his own domestic himself the privation and labor of an itinerant

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minister. In the change he was not only blessed, supernumerary relation. In 1867 he was Ap- but made a blessing. Highly gifted, his preach- pointed to Huntingdon Circuit, and in 1868 he ing was penetrating and powerful, unctuous became supernumerary again. In 1869 he was and earnest, and at times irresistible. Though granted a supernumerary relation, in which much interrupted by ill health, his heart was he continued until the time of his death. This in his work, as evinced by his energy and sad event occurred at his residence in Henry promptness in doing the labors of a traveling co., Tenn., July 26, 1874. Spared beyond the preacher. Combining the elements of a well- limit of three-score years and ten, he spent balanced character, he exerted always an influ- more than an ordinary life-time in the service ence for good that was not only impressive, of the Master, and thirty-three years of that but weighty. If there were any characteristics life-time in the work of the ministry. Asa more prominent than others, the}7 were thd force preacher he was plain, practical, and forcible. of his will, the power of his faith, and the His early educational advantages were limited, depth of his charity. From them he gathered but he made himself familiar with the standard decision and progression in the purposes of works of the Church, and loved her doctrines life, strong moral courage in opposing evil, and discipline. Above all, he loved the Bible, and a liberal and generous heart for the enter- and stored his mind with its sacred truths. prises of the Church and the claims of a needy Believing the truth of the gospel, and feeling and suffering humanity. It was the harmoni- its power in his own soul, he preached with ous combination of these elements that made unction, and was successful in winning sinners his character, both in public and private life, to Christ. As a Christian his character was not only beautiful, but attractive. The loss unsullied. He had acquired the wisdom which of such a man is a great affliction to the Church is pure, peaceable, gentle, and easy to be en- and the world. "We record here, as a part of his treated. Decided in character, sound in judg- history, that he bequeathed a hundred acres of ment, conscientious in the discharge of every land, each, to the Vanderbilt University and known duty, and charitable toward all men, the Indian Mission Conference. In this he he was greatly beloved. Nor was his religion evinced his unfailing love for the Church of the kind that is manifested only to the pub- which he could no longer serve. lic; in the bosom of his own family he did not fail to let his light shine. He died, as he lived, Henry Bell was born, in North Carolina, a good man. During his last illness he was

Feb. 28, 1799. When about eighteen years of . happy in anticipation of a glorious future. To age he came to Tennessee, and on March 18, one who was with him in his dying-hour he 1819, was married to Elizabeth Taylor. Al- expressed himself clearly and emphatically in though converted in early life, he did not con- regard to his prospects of eternal life, and the nect himself with the Church until he was about value of the gospel he had so long preached. thirty-five years of age. An exalted estimate of the duties and obligations of the Christian Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in ministry caused him to shrink for years from their life and official administration? assuming its obligations. Although deeply Their names were called over, one by one, impressed with the conviction that it was his and £heir characters examined and passed, duty to preach the gospel, he struggled against except W. W. Fawcett, who was expelled. it. So high was his standard of ministerial Ques. 21. What is the number of local preach- and fitness, so modest his estimate of duty and ers and members in the several circuits, stations, it too his own ability, that to him seemed great and missions of the Conference? an undertaking. Such a state of mind neces- sarily interfered with his religious enjoyment. Memphis District. Having at last gained his own consent to enter

on this great work, he was licensed to preach White Col’d I.oc'l Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. by John M. Holland, at Bussell’s Church, Purdy Circuit, in 1841. For eleven years he Memphis: remained in the local ranks, though not idle. First Church 504 2 Central Church 215 4 Zealous and laborious, he was useful and ac- Greenwood ceptable wherever he preached. A part of the Hernando Street 287 time he was employed by the Presiding Elder Saffarans Street Mission 7S Georgia Street Mission 35 ordained deacon as a supply. He was by Springdale 171 1 Bishop Andrew, at Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 29,. Bethlehem 210 1 3 1846; joined the Memphis Annual Conference Collierville 375 2 La Grange 140 1 in 1852, and was ordained elder by Bishop Saulsbury 308 3 Early, at Jackson, Tenn., Oct. 19, 1856. He Macon 198 received the following appointments— viz.: In Oakland Mission 203 2 Bartlett 263 1 1852, Decaturville Circuit; 1853. Lexington; 1854-5, Paris Circuit; 1856-7, Decaturville; 3047 1 19 mm** 1858, La Grange Colored Mission; 1859, By- halia; 1860, Rock Spring. At the Conference Somerville District. of 1861 he was granted a supernumerary rela- Somerville Station 116 in appointed tion, but 1862-3 was to Monte- 68 2 zuma Circuit. From 1864 to 1867 he held a Middleburg Mission 175 1 3 : .

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Somerville District (continued). Paris District.

Col'd Loc’l White White Col’d I.oc’l Mem’s. Pr’s. Mem’s. Mem’s. Mem’s. Pr’s.

Whiteville Paris Station 117 Dancyville Paris Circuit 835 Stanton Conyersville 470 Braden Camden 789 Covington and Tabernacle.. Huntingdon Station 34 Mt. Zion Huntingdon Circuit 434 Bethuel Gratitude and Trezevant *. 425 Embury Salem 400 Milan 167 Lexington 482 Morgan’s Creek 189 Jackson District. Pleasant Ridge Mission 213 Decaturville (555 Jackson Saltillo • 677 First Church Paine Chapel City Mission Jackson Circuit Humboldt Station.... Recapitulation. Brownsville Station Denmark Memphis District 3047 1 19 Tabernacle Somerville “ 3034 23 Mifflin Jackson “ 4609 Pinson 37 Dyersburg “ 5290 2 42 Rock Spring Dresden “ 6174 2 Purdy 57 Paducah “ 4223 49 Adamsville Paris “ 5887 2 55 37 1 32.264 7 282 29,964 282 Dyerslurg District. 2300 7

Dversburg Station I 131 Dyersburg Circuit 6 Kenton 4 Ques. 22. How many infants have been bap- Belleville and Alamo 2 Trenton Station 2 tized during the year? Trenton Circuit 9 930. Lanefield 3 Friendship 3 Ques. 23. How many adults have been bap- Ripley ana Durhamville 2 Trinity 3 tized during the year? Bethlehem 5 2917. Yorkville 2 Ashport Mission 2 1 Ques. 24. "What is the number of Sunday- 2 42 schools? 294. Dresden District. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday- Dresden and McKenzie Station 212 7 school teachers? Dresden Circuit 783 G McKenzie Circuit 409 4 2127. Hickman Station 127 Hickman Circuit 590 3 Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- Fulton 532 5 school scholars? Dukedom 503 2 Union City and Newbern 274 2 15,104. Tiptonville 339 1 7 Cottage Grove 487 2 Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the Boydsville 341 3 superannuated preachers, and the widows and Murray 829 10 Troy 344 4 orphans of preachers? Obion 404 1 2 $2,500.

6174 2 57 Ques. 28. What has been collected on the foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Paducah District. plied? Paducah Station Collected, $1,789 25. Applied to claimants. Paducah Circuit Blandville Barlow City Mission. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Columbus Station missions? Clinton $3,089 56. Mayfield Station Mayfield Circuit Milburn Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of Benton the Conference be held? Wadesboro At Paducah, Ky. Birmingham Briensburg Mission. Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed this year? Memphis Conference 1874 . 66 ,

MEMPHIS DISTRICT. Dyersburg Circuit, D. A. Ross. Hale’s Point Mission, to be supplied (by W. JoA?i Moss, P. -E. Memphis: A. Yancey), f Newbern Station, W. W. Scott. First Church. S. B. Suratt. \ Trimble Mission, R. S. Harris. f Central, Janies A. Heard. Yorkville, Ii. A. Umstead. Greenwood, C. Collins. \ Kenton, M. M. Taylor. Hernando Street, L. D. Mull ms. Trenton Station, C. Y. Rankin. Saffarans Street and Georgia Street, D. R. S. Trenton Circuit, B. Seward, John S. Har- liosebrough. W. ris, N. Sullivan, Sup. Springdale,"Warner Mcore. Alamo, W. L. Duckworth, O. P. Parker. Bartlett, P. T. Scruggs. Friendship, T. C. Young. Bethlehem, David Leith. W. Trinity, W. A. Cook. Collierville, J. C. Hooks, T. C. Holmes. Ripley and Durbamville Station, J. S. Ren- La Grange and Saulsbury Station, T. L. Bos- shaw. well, D. C. Wells, Sup. Ripley Circuit, W. 0. Lanier. Middleton, J. A. Fife. Ashport Mission, to be supplied (by T. R. ( Macon Circuit, S. B. Adams, J. P. "Walker, { Voss). -I W. M. McFerrin, Sup. Shelby Mission, John H. Priddy. ( DRESDEN DISTRICT. State Female College, C. Collins, President. J. H. Witt P. E. Bellevue Female College, W. T. Plummer, , President. Union City and Dresden Station, W. T. Boll- Editor of Western Methodist W. C. Johnson. fii , ing, J. E. Beck, Sup. { Dresden Circuit, T. E. Hall. ft DISTRICT. SOMERVILLE McKenzie Station, T. G. Whitten. W. T. Harris, P. E. McKenzie Circuit, H. B. Covington. Hickman Station, J. D. Bush. • Somerville Station, W. D. F. Hafford. Hickman Mission, S. B. Bush. Bolivar Station, Win. M. Patterson. Hickman Circuit, W. H. Frost. Middleburg Station, J. G. Clark. m Fulton, J. M. Spence. ri Whiteville", A. R. Wilson, R. V. Taylor, Sup. Dukedom, J. G. Pirtle, D. M. K. Collin3, Sup. Danoyville, F. S. Petway. Tiptonville, T. G. Randle. Stanton, B. F. Peeples. Cottage Grove, J. H. Collins. Braden, A. C. Smith. Boydsville, L. G. Rogers, J. G. Glasgow, Covington and Tabernacle Station, G. Jones. ( Sup. Mt. Zion, T. P. Holman. j I Lvnnville Mission, to be supplied (by J. C. Gratitude and Bethuel Station, G. B. Basker- Poyner). ville. ( Sellars, E. K. Bransford. Embury, Joseph M. Maxwell. Murray, W. C. Troy, R. E. Graves. Covington Circuit, G. H. Martin. Obion, F. B. Davis, M. D. Robinson, Sup. JACKSON DISTRICT. A. H. Thomas, P. E. PADUCAH DISTRICT. Jackson: N. P. Ramsey, P. E. First Church, E. C. Slater. Station, R. H. Mahon. Paine Chapel, A. L. Pritchett, Paducah Paducah Circuit and City Mission, R. L. West. f Jackson Circuit, John Randle, Mission, Thomas Taylor. Mayfield Station, J. T. C. Collins. t Jackson City Columbus Station. J. W. Atkinson. Humboldt Station, J. M. Scott. Hinkleville, J. V. Fly. Brownsville Station, S. W. Moore. supplied (by J. Brownsville City Mission, James Perry. Blandville Mission, to be J. Denmark, R. G. Rainey. Smith). Clinton, Findley Bynum. Tabernacle, C. J. Mauldin. Milburn, C. D. Davis. Mifflin, J. R. Sykes. Wingo, J. M. Flatt. Pinson, J. G. Acton. Benton, A. L. Ilunsaker. Rock Spring, S. T. Lane. Wadesboro, F. M. Bone. Piu*d A. S. Hendrix. v, Briensburg, Walter T. Burke. Adamsville, S. B. Love, W. G. Hefley, T. F. Birmingham, H. C. Gamble. Sanders, Sup. be supplied (by H. S. Henderson and Montezuma Station, G. W. Pine Bluff Mission, to Wilson. Morgan). Memphis Conference Female Institute, A. W. DISTRICT. Jones, President; A. B. Jones, Professor. PARIS J. H. Evans, P. E. DYERSBURG DISTRICT. Paris Station, T. L. Beard. Hayes, P. E. B. A. Paris Circuit, T. J. McGill. Dyersburg Station, B. F. Blackmon. Conyersville, N. Futrell.

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Camden, Tt. Ii. NeLon. W. J. Mahon transferred to Pacific Confer- Huntingdon, E. B. Plummer. ence, and stationed at San Francisco. Trezevant, J. D. Sullivan, T. C. Ellis, Sup. H. B. Avery transferred to Pacific Confer- Salem, H. N. Sears. ence, and Presiding Elder on the Visalia Dis- Milan and Huntingdon Station, Wm. H. Leigh. trict. Lexington, G. K. Brooks. T. A. Atkinson transferred to Pacific Con- Decaturvilie, William Hay. ference, and stationed on Visalia Circuit. Saltillo, William H. Evans, R. S. Swift, Sup. R. E. Sawrie transferred to Pacific Confer- Morgan’s Creek, Joab A. Russell. ence, and stationed on Millville Circuit. Pleasant Ridge Mission, to be supplied (by W. W. D. Senter transferred to Pacific Confer- C. Enochs). • ence, and stationed on Merced City Circuit.

XVI. — TENNESSEE CONFERENCE.

Held at Gallatin, Tenn., October 7-13, 1874.

Bishop Marvin, President ; Robert A. Young, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Answer. Thos. S. Cullom, Joseph Webster, dained deacons? John J. Ransom, Overton W. Ransom, Wil- H. S. Ivennedv, J. L. Kellum, J. T. Duncan, liam R. Peebles, Luther G. Hensley, William U. N. M. Berry. 4. T. Neshitt, Thorton P. Haynes, Marcus A. Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Erwin, John W. Benson, Claudius Buchanan, deacons? John N. Parotte, Jas. A. Herman, John T. J. T. Atwell, J. B. Ellis, J. C. Sloan, W. K Pittman, Stith H. Andrews, Wm. G. McMil- Durham, O. AV. Ransom, J. H. Rice, G. B. lan, Wm. A. Leath. 17. Flowers, J. E. Harrison, J. N. Handlin, J. N. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Parotte, W. G. McMillan, W. A. Bridges. 12. A. P. McFerrin, John W. Bell, Thos. A. Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained Kerley, Rufus W. Seay, Wm. J. Collier, Sam- deacons? uel L. Fain. Moses J. Mabry,Henry S. McBride, J. T. Atwell. J. B. Ellis, J. H. Rice, G. B. Beniamin F. Haynes, Thos. S. McFerrin, John Flowers, J. E. Harrison, J. H. Parotte, W. G. P. Funk. 11. McMillan, W. N. Durham, J. C. Sloan. 9. Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Baldwin, his request, on ac- Chas. M. at own elected elders? count of ill health. 1. J. A. McFerrin, J. O. Blanton, P. A. Sowell, Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- O. G. Halliburton, J. R. Reagan, J. B. Erwin, tion ? J. W. Rooker, J. G. Hinson. 8. AY. W. Brinsfield, H. S. Kennedy, Clinton Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Clenn v, John L. Kellum, G. Coleman, John W. dained elders? T. Duncan, J. G. Molloy, U. N. M. Berrv, W. J. A. McFerrin, J. O. Blanton, P. A. Sowell, T. Gill. 9. O. G. Halliburton, J. R. Reagan, J. B. Erwin, Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? J. W. Rooker, J. G. Hinson. 8. Robert A. Wilson, Robert Linn. 2. G. Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Ques. 6.' Who are received by transfer from elders? other Conferences? Wm. T. Gill, Joseph M. Sowell. 2. F. C. Wilkes, from Texas Conference; Rich- Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained ard H. Rivers, from Louisville Conference. 2. elders?

Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Wm. T. Gill. 1. H. J. Ivie, W. A. Gill, W. B. Woodward, T. Ques. 16. AYho are located this year? H. Woodward, W. J. Wright, J. M. Jordan, J. W. H. Riggan. 1. H. Chambliss, B. F. Jackson, G. D. Byrne. 9. Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected W. B. Woodward, AY. J. Wright, W. R. deacons? Warren, AY. H. Johnson, AY. H. Anthony, W. Henry S. Kennedy, John L. Kellum, John T. M. Shaw. J. B. Hamilton, S. D. Ogburn, John Duncan, U. N. M. Berry. 4. Rains. M. N. Ford, W. J. Hale, M. R. Tucker, . 68 Tennessee Conference , 1874

"W P. Warren, A. C. Matthews, A. H. Reams, ful theories, but was always sound in doctrine,

C. B. Faris, C. Laxon, G. W. Brown, A. M. He was, at one period of his life, one of the . Ezell, J. H. Richardson, J. M. Locke, J. J. most powerful field-preachers. A camp-meet- Pitts, J. J. Ellis, W. A. Gill, H. S. Ledbetter, ing especially seemed to inspire him—there he A. Tribble. 26. showed the full measure of his strength. He generally for immediate effect, and Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? preached wonderfully successful in securing the E. J. Allen, J. W. Tarrant, A. J. B. Foster, was Golman Green, Stanford Lassiter, George W. fruits of his labor. He sang well. "When in his prime he preferred a solo, and sang to ef- Martin. 6. fect, consulting his own ear and taste rather Ques. 19. What preachers have died during than science in singing. jHe was powerful in the past year? prayer and exhortation, and labored with great Fountain E. Pitts, Thomas Maddin, A. L. P. success in the altar. He loved his work— all Green. 3. parts of it—and was never idle. A dull, dry Fountain Elliott Pitts was horn, in meeting rendered him unhappy, and some-

Georgetown, Ky., July 4, 1808. His grand- times seemingly impatient; but when the ark father Pitts and his grandfather Craig were moved forward he was happy. He was a man both distinguished Baptist preachers. His of large heart and full of sympathy, entering parents died while he was quite young; but into the joys and sorrows of all about him. being well connected in life, his relatives took He was devoted to his friends, and decidedly charge of young Fountain, and he was favored a man of peace. And so strong were his sym- with a good education for his day, and at an pathies and large hope, with a confiding nat- early age he gave signs of more than ordinary ure, that caution seemed to be overwhelmed, promise. He was a subject of converting so that as a business-man in worldly matters grace, and connected himself with the Church, he was too sanguine for a safe trader. But as in his twelfth year; and when about sixteen he grew old his thoughts turned almost en- years old he was licensed to preach, and admit- tirely on spiritual things, and he became more ted on trial into the Kentucky Conference in the and more devoted to the interest of the Church, autumn of 1824, and ordained deacon at Rus- while his conversation was almost entirely of sellville, by Bishop Roberts, in 1826, and or- the Church, and the things of God, and the sal- dained elder at Slielbyville, by Bishop Soule, vation of his soul, and all his powers were em- 1828, and that autumn became a member of ployed in serving the Church, preaching fre- the Tennessee Conference. In 1835 he went quently two or three times a day. On the last as a missionary to South America. It is not Sabbath he spent on earth he preached twice. necessary in this notice to follow him through His last sermon was preached in Slielbyville, the various appointments through which he Ky., at night. On the next morning he re- passed. He was missionary, circuit preacher, turned to Louisville, and took his place in the stationed preacher, and Presiding Elder. He General Conference, of which he was a mem- married while young, and, with growing fam- ber. In the evening he went to Mr. E. D. ily on his hands, he had to contend with the liobb’s, a relative of his, some twelve miles difficulties common to preachers like-situated from the city, and for two or three days was in those times, which was heavy work and complaining of a slight indisposition, and at light pay; and in his life of labor and priva- length suddenly grew worse; and on May 12, tion he belonged to the heroic age of the 1874. he fell asleep in the arms of his Saviour. Church. Brother Pitts was hv nature richly Dr. McFerrin, when by his side, sang a few endowed. He was a little below medium size, verses of the old song, “How firm a founda- fair skin, light hair, and blue eyes, and, when tion, ye saints of the Lord.” At the close of young, was regarded as rather handsome. His the second verse he said, “That’s true! ” He temperament was sanguine, always hopeful. then said, “He that helieveth in the Lord Je- His head was large, and his intellectual pow- sus Christ hath eternal life”—and, repeating ers, in many respects, were of the highest or- the words “eternal life” several times, died der, and he was much gifted as a speaker. His with the words “eternal life” on his lips. His voice was full, clear, and musical; his enunci- body was brought to Louisville and taken to ation distinct; his manner was deliberate, "Walnut Street Church, and the members of grave, solemn, and impressive; his language the Conference in a body came together to pay was well suited always to his subject. • He respect to his memory, while Bishop Paine and knew the way not only to the heads, but to the Dr. McFerrin made appropriate and touching hearts of his hearers, which gave him extra- remarks, and wide-spread and general was the ordinary power to control and, at will', to move feeling produced. His body was then trans- the multitude. He preached generally without ferred to McKendree Church, Kashville, Tenn., a manuscript, or even note; but by long prac- Avhere all the preachers of the city and neigh- tice, a retentive memory, and well-balanced borhood, with a vast multitude of his old friends mind, he was seldom at fault in his style. He and acquaintances, came together, and, with understood the doctrines of the Church, and suitable service, consigned him to his last rest- faithfully did he defend them; and, although ing-place. His life was a success. He won his mind w,as of a poetical cast, with a rich many souls for Christ, finished his work in fancy and brilliant imagination, yet he was triumph, and has gone to his reward. May never carried off into extreme views or doubt- God bless those who are left behind! —

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Thomas Maddin was born, in Philadelphia, his mother. She had been brought up among Pa., Feb. 13, 1796. His father was a Roman the Friends (Quakers), and had never attached Catholic by birth and education, and required herself to any Church. Shq soon began to at- him to attend the services of that Church; he tend Methodist meetings, and was converted went to confession, and, according to the pre- and joined the Church, and for forty years wa*

scribed formula, was admitted to the Eucha- ft zealous member, walking in the light, and rist. The imposing ritual impressed and fasci- triumphantly departed to her home in heaven. nated his heart, and he became a daily attendant Two of her daughters followed in her foot- upon the celebration of the mass. This turned steps, renounced their connection with the attention to the devout lad, and he was desired Roman Catholic Church, and remained con- to take up a course of study and discipline sistent members of the Methodist Episcopal looking to the “priesthood.” After going to Church. The rest of the family, with few ex- business in the city, he drifted from his relig- ceptions, gave up their Roman Catholic pro- ious associations and duties. He fell among clivities. His call to the ministry was pecul- wicked companions, whose influence was so iar. His loving soul longed to do good to the great for evil that he always counted it a great souls of others, and there was little more to be mercy of God’s restraining grace that he es- done for him than to open his mouth. Hear caped ruin. He says, in his own poetic style his experience: “From my conversion I was of description, “My frail bark was tossed upon filled with the desire to do good by persuading a stormy sea, and in imminent danger of being others to seek religion. I had obtained a great wrecked amidst the quicksands of vice—noth- blessing, and I wanted others to share in a like ing around to help, but much to hinder, relig- favor. This impulse of early piety moved me ious cultivation.” From this period God gra- to unite with those who were actively employed ciously made a way of escape. It was a in public worship. Soon 1 was called upon to turning-point, and connected with the greatest lead in prayer in our private prayer-meetings, event of his life, and the story will be given in and then to exhort, and then in more public his own words: “By a good providence my places in different parts of the city; and so, companionship was changed, and good men without expecting or even thinking of ever became my daily associates. I heard their being a preacher, I often found myself before conversation, I noticed their deportment, I the people talking about experimental relig- was impressed with their pure morality, their ion.” At the age of twenty-one he started uniform piety, their love for the means of “West.” He set out on foot and traveled to grace. By degrees I yielded to their solici- Pittsburgh/three hundred miles. Here he re- tude for my salvation, and was induced so far cords another epoch in his history: “I was to violate my Roman Catholic prejudice as to introduced to a local preacher, who asked me go to a Methodist class-meeting, and I was to preach for him, a few miles from the city, very favorably impressed with what I there on the next dajT Sabbath. Astonished at such , saw and heard. After attending Sunday- an invitation, I told him frankly that I was no meeting I was led to the altar "of prayer, preacher, not even an exhorter. He replied: where, through infinite mercy, I found the ‘Sir, I know it—I know all about you; you pardon of my sins, and was most powerfully must preach for me to-morrow.’ W e crossed converted. This event settled the question of the Monongahela, walked two miles to the Churches. My triumphant spirit, raised to the church, and lo, I took the pulpit and tried to highest point of confidence and comfort, let go preach. Here the scales fell from my eyes, all pretensions to the Romish Church, and and for the first time 1 felt the Spirit of Goil willingly gave up all I had hoped in it or was upon me, as with a divine anointing. from it, and at all hazards took upon myself This I looked upon as approving my course. the reproach, contempt, and persecution con- Our meeting was blessed of God for good. sequent on my conversion, that soon came Often in my previous efforts clouds of gloom flooding over me, for the excellency of the hung their somber curtains about my mind, knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord/ In this and though sometimes cheered by my success, greatest event of my life there was nothing so yet I was often discouraged, and feared to powerfully governing my decision as the love venture to speak again in public; but on that of God shed abroad in my heart by the Holy Sabbath all gloom fled from my mind, and Ghost given unto me. The religion of form never returned again. Still I dfd not enter- was easily given up for the religion of power, tain the idea of being a preacher, nor did I a religion of show for a religion of spirit and make an effort to obtain permission even to life.” From that time, he says, his strong at- exhort. But here I was turned into a new tachment to the Church of his father ceased, man. Was it intended that I should leave and he never felt the least desire to return the city of Philadelphia, where there was a that he took a farewell without regret, and full supply, and find a field of labor in the forever. The event could not be without effect South, where the laborers were but few? » upon the family. His father could not be rec- Standing upon the promontories of the Alle- onciled, and demanded a renunciation, which ghanies, that overlooked the vast Valley of the young convert could not make. Here was the Mississippi, fields of enterprise called for a test. Jesus had said: “He that loveth father the activities of the young, as well in the de- and mother more than me is not worthy of partment of religion as in any other. The in- me.” And his father cast him out. Not so spiration of the subject was grand, glorious, 70 Tennessee Conference, 1874 . and desirable, even to my young thoughts.” finishing the sermon he went out to take tea With three young friends, he bought a skiff with a friend, in usual health —he soon re- at Pittsburgh, and started down the Ohio for turned, and died next morning. He spoke no the Falls (Louisville), seven hundred and fifty word — there was not time — but none was miles away. His Church-letter introduced him needed. The testimony of his life was suffi- to God’s people, and he was soon exhorting in cient. The sermon that occupied his last answer to calls from every quarter. He says: thoughts was of heaven, of the one hundred “I remonstrated against the wishes of friends and forty and four thousand. How soon did to receive license to preach, only asking for the he go to join them! His long and useful life privilege of holding meetings for those who has ended here, but it is renewed in heaven. kindly invited me to do so, not expecting ever He lives forevermore; he rests from toil; the to take the high position of a preacher of the holy, loving labor of fifty-six years, crowned gospel, for which I did not 'think I was at all with success, now meets its reward. By nat- qualified. Occupying this strange position, I ure he had a pleasing speech and a winning was an enigma to myself, delighting in trying address, and this gift was sanctified by grace to preach, and yet resisting all the wishes of and enlarged in the use. Of fine poetic tem- my friends to accept of license to preach. In perament, he had an eye for the beautiful and the autumn of 1818, at the solicitation of the the grand in the moral as well as the material venerable James Ward, I consented that he world, and he glowed and kindled in the de- should present my name to the Quarterly Con- scription. This produced a style that pleased ference of Jefferson Circuit, then in session, as at once the uncultivated and the refined. In a candidate for the ministry. I was accepted the days of his youth and middle age, his pul- and licensed to preach. Mr. Ward now said, pit-labors are said to have furnished memora- ‘Tommy, -would you not like to travel?’ I ble occasions of power. He was a man of replied, ‘You have made me a preacher; you firmest principle. "With a charming bland- can do what you please now.’ I was recom- ness of manner, he quietly, unchangeably mended as a suitable person to be received into took his stand, and was firm, steadfast. His the Tennessee Annual Conference on trial. I faith was strong; he endured as seeing Him was received, and appointed to the Stone’s who is invisible. And this enabled him to River Circuit in the charge of that work—so triumph always. It saved him from murmur- scarce were preachers in those days.” This ing, and gave him a beautiful old age, the was in October, 1818. The Conference was crown of glory to a life of faith. His heart held in Nashville. Eighteen others were in remained fresh to the last. He was a beauti- the class, including Robert Paine, and several ful exemplar of the Christian minister: digni- others, who became eminent preachers. Bishop fied, graceful, elegant—at the same time pru- Paine having been, by his office, removed from dent, chaste, holy. Sweet in temper, consecrated the Conference, Thomas Maddin for several in life, walking with God, he won the heart years was the senior member of the Confer- and held it ever after a willing captive. ence. He rose rapidly, and as early as 1821-2 he filled the Huntsville Station a part of the A. L. P. Green was born, in Sevier co., Tenn., year, and was transferred to the Nashville June 24, 1807. "When quite a child his par- Station. This was his fourth year, and these ents moved to Jackson co., Ala. Here he was were the two most important and responsible converted and joined the M. E. Church in the stations in the Conference. While in Nash- ninth year of his age. He was admitted on ville he organized the first Sunday-school ever trial into the Tennessee Conference, at Colum- formed in the city, or in the bounds of the bia, in 1824, when not eighteen years of age. Tennessee Conference. In Nashville he en- He died at the residence of his son-in-law, in tered the itinerant ranks, and there, after fifty- Nashville, at about two o’clock "Wednesday six years, he was transferred to heaven, his evening, July 15, 1874, in the sixty-eighth eternal home. He located a short time, mak- year of his age. Full of usefulness, honors, ing his home at Columbia, but reentered the and years, he has gone to his God. No man traveling ministry in 1837. Except a few in this country, perhaps, has made a wider and years spent in Kentucky, his ministerial la- deeper impression on the Church than Dr. bors were confined to Middle Tennessee and Green. His influence has been felt in all the North Alabama, as then embraced in the departments of the Church. Familiar with Tennessee Conference. A few years ago he the practical workings of its machinery, hav- was placed on the superannuated roll, where ing gone up from class-leader, through all its he remained until his death. Yet during all grades, to its highest honors, and having a that time he served as chaplain to the hospital mind, as Bishop Paine justly remarked, both for the insane, ministering with a tenderness microscopic and telescopic, he brought to beat and gentleness peculiar to himself, and espe- on it the wealth of his experience and fertile cially grateful to those unfortunates. He min- brain. In the polity of the Church, in its lit- istered not carelessly—his oil for the sanctuary erature, in its missionary and educational in- * was beaten. On Friday, the day before his terests, he was an acknowledged factor of death, he finished writing his last sermon, in- great force. Limited in his early educational tended, for the Sunday following. But, alas! advantages, he was nevertheless a thoughtful that day his weeping friends attended his fu- and diligent student, acquiring by observation, neral; but his spirit was with God. After learning from nature, and studying men and —

. 71 Tennessee Conference , 1874 books, until he fairly won the honors conferred of our Conference, this was because he was on him by colleges, and came to the front in deemed by the authorities of the Church as all the leading measures of the Church, and eminently suited to the work; yet there never epochs in herhistory, by the force of his own was a truer itinerant among us. None were merits. When twenty-five years of age he ever more ready and willing to do the bidding was honored by his Conference in electing him of legitimate authority—none more faithful in ' as a delegate to the highest tribunal of the the work assigned him. This tribute we lov- Church, and continued to be, every session but ingly pay to his memory: Through sunshine one, until his death. In 1844 he was chief of and storm, before large congregations and the commission raised to secure the interests small, in luxurious city churches and in the of the M. E. Church, South, accruing under open cabins of the settlement, in private the Plan of Separation, and conducted with houses and under the shade of primeval for- signal ability the great suit against the M. E. ests, this man has been calling sinners to re- Church to a favorable termination; and it is pentance for nearly fifty years — reposing as believed that his genius and untiring industry unmurmuringly on the straw of the camping- in the arrangement for this suit gave the help- ground as on downy couches, sharing as grateful and inspiring force to the great lawyers fully the frugal fare of the poor as the costly who gained it. As a preacher, though differ- viands of the rich. At our last session he was ing from all others in style, he was the peer of appointed to deliver a semi-centennial sermon, the foremost. In moving an audience, and in and, had he lived, would at this hour have winning souls to Jesus, he.had but few equals. been preaching on the anniversary of his fif- It is difficult to give fixity to his style of tieth Conference-y’ear. Dr. Green taught us preaching, yet it was perfectly sui generis. the true philosophy of life. He made life For the most part it was conversational, now worth more to him than most men; he got and then metaphysical, abounding in pathos, more out of it, because the law of moderation with descriptive powers almost unrivaled. We lay over all his pursuits and pleasures. He presume he never studied the great masters in was never an extremist—was guilty of excess pulpit oratory, and never gave a thought to in no direction. He was wealthy without a the rules of the rhetorician. He was natural, love of ease and needless self-indulgence; was and fortunately his naturalness was the ideal, popular without vanity, honored without be- for the most part, of rhetorical art. He was a ing puffed up, good without ostentation word-painter of extraordinary power. When could even recognize a rival without dispar- through with his preliminary work, and his agement; was the peer of the wisest, but loved mind began to glow with his theme, if his sub- little children; was always kind to unfortunate ject were such as the prodigal son returning to people, and penitent delinquency ever found in his father’s house, or the man-slayer fleeing for him the truest of friends. The life he lived is his life to the city of refuge, O how we have worthy of profound study; and now, since he heard him revel in description! holding his rounded it so well, and it seems so beautiful in audience in breathless and painful stillness, its make-up, and so symmetrical in its develop- while with a master-hand he threw on the ments, it is worthy of our highest admiration. canvas pictures of unsurpassed beauty, to hang The last two years of his life were devoted to on the walls of memory forever. He was the a higher development of the educational in- framer of his own homiletical laws, the funda- terests of the Church; and that life, already mental principle of which, in all his discourses, beautiful in its usefulness, was crowned with was to select the nearest route to the sinner’s additional glory in so largely contributing to heart. God put much honor upon him in giv- the establishment of Vanderbilt University. ing him many souls for his hire. Many have His social powers, which were extraordinary, preceded him, and many will follow him; to were employed in advancing his Master’s the kingdom of glory who have been led to cause and in saving men. He was crowned Christ by his faithful ministry. He was suc- king of the social circle, and there were none cessful more than most men in finding out to dispute his sovereignty. He could please young men who, called of God to the ministry, without an effort, and yet there was a purpose but surrounded by difficulties seemingly inex- inspiring his entertaining anecdotes and face- tricable, or overcome by a crushing .sense of tious conversation that was often manifest in unfitness for its holy functions, had yielded to the conversion of those whom he had won temptation, and were endeavoring to repress to himself that he might win them to Christ. this sense of duty by activities in channels Dr. Green had been suffering several years that were leading them from the cross of from a virulent tetter, which finally spread Christ. His tact in making this discovery, his over his body, and resulted in his death. Dur- profound knowledge of human nature, and the ing these years of suffering he unmurmuringly fertile resources of bis mind, have been largely worked on in his “loved employ.” The final drawn upon in thus bringing out into the min- scene was characterized by that perfect tran- istry many Avho otherwise would have been quillity which comes of sweetly resting by lost to the Church. With gratitude the writer faith in Christ, and such as might have been acknowledges an indebtedness to him in this expected would be the crowning finale of his respect more than to any man, living or dead. useful and pious life. Said Bishop McTyeire his Although for many years of his ministerial to him a short time before death, “Doctor, v life his work lay in and around the chief city you have done a great deal of preaching—how 72 Tennessee Conference . , 1874

does it appear now as you look back upon it?” Gallatin District ( continued). Answer: “I am impressed with its truth.

What I have been preaching is true ” Said White Cord I.oc’l Dr. Kelley, “Are you suffering much?” “Only Mem’s. Mem’s. Pi’s. physical —there is no mental or moral trouble.” Bethpage and Trinity Station 180 1 Cairo" “What is the outlook, Doctor?” Answer: “All Bend Mission." 115 1 Fountain Head Circuit 278 1 beautiful 1 Not only Christ, heaven, and faith Summit Mission 308 3 are beautiful, but I have been thinking to-day Pleasant Grove 379 4 of death and the grave, and the grave-yard, Goodlettsville Circuit 315 •> Forest Grove Circuit 314 4 where a whole family lie grouped together, Lebanon Station 225 1 and this, too, has grown beautiful to me.” Lebanon Circuit 490 1 After a pause, he added, “The gospel we 3528 1 24 preach is true—salvation is for all.” Another pause, and then, with emphasis, he said, “But it is all the grace of God.” About two o’clock Carthage District. Wednesday evening he asked his son to turn Carthage Circuit him on his side, when, quietly and sweetly, as 1 Mount Olivet Circuit 250 l an infant goes to sleep, the spirit of Dr. Green Alexandria Circuit 420 3 went to his God. Servant of God, well done! Cumberland Circuit 635 2 10 Cookeville Mission 257 2 He is gone up from among us; and yet it Livingston Circuit 513 2 seems we cannot help straining our ears for Monroe Mission 195 that voice which has been familiar to us, as a Celina Circuit 199 3 Gainesboro Conference, so long. Time and again have we Circuit 227 2 Warlrace Circuit 332 4 looked eagerly around us for that stately form Goose Creek Circuit 346 that sat among us in such perfect equipoise, La Fayette Circuit 415 4 commanding always our respect, and for that 3946 2 32 benevolent face that always inspired our love. That form and face will be seen among us no more, and yet we cannot escape the conviction, McMinnville District. Though unseen, he is about us now. That voice, McMinnville Station 110 once so distinct in its utterance, si- has gone McMinnville Circuit 394 lent, no more to guide us in our deliberations. Manchester and Tullahoma Station- 123 Having understanding of the times, he will no Hickory Creek Circuit 646 Manchester Circuit 460 more tell us what Israel ought to do, and yet Alto and Mountain Mission 319 we feel as if he were listening to the words we Sparta Station 92 speak. Sparta Circuit 542 Smithville Circuit 450 Hickory Valley Mission 199 Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in Bellbue'kle and Wartrace 172 Woodbury Circuit 250 their life and official administration? Statesville Circuit 241 Their names were called over, one by one, and their characters examined and passed. 3998

Ques. 21. What is the number of local preachers and members in the several circuits, stations, Murfreesboro District. and missions of the Conference? Murfreesboro Station 372 Stone’s River Circuit 288 2 Fosterville Station 3 Nashville District. Middleton Circuit 388 3 Shelbyville Station 146 Bedford Circuit 402 3 White Cord r.oc'i Unionville Circuit Mem's. Mem’s. Pr’s. 539 1 Beech Grove Circuit 253 4 Nolensville Circuit 657 Nashville: •’V" 765 3 Kelley Chapel and Smyrna Station... 205 West End r Canesville Circuit 359 5 603 ..A 1 168 3512 18 112 4 384 * 6 V North Edgefield Station 108 2 Fayetteville District. Trinity Station 110 1 297 Fayetteville Station 75 2 248 3 Mulberry Circuit 353 5 392 Flintvill'e Circuit 287 2 392 9 Pleasant Plains Circuit. 395 3 101 2 Petersburg Circuit 640 6 Cornersville Station 141 4 3748 31 Elk Ridge Circuit 391 1 Lynchburg Circuit 354 3 Marble Hill Circuit 500 4 Gallatin District. Winchester Station 152 1 Salem Circuit 337 2 Gallatin Station. 300 1 Rich Valley Circuit 451 1 Gallatin Circuit. 253 1 Sumner Circuit. 362 2 4076 2 32 |

f:*! .. m , 73 Tennessee Conference , 1874

Columbia District. Recapitulation.

White Col'd LacI White Col'd r.oc'i Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. Mem's. Mem's. Pr's.

Columbia Station aiB 1 3748 31 Mount Pleasant Circuit 244 1 3528 1 24 3946 2 32 Nebo and Williamsport Station , 273 5 Duck River Circuit 252 3998 46 Culleoka Station 226 1 1 3512 18 Lynnville Circuit 364 3 4076 2 32 Pleasant. Valley Station 137 2 4299 1 32 Pulaski Station 250 2 2766 1 42 Mount Pisgah Circuit 835 5 3458 19 Richland Circuit 5G0 8 3251 2 33 Prospect Circuit 329 3 Clarksville “ 4422 i 33 Trinity Circuit 41.004 10 342

4299 1 32 Total last year .'. 39.645 22 340

Increase.., 1359 12 Savannah District. Decrease.

Savannah Station 176 Savannah Circuit 449 5 Ques. 22. How many infants have been bap- Lowryville Circuit 256 4 tized during the year? Wayland Springs Circuit 321 8 942. Lawrenceburg Circuit 140 3 Ashland Circuit 350 8 23. adults have been bap- Lobleville Mission 60 3 Ques. How many Linden Circuit 173 2 tized during the year? Clifton Circuit 376 1 5 3284. Ptsgah and Hampshire Circuit. 230 1 235 Oakland Mission 3 is number of Sunday- Ques. 24. What % the 2766 1 42 schools? 367.

Franklin District. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday- school teachers? o 377 2475. 247 1 Bethlehem Station 219 1 26. is the number of Sunday- 359 Ques. What 292 2 school scholars? 358 4 18,888. 308 419 2 Ques. 27. What amount is necessarj" for the 274 4 359 1 superannuated preachers, and the widows and 85 1 orphans of preachers? 161 1 $3,000. 3458 19 Ques. 28. What has been collected on the foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Centerville District. plied? Collected, $2,421 65 ! 466 1 214 1 Applied as follows: 299 Dr. Baldwin’s three children, 300 00 546 14 Mrs. F. E. Pitts, 75 00 440 2 271 5 Mrs. T. W. Handle and children, 375 00 374 2 Mrs. J. A. Walkup, 50 00 171 2 Mrs. Jared and child, 50 00 Bon Aqua Mission 220 4 Tarrant’s 100 00 Beaver Dam Springs 250 2 2 Fletcher daughter, Mrs. M. W. Gray, 125 00 3251 2 33 Mrs. Martin Clark, 75 00 Rev. A. J. B. Foster, 111- 65 Clarksville District. Mrs. G. D. Taylor, 50 00 Mrs. H. H. Brown, 100 00 283 1 Mrs. Finnen, 75 00 62 2 74 Mrs. D. H. Jones, 50 00 428 3 Mrs. Sion Record, 50 00 406 1 Mrs. A. J. Gilmore, 50 00 39C 8 732 1 5 Rev. Golman Green, 75 00 573 3 Rev. J. W. Tarrant, 205 00 475 2 Mrs. Cooley and child, 100 00 309 4 134 Miss Willis, 40 00 503 3 Joe Willis, 40 00 Salem and White’s Chapel Station... 47 1 Mrs. Wm. Randle, 75 00

4422 1 83 Rev. George W. Martin, 50 00 , . 74 Tennessee Conference , 1874

Brought forward, §2,221 65 Cookeville, J. T. Pittman. Mrs. Gaut, • 75 00 Livingston, A. J. Ford. Tommie Lankford, 50 00 Monroe Mission, J. L. Kellum. Mrs. McCurdy, 75 00 Celina, J. H. Chambliss. Gainesboro, H. L. Booth. §2,421 65 Wartrace, H. S. Kennedy. Goose Creek, B. G. Ferrell. Ques. 29. "What has been contributed for La Fayette, W. N. Moore. missions? Red Springs Mission, J. W. Benson. §7,283 58.

Ques. 30. "Where shall the next session of the Conference be held? McMinnville district. At Fayetteville, Tenn. J. J. Comer, P. E. Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed McMinnville Station, T. H. Hinson. this year? McMinnville Circuit, U. N. M. Berry. Warren Circuit, J. R. Thompson. NASHVILLE DISTRICT. Manchester Station, G. T. Henderson. Tullahoma and Deelierd, W. R. Peebles, W. B. D. C. Kelley P. E. , Woodward, Sup. Nashville: Bedford, D. H. Merryman. McKendree, R. K. Hargrove. ^ Hickory Creek, G. W. Anderson. West End, W. M. Green. Manchester Circuit, U. S. Bates. Elm Street, F. R. Hill. * Alto and Mountain Mission, G. D. Gwinn. Claiborne Chapel, W. D. F. Sawrie, John Sparta Station, W. A. Leath. Rains, Sup. Sparta Circuit, S. A. Ellis. Arlington, J. Hill. • ^ W. Hickory Valley Mission, J. G. Myers. Sawrie Chapel, J. J. Ransom. ^ ' Smithville, G. D. Byrne, A. H. Reams, Sup. Tulip Street, J. Hanner, jr.y W. Woodbury, R. T. McBride. North Edgefield, T. A. Kerley* W. R. War- Statesville, J. G. Molloy, W. J. Hale, Sup. ren, Sup. Trinity Station, E. T. Hart. Union, B. F. Haynes. MURFREESBORO DISTRICT. White's Creek, A. P. McFerrin, M. A. Erwin. Mill Creek, G. W. Winn. J. IF. Hanner, P. E. Nashville Circuit, W. W. Brinsfield. v D. Barbee. Hobson Chapel, A. Mizell. Murfreesboro Station, J. Jones. Vanderbilt University, R. A. Young, Agent. Stone’s River Circuit, R. R. Concord, S. L. Fain. Secretary of Missionary Board, J. B. McFerrin. Shelby ville Station, W. Weakley. Unionville, O. G. Halliburton, W. M..Shaw, GALLATIN DISTRICT. Sup. Beech Grove, T. B. Marks. John F. Hughes P. E. , Nolensville, L. C. Bryan. Kedron, J. Webster, C. B. Faris, Sup. Gallatin Station, S. M. Merrill. Kelley Chapel and Smyrna, J. J. Pittman. Gallatin Circuit, John A. McFerrin. Canesville, R. P. Gray. Sumner, B. F. Ferrell. Bellbuckle and Fosterville, T. McFerrin. Bethpage and Trinity, John G. Ray. S. Soule Female College, J. B. West, President. Cairo Bend Mission, J. S. Williams. Science Hill Academy, A. T. Crawford. Fountain Head, II. J. Ivie. Summit Mission, G. M. Sanders. Pleasant Grove, G. W. Martin. FAYETTEVILLE DISTRICT. Goodlettsville, W. G. Dorriss, A. C. Matthews, Sup. J. B. Allison, P. E. Forest Grove, J. W. Bell. Lebanon Station, W. H. Hughes, W. H. John- Fayetteville Station, T. B. Fisher. son, Sup. Mulberry Circuit, W. J. Collier, M. R. Tucker, Lebanon Circuit, G. L. Staley, J. J. Ellis, Sup. Sup. Pleasant Plains, G. S. Byrom, W. A. Gill, Sup. Cornersville Station, R. E. Travis. CARTHAGE DISTRICT. Lewisburg, W. T. Gill. Lynchburg, J. P. Funk, A. Tribble, Sup. J. IF. Cullom, P. E. Marble Hill, B. J. Gaston, W. H. Anthony, Carthage Circuit, W. Witcher. Sup. Mount Olivet, J. H. Nichols. Winchester Station, A. A. Allison. Alexandria, B. M. Stephens. Salem Circuit, C. Clenny, C. Laxon, Sup. Cumberland, N. B. S. Owings, M. N. Ford, Rich Valley, R. A. Reagan. Sup. Petersburg Circuit, W. B. Lowry. . 75 Tennessee Conference , 1874

COLUMBIA DISTRICT. Spring Hill Station. J. M. Jordan. Brentwood Station, J. C. Putman, J. J. Pitts, Wellborn Mooney P. E. , Sup. Columbia Station, A. W. Smith, J. B. Hamil- CENTERVILLE DISTRICT. ton, Sup. P. E. Nebo and Williamsport, Wm. Doss. T. L. Moody, Mount Pleasant, W. H. Wilkes. Centerville Circuit, P. T. Martin. Duck River, R. G. Linn. Santa Fe, W. W. Graves. Culleoka Station, F. C. Wilkes. Pinewood, J. W. Rooker, H. S. Ledbetter, Sup. Lynnville, W. G. Hensley, J. M. Locke, Sup. Yellow Creek, A. Brown. Marcella Falls Mission, R. W. Seay. Dover, J. N. Parotte. Pleasant Valley, R. G. Irvine. Standing Rock Mission, W. T. Dye. Pulaski Station, A. G. Dinwiddie. White Oak, to be supplied. Prospect Circuit, J. Sherrell, J. R. Reagan. Ebenezer and Liberty, J. Nichols. Richland, J. B. Anderson. Waverley, T. S. Cullom. Mount Pisgah, R. L. Fagan, A. M. Ezell, Sup. Bon Aqua Mission, J. S. Marks. Martin Female College, R. H. Rivers, Presi- Beaver Dam Springs. G. W. Coleman. dent. Superintendent American Bible Society, S. P. Whitten. SAVANNAH DISTRICT.

J. G. Bolton P. E. CLARKSVILLE DISTRICT. , W. Burr, P. E. Savannah Station, P. A. Sowell, W. J. Wright, Sup. Clarksville Station, J. R. Plummer. Savannah Circuit, F. F. Fagan. South Clarksville Mission, H. S. McBride. Lowryville Mission, M. J. Mabry. New Providence Station, T. J. Duncan. Wayland Springs, T. H. Woodward Cedar Hill Station, W. A. Turner. Lawrenceburg, J. O. Blanton, W. P. Warren, Asbury Circuit, J. Moore, G. W. Brown, Sup Sup. Red River, A. B. Coke. Pisgah and Hampshire, J. B. Erwin. Springfield Station, G. P. Jackson, S. D. Og- Laurel Hill Station, W. T. Nesbett. burn, Sup. Ashland Circuit, R. W. Bellamy. Montgomery Circuit, W. D. Cherry. Linden Circuit and Lobleville Mission, J. H. Saline, J. T. Duncan. Strayhorn, S. H. Andrews. Antioch, A. T. Goodloe. Clifton Circuit, R. P. Ganaway. Dickson Circuit and Paint Rock Mission, R. Oakland Mission, B. F. Jackson. A. Wilson, W. G. McMillan. Savannah Female College, to be supplied. Cheatham Circuit, J. G. Hinson. Clarksville Female Academy, J. M. Wright, FRANKLIN DISTRICT. President. P. McFerrin, Claudius Buchanan, Paul R. P. Ransom P. E. John , C. Gaston, James A. Herman, transferred to Franklin Station, R. K. Brown. St. Louis Conference. Harpeth Station, S. M. Cherry, J. H. Richard- D. D. Moore transferred to Louisville Con- son, Sup. ference. Bethlehem Station, L. G. Hensley. W. P. Owen transferred to Louisiana Con- Cave Spring, R. M. Haggard. ference. Douglass, J. A. Orman. Willis M. Doyle, Thornton P. Haynes, trans- Smith Spring, W. P. Hickman. ferred to Columbia Conference. Wesley Circuit, R. T. Rowland. Overton W. Ransom transferred to Florida Chapel Hill, J. G. Rice. Conference. Spring Hill, A. F. Lawrence. C. C. Mayhew transferred to Illinois Con- Betbesda, J. H. Reynolds. ference. 76 Kentucky Conference , , 1874

XVII. — KENTUCKY CONFERENCE.

Held at Mount Sterling, Ky., September 16-22, 1874.

Bishop Wightman, President; T. F. Vanmeter, Secretary.

% Question 1. "Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Ansaver. H. A. Smith, W. W. Spates, Alex- elders? ander Redd, J. C. C. Newton, R. H. Wight- None. man, C. F. Reid, L. D. Shaw. 7. Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? elders? Julius Wright, T. J. McIntyre, J. W. Sag- None. erser, Morton Scott, W. H. Quisenbury, J. W. Ques. 16. Who are located this year? Simmons. 6. S. S. Goodman. 1. Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? J. E. Clark, J. F. Wright, at their own re- G. B. Poage, S. Noland, R. T. P. Allen. 3. quest. 2. Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- I. Collard, J. C. Hardy, W. C. Atmore, J tion ? Sandusky, W. Bickers, J. C. Croiv, E. P. D. D. Duty, T. E. Burr, C. M. Humphrey, Buckner, W. P. Landrum, T. P. C. Shellman V. C. Cummins, J. H. Hagar. 5. J. Strother. 10.

Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? Ques. 19. What preachers have died during B. H. McCown, from the Presbyterian the past year? Church. 1. Apselm Minor. 1.

Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from other Conferences? Anselm Minor Avas horn, in Mercer (noAv None. Boyle) co., Ky., July 27, 1815, and died, of congestion of the brain, near Tulip, Ark., Sept. Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? 22, 1873. He made a profession of religion P. H. Fishburn. 1. early in life, and joined the Cumberland Pres- Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected byterian Church, in which he was preparing deacons? for the ministry; but finding himself more in Y. C. Cummins, J. H. Hagar. 2. sympathy with the doctrines and polity of the E. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- M. Church, South, he united with it, and dained deacons? served for some years as a local preacher. He Avas married Y. C. Cummins, J. II. Hagar. 2. Sept. 11, 1838, to Miss Louisa Bilbo, of Avhom he was bereaved July 1868. Ques. 10. What local preachers are 4, elected He joined the Kentucky Conference, deacons? at Shel- byville, Ivv., Sept., 1849, and avus appointed to A. Redd, J. C. C. Newton, L. D. Shaw, Oba- the West Liberty Mission. From that time diali Sexton. George May, J. Laugherty. 6. to his death he Avas appointed to the follow- Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained ing charges—to wit: Crab Orchard, Lancaster, deacons? Madison, Somerset, Lawrenceburg, Maxville, A. Redd, J. C. C. NeAvton, L. D. ShaAV, Oba- Perrvville, Crittenden. Falmouth, Leesburg’ diah Sexton, George May, J. Laugherty. G. and Irvine Circuits, and the West Liberty District, in the Kentucky Conference; Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Canton Station, elected elders? in the Illinois Conference; and Tulip Station, in the Arkansas Conference. J. II. Young, G. C. Overstreet, W. T. Row- During his service in the last-named charge land, M. D. Reynolds, M. W. Hiner, J. A. he formed the acquaintance of Miss Cay wood, G. C. Kelly, D. W. Robertson, D. G. Anna' Jones, near Tulip, with B. Demaree. 9. whom he was united in marriage Dec. 12, 1872. At the close of this year he Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Avas placed on the supernumerary list, and dained elders? transferred back to the Kentucky Conference, J. H. Young, G. C. Overstreet, W. T. Row- to which it was deemed he properlv belonged, land, M. D. Reynolds, M. W. Hiner, J. A. and was appointed to Perrvville and Maxville Cay wood, G. C. Kelly, D. W. Robertson, D. G. in that relation. Of the last hours of Brother B. Demaree. 9. Minor we haA'e but little knowledge, as he . Kentucky Conference , 1874 77 became unconscious at an early period in his Covington District. illness, and so continued until death released White Cora t.nc i him from his sufferings; but his consistent Mem’s. Mem’s. Pr’s. Christian life and devotion to the ministry 388 1 1 pre- afford a well-grounded hope that he was 150 pared for the Master’s call. 123 1 283 4 276 V 3 Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in 202 1 their life and official administration? 4:!4 3 173 called over, one by one, Their names were 280 and their characters examined and passed, ex- 68 1 1 cept B. Arbogast, whose case was referred to 215 16 3 303 for the Presiding Elder of Maysville District, 234 investigation. 154! 143l I Ques. 21. What is the number of local preachers and members in the several circuits, stations, 3432 19 17 1 and missions of the Conference?

Shelbyville District. Lexington District. Shelbyville 141

White Col'd I.oc’l Shelby Circuit. 232 Mem’s. Mem's. Pr’s. Bloomfield 173 Taylorsville .... 250

257 1 Simpsonville ... 104 100 2 Chaplin 336 156 Milton 210 10 172 1 Floydsburg 262 50 Newcastle 222 150 Bedford 375 95 4 Owen 252 284 Springport 304 15 380 La Grange 106 Jacksonville... 594 233 1 Harmona 206 146 2 705 2 7 4037 33 17 125 70 2 TVest Liberty District. 3198 4 18 i West Libertv 148 75 Maysville District. 120 2 145 2 Maysville 231] 484 3 8 Washington and Hebron’ 75! 125 2 Germantown 270 484 8 Augusta and Brooksville 2+0 443 8 Millersburg 205 Ruddle’s Mills 18 2024 3 32 Flemingsbui’g 210 Sharpsburg and Bethel 3:50 Orangeburg 284 Barboursville District. Carlisle , 282 Irvinsville 180 London and Bethel Mount Olivet 810 Barboursville and Manchester 82 2 1 Shannon and Sardis 208 Mount Pleasant and Pineville.. 161 2 3 Tilton 230 Meadow Creek 112 1 Poplar Plains and Hillsboro. 272 Pulaski 60 4 Owingsville 120 Fishing Creek 155 2 Vanceburg and Concord 205 Crab Orchard 220 2 Beatty ville 40 3691 11 17 Liberty .'. Williamsburg Harrodsbnrg District. 1066 4 13 1 Harrodsburg 128 Danville 107 1 Perryville and Maxville 225 2 Recapitulation. Stanford and Lancaster 230 2 Perryville Circuit 310 2 2 Lexington District 3198 4 18 Mount Zion and Siloam 100 2 Maysville “ 3691 11 17 Sal visa 292 1 Harrodsburg “ 2894 7 17 Somerset 184 1 Covington “ 3432 19 17 Lawrenceburg 250 3 Shelbyville “ 4037 33 17 Nicholas ville 130 West Liberty “ 2024 3 32 Bryantsville 1:34 3 Barboursville “ 1066 4 13 Richmond and Providence. 100 Irvine 258 1 Total this year 20,342 81 131 Kirksville and College Hill, 154 2 Total last year 19,502 129 119 Jessamine 223 2 Increase 840 12

2894 1 7 17 Decrease 48 :

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Ques. 22. How many infants have been bap- New Columbus, W. W. Chamberlain, W. W. tized during the year?" Spates. 410. Stanton Mission, T. E. Burr. Ques. 23. How many adults have been baptized during; the vear? HARRODSBURG DISTRICT. 1364. S. X. Hall, P. E. Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday- schools? Harrodsburg and Perryville, W. J. Snively. 184. Mackville, H. A. Smith. Somerset, W. H. H. Ditzler. Ques. 25. "What is the number of Sunday- Nicholasville, E. L. Southgate, S. Noland, school teachers? Sup. 1273. Danville, C. Taylor. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- Stanford, G. C. Overstreet. school scholars? Salvisa, W. H. Winter. 8329. Lawrenceburg, M. Scott. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the Bryan tsville, G. D. Turner. superannuated preachers, and the widows and Richmond and Providence, P. H. Hoffman. orphans of preachers? College Hill, T. J. McIntyre. S3,000. Jessamine, S. W. Speer. Mount Zion and Siloam, to he supplied (by Ques. 28. What has been collected on the V { T. Scott). foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Chaplin, J. C. plied? C. Newton. Parksville Mission, H. N. Linney. Collected, $1,688 97 Applied as follows: I. Collard, 90 00 SHELBYVILLE DISTRICT. Mrs. W. G. Johns, 193 00 G. W. Merritt, P. E. Mrs. S. A. Latta, 90 00 Mrs. W. M. Vize, 90 00 Shelby ville, J. Rand. • Mrs. J. H. Brooking, 90 00 Shelby Circuit, J. C. Minor. Mrs. G. Kelly, 100 00 Bloomfield, J. W. Mitchell. Mrs. S. Kelly, 200 00 Simpsonville, D. B. Cooper. Milton, V. C. Cummins. Mrs. G. L. Gould, 90 00 f W. Bickers, 200 00 Newcastle. B. F. Sedwick. J. C. Hardy, 90 00 Owen, C. M. Humphrey. J. M. Johnson’s son, 75 70 Taylorsville, J. A. Henderson. W. C. Atmore, 175 00 Floydsburg, B. H. McCown. L. C. Danley’s daughters, 100 00 Shiloh, T. F. Vanmeter. Stamps, 27 Bedford, D. G. B. Demaree. Springport, W. H. Quisenbury. $1,583 97 La Grange, T. B. Cook. Jacksonville, P. E. Kavanaugh. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Harmona Mission, to be supplied (by J. missions? Stivers). $4,075 62. Forest Academy, B. H. McCown, President. Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of Agent for Books and Tracts, D. Welburn. the Conference be held? At Maysville, Ky. COVINGTON DISTRICT. Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed M. Evans P. , E. this year? Covington Scott Street, C. W. Miller. LEXINGTON DISTRICT. Second Charge, G. N. Buffington. Newport, H. R. Coleman. J. W. Fitch P. E. , Mount Pleasant, T. N. Ralston. Lexington, R. H. Read, R. T. P. Allen, Sup. Oddville, B. F. Bristow. Paris, W. T. Poynter. Claysville, R. Lancaster. Winchester and Mount Zion, J. R. Deering. Independence, D. W. Robertson. Ebenezer, W. M. D. Abbett. Williamstown, O. Long. Versailles, W. F. Taylor. Alexandria, to be supplied. Mount Sterling, H. P. Walker. Foster, J. Holmes. Newtown, S. S. Deering. Falmouth, G. Froh. Cedar Chapel, J. N. Current. Cynthiana, M. D. Reynolds. Frankfort, R. Hiner. Florence, J. Reeves. Belle Point, H. A. M. Henderson. Petersburg, T. F. Taliaferro. North Middletown, J. A. Cayw'ood. Warsaw, J. H. Young. Hardinsville, J. W. Sagerser. Carrollton, J. W. Wightman. Georgetown, R. Deering. Worthville, W. T. Rowland. 1874 . Louisville Conference ,

to be supplied Agent American Bible Society, G. S. Savage. Crab Orchard and Lancaster, Kentucky Wesleyan University, T. N. Ralston, (by J. S. Kelley). to be supplied Professor of Biblical Literature. Barbours ville and Manchester, (by W. B. Landrum). MAYSVILLE DISTRICT. Fishing Creek, to be supplied (by J. L. God- bey). S. L. Robertson P. E. , Liberty and Pulaski, to be supplied (by G. G. Maysville, T. J. Dodd. Ragan). Washington and Hebron, M. W. Hiner. Williamsburg and Isabella, to be supplied (by Germantown, D. H. Marimon. S. B. Gossett). Brooksville and Augusta, W. A. G. Emmer- Mount Pleasant and Pineville, to be supplied son, G. B. Poage, Sup. (by R. M. Travers). Millersburg, F. W. Noland. Beattyville, to be supplied (by J. H. Wil- Flemingsburg, T. J. Godbey, J. E. Letton. liams). Sharpsburg and Bethel, W. T. Benton. Meadow Creek, to be supplied (by Russell Orangeburg, W. F. Vaughan. Bales). Carlisle, G. C. Kelley, Simmons. J Estill, J. W. t Irvinsville, to be supplied. Whitesburg and Hazard, C. Foster. Mount Olivet, W. D. Power. Canton, to be supplied (by J. Wilson). Shannon and Sardis, D. D. Duty. West Liberty and Frenchburg, L. D. Shaw. Tilton, R. H. Wightman. Jackson, to be supplied (by S. P. Chandler). j Poplar Plains and Hillsboro, G. W. Smith. \ Morehead Mission, E. Johnson. N. G. Robinson, J. H. Hagar, transferred to Owingsville, C. F. Reid. West Virginia Conference. Vaneeburg and Concord, A. Redd. P. H. Fishburn transferred to Virginia Con Millersburg Female College, G. T. Gould. ference.

J. C. Morris, H. W. Abbett, D. A. Beardsley, LONDON DISTRICT. transferred to Louisville Conference. W. B. Godbey P. E. , S. D. Gaines transferred to Holston Confer- London, J. Wright.

XVIII.— LOUISVILLE CONFERENCE.

Held at Princeton, Ky., September 3 o-October 5, 1874.

Bishop Wightman, President; D. Spurrier, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Answer. Eldred E. Pate, J. D. Sigler, C. M. E. Thurman, M. A. Nantz, D. L. Collie, W. Caldwell, J.W. Bowen. 4. C. Hayes, T. I. Richardson, J. C. Brandon, B. F. Biggs. 7. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected J. C. Gill, L. Ames, G. Needham, J. W. deacons? Bunton,W. C. Slate, L. Hullett, W. F. Ford, J. G. Freeman, George H. Means, T. G. Fal- C. H. Dowell, J. C. Norman, W. C. Brandon, lin. 3. S. A. Feltner. 11. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? dained deacons? W. J. Free, A. R. Cox. 2. J. G. Freeman, George H. Means, T. G. Fal- Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- lin. 3. tion ? Ques. 10. AVliat local preachers are elected J. G. Freeman, G. H. Means, T. G. Fallin. 3. deacons? Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? E. Gibbon, B. F. Taylor, J. J. Storm, D. K. J. T. C ran dell. 1. Ross, C. C. Ambrose, S. P. Hulse. 6. Ques. 11. local preachers are ordained Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from What other Conferences? deacon s ? Ross, Butler. 3. J. H. Linn, S. R. Brewer, J. B. Cottrell, D. D. K. S. P. Hulse, W. C. D. Moore, J. C. Morris, D. A. Beardsley, H. Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are W. K. Abbott, F. B. Rogers. 8. elected elders? 80 Louisville Conference , 1874.

G. W. Lyon, D. S. Bowles, J. M. Phillips, Scriptures more than he. As a preacher ha G. S. King, J. W. Love, A. G. Fraser, J. God- selected the plainest texts, and treated them, in bej’, G. P. Cundiff, W. T. Moore. 9. the main, in an expository manner. There Qnes. 13. "What traveling preachers are or- was in his preaching, therefore, nothing of a dained elders? speculative character—nothing but what was G. W. Lyon, D. S. Bowles, J. M. Phillips, good to the use of edifying. He never seemed G. S. King, J. W. Love, A. G. Fraser, J. God- to be troubled as to his appointments. He bev, G. F. Cundiff, W. T. Moore. 9. had confidence that the Lord of the harvest, who had thrust him forth as a laborer, would Qnes. 14. What local preachers are elected select his field of labor. Being called elders? by his great Captain to be a soldier, he had faith that C. It. Macgill, Isaac Ferry, T. S. Walton. 3. he would give him his proper place in the Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained field, and see to it that all charges would be elders? met. Brother Perry was, in many respects, a Isaac Perry. 1. model Methodist preacher. He was never un- employed Ques. 16. Who are located this year? —never triflingly employed—doing every thing at the L. Hirschburg, S. Spurrier. 2. time, and having time for every thing. Our beloved brother had done Ques. 17. are supernumerary? Who the active part of his ministry well; for W. H: Anderson, H. N. Hobbes, J. J. Rud- twenty-one years he suffered well, and when dell, J. L. Brown, J. R. Dempsey, M. Las- N. the time came he died well. Says a minister, ley. 6. who visited him shortly before his death: “I Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? do not think I ever saw an example of such J. R. Strange, T. D. Lewis, A. McCown, J. patient suffering, calm resignation, and Chris- Peak, W. F. Harwell, W. Alexander, J. S. tian triumph. In every paroxysm of pain McGee, R. B. McCown. 8. he would exclaim: ‘Blessed Jesus! Precious Lamb! thou art too good to be unkind. Glory Ques. 19. What preachers have died during be to God! ’ On being asked what message he the past year? would send to the Conference, he said: ‘Tell J. B. Perry, T. C. Berry. 2. the brethren I sought religion when young, and I have never departed from the good and John Beatty Perry was born, in Belfast, the right way. Tell them I have lived, and Ireland, May 23, 1813. His father, Robert am now dying, in peace with God and all man- Perry, immigrated to America about the y->ar kind. Tell them I have unshaken confidence 1816, and located at Philadelphia, Pa. John in my blessed Saviour.’ He continued to re- joined the Church in his seventeenth year, and alize most wonderful manifestations of the soon after made a happy profession of religion. Divine presence until his departure, which his In nineteenth year he was licensed to was on July 1, 1874, in his sixty-second year.” preach, and, for a short time, labored on the On May 10, 1840, he was married to Miss Philadelphia City Mission. In 1836 he immi- Mary G. Maddox, in Trimble co., Ky., who grated to Kentucky, and traveled the New- survives him. He left a large family of chil- castle Circuit, as a supply. In 1837 he was dren, who have been brought up in respecta- admitted on trial into the Kentucky Confer- bility, and most of whom are following the ence. At the same Conference he was ordained example of his pious life. to the office of deacon, by Bisliop Roberts, and appointed to the Shelby Circuit. In 1839 he Thomas C. Berry was a native of Mary- was ordained elder by Bisbop Soule, at Rus- land. The period of his removal to the West sellville, Ky, and appointed to the Hartford is not known. He lived for a time in the city Circuit. In 1840-41 he traveled the Hopkins- of St. Louis, Mo., and removed to Louisville, ville Circuit; 1841-3, the Elkton Circuit; Ky., about the year 1862. At the last love- 1843-4, the Hawesville Circuit; 1844-5, the feast meeting held in the Walnut Street Hardinsburg Circuit; 1845-7, the Big Spring Church, in Louisville, Ky., for the Conference- Circuit; 1847-9, the Greensburg Circuit; year of 1863-4, he united with the M. E. 1849-50, the Campbellsville Circuit; 1850-2, Church, South, under the ministry of the Rev. the Morganfield Circuit. In 1852 he was ap- Geo. W. Brush. Soon after taking this step pointed to the Marion Circuit, but before the he was happily converted to God; soon after year closed his health failed, and he was never which he felt himself called to the work of effective afterward. Our beloved brother was the ministry, and obtained license to preach. distinguished for his entire consecration to Brother Berry was a man of good education God, and to the work to which he was called. and good business qualities, and while he was He had not a single aspiration at variance with a popular and faithful conductor on the Louis- his high calling. He was remarkable for his ville and Nashville Railroad, he was at the child-1 i ke, unsuspecting simplicity of charac- same time a useful and active local preacher. ter. He was an “Israelite indeed, in whom He carried his religious character into all the was no guile.” He attended to his own departments of his business; and, when he work, and was no busy-body in other men’s could find time to do so, he made appointments matters. He was a man of one work, and of and preached to his crew and others the un- one book. Perhaps no nmn had read the searchable riches of Christ. He was useful , .

Louisville Conference 1874. and efficient, and won souls to Christ while Elizabethtown District ( continued). whirling rapidly along the line of duty. In White Col'd I I.oc'l 1868 he gave up his profitable position in the Mem’s. Mem's, Pr's. employment of the railroad company, and j Hodgenville Circuit 440 3 3 asked to share the privations and pleasures, the West Point Mission 225 3 toils and triumphs of the itinerant ministry. Garnettsville Circuit 200 Entering into this work with heart and energy, Shepherdsville Circuit 221 6 Jeffersontown 480 1 he soon exhibited cheering indications of future Circuit 480 Hudsonville Circuit 630 3 usefulness. His preaching was successful souls ; Cloverport Station 144 were converted, the backslidden were reclaimed, 3894 19 and the interests of the Church prospered in 13 his hands. In Greensburg, Morganfield, and Owensboro District. Owensboro his name is as ointment poured ±

forth. He was a close student, and possessed a Owensboro Station .. 249 good memory; consequently, his improvement Owensboro Mission. 115 Yelvington Circuit... 294 was rapid. He was taking rank among our Calhoun Circuit 366 3 best preachers, when he was stricken down Livermore Circuit... 233 1 with brain fever and hurried to the tomb. Eor Hartford Circuit 499 Whitesville Circuit.. 169 1 2 weeks before his death he was unconscious, Fordsville Mission.. through paralysis of the brain, and left us no Hawesville Circuit... 195 1 lying testimony of his triumph; but his con- 306 3 Cromwell Circuit.. 333 sistent life, his oft-repeated and exultant state- ments of faith in Christ and peace with God, 2759 1 13 made in the pulpit and the private circle, in the class-meeting and the love-feast, leave us Henderson District. no doubt of his glorious admittance into the Henderson Station 109 paradise of God. An affectionate wife and 1 Corydon Circuit 526 1 1 two children are left to deplore his loss, while Morganfield Circuit 326 3 the Conference and Church join with them in Casey ville Circuit 261 4 Madisonville Circuit 408 tears of bereavement. Blessed be God, we do 5 Slaughtersville Circuit 450 5 not weep as those who have no hope. Sacramento Circuit 260 3 Greenville Circuit 465 1 West Greenville Circuit 250 2 Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in Dixon Circuit 243 3 Spottsville Circuit their life and official administration? 129 fortonsville Mission.. Their names were called over, one by one, and their characters examined and passed, except J. S. Wools, who was expelled, and Z. M. Taylor, whose name was stricken from the Princeton District. roll. Princeton and Eddyville 160] 1 Eddy ville Circuit 330 1 Ques. 21. What is the number of local preach- Smithland Station 90 ers and members in the several circuits, stations, Smithland Circuit 288 3 and missions of the Conference? Salem Circuit 238 1 Marion Circuit 300 3 Fredonia Circuit 144 Louisville District. Parkersville Circuit 270 Cadiz Circuit 435 2 La Fayette Circuit 143 White Col'd I.oc'l Empire Circuit 202 1 1 Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. Crofton 177 2 Louisville: Linton 155 1 Walnut Street 416 1 Broadway Street., 400 3 Chestnut'Street.... 410 4 313 4 Russellville District. Bascom Street... 209 Street. 260 1 Jefferson Russellville Station 215 152 Adairville Circuit 330 MeKendree Mission. 94 1 Allensville Circuit 260 30 1 Cave Spring Circuit 215 Middleton Circuit 134 Henryville Circuit 416 Louisville Circuit 300 2 Auburn Circuit 177 Jeffersonville Station 175 Elkton Circuit 247 Station 176 1 Gosport Todd Circuit 346 Fairview Circuit 37S 3069 18 Hopkinsville Station 143 Trenton Mission- 60 Elizabethtown District.

Elizabethtown and Litchfield 170 Big Spring Circuit 558 Bowling Green District. Brandenburg Circuit 300 Hardinsburg Circuit 256 Bowling Green Station Litchfield Circuit 264 Glasgow Station Caneyville Mission 6 Franklin Station. 6 ,

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District Ques. 2G. is Bowling Green ( continued). What the number of Sunday- school scholars? White Cold I.oc'1 10,813. Mem's. Mem s. Fr's. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the New Roe Circuit 540 2 6 845 6 superannuated preachers, and the widows and 415 4 5 orphans of preachers? Bowling Green Circuit 210 1 3 $3,700. 2!)2 420 1 2 Ques. 28. What has been collected on the 250 4 18G 1 foregoing account, and how has it been applied? 8601 8 28 Collected, $2,087 55. Applied to claimants.

Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Columbia District. missions? Columbia and Breeding’s 142 3 $4,802 80. 407 3 335 2 Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of the Conference be held? Glasgow Circuit 342 1 1 At Cloverport, Ky. Tompkinsville Circuit 458 6 3 Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed 480 3 this year? Jamestown Circuit 328 4 3

027 9 221 LOUISVILLE DISTRICT. E. W. Schon P. E. 3702 5 33 , Louisville: Walnut Street, J. C. Morris. Lebanon District. Broadway Street, B. M. Messick, W. H. An- derson, Sup. Lebanon*Station 08 Chestnut Street, J. II. Linn. Bardstown Station 180 ifc ./ Springfield and BradfordsviMe 346 1 Shelby Street, II. C. Morrison. New Haven Circuit 202 5 Bascoin, F. G. Brodie. flu Campbellsville Circuit 488 5 Jefferson Street, J. P. Goodson, M. Las- Mount Lebanon Circuit .• JL Greensburg Circuit 825 1 ley, Sup. Munfordsville Circuit 372] 5 Middletown Circuit, W. W. Lambuth. 1 C«> 2 Ca verna Circuit j Louisville Circuit, T. G. Bosley. Bacon Creek Circuit 6001 1 6 470' Buffalo Circuit ; City Mission, J. F. Bedford.

1 Chalk Ridge Mission Jeffersonville, Ind., S. H. Lovelace.

! L 3290 6 20 Jefferson town, J. S. McDaniel. 1 Southern Methodist Publishing House, A. H. Red ford, Agent. Recapitulation. Agent for sale of Books and Tracts, J. W. Louisville District 3069 18 Shelton. Elizabethtown “ 3894 13 19 Owensboro “ 2759 1 13 Henderson “ 3521 1 28 ELIZABETHTOWN DISTRICT. “ 2932 15 Princeton 1 L. B. Davison, P. E. Russellville “ 2752 2 18 “ Bowling Green 3691 8 28 Elizabethtown, G. W. Lyon. Columbia “ 3702 5 33 “ Big Spring, G. B. Overton. Lebanon ; 3290 6 20 Brandenburg, T. M. Penick. Total this vear 29.610 37 192 Hardinsburg, D. S. Campbell, D. A. Beardsley. Total last year 29,052 47 201 Litchfield, to be supplied (by J. Board). Increase 558 Caneyville Mission, to be supplied. Decrease 10 9 West Point. M. A. Nantz. Shepherdsville, J. M. Phillips. Ques. 22. How many infants have heen bap- I Hudson ville, J. W. Taylor, tized during the year? f Bacon Creek, L. Ames. 854. \ Nolin Mission, to be supplied. Ques. 23. How many adults have heen bap- Stephensburg, G. S. King. tized du-ring the year? Boston Mission, J. C. Brandon. 2338. Agent Widows’ and Orphans’ Home C. D. Donaldson. Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday- schools? OWENSBORO DISTRICT. 207. J. M. Lawson, P. E. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday- school teachers? Owensboro Station, J. B. Cottrell. 1374. Owensboro Circuit, T. G. Fallin.

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Yelvington Circuit, S. Newton. BOWLING GREEN DISTRICT. Calhoun Circuit, M. M. Hunter. E. M. Crow, P. E. Livermore Circuit, R. D. Bennett. Bowling Green Station, J. G. Wilson. Hartford Circuit, B. A. Cundiff, J. R. Demp- Franklin Station, H. M. Ford. sey, Sup. Glasgow Station, J. S. Keen. Whitesville Circuit, W. F. Ford. Roe Circuit, J. D. Sigler. Hawesville, E. R. Harrison. New Scottsville, W. C. Slate. Lewisport, S. C. Allen. Smith’s Grove, J. D. Barnett, J. J. Ruddell, Cromwell, W. L. Corban. Sup. Cloverport, J. S. Scobee. Bowling Green Circuit, P. T. Hardison. North Bowling Green, J. W. Love. * HENDERSON DISTRICT. Franklin Circuit, R. Y. Thomas. Brownsville Mission, A. G. Fraser. N. H. Lee, P. E. Morgantown Mission, F. M. Rose. Henderson Station, G. W. Brush. Barren River Mission, to be supplied. Dorydon, T. C. Peters. Warren College, J. G. Wilson, President. Morgan field, S. L. Murrell. Caseyville, C. M. Caldwell. COLUMBIA DISTRICT. Madison ville, C. Y. Boggess, J. L. Brown, Sup. T. C. Frogge, P. E. Slaughtersville, T. G. Harrison. Sacramento, E. Thurman. Columbia Circuit, D. S. Bowles. Greenville, W. W. Cook. Burksville, R. Tucker. West Greenville, W. W. Mann. Edmonton Mission, S. A. Feltner. Dixon, F. B. Rodgers. Glasgow Circuit, L. Hullett. Spottsville, W. Williams. Tompkinsville, J. G. Freeman. Sebree, J. Godbey. Wayne, G. H. Means. Albany, J. C. Gill, f Jamestown, J. W. Bowen. PRINCETON DISTRICT. \ Liberty Mission, to be supplied. Janies A. Lewis, P. E. Cumberland, to be supplied (by S. P. Hulse). South Fork Mission, to be supplied. L. Edrington. Princeton and Eddyville, J. Cavern a, W. R. Godbey. Eddyville, R. C. Love. Southland, G. W. Crumbaugh. LEBANON DISTRICT. Livingston Mission, J. T. Crandell. G. Hayes, P. E. Salem, to be supplied fby J. T. Yates). H. Marion, William T. Moore. Bardstown Station, L. E. Campbell. Fredonia, J. W. Bunton. Lebanon Station, S. It. Brewer. Parkersville. W. T. Reid. Springfield, W. C. Hayes. Cadiz, T. J. Randolph. Bradfordsville, B. F. Biggs. La Fayette, R. C. Alexander. New Haven, G. F. Cundiff. Empire, W. C. Brandon. Campbellsville, S. L. Lee. Crofton, T. I. Richardson. Mount Lebanon, C. H. Dowell. Linton, to be supplied (by J. R. Randolph). Greensburg, W. T. Davenport. Munfordville, G. Needham. RUSSELLVILLE DISTRICT. Iiodgenville. D. D. Moore, H. N. Hobbs, Sup. Buffalo, B. D. Griffin. D. Mortem, P. E. Chalk Ridge Mission, to be supplied.

Russellville Station, H. C. Settle. Adairville Circuit, J. C. Petree. H.W. Abbett transferred to Kentucky Con- Allensville Station, Dennis Spurrier. ference. Olmstead, J. W. Lewis. R. H. Rivers transferred to Tennessee Con- Henryville, R. Fisk. ference. Auburn, J. C. Norman. D. L. Collie transferred to Denver Confer- Elk ton, E. W. Bottomly, E. E. Pate. ence. Todd Mission, A. C. DeWitt. Val. P. Thomas transferred to Illinois Con- Fairview, I. W. Emerson. ference, and appointed to Gosport District. Hopkinsville, Thomas Bottomly. J. W. Price transferred to Illinois Confer- Norton ville Mission, to be supplied. ence, and appointed to Pana District.

L >gan Female College,) r, -d G. W. Gilmore transferred to Illinois Con- E ' Browder A l- ’ G * S Board of Education, } ference, and appointed to Stinesville. ;

84 St. Louis . Conference , 1874

XIX.— ST. LOUIS CONFERENCE.

Held at Caledonia, Mo., October 14-20, 1874.

Bishop Keener, President R. A .• Hatcher, Secretary.

Question 1. "Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Answer. John W. Robinson, James Rufus dained elders? Ledbetter, Columbus E. W. Smith, Sebastian Charles E. DevinnejL 1. C. Biffle, Samuel A. Dyson. 5. Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? elders? John Taylor Allen, Richard F. Chew, Ken- Jonas Gritty Davidson, John Wesley Cra- r yon S. Stewart, John H. Johnson, Alex. M. ven, Robert M. Simmons. 3. Robinson, La Fayette Hull. 5. Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? elders? D. F. Gourley, S. A. Ritchie, at their own None. request. 2. Ques. 16. Who are located this year? Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- John C. Duncan, S. W. Barbee, S. A. Ritchie, tion? E. Hicks, at their own request. 4. Geo. H. Adams, Benj. K. Thrower, Henry ft Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? tb Hanesworth, Edward Hicks. 4. None. Ques. 5. "Who are readmitted? Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? None. Christian Eaker, John Thomas, John C. Williams, J. N. W. Springer, AY. R. Babcock, Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from J. H. St. Clair. 6. other Conferences? Wm. V. Tudor, from Louisiana Conference; Ques. 19. What preachers have died during John Gaston, J. E. Treadwell, from Western the past year? Conference; F. A. Owen, Richard F. Chew, None. from North Mississippi Conference; John H. t * Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in Scruggs, from Memphis Conference; John P. k their life and official administration? McFerrin, Claudius Buchanan, Paul C. Gas- [ft Their names were called over, one by one, ton, from Tennessee Conference; T. V. L. and their characters examined and passed. Harvey, from South-west Missouri Confer- ence. 10. Ques. 21. What is the number of local preach- m ers and members in the several circuits, sta- Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? tions, and missions of the Conference? Joseph A. Russell, John H. Scruggs. 2.

Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected St. Louis District.

deacons? White Col’d Loc'l None. Mem's. Mem's. Pr's.

Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- St. Louis: 323 3 dained deacons? 305 2 if to, None. 415 89 2 Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected 105' 2 deacons? 147 1 56 Ezekiel Blanton. 1. Richard James Good- 261 1 man, Thomas W. Carpenter, recognized from 117 the M. E. Church. 75 2 75 2 191 Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained 1 98 deacons? Edward Netherly Chilcut, James R. Tram- 2257 3 13 mell. 2. Iron Mountain District. Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Arcadia Station 1 100 e’ected elders? Caledonia and Irondale 115 2

Charles E. Devinney. 1. Iron Mountain Circuit | 223 3 1874 . 85 St. Louis Conference ,

26. is the number of Sunday- Iron Mountain District (continuedf). Ques. What school scholars? Loc’l White Cord ! Mem’s. Mem's. Pr's. 5080. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the 175 superannuated preachers, and the widows and Farmington Circuit 489 4 2 orphans of preachers? 2 400 i S3, 050. 232 i been collected on the GO i Ques. 28. What has foregoing account, and how has it been ap- 1969 4 12 plied? Collected, $1,522 44 Charleston District. Applied as follows:

197 2 Mrs. W. A. Smith, . 100 00 Charleston Circuit 270 1 5 Mrs. R. E. Whaley, 75 00 121 200 00 181 3 Mrs. Anthony, 570 5 Mrs. John D. Read, 200 00 Perry ville Circuit 415 1 2 Mrs. W. H. Moberly, 75 00 194 200 00 220 4 Mrs. Wm. Alexander, Mrs. Charles Eaker, 200 00 2358 2 21 W. R. Babcock, 100 00 J. N. W. Springer 122 00 Salem District. Wesley Browning, 200 00 99 2 F. C. Williams, 50 00 144 3 300 7 SI, 522 00 183 6 105 3 Ques. 29. has been contributed for 111 What 109 2 missions? SI, 695 71.

Licking Circuit 208 i 4 Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of the Conference be held? 1674 i 27 At Salem, Mo.

Poplar Bluff District. Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed Poplar Bluff Circuit 275 1 4 this year? 219 1 144 4 117 2 ST. LOUIS DISTRICT. 126 3 A. T. Scruggs, P. E. 222 7 221 7 St. Louis: First Church, T. M. Finney. 200 5 Centenary, W. Y. Tudor. i

1524 1 33 St. John’s, J. W. Lewis. St. Paul’s, W. M. Leftwicli. Recapitulation. Choteau Avenue, F. A. Owen. Carondelet, J. W. Robinson. St. Louis District 2257 31 13 Iron Mountain “ 1909 4 12 Bellefontaine Circuit, W. M. Williams. Charleston “ 2108 2 21 Bridgeton Circuit, F. A. Morris. “ Salem 1674 1 27 Eden Circuit, Irl R. Hicks. Poplar Bluff “ 1524 1 33 Mount Olive Circuit, J. A. Treadwell. Total this year 9592 11 106 Kirkwood and Fenton, J. P. McFerrin. 9863 3 104 Total last year Manchester, J. S. Frazier.

8 2 St. Louis Circuit, to be supplied. Decrease 271 Meramac, W. Browning. Editor Christian Advocate D. R. McAnally. , Ques. 22. How many infants have been baptized during the year? 452. SALEM DISTRICT J. E. Godbey, P. E. Ques. 23. How many adults have been baptized during the year? Salem and St. James, W. M. Shelton. 596. Houston, S. C. Biffle. Licking, to be supplied (by Jas. A. Carter). Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday- Rolla Circuit, S. A. Dyson. schools? Cuba, Paul C. Gaston. 96. Washington and Labadie, B. K. Thrower, R, Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday- F. Chew. school teachers? St. Clair, C. E. Devinney. 620. Steelville, K. S. Stewart.

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POPLAR BLUFF DISTRICT. IRON MOUNTAIN DISTRICT. G. W. Hull P. E. J. H. Headlee, P. E. ,

Poplar Bluff Circuit, to be suppied (by J. L. Arcadia Station, J. C. Berryman. Spencer). Caledonia, C. O. Jones. Doniphan Circuit, A. M. Robinson. Iron Mountain, J. A. Russell. Alton, to be supplied (by G. Effinger). Potosi Circuit, T. Y. L. Harvey. "West Plains and Thomasville, R. H. Ropers. Piatten Circuit, J. R. Eddleman. Pine Forest Circuit, to be supplied (by W. P. Farmington Circuit, M. Arrington. Cl an ah an). Fredericktown and Iron dale, J. H. Johnson. Patterson Circuit, J. Carton, one to be sup- Fredericktown Circuit, H. Hanesworth, L. plied. Hull. Bloomfield Circuit, .T. R. Ledbetter, one to be Cold Water, to be supplied (by Sidney Rich- supplied (by S. Wilson). mond). Grand Prairie and West Prairie, J. II. Cox. Libertyville, to be supplied (by J. M. Mar- tin). CHARLESTON DISTRICT. Bellevue Collegiate Institute, C. 0. Jones. D. J. Marquis P. E. , L. M. Lewis transferred to Little Rock Con- Charleston Station, L. F. Aspley. ference. Charleston Circuit, H. N. Watts, C. E. W. J. H. Linn transferred to Louisville Confer- Smith. ence. Jackson Circuit, J. G. Atchison. S. A. Mason transferred to Memphis Confer- Benton Circuit, J. T. Allen. ence. Marble Hill Circuit, G. II. Adams. Oak Ridge Circuit, H. S. Watts. John H. Scruggs transferred to North Mis- Belmont Circuit, to be supplied. sissippi Conference. New Madrid Circuit, L. W. Powell. Claudius Buchanan transferred to Tennessee Gayoso Circuit, to be supplied. Conference.

XX.— SOUTH-WEST MISSOURI CONFERENCE.

Held at Lexington, Mo., September 30 -October 6 , 1874 .

Bishop Keener, President; W. M. Prottsman, Secretary .

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Conference; Ethelbert S. Smith, from Ala- Answer. Lamartine M. Phillips, Tobias P. bama Conference; J. R. Peebles, from East Cobb, Robert W. Reynolds, Theodore V. L. Texas Conference; 11. A. Bathurst, from Meth- Harvey, AY. A. Laughon. 5. odist Church. 7.

Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? John A. Swift, Isaac Stapleton, J. T. String- Leonidas AV. Pearce, R. II. Shaeffer, Jones T field. 3. L. Hengler, A\ . E. Woodward. 4.

Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? Ques. 8 . AATat traveling preachers are elected Means, James W. Lewis Horn beck, J. deacons? M. Brading, J. AY. Agee, at their own re- E. AY. Woodward, R. A. Allen. 2. quest. 4. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- dained deacons? tion? E. AV. Woodward, R. A. Allen. 2. E. W. Woodward, J. N. Read, R. A. Al- len. 3. Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? deacons? AVm. D. Stewart. 1. Eli C. Johnson, Tobias P. Cobb. 2. T. D. Starkey, from Methodist Protestant Church,

. are received transfer from Ques. 6 Who by was recognized in deacon’s orders. other Conferences? W. F. Mister, from Tennessee Conference; Ques. 11. Wbat local preachers are ordained E. G. Frazier, Joab Spencer, from Western deacons? Conference;* J. A. Poage, from Missouri Eli C. Johnson, To,bias P. Cobb. 2. —

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Ques. 12. Wliat traveling preachers are if he could only enjoy the heart-cheering con- elected elders? sciousness that he was doing the will of his Pv. A. Holloway, Wm. C. Montgomery. 2. Divine Master. The trials, sacrifices, and sufferings borne by traveling preachers in a Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- newly-settled country are known only to those dained elders? who have passed through them. Brother R. A. Holloway, Wm. C. Montgomery. 2. Monroe was a good man and true; social in R. A. Bathurst recognized and admitted an disposition, always cheerful and communica- elder from the Methodist Church. tive, he enjoyed the society of friends, and Ques. 14. What local preachers are 'elected especially that of the preachers, in a very high elders? degree—fond of conversation on religious top- None. ics; anxious to learn as much as can be com- prehended of the sublime scheme of human Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained redemption. His religious experience was elders? purely scriptural, and of the most elevated None. Geo. W. Johnston was recognized as and uniform order. He did not hesitate to local elder from the Free-will Baptist Church; recommend religion in every circle, and advo- Wm. A. Laughon was recognized as elder from cate the cause of Christ under all circum- the Methodist Protestant Church. stances. He heartily indorsed the doctrine of Ques. 10. Who are located this year? evangelical holiness, and lived in constant M. G. Williams, Millard J. Law, J. B. communication with God. He was an ardent Landreth, W. F. Mister, L. P. Siceloflj at lover and zealous defender of Methodism, be- their own request. 5. lieving it to be the purest and most scriptural form of Christianity known to the world. At Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? bigot. not Nathan M. Scarritt, Warren Wharton, H. the same time he was no Though eloquent, there was an earnestness in his W. Webster. 3. preaching which carried conviction to the un- Ques. 18. W'ho are superannuated? derstanding and the heart, and showed the Wm. Holmes, N. T. Shaler, Josiah Godbey, sincerity of his mind as one on whom you G. C. Knowles, J. F. Scurlock, Samuel Col- could rely. Decision of character was pre- burn. 6. eminently conspicuous in all his deportment Ques. 19. What preachers have died during a trait not always met with at the present day. the past year? No one, we suppose, ever doubted the honesty John Monroe. 1. of his purpose. He possessed an independent cast of mind; he had an idea of his own, and John Monroe was horn, in Scotland, in the followed it. He had a touch of eccentricity year 1803, came to America in 1820, and grad- about him, both in the pulpit and in the social uated at Kenyon College, Ohio. From thence circle, which was wholly natural, and did not he came to Missouri, and for the last twenty appear to detract from liis piety or usefulness. years resided in Cooper co., and died at the He had been for a considerable time previous residence of his son, at Big Lick, in said to his departure in a very feeble state of

county, the night of October 3, 1873. Our health, but would labor as long as he had first knowledge of Brother Monroe was de- strength; and of him it may truly be said, He rived in 1834, at which time he was teaching ceased at once to work and live. His son in- school for the Kickapoo Indians, near Fort forms us he left a bright testimony of his ac- Leavenworth, Kansas. He did not then be- ceptance with the Lord. He was very anxious long to the itinerancy, but not very long after- ^o be with his brethren at Conference, but died ward joined the Missouri Conference. Subse- during its session. Though he could not be quently he became a member of the St. Louis present, he sent the following beautiful and im- Conference, and at the time of his death held pressive communication, written a few days a superannuated relation to the West St. Louis before he was called by the great Head of the Conference. Brother Monroe was a faithful, Church from labor to reward: “Big Lick, energetic, laborious minister of the gospel of Cooper co., Mo., Sept. 22, 1873.—Dear Breth- Christ, determined and unwavering in the ren: I hereby inform you that I cannot be prosecution of the great work to which, in the with you at the coming session. I am at the order of Providence, he had been called. In house of my son, at the above-named place, the arrangement of the constituted authorities and am prostrate on my bed, totally unable to of the Church, it often fell to his lot to per- help myself, and in all probability before this form much difficult and hard service, and to reaches you I shall have passed from the stage receive but little remuneration for the same. of action. But I am sustained in my suffer- But he never faltered. He seemed to regard ings by grace, and that powerful arm that has it as a privilege more than a hardship to oc- so often been my stay is still with me. My cupy the outposts of Zion, and put forth his watch-word left with you all is, Keep your best efforts to build up the cause of God and armor bright and be ready, for the Divine bring sinners to Christ. He was content, as a Master will call you soon to meet me at the pioneer preacher, to suffer the privations and foot of the Almighty's throne. In conclusion encounter the difficulties peculiar to an itiner- I will say, Contend for the faith, work in the ant Methodist minister in a frontier country, vineyard, and labor unceasingly for the good 88 South-west Missouri . Conference , 1874

of the Church. Brethren, now, and perhaps Neosho District. forever in this world, I bid you, one and all, a loving farewell.” White Coi'd t.oc'l Mem's. Mem's. Pr's.

Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in Neosho Station 120 1 1 Harmony Circuit their life and official administration? 287 1 Mt. Vernon Circuit 250 1 Their names were called over, one by one, Greenfield Circuit 205 3 and their characters examined and passed. Montevallo Circuit 147 6 Golden City Circuit Ques. 21. What is the number of local preach- Carthage Circuit 148 Sarcoxie ers and members in the several circuits, stations, Circuit 249 3 Pearce City and Marionville. 65 and missions of the Conference? Pineville Circuit 395 1 Cassville Circuit 281 2 Boonville District. 2147 1 18 White Col'd Loc'l Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. a.: Springfiehl District. Boonville Station...*. l:4n Belle Air Circuit 2o7 1 Springfield Station 125 3 ijM, Arrow Rock and Marshall 181 1 Springfield Circuit 460 3 Boonville Mission 52 1 Bolivar and Morrisville 305 1 Marshall Circuit 415 1 1 Bolivar Circuit 213 1 Sedalia Station 54 1 Stockton Circuit 202 Sedalia Circuit 256 4 Marshfield Circuit 687 9 Versailles Station 170 2 2 Lebanon and Stout land 187 5 XS Versailles Circuit 216 1 Bloofngarden and Waynesville 254 2 California and Otterville 111 1 Hartville Circuit 254 2 Prairie Home Circuit 170 2 Henderson and Linden 50 1 Jefferson City Station 81 Buffalo Circuit 174 2 Jefferson City Circuit 198 2 tj'i Chamois Station 65 Chamois Circuit 81

2502 6 14 Recapitulation.

Boonville District 2502 6 14 Lexington District. Lexington “ 2032 2 12 Kansas City “ 1935 13

Lexington Station , Nevada City “ 2516 3 21 Wellington Circuit Neosho “ 21471 1 18 Aullsville Circuit Springfield “ 2920 s. 29 La Monte Circuit K/iobnoster and Calhoun Total this year 14,052 12 107 Clinton and Windsor Total last year 13,937 201 127 Brownsville and Blackwater. Dover Circuit Increase.. Waverlv Station Decrease. Grand f*ass Circuit Saline Circuit Cambridge Circuit Ques. 22. How many infants have been baptized during the year?' 282.

Kansas City District. Ques. 23. How many adults have been baptized during Kansas City Station 194 1 the vear? Kansas City Circuit 110 746. Westport Station 56 1 Independence Station 130 1 Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday- Lee’s Summit Circuit 109 schools? Pleasant 113 Hill Circuit 3 99. Harrisonville Station 115 Harrisonville 180 3 Circuit Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday- Warrensburg Station 88 Columbus Circuit 252 1 school teachers? Chapel Hill Circuit 308 2 645. Pink Hill Circuit 280 1 Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- school scholars? 4965. Nevada City District. T Ques. 27. W hat amount is necessary for the Nevada City Station 102 superannuated preachers, and the widows and Nevada City Circuit 190 orphans of preachers? Little Osage Circuit 174 2 200 . Marmaton Circuit 130 $ , Butler Circuit 316 Ques. 28. has been collected on Montrose Circuit 338 What the Chalk Level Circuit 130 foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Clinton Circuit 416 plied? Index Circuit 220 Collected, Wheatland Circuit 140 $1,341 00 Hermitage Circuit 145 Applied as follows: Warsaw Circuit 107 S. S. Colburn, 175 00 Roscoe Circuit 108! Mrs. J. Green, 25 00 Mrs. Perkins, 100 00 1874 . 89 South-west Missouri Conference ,

Manen Duren. Brought forward, $300 00 Harrisonville Circuit, F. Bryant. Mrs. Green Woods, 150 00 Warrensburg Station, S. Richard. Minshall, J. N. Mrs. James, 51 00 Columbus Circuit, Mrs. Headlee, 150 00 Read. Mrs. Smith, 105 00 Chapel Hill, W. M. Pitts. Smith. Mrs. Cummings, 100 00 Pink Hill, G. P. D. Wood. Mrs. Glanville, 05 00 Lee’s Summit, J. ><140 00 Mrs. Talbot, DISTRICT. Miss D. Riley, 50 00 NEVADA Miss E. Monroe, 25 00 J. T. Peery, P. E. Nevada City and Walker, J. F. Hogan, H. W. $1,196 00 Webster, Sup. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Nevada City Circuit, R. A. Bathurst. missions? Little Osage Circuit, J. M. Kennett. $1,965 23. Butler Circuit, W. L. King. Montrose Circuit, J. B. H. Wooldridge. Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of Round Prairie, to be supplied. the Conference be held? Clinton Circuit, B. Margeson. At Neosho, Mo. Index Circuit, R. H. Shaeffer. Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed Wheatland Circuit, T. W. Danner. this year? Hermitage Circuit, to be supplied. Warsaw Circuit, R. W. Reynolds. BOONVILLE DISTRICT. R. Bennett P. E. NEOSHO DISTRICT. J. , G. M. Winton P. E. Boonville, J. A. Murphy. , Belle Air Circuit, Preston Phillips. Neosho Circuit, J. M. Proctor. Arrow Rock and Marshall, J. C. Shackleford, Mt. Vernon Circuit, J. McGehee. W. Wharton, Sup. Greenville Circuit, J. L. Hagler. Marshall, Jas. L. D. Blevins. Montevallo Circuit, T. J. Stringfield. Sedalia Station, W. M. Prottsman. Carthage Circuit, T. D. Payne. Sedalia Circuit, W. H. Stevens. Sarcoxie Circuit, J. A. Swift. Versailles Station, W. J. Brown. Pineville Circuit, L. W. Pearce. Versailles Circuit, Wm. D. Stewart. Cassville, Isaac Stapleton. California and Otterville. Joab Spencer. Prairie Home, Thos. Wallace. SPRINGFIELD DISTRICT. Jefferson City Station, C. C. Woods. Tillery P. E. J. , Jefferson City Circuit, R. A. Allen. Station, E. S. Smith. Chamois Station, E. G. Frazier. Springfield Thos. P. Hill, J. A. Poage. Chamois Circuit, Ed. W. Woodward. Springfield Circuit, Bolivar and Morrisville, W. C. Montgomery. Circuit, to supplied (by W. M. LEXINGTON DISTRICT. Bolivar be McAllister). M. Pugh P. E. M. , Stockton Circuit, to be supplied. Circuit, R. M. Baker, C. F. Dryden. Lexington, T. M. Cobb. Marshfield and Stoutland, J. P. Barneby. Wellington Circuit, W. M. Bewley. Lebanon Bloomgarden and Waynesville, W. E. Wood- Aullsville, W. S. Woodward. M. Rader. ward. Lamont, A. Ang- Knobnoster and Calhoun, L. Pulliam. Hartville Circuit, to be supplied (by J. G. Clinton and Windsor, J. M. Kelley. lin). supplied (by J. G. L. Brownsville and Blackwater, G. U. Keener. Buffalo Circuit, to be Mitchell). Dover Circuit, M. Adkisson. Sunday-school Agent, Jacob Ditzler. Waverly, C. H. Boggs. Grand Pass Circuit, J. R. Peeples, L. M. Phil- G. P. R. Vanzant transferred to Arkansas lips. Conference. Saline Circuit, W. B. McFarland. G. A. Shaeffer transferred to White River Cambridge Circuit, W. F. Camp. Conference. Central Female College, W. T. J. Sullivan, C. P. Jones, C. C. Wright, transferred to Pa- President. cific Conference. KANSAS CITY DISTRICT. C. O. Jones transferred to Little Rock Con- ference. \V. C. Godbey P. E. , T. V. L. Harvey transferred to St. Louis Kansas City, F. J. Boggs, N. Scarritt, Sup. Conference. Denver Confer- Kansas City Circuit, T. P. Cobb. J. J. Carden transferred to Westport and Belton, R. A. Holloway. ence. Independence, C. H. Briggs. C. D. Davis transferred to Memphis Confer Pleasant Hill, W. A. Laughon. ence. ,

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XXI.— MISSOURI CONFERENCE.

Held at St. Joseph, Mo., September 16-22, 1874.

Bishop Keener, President; J. D. Vincil, Secretary.

Question 1. 'Who are admitted on trial? James N. Stone, George W. Litts, Ward Answer. Rufus E. Gamble, ‘Win. T. Con- C. Maggard, Benj. S. Ashby, Wm. Knox. 5. well, Solomon H. Milam, Charles W. Watts, Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained Henry T. Leeper, Robert W. Howerton, James deacons? S. Cox, Cornelius W. -Herley, Thomas H. Ward C. Maggard, Benj. S. Ashby. 2. Swearingen, Wm. S. Connor, John A. Poage, John A. Subleet. 12. Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are elected elders? Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? William Sartor, James R. A. Vaughan, Jesse C. Carney, William J. Jackson, Robert Keeran, .John G. Gibbins, Andrew L. Gribble, Samuel H. G. Arthur M. Kergan, Hiram D. Groves. D. Barnett, Marshall G. Gregory, John L. 5. Meffert, John M. O’Brien, Hamilton W. Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Berry. 9. dained elders? William Sartor, William J. Jackson, Robert Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? H. G. Keeran, Arthur M. Kergan, Hiram D. Charles J. Polston, John D. Shook, at their Groves. 5. own request. 2. Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- elders? tion? % John Garr. 1. Rice H. Cooper, William M. Goode, Andrew J. Worley, William M. Wainright, Peter P. Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained Doalc, James O. Edmondston, John M. O’Brien, elders? Columbus Cleaveland. 8. John Garr, Hiter W. James. 2.

Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? Ques. 1G. Who are located this year? N. L. Fish, Joseph Metcalf. 2. William T. Ellington, Robert H. G. Keeran, Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from P. P. Doak, M. M. Hawkins, at their own re- other Conferences? quest. 4. H. Currin, D. L. Rader, from Western W. Ques. IT". Who are supernumerary? Mann, from Denver Con- Conference; E. M. Joseph S. Allen, Oratio W. Linn, John C. C. from Illinois Confer- ference; M. R. Jones, Davis, George W. Rich, Cyrus Doggett, John ence. 4. W. Ellis, Lewis Baldwin, Tyson Dines. 8. Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? John J. Poage, Cornelius A. Shearman, Thomas Hurst, Jesse Faubion, George Fen- Joshua F. Monroe, James L. Taylor, Grafton ton, Thomas J. Starr, Robert N. Jordan, Dan- Tanquary, Alvin P. Parker, John W. Huffa- iel Penny. 6. ker, Chaney Grimes, John W. Perry, Alexan- der S. Doak, Lewis F. Linn. 11. Ques. 19. What preachers have died during the past year? Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected George W. Primrose. 1. deacons? Columbus Cleaveland, Rice H. Cooper, Wil- liam M. Goode, Andrew J. Worley, William George W. Primrose was born July 2, M. Wainright, Peter P. Doak, James 0. Ed- 1837, in Butler co., Ohio. His parents were niondston, John M. O’Brien. 8. from the State of Delaware. They removed to Missouri from Ohio when George was quite Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- young, hence he felt as if Missouri was his dained deacons? native State. He was converted and joined Columbus Cleaveland, Rice H. Cooper, Wil- the M. E. Church, South, in Aug., 1853, in liam M. Goode, Andrew J. Worley, William Scotland co., Mo., under the labors of the Rev. Wainright, Peter P. Doak, James O. Ed- M. E. K. Miller, preacher in charge of Edina Cir- mondston, John M. O’Brien. 8. cuit. That was the period most marked in Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected his history. He never forgot the goodness of deacons? God revealed to him then and there. The ! — ; , : . .

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Their names were called over, one by one, corded by him. He never doubted his conver- and their characters examined and passed. sion, and ever seemed to live in the warmth of Qaes. 21. What is the number of local preach- religious devotion. He soon received license ers and members in the several circuits, stations, to exhort, and soon afterward was licensed to and missions of the Conference? preach. He was very zealous as a local preacher, and was useful in this relation till 1865, when he was admitted into the Missouri Conference, St. Charles District. held -at Hannibal. He was also transferred Little Rock) Conference. White to the Waehita (now Mem's. He labored faithfully in that Conference, and was remarkably useful, till April, 1871, when, St. Charles Station.. on account of declining health, and with the Cottleville Circuit ... Wentzville Circuit... consent of his Presiding Elder, he gave up his Wright City Circuit. charge and came to Missouri, with his mother- Jonesburg Ci reuit . Truxton Mission less children. had been happily married He Ashley Circuit to Miss Maggie Brewer, May 11, 1859, who Louisiana Station... was in every thing a helpmeet: as a wife, all that Clarksville Circuit.. Auburn Circuit woman could be in devotion; as a mother, a a Alexandria Circuit perfect. She closed her model ; as a Christian, Nineveh Mission beautiful life in Arkansas, like Stephen, “looking up steadfastly into heaven.” In the autumn of 1872 Brother Primrose’s health was transferred to our Confer- better, and he was Mexico District. ence and appointed to the Monticello and Can- ton Circuits, and the next year to La Grange Mexico Station Circuit; and though in much feebleness and in pain, and sometimes for weeks confined to his room and bed, yet by industry almost unequaled and deep consecration to his work, by great skill in overcoming difficulties and a rigid regard to every point of discipline, he accom- Madison Circuit plished a work here in two years that is refreshing to behold. At our last Conference he was granted a supernumerary relation. He expected to attend the Little Rock Conference this autumn and see his brethren there, whom Fayette District. he held in very high esteem, but that destroyer, Fayette Station. consumption, completed its work. Nov. 23, Fayette Circuit.... at one (^’clock, without a groan or a struggle, Glasgow Station.. Salisbury Circuit. slept Jesus. He talked of his departure he m Moberly Station.. with calmness and resignation; said it would Sturgeon Circuit.. be sad now if he had not prepared for this Centralia Circuit Columbia Station.. time, and rejoiced in God and in hope of heaven Ashland Circuit ... and wished he could preach once more, and the Roeheport Circuit. text would be, “Though our outward man perish, }*et the inward man is renewed day by day.” When asked if the Saviour was precious, “Yes,” said he, “there is a halo of glory about Plattshurg District me,” and he repeated the stanzas of his favorite hymn: Plattsburg Circuit - , From every stormy wind that blows, Osborn Circuit From every swelling tide of woes, Weston and Platte City Circuit. There is a calm, a sure retreat Parkville Circuit ’T is found beneath the mercy-seat. Liberty Circuit Camden Circuit. O let my hand forget her skill. Richmond Station... My tongue be silent, cold, and still. Millville Circuit This bounding heart forget to beat, Maysville Circuit.... If I forget the mercy-seat Polo Circuit Gosneyville Circuit. He leaves two little girls orphans, who have Haynesville Circuit, our deepest sympathy. May they not forget a father’s instruction or a mother’s love and e

prayers, but follow them on to heaven ! Brother Primrose was ordained deacon in Mississippi, St. Joseph District. in 1864, by Bishop Paine, and elder at Des Arc, Ark., Nov. 17, 1867, by Bishop Marvin. St. Joseph Francis Street Station Tenth Street Mission.. 20. all the preachers blameless in Ques. Are St. Joseph Circuit their life and official administration? Forest City Circuit..'.... Missouri Conference, 1874

St. Joseph District ( continued). Recapitulation.

White Col'd I.oc'1 White Col'd Loc'l Mem’s. Mem's. Pr's. Mem’s. Mem's. Pr's.

Rockport Mission. St. Charles District 67 “ 2613 7 Hamburg Mission 250 2 Mexico 2387 6 “ Graham Circuit 171 1 Fayette 2793 23 “ Maryville Circuit.. 174 1 Plattsburg 2836 19 Savannah Station 95 St. Joseph “ 2155 11 “ Flagg Spring Circuit. 145 1 2 Hannibal 3051 15 | “ Rusnville Mission.... 1391 1 3 Macon 3053 16 New Market Circuit. 340 Chillicothe “ 3045' 20 Gallatin “ 2502 20 2155 11 Total this year. 24,435 137 Total last year. 22,963 120

Hannibal District Increase 1472 17

Hannibal Station 286 City Mission 62 1 Ques. 22. How many infants have been bap- Hydesburg Circuit 191 1 tized during the year? Palmyra Station 192 2 516. Monroe City Circuit 241 1 t Florida Circuit 314 1 Ques. 23. How many adults have been bap- Shelbyville Station 121 1 tized during Shelby Circuit 325 the year? f New Ark Circuit 242 1868. 257 1 Ques. 24. is F 180 1 What the number of Sunday- Monticello Circuit 200 4 schools? Williamstown Circuit 240 2 229. Kahoka Mission 200 Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday- 3051 15 school teachers? 1859.

Macon District. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- school scholars? Macon City Station... 178 1 12,299. Bloomington Circuit. 375 4 Kirksvilfe Circuit.... 204 Ques. 27. Wdiat amount is necessary for the Lancaster Circuit 121 1 superannuated preachers, and the widows and Memphis Circuit 349 1 Edina Circuit 230 2 orphans of preachers? Sue City Circuit 132 $2,140 60. Clarence Circuit 427 2 Shelbina Circuit 324 1 Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Paris Circuit 188 foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Huntsville Circuit.... 525 4 plied? 3052 16 Collected, $2,140 60 Applied as follows: Sister Richardson and two children, 25 00 Chillicothe District. Sister Leeper and child, 250 00 Brother G. Fenton, 85 Chillicothe Station 218 1 00 Chillicothe Circuit 320 4 Samuel Cope, in trust, 30 00 Breckinridge Circuit 220 J. W. Pritchett, in trust, 100 00 442 2 Mrs. E. Robinson, Norbonne Circuit 330 30 00 Pleasant Park Mission 199 2 Mrs. J. Lannius, 25 00 155 Mrs. J. F. Young, 150 00 Brunswick Station 100 1 Mrs. W. Ketron, Kevtesville Circuit 406 3 40 00 Bucklin Circuit 260 3 Mrs. G. H. Sexton, 100 00 Linneus Circuit 304 1 Mrs. W. Perkins, 100 00 91 3 Thos. J. Starr, 110 00 3045 20 J. Faubion, 75 00 Mrs. Andrew Monroe, 125 00 Mrs. G. Smith, 75 00 Gallatin District. D. C. Blackwell, 240 00 Thos. Hurst, 30 60 Gallatin Station 126 1 Gallatin Circuit 145 1 W. A. Mayhew, 150 00 Trenton Mission 159 1 Robert Jordan, 200 00 Pattonsburg Circuit. 273 2 D. Penny, 100 00 Albany Circuit 328 1 Grant City Mission.. 138 1 W. W. McMurry, in trust, » 100 00 Bethany Circuit 237 2 190 Lineville Circuit 1 $2,140 60 Milan Circuit 369 6 Unionville Mission.. 77 3 Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Jameeport Circuit... 400 1 missions? 2502 20 $5,084 38. . 93 Missouri Conference , 1874

Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of Clarence, Thomas De Moss, L. Baldwin, the Conference he held? Sup. At Glasgow, Mo. Shelbina, D. R. Shackleford. Paris, W. J. Jackson. Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed Huntsville, A. P. Linn. Rufus E. Gamble. this year? Cairo Mission, C. W. Watts.

ST. CHARLES DISTRICT. CHILLICOTHE DISTRICT. W. W. Jones P. E. , S. W. Cope P. E. , St. Charles, J. W. Cunningham. Chillicotlie, W. A. Tarwater. Cottleville, Jesse Bird. Chillicothe Circuit, M. G. Gregory. Wentzville, T. Penn, S. D. Barnett. Breckinridge, R. H. Cooper. Wright City Circuit, John M. O’Brien. Mandeville, J. L. Meffert. Jonesburg, J. H. Ledbetter, J. S. Allen, Norbonne, R. A. Austin. Sup. Pleasant Park, Henry T. Leeper. Troy Circuit, W. M. Goode. Carrollton, R. N. T. Holliday. Ashley, to be supplied (by F. A. Savage). Brunswick, A. Y. Bailey. Louisiana, John D. Vincil. Keytesville, P. L. Woody. Clarksville, J. F. Shores. Bucklin, A. J. Worley. Auburn, H. Kay. Linneus, C. Grimes. Alexandria, Jesse Sutton. Meadville Mission, Robert W. Howerton. Nineveh Mission, A. Spencer. PLATTS BURG DISTRICT. MEXICO DISTRICT. W. E. Dockery P. E. J. P. Nolan P. E. , , Plattsburg, James A. Hyder. Mexico, T. J. Gooch. Osborn, D. F. Bone, John W. Ellis, Sup. Mexico Circuit, J. O. Edmondston. Weston and Platte City, Hugh W. Currin. Fulton, H. D. G roves. Parkville, L. Rush. Fulton Circuit, L. A. Smith. Liberty, J. Devlin. Pleasant Grove, P. D. Vandeventer. Camden, J. G. Gibbons. Cedar City, G. W. Penn. Richmond, M. R. Jones. Williamsburg, H. H. Ivavanaugh. Millville, G. Tanquary. New Florence, Walter Toole. Maysville Mission, Charles Babcock. Montgomery City Circuit, J. Y. Blakey. Polo Circuit, Thomas H. Swearingen. Yandalia Mission, to be supplied. Gosneyville, William Warren. Santa Fe, W. M. Sutton. Haynesville, W. C. Campbell. Madison, R. G. Loving.

ST. JOSEPH DISTRICT. FAYETTE DISTRICT. C. I. Vandeventer P. E. J. H. Pritchett P. E. , , St. Joseph: Fayette, H. P. Bond, Tyson Dines, Sup; Francis Street, E. R. Hendrix, J. C. C. Da- Fayette Circuit, W. M. Rush. vis, Sup. Glasgow, W. M. Newland, G. W. Rich, Tenth Street and King Hill, A. P. Parker. 1 Sup. St. Joseph Circuit, William Barnett. 1 Salisbury, B. F. Johnson. Forest City, J. F. Monroe. Moberly, E. M. Mann. Rockport and IJamburg, H. A. Davis, Solomon Sturgeon, D. H. Root. H. Milam. I Renick Circuit, J. S. Rooker. Maryville Station, L. F. Linn. i i Ashland, R. White. Maryville Circuit, T. R. Hedgepeth, W. T Columbia, W. H. Lewis. Con well. Rocheport, H. H. Craig. Savannah, C. A. Shearman. Central College, W. G. Miller, F. X. Forster, Rushville Mission, W. S. Connor. Professors. New Market, N. L. Fish. Sunday-school Agent, M. B. Chapman.

' MACON DISTRICT. « B. H. Spencer P. E. GALLATIN DISTRICT. ! , S. W. Atterbury P. E. Macon City, G. W. Horn. , Bloomingtoh, J. L. Tavlor. Gallatin, J. A. Mum power. Kirksville, W. F. Bell. Gallatin Circuit, J. C. Carney. Queen City Mission, John A. Subleet. Trenton, W. M. Wainright. Memphis, E. Carlyle. Jamesport, John W. Perry. Edina, H. W. James. Pattonsburg, J. W. Huffaker. Sue City, William Sartor. Albany, A. M. Kergan.

• ' 94 Western Conference, 1874 .

Grant City Mission, to be supplied (by J. D. New Ark, D. L. Rader. Shook). Canton, T. R. Kendall. Bethany, H. W. Berry. La Grange, J. J. Poage. Lineville, A. S. Doak. Monticello, J. S. Smith. Milan, A. L. Gribble. Williamstown, James Penn. Greencastle Mission, C. Cleaveland. Kahoka Mission, D. T. Shearman, C. W. Her- ley. HANNIBAL DISTRICT. Shelby High-school, W. W. McMurry, Prin- cipal. W. Penn P. E. , Monticello Seminary, J. S. Smith, Princi- Hannibal: pal. Hannibal Station, H. A. Bourland. • Arch Street, J. R. A. Vaughan. Joseph Metcalf transferred to Illinois Con- Hydesburg, 'William M. Wood. ference, and appointed to Waverley Circuit. Palmyra, J. B. Jewell. J. A. Poage transferred to South-west Mis- Monroe City, John R. Taylor. souri Conference. Florida, C. W. Collett. James A. Cox transferred to Western Con- * Shelbyville Circuit, J. S. Todd. ference, and appointed to Palmyra.

XXII.—WESTERN CONFERENCE.

Held at Wyandotte, Kansas, September 9-14, 1874.

Bishop Keener, President; George J. Warren, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Answer. O. P. Noble, Riley B. Wilson, A. elected elders? A. Lewis. 3. Daniel L. Rader, Nathanael G. Faubion. 2.

Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Chas. Thorp, W. E. Broadhurst. 2. dained elders? Daniel L. Rader, Nathanael G. Faubion. 2. Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? None. Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected elders? Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- None. tion? C. C. Armstrong. 1. Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained elders? Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? None. John O. Foresrnan. 1. Ques. 16. Who are located this year? Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from Author Hawkins, at his own request. 1. other Conferences? W. P. Caples, from Denver Conference. 1. Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? L. C. Waters. 1. Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? 18. John W. Faubion. 1. Ques. Who are superannuated? None. Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected deacons? Ques. 19. What preachers have died during the past year? C. C. Armstrong. 1. None. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are ordained deacons? Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in their life and official administration? C. C. Armstrong. 1. Their names were called over, one by one, Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected and their characters examined and’passed, ex- deacons? cept Wm. L. Blackwell and R. Kurtis Hig- O. P. Noble, W. R. Cain. 2. gins, who were expelled for immorality-.

Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained Ques. 21. What is the number of local preach- deacons? ers and members in the several circuits, stations, O. P. Noble. 1. and missions of the Conference? .

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Leavenworth District Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the superannuated preachers, and the widows and White Cord I.oc 1 Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. orphans of preachers? $300. 113 1 60 Ques. 28. What has been collected on the 94 foregoing account, and how has it been ap- 210 1 plied? Rulo Circuit 28 2 26 Collected, $126 40. Applied to claimants. 71 54 Ques. 29. AVhat has been contributed for 231 missions? , 145 1 $130 65. 43 Troy Circuit 143 2 1 Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of

1218 2 6 the Conference be held? At Council Grove, Kansas.

Fori Scott District: Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed Wyandotte Station 30 this year? 221 2 139 3 80 LEAVENWORTH DISTRICT. 31 2 260 1 D. C. O' Howell, P. E. 5 Fort Scott Circuit 53 Leavenworth Circuit, T. C. Downs. Chetopa Circuit 77 3 Atchison, Joseph King. 896 11 Atchison Circuit, Alexander A. Lewis. ^Indians, 2; -[Indians, 5 7 Troy, C. W. Thorp. Holton and Bethel, G. J. Warren. Council Grove District. Oskaloosa, John W. Eaubion.

1981 ! 2 Nebraska City, J. McEwen. 56 Nebraska Circuit, W. P. Caples. 36 Palmyra, to be supplied. Waterville Circuit 54 30 1 23 1 2 119 2 FORT SCOTT DISTRICT. 41 J. C. Hycfen P. E. 557 7 , 1 Shawneetown Circuit, C. C. Armstrong. Recapitulation. Tecumseh and Wakarusa, to be supplied (by J.

Leavenworth District 1218' 2 6 H. Riley). Fort Scott “ 896 11 Paula, Charles Bales. 557 7 Fort Scott, W. E. Broadhurst. 2671 2 24 Baxter’s Springs, N. G. Faubion. Total last year 2993 30 Wyandotte City and Circuit, John O. Fores- man. 2 Decrease 322 6

[The apparent decrease is accounted for by the di- COUNCIL GROVE DISTRICT. vision of the Conference.] H. D. Hogan P. E. , Ques. 22. How many infants have been bap- Council Grove, W. A. Hanna. tized during the year? Council Grove Mission, A. Williams. 63. Independence, O. P. Noble. Ques. 23. How many adults have been bap- Walnut Valley, G. B. Armstrong. tized during the year? Rock Creek and Waterville, R. B. Wilson. L. 152. C. Waters, Sup. Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday- Emporia, to be supplied. schools? Fall River Circuit, to be supplied. 36.

Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday- D. L. Rader transferred to Missouri Confer^ school teachers? ence. 225. J. E. Treadwell, John Gaston, transferred Ques. 26. 'What is the number of Sunday- to St. Louis Conference. school scholars? E. G. Frazier, Joab Spencer, transferred to 1644. South-west Missouri Conference.

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XXIII.— DENVER CONFERENCE.

Held at Denver, Col., August 27-29, 1874.

Bishop Pierce, President; W. C. Hearn, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 19. What preachers have died during Answer. Robert M. Craven. 1. the past year? Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? None. None. Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? their life and official administration? None. Their names were called over, one by one, and their characters examined and passed. Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connection? Ques. 21. What is the number of local preach- Samuel W. Debusk. 1. ers and members in the several circuits, stations, and missions of the Conference? Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? None. Denver District. Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from other Conferences? White Col’d Loc'l Mem's. Mem's. W. C. Hearn, J. J. Carden, D. L. Collie. 3. Pr's. Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Denver Station 82 48 Samuel D. Evans. 1. ‘ Divide .7. 52 1 Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected Golden and Platte 21 2 deacons? 203 3 S.W. Debusk. 1. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Pueblo District. dained deacons? Pueblo Station S. W. Debusk. 1. 22 Huerfano 46 2 Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Trinidad Station... 4 deacons? Trinidad Circuit... 26 2 Riverside Circuit.. 45 None. Caiion City Circuit 31 1 Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained 5 deacons? 1741 Asbury H. Quillian. 1. Helena District. Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are elected elders? Helena Station 27 Helena Circuit 35 Thomas R. Pierce, Charles W. Sanford, Diamond City Circuit. 27 Edwin J. Stanley, Edward M. Mann. 4. Gallatin City Circuit.., 56

Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- 145 dained elders? Thomas R. Pierce, Charles W. Sanford, Deer Lodge District. Edwin J. Stanley, Edward M. Mann. 4. Missoula and Corvalis. 114 1 Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected elders? 114 1 None. Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained Recapitulation.

elders? Denver District- 2031 3 None. Pueblo “ 174 5 Helena “ 145 Ques. 16. Who are located this year? Deer Lodge “ 114 1 None. Total this year, 036 9 Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? None. Ques. 22. How many infants have been bap- Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? tized during the year? A. A. Morrison. 1. 32. ;

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Ques. 23. How many adults have been bap- PUEBLO DISTRICT. tized during the year? W. M. Smith P. E. 150. , Pueblo, T. R. Pierce. Ques. 24. is the number of Sunday- What Riverside, J. G. Worley. schools? Los Animos, J. J. Carden. 11 . Trinidad Circuit, S. W. Debusk. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday- New Mexico, S. D. Evans. school teachers? Del Norte, to be supplied. 53. Huerfano, to be supplied (by A. H. Quillian). Canon City, to be supplied (by W. A. Ams- Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- barry). school scholars? 402. HELENA DISTRICT. S. J. Catlin P. E. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the , superannuated preachers, and the widows and Helena, to be supplied. orphans of preachers? Helena Circuit, C. W. Sanford. No answer. Diamond City and Radersburg, R. S. Clark. Bozeman, S. J. Catlin. Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Gallatin City Circuit, L. B. Stateler. foregoing account, and how has it been applied? Collected, $24 60. Paid to the Bishop. DEER LODGE CITY DISTRICT. J. T. Curtis P. E. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for , missions? Deer Lodge City Station, J. T. Curtis. $218 27. Mound Spring, to be supplied. Pioneer and New Chicago, T. W. Flowers. Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of Corvalis and Missoula, R. M. Craven. the Conference be held? At Helena, Montana. VIRGINIA CITY DISTRICT. Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed E. J. Stanley P. E. , this year? Virginia City Station, E. J. Stanley. Silver Star, to be supplied (by F. E. Taylor). DENVER DISTRICT. Bannock, to be supplied. Salmon City, to be supplied. T. L. Duke P. , E.

Denver, W. C. Hearn. D. C. Wells transferred to Memphis Confer- Denver Circuit, W. Crothers. ence. Divide, J. R. McClure. W. P. Caples transferred to Western Con- Pine Grove, to be supplied (by L. D. Har- ference. well). E. M. Mann transferred to Missouri Confer- Colorado Springs, D. L. Collie. ence. Georgetown, to be supplied. G. D. Armstrong transferred to South-west Sterling, to be supplied. Missouri Conference.

XXIV.— INDIAN MISSION CONFERENCE.

Held at North Fork, C. N., October 22-24, 18 74-

Bishop Kavanaugh, President E. R. Shapard, Secretary.

T Question 1. W ho are admitted on trial? Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full copnec-

Answer. William M. Keith, Henry P. tion? , Clay. 2. Wm. S. Derrick, Joseph F. Thompson. 2. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? Nathaniel E. Parsons. 1. None.

Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer frori None. other Conferences? 98 Indian Mission Conference , 1874 .

Calvin M. SI over, from Little Rock Confer- Choctaw District. ence. 1. White Indian Cord Wl Ques. 7. "Who are the deacons of one year? Mem's Mem’s. Mem’s. Pr’s. None. Skullyville 75 104 2 3 Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected Mashulatubbee 199 4 Long Creek 39 1 deacons? 2 San Bois 7 24 1 1 None. Perryville 5 20 1 1

Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- 87 386 6 11 | dained deacons? None. Chickasaw District. T Ques. 10. hat local preachers are elected W Tishamingo Circuit 66 45 2 2 deacons? Boggy 282 4 Frank Gooden, Jesse Peter, Cow Ete Micco, Kitunichi 15 283 9 8 Doaksville g 489 6 Win. Burgess, Wm. Jones, Walter Collins, Little River 159 i James Jefferson, Jacob Marshall. 8. Jack’s Fork 19 167 12 3 Chickasaw 1(8 354 5 1 Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained Wachita 55 15 deacons? Boggy Depot Colored Charge. 89 William M. Keith, Frank Goodman, Jesse Blue Colored Charge 1. 35 Doaksville Colored Charge 85 1 Peter, William Jones, Walter Collins, Samson Colbert. 6. 266 1794 237 26

Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are elected elders? Creek District.

None. Ocmulgee 128 8 Creek Agency Circuit 325 5 Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Canadian 1 79 1 dained elders? Little River 136 1 None. Cane Creek Colored Charge.... 100 Asbury M. L. School 6 20 Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected North Fork 295 5

elders? * 7 983 100 20 None. Wesley Joseph Spaugh, from the Mo- ravian Church, had his orders acknowledged. jRecapitulation. Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained elders? Cherokee District..... 37 1184 18 12 Choctaw “ 87 386 5 n None. Chickasaw “ 266 1794 237 26 “ '7 983 100 20 Ques. 16. Who are located this year? Creek ;

None. Total this vear... 397 4347 360 69 Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? Total last year 221 4613 477 73 S. P. Willis. 1. Increase.... 176 Decrease 266 117 4 Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? Thomas B. Ruble, D. B. Gumming, J. C. Robinson. 3. Ques. 22. How many infants have been baptized during the vear? Ques. 19. What preachers have died during 409. the past year? None. Ques. 23. How many adults have been baptized during the year? Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in 434. their life and official administration? T Their names were called over, one by one, Ques. 24. W hat is the number of Sunday- and their characters examined and passed. schools? 33. Ques. 21. What is thenumber of local preachers and members in the several circuits, stations, Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- and missions of the Conference? school teachers? 103. T Ques. 26. hat is the number of Sunday- Cherokee District. , W school scholars? White Indian Col'd I.oc'l 778. Mem's. Uem's. Mem’s. I*rs. .. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the Fort Gibson and Tahlequah... ii 52 4 superannuated preachers, and the widows and Greenleaf n> 119 10 1 Spring Creek 270 orphans of preachers? Grand River n 136 6 No answer.

Barren Fork 218 2 Ques. 28. What has been collected on the 118 Flint :. foregoing account, and how has it been ap- 4 Satesaw 5 271 3 plied? 37 1184 18 12 No answer. . Arkansas Conference , 1874 99

Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Little River Circuit, to be supplied (by G. missions? Nelson). $244 56. Jack’s Fork Circuit, to be supplied (by Moses Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of Perry). the Conference be held? Perryville Circuit, to be supplied. At Atoka, C. N., Indian Territory. Boggy Circuit, to be supplied (by James Perry). Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed Doaksville Colored Charge, to be supplied (by this year? N. Madison). CHEROKEE DISTRICT. John Harrell P. E. CHICKASAW DISTRICT. , W. G. Davis, P. E. Fort Gibson and Tahlequah Circuit, to be supplied. Chickasaw Circuit, N. E. Parson. Spring Creek Circuit, Isaac Sanders. Fall’s Valley Circuit, to be supplied. Claremont Circuit, T. K. B. McSpadden. Caddo Circuit, to be supplied. Grand River Circuit, Joseph F. Thompson. Tishamingo Circuit, to be supplied. Barren Fork Circuit, to be supplied (by T. Wachita Circuit, to be supplied. Boggy Depot Colored Charge, to be sup- Flint Circuit, to be supplied (by Charles Dun- plied. can). Blue Colored Charge, to be supplied. Salesaw Circuit, W. S. Derrick, John Se- vier. CREEK DISTRICT. Cherokee Orphan Asylum, W. A. Duncan. C. M. Slover, P. E. CHOCTAW DISTRICT. Ocmulgee Circuit, to be supplied. Eufaula Circuit, to be supplied (by Walter E. R. Shapard, P. E. Collins). Skullvville Circuit, to be supplied. f Creek Agency Circuit, James McHenry. Mashulatubbee Circuit, to be supplied. \ Cow Ete Circuit, to be supplied. San Bois Circuit, to be supplied. Hitechete Circuit, to be supplied (by Tony Double Spring Circuit, to be supplied. Burgess). New Hope Seminary, E. R. Shapard, Superin- Canadian Circuit, H. P. Clay, one to be sup- tendent. plied. 1 Cane Creek Colored Charge, to be supplied (by KIAMICHI DISTRICT. Peter Stedham). Asbury Manual Labor School, Young Ewing. J. H. Walker P. E. ,

Kiamichi Circuit, to be supplied (by C. E. S. P. Hicks transferred to Arkansas Confer Nelson). ence. Doaksville Circuit, Wm. M. Keith, S. P. Wil- W. B. Lyda transferred to Holston Confer- lis, Sup. ence.

XXV.— ARKANSAS CONFERENCE.

Held at Fort Smith, Ark., October 2%-Noveniber 2, 1874.

Bishop Kavanaugh, President ; Isham L. Burrow, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? Answer. George B. Bugg, Benjamin L. Richard S. Cole, Ambrose H. Williams, J. Ferguson, George E. Jamison, Harvey C. Jolley, F. Henderson, James T. Leard. 4. Thomas E. Sewell, William J. Stone, Lucius Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- I. Lasley. 7. tion? Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Thomas M. C. Birmingham, Isaiah B. Hick- Joseph P. Callaway, J. W. Powell, Rufus F. DlftI1, 2. Beasley, James E. Martin, Benjamin H. Great- Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? house. 5. James T. Stockton, Francis M. Moore. 2. . Arkansas Conference , 1874

Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from was\ admitted on trial into the Arkansas Con- other Conferences? ference,f at its session in Little Rock, in 1844. Stephen P. Hicks, Henry W. Abbott, James HeI came to this Conference under circum- A. Peebles, Robert S. Hunter, G. P. R. Van- stancess of much promise — in good health, zant. 5. Iphysically strong, a large, athletic, and well- formed man, a good heart, a sound and well- Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? i balanced mind, with a large measure of spirit, Nathan E. Fair. 1. alwaysf cheerful and ever ready to adapt him-

Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected self£ to the circumstances surrounding him, deacons? ardentf in temperament and highly social in Isaiah B. Hickman, Benjamin H. Great- his1 character. These qualities of manhood, house. 2. head and heart, made him the man for the times in this new country. He traveled twelve Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- or( fourteen years in the regular work, mostly dained deacons? in the region of country lying between Little Isaiah B. Hickman, Benjamin H. Great- Rock and Little Red River, and under circum- house. 2. stances, of extreme hardship and many priva- Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected tions; but nobly did he battle on and on, deacons? without a murmur or complaint, until 1857 or Jesse R. Kelley, Peter H. Trone, William 1858, when his health failed, and he became a A. Clement, John W. Bowden, Elijah H. But- great sufferer from that much-dreaded disease, tram, Elisha Robinson, Benson G. Gilliland, bronchitis, which terminated his itinerant work in Francis M. Mallett. 8. as an effective preacher the Conference. He was placed on the supernumerary list, and Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained continued in that relation until 1871, when he deacons? was superannuated, and continued in that rela- R. Kelley, Peter H. Trone, William Jesse tion until his death, which occurred Dec. 5, Gilliland, Perry A. Clement, Benson G. W. 1872, at his residence, near Lewisburg, Ark. Burke, Elijah C. Sullivan. 6. He suffered greatly the last two years of his life with consumption, and was the most of his Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are elected elders? time confined to his room; but in all he was patient and resigned to the will of God. As William J. Dodson, William H. Corley, his end drew near he grew stronger in faith Thomas M. C. Birmingham. 3. and hope of a blessed immortality. He died Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- only as a good man can die— full of joy and dained elders? peace, beloved and respected by his brethren William J. Dodson, William H. Corley, in the Conference, and in good report among Thomas M. C. Birmingham. 3. his neighbors. He was a good, practical, and T sound preacher. He shunned no cross, dreaded Ques. 14. W hat local preachers are elected no dangers, but was a firm defender of our be- elders? loved Methodism. His example was good in William J. Stone, William J. Simmons, his family he reared six noble sons, who, to>- Francis L. Shaw. 3. — gether with the wife of his youth, are left to Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained mourn their loss. elders? James M. Hoyle, William J. Stone, William Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in J. Simmons, Francis L. Shaw. 4. their life and official administration? Ques. 16. Who are located this year? Their names were called over, one by one, Ebenezer M. Collum, George F. Fair, Abel and their characters examined and passed. C. Ray. 3. Ques. 21. What is the number of local preach- Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? ers and members in the several circuits, stations, J. L. Hays, W. R. Knowlton. 2. and missions of the Conference? Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? Jesse Griffin, John M. Bewley. 2. Fayetteville District. Ques. 19. What preachers have died during the past year? None. Fayetteville Station ICO Fayetteville Circuit 430 Bentonville Circuit 425 [The following memoir of Stephen Farish Viney Grove Circuit 328 was not furnished for the Minutes last year.] Center Point Circuit 300 Boonsboro Circuit 194 Cincinnati Circuit 210 born, in Virginia, in Stephen Farish was White River Circuit 194 1816, and immigrated to Alabama in early life, Hindsville Circuit 250 and in 1844 to South Arkansas, where he served Bloomfield Circuit 230 Clifta Mission 60 for a short time as junior preacher with the Rev. J. Esterbrook, on the Union Circuit. He . 101 Arkansas Conference , 1874

Fort Smith District. Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday- schools? White Col'd r.oc’i 106. Mem's. Mem's. Prs. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday- GO 94 1 school teachers? 215 8 616. 218 5 232 4 Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- Shoal Creek Circuit 235 2 6 school scholars? 280 3 473 5 4201. 275 4 is for the 360 3 Ques. 27. What amount necessary superannuated preachers, and the widows and 2442 2 39 orphans of preachers? $600. Clarksville District. Ques. 28. What has been collected on the 115 2 foregoing account, and how has it been ap- 200 2 plied? 3 143 35 41 2 Collected, $245 Ozark Circuit 2G0 1 1 Applied as follows: 217 2 Sister White, 100 00 82 163 2 Sister Reneau, 100 00 Sister Beckham, 27 65 Sister Farish, 27 70 1221 1 $255 35 Yellville District. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Yellville Station 154 1 1 missions? 282 4 $830 65. 175 2 Mountain Home Circuit 330 6 7 Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of 345 5 336 the Conference be held? 275 7 At Lewisburg, Ark. Double Spring Circuit 210 4 4 Carrollton Circuit 432 2 4 Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed Huntsville Circuit 198 2 2 this year?

2737 14 36 FAYETTEVILLE DISTRICT. James A. Walden P. E. Dardanelle District. ,

178 1 Fayetteville Station, John J. Roberts. 365 3 Fayetteville Circuit, William H. Corley. Galla Rock Circuit 324 4 Harralson. 227 Boonsboro Circuit, Jerome 390 3 Viney Grove Circuit, R. McK. Tydings. 3 9 Bloomfield Circuit, to be supplied (by P. H. 260 1 126 3 Trone). 187 Center Point Circuit, David Sturdy. 159 5 Hindsville Circuit, Burton Williams. Circuit, T. Smith. 2771 3 29 Bentonville J. White River Circuit, James E. Martin.

Recapitulation. FORT SMITH DISTRICT. Fayetteville District 2781 1 28 Granade P. E. Fort Smith “ 2442 2 39 Hervey M. , Clarksville “ 1221 1 14 Yellville “ 2737 14 36 Fort Smith Station, Sidney H. Babcock. Dardanelle “ 2771 3 29 Fort Smith Circuit, B. L. Ferguson. Greenwood Circuit, G. Evans. Total this year 11,952 21 146 W. Total last year 11,119 22 150 Sugar-loaf Circuit, Thos. M. C. Birmingham. Waldron Circuit, Lucius J. Lasley, James L. Increase 833 Decrease 1 4 Hays, Sup. Bluffton Circuit, to be supplied (by William A. Clement, N. E. Fair).

Ques. 22. How many infants have been bap- i Danville Circuit, John W. Powell. tized during the year? Shoal Creek Circuit, Isaiah B. Hickman. 515. Paris and Roseville Station, Hastings Puck

Ques. 23. How many adults have been bap- ett. ; tized during the year? Boonville Circuit, F. M. Moore. 1241. Charleston Circuit, Sidney S. Key.

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CLARKSVILLE DISTRICT. Double Spring Circuit, G. P. R. Vanzant. John M. Clayton P. E. Carrollton Circuit, T. A. Graham. , Huntsville Circuit, to he supplied (by James Clarksville Station and Circuit, F. M. Paine, F. Stockton). Harvey C. Jolly. Harrison Circuit, Rufus F. Beasley. Ozark and Pleasant Hill Station, Benjamin H. Greathouse. DARDANELLE DISTRICT. Ozark Circuit, to be supplied (by J. M. Hoyl). Charles II. Gregory P. E. Dover Circuit, W. J. Stone. , Van Buren Station, R. S. Hunter. Dardanelle Station, Orlander P. Thomas. Van Buren Circuit, Jacob W. Shook, George Dardanelle Circuit, Josephus Moving. B. Bugg. Galla Rock Circuit, W. J. Dodson. Piney Mission, Stephen Hicks. Clinton Circuit, to be supplied. Clarksville District High-school^ Isham L. Point Remove Circuit, to be supplied. Burrow, Principal. Quitman Circuit, Henry Abbott. Mount Vernon Circuit, to he supplied. YELLVILLE DISTRICT. Springfield Circuit, J. P. Callaway, W. R. Knowlton, Sup. James F. Hall, P. E. Lewisburg Station, T. F. Brewer. Yellville Station, Robert C. Atchley. Perryville Circuit, to he supplied. Yellville Circuit, to he supplied (by R. W. Quitman College, J. A. Peebles, President. Goudelock). Mountain Home Circuit, to he supplied (by George E. Jamison transferred to Los An- Van B. Tate). geles Conference. Big Flat Circuit, John H. Wade. W. T. Bolling transferred to Memphis Con- Mountain View Circuit, to he supplied (by C. ference. D. Summers). Peter A. Moses transferred to Columbia Marshall Circuit, Thomas E. Sewell. Conference. Bellfonte Circuit, to he supplied (by W. A. A. K. Miller transferred to North-west Dees). Texas Conference.

XXVI.—WHITE RIVER CONFERENCE.

Held at Searcy, Ark., November 11-16, 1874.

Bishop Kavanaugh, President ; John H. Dye, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? Answer. Zachary T. Bennett, Henry E. None. Robertson, George M. Hill, Albert P. Saffold, Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from James Samuel L. Cochran, Thomas J. Franks, other Conferences? Jernigan, Richard Moon, William A. Pen- F. George A. Shaeflfer. 1. dergrass, James G. Miller, James A. Walkup, Francis M. Munns, Frank Ritter, Samuel Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Baylis, William H. Paschall, John A. Cor- James M. Talkington, Thomas A. Craig, bitt. 16. Jeff. J. Alexander, Stephen D. Evans, John H. Hall, Wm. B. Littlejohn, Thomas J. Settle, Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Coleman H. Ford. 8. Joseph W. Ross, William C. Malone, Thos. P. Hare, Milton B. Umstead. 4. Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected deacons? Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? D. J. Hare, A. II. Woodard, James C. Car- David D. McCutchen, John D. Brewster, ter. 3. Pleasant C. Oliver, William B. Foster, Moses T C. Clark. 5. Ques. 9. W hat traveling preachers are ordained deacons? Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- David J. Hare, Albert H. Woodard, James tion ? C. Carter. 3. James B. McKamy, David J. Hare, Albert H. Woodard, James C. Carter, Francis M. Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Petty, J. H. Boyd. 6. deacons? .

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Hilliard H. McAfee, Zachary T. Griffin, Batesville District ( continued), Dudley W. Keid, S, D. Shipley, James A. White CoVd Loc'l W alkup. 5. Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. Ques. It. What local preachers are ordained La Crosse 420 8 deacons? 380 3 Big Creek 300 4 Zachary T. Griffin, Dudley W. Reid, S’. D. Walkup. 4.. 3719 40 Shipley, James A. 1

Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Helena District elected elders? , Wm. B. Littlejohn. 1. Helena Station Helena Circuit Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Trenton Mission .... dained elders? Marvel Clarendon Wm. B. Littlejohn. 1. Wheatley Marianna 14. local preachers are elected Ques. What Palestine elders? Laconia Almier Shands, Thomas P. Hare, John M. Forest City Station. Forest City Circuit De Spain. 3.

Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained elders? Almier Shands, Thomas P. Hare. 2. Harrisburg District. Harrisburg Circuit Ques. 16. Who are located this year? Wittsburg Circuit ... James L. Denton. 1. Taylor’s Creek Bayou De View Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? Jonesboro Ed. T. Jones. 1. Maumelle Mission.

Greensboro . Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? Gainesville.. Oak Bluff..... John Rhyne. 1. Corning Black River, Ques. 19. What preachers have died during the past year? None.

Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in Mississippi District. life official administration? their and Osceola Circuit. 2 Their names were called over, one by one, Big Lake Mission.. ... and their characters examined and passed. Frenchman’s Bayou. 3 Mission. of local preach- Marion Circuit Ques. 21. What is the number Walnut Bend ers and members in the several circuits, sta- Hopefield Mission. 1 tions, and missions of the Conference?

Searcy District. Recapitulation.

White Searcy District.... Mem's. Batesville “ .... Helena “ .... Searcy Station “ Harrisburg .... Searcy Circuit Mississippi “ .... El Paso Point West Total this year, Prospect Bluff Total last year Grand Glaize.. Jacksonport Station, Increase Jacksonport Circuit. Pleasant Valley Richwoods Mission Augusta Station Ques. 22. How many infants have been bap- De view Circuit tized during the year? Cotton Plant Circuit. 3

Ques. 23. How many adults have been baptized during the year? Batesville District. 1919. Batesville Station •g Ques. 24. What is the number of Sundav- Batesville Circuit Smithville 3 schools? Pocahontas and Powhattan. Pocahontas Circuit Walnut Hill Mission Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday- Evening Shade, school teachers? Salem Bennett’s River Mission. 104 White Bicer . Conference , 1874

Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- Philadelphia Circuit, J. C. Carter. school scholars? Evening Shade Circuit, F. M. Munns. •1924. J Salem Circuit, J. F. Jernigan. \ Bennett’s River Mission, J. H. Hall. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the Bethesda Circuit, Samuel Cochran. superannuated preachers, and the widows and Big Creek Circuit, B. Lee. orphans of preachers? $800. HELENA DISTRICT. Ques. 28. has collected the What been on George A. Dannelly P. E. ) foregoing account, and how has it been applied? Helena Station, E. Orgain. Collected, $725 00 Helena Circuit, T. A. Craig. Applied as follows: Trenton Mission, S. D. Evans. Brother John Cowles’s children, 125 00 Marvel Circuit, H. E. Robertson. Sister Carlisle, 300 00 Clarendon, T. J. Brickell. Sister Gillespie, 100 00 Brinkley, W. A. Pendergrass. Brother Cobb’s children, 125 00 Marianna Station, W. B. Littlejohn. John Rhyne, 75 00 Palestine Mission, A. Davis. Laconia Circuit, Samuel Baylis. $725 00 Forest City Station, W. T. Noe. Forest City Circuit, W. C. Malone. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for missions? HARRISBURG DISTRICT. $935 05. E. M. Baker P. E. Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of , the Conference be held? Harrisburg Circuit, T. J. Settle. At Helena, Ark. Wittsburg Circuit, C. H. Ford. Taylor’s Creek, T. P. Hare. Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed Bayou De View, W. H. Paschall. this year? Jonesboro Circuit, A. R. Bennick. ' Maumelle Mission, to supplied SEARCY DISTRICT. be (by A. C. Griffin). J. P. E. W. Boswell, Black Oak, R. Moon. Greensboro Circuit, T. Franks. Searcy Station, James Mackey. J. Gainesville, Watson. Searcy Circuit, George A. Shaeffer. W. M. Oak Bluff, J. G. Miller. f Kentucky Valley Mission, Thomas Vincent. Corning and Moark Mission, to be supplied (by \ El Paso Circuit, James M. Talkington. H. Phipps). West Point, Zachary T. Bennett. W. Walnut Ridge Circuit, M. C. Morris. f Judsonia Station, M. B. Pearson. Jonesboro High-school, A. R. Bennick, Prin- \ Clear Spring Circuit, Albert P. Saffold. cipal. Grand Glaize Circuit, James B. McKamy. Agent for Distribution of Bibles and Jaeksonport Station, R. W. Massey. Tracts, J. M. Steele. Jacksonport Circuit, M. B. Uinstead. Pleasant Circuit, Frank Ritter. f Valley MISSISSIPPI DISTRICT. \ Richwoods Mission, to be supplied. Foster Augusta Station, D. J. Hare, Ed. J. Jones, W. R. , P. E. Sup. Osceola Circuit, F. M. Petty. De View Circuit, H. T. Gregory. Chickasauba, B. Harris. Cotton Plant, Thomas H. Howard. Frenchman’s Bayou, A. Conley. Tyrongee Circuit, W. R. Young. BATESVILLE DISTRICT. Marion Circuit, John A. Corbitt. John H. Dye P. E. Walnut Bend Station, J. W. Ross. , Walnut Bend Circuit, George H. Hill. Batesville Station, E. A. Garrison. Batesville Circuit, A. H. Woodard. C. H. Ellis, Jas. A. Walkup, transferred to Smithville Circuit, R. G. Brittain. North-west Texas Conference. Pocahontas and Powhattan, to be supplied. J. J. Prather transferred to Illinois Confer- Pocahontas Circuit, J. J. Alexander. ence, and appointed to Clay City Circuit. Walnut Hill Mission, J. F. Armstrong. J. H. Boyd transferred to Little Rock Con- La Crosse and Evening Shade, B. F. Hall. ference. ,

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XXVII.—LITTLE ROCK CONFERENCE.

Held at Monticello, Ark., December 9-13, 1874.

Bishop Kavanaugh, President ; S. G. Colburn, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? John M. G. Douglas, Francis D. Vanvalk- Answer. Barney E. Mitchell, Melville M. enburg, Thomas H. Ware, Charles C. God- Baker, Jacob D. Whitesides, De Jalma Leake, den. 4. Robert W. Evans, W. H. Vaughn, J. R. Ca- Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- son, P. Preston, John M. Bradley. 9. W. dained elders? Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? John M. G. Douglas, Francis D. Vanvalk- John McLaughlin, W. J. Rogers, J. C. enburg, Thomas H. Ware, Charles C. God- Rhodes, John W. Haskew, W. Wooten, Ama- den. 4. ria Biggs, William C. Dunn. 7. Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? elders? None. • James H. Baird, James F. Fowler, Amplias West, James Stincel, George W. Logan, R. N. Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- Ross, Isaac N. Pace, La Fayette M. Harris. 8. tion? A. Monk, Wm. H. Hagan, W. H. H. Biggs, Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained C. C. Godden, Z. T. McCann, Samuel W. elders? Burns. 6. James H. Baird, James F. Fowler, Amplias West, James Stincel. 4. Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? David T. Holmes. 1. Ques. 16. Who are located this year? C. V. Meador. 1. Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from other Conferences? Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? Scott, L. M. Lewis. 1. Wm. J. J. Turrentine, J. A. Clower, R. B. Alston, J. M. Pirtle, L. D. Webb. 6. Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Ques. 18. are superannuated? F. M. Winburn, C. D. McSwain, George W. Who A. Avery, R. F. Colburn, B. C. Weir, J. Duncan, R. H. Sanders, Jas. R. Sherwood. 5. Sanford, A. W. Simmons, J. E. Caldwell. 6. Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected Ques. 19. preachers have deacons? What died during Alonzo Monk, William H. Hagan, Zachary the past year? None. T. McCann, Samuel N. Burns, John McLaugh- lin. 5. Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in their life and official administration? Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Their names were called over, one dained deacons? by one, and their characters examined and passed, ex- Alonzo Monk, William H. Hagan, Zachary cept N. S. Burnett, of the second year, who T. McCann, Samuel N. Burns, John McLaugh- was expelled for gross immorality. lin. 5. Ques. 21. What is the number of local preach- Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected ers and members in the several circuits, stations, deacons? and missions of the Conference? R. M. Traylor, George H. Gray, Thomas T. Pritchard, Henry Hardin, William R. Gibson, William Shelton, Nathan W. Wall, John T. Little Pock District. Miller, James Roland, Jesse J. Shewmaker, White 'Cold r.oc'l Miles L. Langley, Burg. N. Brown, James P. Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. Alley. 13. Little Rock: i Second Street 204 Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained Spring Street 110 1 deacons? Bartlett Mission 159 3 George H. Gray, Henry Hardin, William R. Bayou Metre 415 2 251 6 Gibson. 3. Richwoods 148 2 Collegeville 344 ’ Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are 4 Maumelle 225 1 elected elders? Austin Station 74 2 Little Rock , Conference , 1874

Little Lock District (continued), Lecapitulation.

White White Mem's, Mem's,

White River Circuit. Little Rock District “ Austin Pine Bluff Circuit “ De Witt Circuit Camden Arkadelphia “ Washington “ Monticello “

Pine Bluff District.

Pine Bluff Station Plum Bayou Decrease . l| 5 Swan Lake | | Sulphur Springs Ques. 22. infants Simpson Creek Mission. How many have been bap- Lehigh 5 tized daring the year?" Star City Mission 2 161. Red Fork Mission - Ques. 23. How many adults have been bap- L7 tized during the year? 1278.

Camden District. Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday schools? Camden Station Camden Circuit Ouachita Circuit... Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday- Magnolia Circuit... 4 El Dorado Circuit. 4 school teachers?

Hampton Circuit. 3 1010 . Lisbon Circuit 3 Louisville Circuit. 1 Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- - school scholars? 17 6870. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the Arkadelphia District superannuated preachers, and the widows and orphans of preachers? Arkadelphia Station. o Hot Springs Station 2 $1,515. Tulip..... % Princeton ^ Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Benton 2 foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Ouachita Mission..... 6 plied? Murfreesboro. Collected, Clark 9 $1,293 76. Applied to claimants. Caddo 7 Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Hot Springs Mission liockport 5 missions? - ' $764. 37 Ques. 30. Where shall the next, session of the Conference be held? Washington District. At Mineral Springs, Ark. Ques. 31. are the Washington Station r Where preachers stationed Moscow 3 this year? Mineral Springs. Center Point 3 LITTLE ROCK DISTRICT. Locksburgjjucjvauui ^ A. R. Richmond. 2 Winfield, P. E. Rondo. 3 Little Rock: ^ Second Street, A. Hunter. Cassatott Mission Spring Street, Samuel Burns, J. M. Pirtlo, - Sup. 36 Mineral Circuit, Alonzo Monk. Bayou Metre Circuit, Thomas H. Ware. Monticello District. Richwoods Mission, B. E. Mitchell. Austin Circuit, John P. Holmes. Monticello Station Hamburg Station Hickory Plains Circuit, F. D. Vanvalkenburg. Hamburg - 2 Collegeville Circuit, James A. Anderson. Mount Pleasant Maumelle Circuit, De Jalma Leake. Selma - 2 Bartholomew 2 DeWitt Circuit, John M. G. Douglas. Eudora White River Circuit, John McLaughlin. Palestine Arkansas Female College, A. R. Winfield, Warren ^ Green Hill.... 2 Agent j L. M. Lewis, President. New Edinburgh 2 St. John’s College, A. R. Winfield, President. Holly Grove Mission Hickory Plains Institute, B. H. Malone, Pres- 27 ident. ,

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PINE BLUFF DISTRICT. CAMDEN DISTRICT. E. Watson P. E. H. Browning P. E. N. , W. , Pine Bluff Station, Horace Jewell. Camden Station, H. B. Frazee. Plum Bayou Circuit, C. C. Godden. Camden Circuit, W. Wooten. Swan Lake Circuit, R. H. Sanders. Ouachita Circuit, J. R. Sherwood. Auburn Circuit, C. D. McSwain. Lisbon Circuit, W. C. Dunn. Red Fork Circuit, J. W. Haskew, one to be El Dorado Circuit, D. H. Linebaugh. supplied (by L. B. Hawley). Magnolia Circuit, J. A. Parker. Sulphur Springs Circuit, P. W. Preston. Louisville Circuit, M. M. Bicker. Lehigh Circuit, John M. Bradley. Falcon Circuit, E. L. Gaddie. Hampton Circuit, J. C. Rhodes. ARKADELPHIA DISTRICT. Cadesman Pope, P. E. WASHINGTON DISTRICT. Arkadelphia Station, to be supplied (by C. H. E. B. J. Johnson, P. Evans). Washington and Hope, C. O. Steele. Clark Circuit, Hiniard Townsend. Moscow Circuit, F. M. Winburn. Murfreesboro Circuit, G. W. Logan. Mineral Springs Circuit, George W. Matthews. Amity Circuit, David T. Holmes. Center Point Circuit, to be supplied (by H. C. Mount Ida Circuit, Z. T. McCann. Whitesides). Hot Springs Station, S. G. Colburn. Locksburg Circuit, A. C. Biggs. Hot Springs Circuit, John R. Cason. Richmond Circuit, to be supplied (by John Rockport Circuit, W. R. Gardner. Dixon). Tulip Circuit, Wm. J. Davis. Dallas Circuit, to be supplied (bv John F. Princeton Circuit, George Hare. Miller). Benton Circuit, J. M. Cline. Rondo Circuit, W. J. Rogers. MONTICELLO DISTRICT. Bright Star Circuit, W. H. Hagan. Centerville Circuit, R. W. Evans. J. 12. Harvey P. E. , Mineral Springs Academy, T. W. Hays, Pres- Monticello Station, J. F. Carr. ident. Mount Pleasant Circuit, John H. Blakeley. Selma Circuit, J. G. Ward. M. H. Wells, E. R. Barcus, transferred to Lacy Circuit, G. W. Duncan. North-west Texas Conference. Hamburg Station, A. B. Winfield. W. H. H. Biggs, I. Z. T. Morris, transferred Hamburg Circuit, John H. Riggin. to Texas Conference. Bartholomew Circuit, A. D. Jenkins. J. H. Boyd transferred to Arkansas Confer- Eudora Circuit, W. H. Vaughn. ence, and stationed on Quitman Circuit. Palestine Circuit, Bascom Ward. W. C. Hearn transferred to Denver Con- Warren Circuit, H. D. McKennon. ference. New Edinburgh, to be supplied (by J. H. Baird); R. S. Hunter transferred to Arkansas Con- Arkansas City Circuit, John Pryor. ference.

XXVIII.— NORTH TEXAS CONFERENCE.

- Held at Denton , Texas, November 4-10, 1874.

Bishop McTyeire, President; Wiley A. Shook, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Hamill C. Rogers. 1. Answer. James J. Coppedge, Henry B. Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- Swafford, James Hill, John R. Crowder, W. tion? Hardy W. Hawkins, Joshua A. Miller. 6. Lewis M. White, Davie F. Fuller, Elias S. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Boyd, Jer. F. Sherwood, Thomas J. Milam, W. W. Homer, M. W. Shearer, L. P. Smith, Ed. B. Featherston, Jonathan F. Denton; John M. Langston, John B. Smith, John Bev- Wm. C. Blair, Wm. K. Duff. 9. 7 4 erly. 6 Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? None. ,

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Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from Jefferson District. other Conferences? White Col'd William S. May, M. H. Cullum, Samuel Mem's. Mem's. Morris, Wm. H. Moss, J. W. Johnson, James Jefferson Station 219 Grant. 6. Atlanta Circuit 375 Kellvville and Dangerfield 606 Ques. 7. are the Who deacons of one year? Linden 486 Joel Osgood. Daniel J. Martin, James Mount Pleasant 470 McDugald, E. N. Brown, F. M. Harrell. 6. Pittsburgh 321 Winsboro 296 Ques. 8. W'hat traveling preachers are elected 490 deacons? Coffeeville Lewis M. White, Elias S. Boyd, J. F. Sher- 3668 wood, T. J. Milam, Ed. B. Featherston, J. F. Denton, W. C. Blair. 7. Paris District.

Paris Station .... Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- 254 1 Sylvan Circuit... 3t>4 C dained deacons? R'oxten Circuit.. 378 3 Lewis M. White, Elias S. Boyd, Jeremiah Honey Grove ... 568 4 Ladonia F. Sherwood, Thomas J. Milam, Ed. B. Feath- 275 2 Cooper Mission 217 4 erston, Jonathan F. Denton, William C. Blair, Robmsville 559 4 Henry B. Swafford. 8. Clarksville 397 3 Boston 335 1 Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected deacons? 3347 28 J. W. Murphy, Emmet B. Thompson, Geo. T. Edmonds. 3. Sherman District. T Sherman Station 196 Ques. 11. hat local W preachers are ordained Denison Mission 350 deacons? Bonham Circuit 333 J. W. Murphy, Emmet B. Thompson, Geo. Savoy Circuit 428 Pilot Grove 312 T. Edmonds. 3. Pilot Point 563 Decatur 284 Ques. 12. traveling preachers are What Montague and Clay County Mission.. 260 elected elders? Gainesville 263 Melville C. Blackburn, Denton P. Haggard, Maryville 325 Whitesboro 548 Charles E. Lamb, Joseph C. Weaver. 4. 3862 28 Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- 1 dained elders? Dallas District. Melville C. Blackburn, Denton P. Haggard, Dallas Station 272 Charles E. Lamb, Joseph C. Weaver. 4. City Mission 100 3 Dallas Circuit Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected 420 4 Scyene Mission 596 5 elders? McKinnev Circuit 445 5 Chesney Crownover, Abner B. Johnson. 2. Bethel Circuit 390 7 Denton Circuit 412 6 Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained Grapevine 471 8 Rockwall elders? 534 6 Greenville 423 4 None. 4063 53 Ques. 16. Who are located this year? J. P. Eogers. 1. Sulphur Springs District.

Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? Sulphur Springs Station 180 5 A. H. Brewer, J. L. Terry, J. Clark Smith, Sulphur Springs Mission Sulphur Springs Circuit 414 J. M. Stevenson. 4. 3 Sulphur Bluff Circuit 297 2 Lone 523 Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? Oak 9 Emory Mission 81 Baker, 1 Job M. W. P. Keed, E. Couch, J. W. Pleasant Grove Circuit 23? 2 Fields, Bichard Lane, John W. P. McKenzie, Kaufman Circuit 600 7 Wells’s Point J. P. Stanfield, A. E. Dickson, A. Henkle, J. Circuit 284 4 Canton Circuit 301 2 B. Eabb, A. Cumming. 11. Garden Valley Circuit 375 3 Ques. 19. preachers died What have during 3289 38 the past year? | None. Recapitulation.

Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in Jefferson District 3668 41 Paris “ their life and official administration? 3347 28 Sherman “ 3862 28 Their names were called over, one by one, Dallas “ 4063 53 and their characters examined and passed. Sulphur Springs “ 3289 38

Ques. 21. What is the number of local preach- Total this year 18.229 188 Total last year ers and members in the several circuits, stations, 14,953 183

and missions of the Conference? Increase... 3276 5 109 North Texas Conference , 1874.

Ques. 22. How many infants have been bap- Emory Mission, John C. Randall. tized during the year? Glade Water Mission, Elias S. Boyd. 715.

Ques 23. How many adults have been bap- KAUFMAN DISTRICT. tized during the year? Lewis P. Lively P. E. 1860. ,

Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday- Kaufman Circuit, Samuel Armstrong. schools? Canton Circuit, Eugene T. Bates. 119. Edom Circuit, Daniel T. Lake. Garden Talley Circuit, John M. Langston. Ques. 25. is the number of Sunday- What Cedar Grove Circuit, Marshall C. Simpson. school teachers? Pleasant Grove Circuit, Wm. K. Duff. 665. Farmersville Circuit, Ed. B. Featherston. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- Rockwall Circuit, Thomas E. Sherwood, A. H, school scholars? Brewer, Sup. 6085. Gray’s Prairie Mission, Henry B. Swafford.

Ques. 27. What amount is necessarj^ for the superannuated preachers, and the widows and PARIS DISTRICT. orphans of preachers? B. Ellis P. E. L. , $2,500. Paris Station, B. J. Baldwin. Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Sylvan Circuit, David M. Proctor. foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Roxton Circuit, James Graham. plied? Honey Grove Circuit, John W. Piner. Collected, $1,345. Applied to claimants. Dodd City Circuit, Richmond N. Brown. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Ladonia Circuit, James J. Coppedge. missions? Robinsville Circu^, Joseph C. Weaver. $1,924 96. Clarksville Circuit, Denton P. Haggard, La Fayette P. Smith. Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of Boston Circuit, Thomas J. Milam. the Conference be held? Cooper Mission, Francis M. Harrell. At Paris, Texas.

Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed this year? DALLAS DISTRICT. William F. Easterling P. E. JEFFERSON DISTRICT. , Dallas Station, to be supplied (by A. C. Allen). John H. McLean P. E. , Dallas City Mission, to be supplied (by R. M. Powers). Jefferson Station, Wm. C. Haislip. Dallas Circuity M. H. Cullum. Soda Lake Circuit, Joel Osgood. Trinity Circuit, George S. Gatewood, Hardy Atlanta Circuit, to be supplied (by Mat. T. Hawkins. Leach). W. Bethel Circuit, John Beverly, Wm. E. Bates, Linden Circuit, John J. Davis. Sup. Kellyville Circuit, Samuel J. Hawkins. McKinney Circuit, S. May. Dangerfield Circuit, Thomas B. Norwood. Wm. Denton Circuit, Daniel J. Martin. Mount Pleasant Circuit, Charles E. Lamb. Decatur Circuit, Samuel S. Cobb. Gilmer Circuit, James McDugald. Grapevine Circuit, Lewis M. White. Longview Circuit, David F. Fuller, J. L. Terry, Sup. Coffeeville Circuit, Joseph Parker. SHERMAN DISTRICT. Wheatville Mission, Wm. W. Horner. John W. Chalk P. E. ,

SULPHUR SPRINGS DISTRICT. Sherman Station, Jacob M. Binkley. ' Matthew H. Neely P. E. Sherman Circuit, Wm. M. Robbins. , Bonham Circuit, Archibald C. McDougal. Sulphur Springs Station, Thomas M. Smith, Savoy Circuit, John R. Crowder. J. Clark Smith, Sup. Pilot Grove Circuit, Jonathan F. Denton. Sulphur Springs Circuit, Wiley A. Shook. Pilot Point Station, Melville C. Blackburn. Sulphur Bluff Circuit, Calvin J. Cocke. Pilot Point Circuit, John B. Smith. Oakland Circuit, John H. Low. Gainesville Station, Wm. C. Blair. Greenville Circuit, Jarvis L. Angell. Maryville Circuit, Wm. P. Petty. Lone Oak Circuit, Jeremiah F. Sherwood. Whitesboro Circuit, Wm. H. Moss, I. N. Cra- Winnsboro Circuit, Littleton F. Palmer. ven, Sup. Pittsburgh Circuit, Robert P. Thompson, J. M. Montague and Clay Mission, Marcell us W. Stevenson, Sup. Shearer, James W. Hill. 110 East Texas Conference 1874 . ,

James Y. Brice transferred to Indian Mis- Henry W. South transferred to West Texas sion Conference, and appointed to Caddo Cir- Conference. cuit. James Grant transferred to North-west Kichard W. Thompson, Samuel Morris, Texas Conference. Joshua A. Miller, John W. Johnston, trans- B. F. Stone transferred to Tennessee Con- ferred to East Texas Conference. ference.

XXIX.— EAST TEXAS CONFERENCE.

Held at Marshall, Texas, December 9-14, 1874.

Bishop Keener, President; E. F. Boone, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are Answer. Napoleon Thomas Burks, Milton elected elders? H. Jones. 2. Marion Donegan, John W. Johnston. 2.

Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Edward T. Brashear, Stephen W. Turner. 2. dained elders? Marion Donegan, John W. Johnston. 2. Ques. 3. Who are discon^nued? None. Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected elders? Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- James H. Johnson, Winfred Spence, Milton tion? H. Jones, George M. Hopper, W. R. Kyle, Wm. H. Moore, James R. Wages, James W. J. P. Huddleston, J. F. Pipkin. M. Bond, Benjamin A. Thomasson, James N. 7. Bridges, Ramsey C. Armstrong, Joseph M. Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained Blanton. 7. elders? James H. Johnson, Milton H. Jones, Daniel Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? C. Neal. 3. Robert M. Kirby. 1. Ques. 16. Who are located this year? Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from A. D. Parks, J. W. Broxson, at their own other Conferences? request. 2. Richard W. Thompson, Samuel Morris, J. Ques. 17. W. Johnston, Joshua A. Miller, R. S. Harris, Who are supernumerary? Isaac Junius P. Walker, Lacy Boone. 7. W. Overall, E. L. Armstrong, J. R. Middleton, Simms K. Stovall, W. N. Bon- Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? ner. 6. William H. Willey, William N. Bonner. 2. Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected J. B. Tullis, Neill Brown. 2. deacons? Ques. 19. What preachers have died during Benjamin A. Thomasson, Joseph M. Blan- the past year? ton, Stephen W. Turner. 3. John W. Mills. 1. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or-

dained deacons? John W. Mills was born, in Elbert co., Ga., Stephen W. Turner, Joseph M. Blanton, April 10, 1819, and professed faith in Christ Benjamin A. Thomasson. 3. and joined the Methodist Church in 1838. He was married, in 1840, to Miss Sarah Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Chambers, deacons? who was taken from him by death about a year afterward. He was received Joseph H. Price, Francis A. Crager, Benja- on trial into the Georgia Conference in 1842, wherein he min J. Ball, Joseph W. Bethard. 4. Green traveled awhile, and was thence T. Chambliss, from M. P. Church, recognized transferred to the Florida Conference. as a deacon. He was married, in 1848, to Miss Elvira Ferguson, who shared Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained with him his toils, his sorrows, and his joys. deacons? In the Florida Conference he filled such ap- Benjamin J. Ball, Joseph W. Bethard, pointments -as were given him, as circuit and James C. Walker, John E. Surratt, Martin station preacher, and was once delegate to the Windsor. 5. General Conference. When the Georgia Con- 1874 . East Texas Conference ,

part of ference was divided, and the Georgia Palestine District ( continued), the territory given back to Georgia, forming a White Col'd part of the South Georgia Conference, he con- Mem's. Mem's. tinued a member of the Florida Conference Rusk and Hawk’s 102 transferred to the East Texas Con- until he was Tyler Station 140 ference, Dec., 1870. He received Shelby Cir- Tyler Circuit 210 cuit as his first appointment in this Conference. Athens 342 Elder The second year he was made Presiding 2052 of the San Augustin District, which relation he held for two years. At the end of the second term, his health having declined, he was San Augustin District. made Sunday-school Agent for his Con ference. San Augustin Station. He entered upon his new work with a zeal San Augustin Circuit. Carthage Circuit his heart in it; which manifested that was Mount Enterprise but his health continued to decline so rapidly New Concord that, even before spring had robed the earth Shelbv Circuit Linn Flat to abandon in verdure, he was compelled Ttfetrose the work. He lingered on to July 6, 1874, Milam Mission when he sweetly Tell asleep in Jesus. As Buena Vista. Brother Mills was nearing the gate of death he was asked by his physician if he was sensi- ble of his condition. He answered, “I think I Crockett District am,” and continued: “There is no hope for my recovery, is there, doctor?” To this the doctor replied that If he had any arrangements to make, he had better make them, for he was dying. At this time his daughter shrieked, Sumter IVIission and approached him. The doctor told‘her she Homer Circuit must not disturb his tranquillity in that trying hour, and endeavored to pull her away, when the dying man of God said: “Doctor, let her alone; distressed daughter is ex- my Beaumont District. cited, but I am not. As to the arrangement of my business, I have none to make; as to Beaumont and Orange.. Village Creek preparation for heaven, that has long been Woodville, etc made. There is not a cloud between me and Jasper my future home.” He called his family around Liberty and Wallisville. Newton Circuit, him, one by one, and gave them his dying charge; then crossing his hands upon his breast, and scarcely moving a muscle, he fell asleep in Jesus. Recapitulation.

Marshall District “ Ques. 20. Are all’ the preachers blameless in Palestine “ their life and official administration? San Augustin . Crockett “ Their names were called over, one by one, Beaumont “ and their characters examined and passed. Total this year Ques. 21. What is the number of local preach- Total last year ers and members in the several circuits, sta- Increase. tions, and missions of the Conference?

Marshall District. Ques. 22. How many infants have been baptized during the year? White Col'd Loc'l Mem's. Mem's. Pr:s. Ques. 23. many adults have bap- 175 5 How been 183 tized during the rear? Scottsville and Jonesville 131 1 1 1526. Elysian Fields 351 1 Henderson and Belleview 469 5 Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday- Starrville 760 9 schools? Knoxville 513 4

2532 1 25 Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday- school teachers? Palestine District.

Palestine Station. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday Kickapoo Circuit. school scholars? Larissa Rusk 2578. . 112 East Texas Conference , 1874

Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the Tyler Circuit, J. P. Walker, W. N. Bonner superannuated preachers, and the widows and Sup. orphans of preachers? Athens Circuit, to be supplied (by C. H.

1 200 . Smith). $ , Cherokee Mission, to be supplied. Ques. 28. What has been collected on the foregoing account, and how has it been applied? SAN AUGUSTIN DISTRICT. Collected, $830 33 J. R. Bellamy P. E. , Applied as follows: San Augustin Circuit, Napoleon T. Burks. Mrs. J. W. Ellis, 135 90 Bridges. Mrs. S. A. Williams, 148 00 Carthage Circuit, J. C. A. Mrs. Joseph Bond, 75 00 Mount Enterprise Circuit, Daniel S. Watkins. Mrs. Jeff. Shook, 120 00 Shelby Circuit, Marion Donnegan. Mrs. J. R. Burk, 100 00 Melrose Circuit, J. N. Bridges. Mrs. Samuel Lynch, 120 00 Lynn Flatt Circuit, B. A. Thomasson, I. W. Mrs. A. L. Kavanaugh, 25 00 Overall, Sup. Loco Mission, H. Willey. Mrs. J. W. Mills, 75 00 W. Circuit, Brother J. B. Tullis, 60 00 Milam Richard Menifee. Buena Vista Circuit, James M. Mills. $848 90 CROCKETT DISTRICT. Ques. 29. W'hat has been contributed for missions? D. P. Cullen, P. E. $962 25. Crockett, D. M. Stovall. Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of Crockett Circuit, Samuel Morris. the Conference be held? Palestine Circuit, Joseph M. Blanton. At Carthage, Panola county, Texas. Neches Circuit, Ed. T. Brasher, one to be supplied. Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed Pennington Circuit, George W. Berry. this year? Moscow Circuit, W. H. Ardis. Homer Circuit, Joshua A. Miller. MARSHALL DISTRICT. Shook’s Bluff Mission, to be supplied (by W. Daniel Moss, P. E. D. Lewis). Sabbath-school Agent, J. C. Wool am. Harrison Circuit, R. S. Harris, one to be supplied (by J. B. Hall). BEAUMONT DISTRICT. Hallville Circuit, Lacy Boone. Elysian Fields Circuit, L. C. Crouse, J. R. F. M. Stovall, P. E. Middleton, Sup. Beaumont and Orange, James M. Bond. Henderson and Belleview, J. S. Mathis. Liberty Circuit, to be supplied (by Jas. Tay- Starrville Circuit, Stephen W. Turner. lor). Knoxville Circuit, H. M. Booth, S. K. Stovall, Village Creek Mission, Robert M. Kirby. Sup. Woodville Circuit, Milton S. Jones. Marshall Station, Richard W. Thompson. Jasper Circuit, J. R. Wages, E. L. Armstrong, Sup. PALESTINE DISTRICT. Newton Circuit, Ramsey C. Armstrong. Wolf Creek Circuit, to be supplied (by B. W. John Adams P. E. , Powell). Palestine, E. F. Boone. Kickapoo Circuit, John W. Johnston, W. A. A. M. Box, M. T. Leach, T. W. Rogers, Moore. transferred to North-west Texas Conference. Jacksonville Circuit, E. P. Rogers, one to be J. R. Peeples transferred to South-west Mis- supplied. souri Conference. Rusk and Rusk Circuit, Samuel Weaver. E. W. White transferred to Tennessee Con- Tyler Station, Robert S. Finley. ference . 113 Texas Conference , 1874

XXX.— TEXAS CONFERENCE.

Held at Houston, Texas, December 16-21, 1874.

Bishop Keener, President ; H. V. Philpott, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained Answer. Thomas R. Curtis, George H. elders? Phair, Charles Chanquist. 3. None.

Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Ques. 16. Who are located this year? Robert T. Nabors, Jonathan Burford, Rich- L. Ercan brack, W. G. Perry, at their own ard W. Kavanaugh, Alex. G. Beaumont. 4. request. 2.

Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? Samuel A. Whipple, at his own request. 1. Seaborn J. Graves, B. T. Kavanaugh, Jacob Matthews. 3. Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connection? Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? J. T. Williamson, Melville C. Field, Samuel Robert Alexander, J. M. Turner, James G. H. Brown. 3. Johnson, Thomas W. Blake, J. H. Davidson, A. B. F. Kerr, Francis A. McShan, W. C. Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? Lewis, C. J. Lane, J. A. Light, Alex. Hen- Francis T. Mitchell, John M. Whipple, M. kle. 11. G. Jenkins. 3. Ques. 19. What preachers have died during Ques. 6. are received by transfer from Who the past year? other Conferences? None. W. G. Perry, from Alabama Conference; Wm. H. H. Biggs, I. Z. T. Morris, from Lit- Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in tle Rock Conference; M. G. Jenkins, from their life and official administration? West Texas Conference; T. W. Rogers, Alex. Their names were called over, one by one, Henkle, from North Texas Conference. 6. and their characters examined and passed.

Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Ques. 21. What is the number of local preach- Philmer C. Archer, Joseph L. Lemons, Dan- ers and members in the several circuits, stations, iel Morgan. 3. and missions of the Conference?

Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected deacons? Galveston District. Chas. Chanquist, Jonathan Burford, Samuel White Col'd Loc'l H. Brown. 3. Meiu's. Mem's. Pr's.

Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- 418 2 dained deacons? 173 119 Chas. Chanquist, Jonathan Burford, Samuel Harrisbur" and City Mills 10 H. Brown. 3. 127 2 Richmond and Eagle Lake 42 Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Bay Mission 88 deacons? 238 None. Washington St. and Chapmanville.... 128 Hempstead and Kirby Chapel 77 5 Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained 114 6 deacons? 70 1 None. 1610 16 Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are elected elders? Austin District. Charles L. Farrington. 1. 102 1 10 Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Austin Swede Mission 73 dained elders? Oso Circuit 132 3 Charles L. Farrington. 1. 199 153 2 Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected 60 1 elders? Cedar Creek Circuit 179 1 155 3 None. Fayetteville Mission 70 2 8 . 114 Texas Conference , 1874

Ques. 28. What has been collected on the Austin District ( continued). foregoing account, and how has it been ap- White Col'd T.oc'1 J Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. plied? | Collected, $701 90 65 1 Applied as follows: 124 283 5 Mrs. H. G. Cardon, 75 00 J. M. Addison’s child, 75 00 1606 19 Mrs. T. Wooldridge, 75 00 J. M. Turner, 75 00 Huntsville District. F. A. McShan, 75 00

W. C. Lewis, • 75 00 169 . 2

162 . 2 Mrs. R. N. Drake, 50 00 97 . J. A. Light, 100 00 ' 1 287 . 274 2 A. Albright, 101 85 273 131 1 $701 85 173 5 150 1 Ques. 29. What has been contributed for 85 2 80 missions? 180 1 $2,231 60.

- 2061 / 17 Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of the Conference be held? Chappell Hill District. At Brenham, Texas.

151 2 Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed 142 3 this year? 77 3 116 2 GALVESTON DISTRICT. San Felipe 180 250 1 159 1 I. John P. E. G. , 69 ' 135 4 Galveston:4 Rrpnham Mission 6 1 St. John’s, T. W. Rogers. 5 243 St. James’s, R. T. Nabors. 167 2 Bay Mission, J. A. G. Rabe. 1445 250 24 Sbearn Chapel, S. C. Littlepnge. Washington Street, I. Z. T. Morris. Recapitulation. Houston Circuit, to be supplied, B. T. Kav- anaugh, Sup. 1610| 16 1605 19 Hackley Mission, to be supplied. 2061 17 Columbia and Brazoria, J. T. Williamson. Chappell Hill “ 1445. 251I 24 Velasco Circuit, George H. Phair. Matagorda Mission, Samuel H. Brown. Total this year 6721 251) 76

i 640( 191l 84 Christian Advocate I. G. John. Total last year Editor Texas ,

Increase 321L 5t) Decrease — 8 AUSTIN DISTRICT. this Con- A. L. P. Green P. E. [The German charges counted last year in , ference are not this year, having been set off to the Austin: German Mission Conference.] Austin Station, H. V. Philpott. Walnut Mission, J. Whipple. Ques. 22. How many infants have been bap- W. Swede’s Mission, Charles Chanquist. tized during the year? Austin Circuit, Melville C. Field. 526. McDade Circuit, R. W. Kennon. adults have been bap- Ques. 23. How many Bastrop and Hill’s Prairie, F. L. Allen. the year? tized during Oso Circuit, Wm. H. H. Biggs. 259. West Point Circuit, to be supplied. Ques. 24. "What is the number of Sunday- Giddings Circuit, Wm. G. Nelms. schools? Cedar Creek Circuit, to be supplied. 45. La Grange Station, C. L. Farrington. Navidad Circuit, Daniel Morgan. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday- Columbus Circuit, P. W. Archer. school teachers? Texas University, F. A. Mood, Regent. 428. Austin Female College, A. G. Stacy, President. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- school scholars? CHAPPELL HILL DISTRICT. 2897. T. B. Buckingham^ P. E. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the superannuated preachers, and the widows and Chappell Hill, H. S« Thrall. orphans of preachers? Brenham, B. D. Dashiell. Independence Circuit, Walter S. South. 1 000 . $ , ;

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Belleville Circuit, O. Fisher, J. Matthews, Sup. Huntsville Circuit, M. G. Jenkins. San Felipe Circuit, Thomas Whitworth. Cold Springs Circuit, G. S. Sandel. Burton Circuit, A. G. Beaumont. Willis Circuit, to be supplied (by E. A. Stack- Caldwell Circuit, J. L. Lemons. ing). Lexington Circuit, M. H. Porter. Plantersville and Courtney, N. C. Spencer, Birch Creek Mission, to be supplied (by A. C. Navasota and Anderson, Thomas R. Curtis. Delaplane). Prairie Plains, Jonathan Burford. Hempstead Circuit, R. W. Kavanaugh. Madisonville Circuit, J. C. Huckabee. Richmond and Eagle Lake Mission, to be sup- Zion Circuit, John S. Clower. plied (by G. D. Parker). Bryan Station, N. A. Craven, J. S. Graves, Chappell Hill Female College, E. D. Pitts, Sup. President. Bryan Circuit, A. W. Smith. Andrew Female College, P. C. Archer, Presi- HUNTSVILLE DISTRICT. dent. James M. Wessen, P. E. Elam H. Holbrook transferred to West Huntsville Station, F. T. Mitchell. Texas Conference.

Held at Weatherford, Texas, November 18-23, 1874.

Bishop McTyeire, President Fountain P. Ray, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or* Answer. Joseph B. Womack, James K. dained deacons? Lane, John G. Warren. 3. Wiley V. Jones, William G. Davenport, John R. Barden, James D. Whitehead. 4. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Samuel C. Vaughan, Levi F. Collins, Samuel Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected J. Franks, R. C. Hendrick, William D. Rob- deacons? inson, James Truitt, Hugh Griffin, James Joseph B. Womack, Daniel W. McDonald, Campbell, John T. Graham, N. F. Law, H. S. Thomas Gaskins, J. Marshall Lewis, William P. Ashby. 11. M. Taylor, William R. Robinson. 6.

Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained J. Willis Kelley, R. K. Thomas. 2. deacons? B. Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- Joseph Womack, Daniel W. McDonald, tion? Thomas Gaskins, Solon E. Burkhead. 4. Joseph J. Shirley, Wiley V. Jones, William Que&. 12. What traveling preachers are G. Davenport, John R. Barden, James D. elected elders? Whitehead. 5. Evander A. Bailb^, Tames Hiner. 2. Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Willis F. Graves. 1. dained elders? Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from Evander A. Bailey, James Hiner. 2. other Conferences? Ques. 14. Cyrus H. Ellis, James A. Walkup, E. W. What local preachers are elected Simmons, James Grant, Thomas H. B. Ander- elders? Grant, son, Isaac N. Reeves, A. K. Miller. 7. Wyatt J, Theodore M. Price, John G. Warfteo^ Thomas S. Ewell, Thomas S. Bal- 7. are the deacons of one year? Ques. Who lard, Haihtl'ammock C. Ellis. 6. Thomas G. A. Tharp, Nathan A. Duckett, Willis J. King, A. D. Gaskill, James J. Davis, Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained Richard H. H. Burnett, Osgood A. Shook, elders? William E. Weaver, George R. Bryce. 9. Wyatt J. Grant, John G. Warren, Thomas S. Ewell. 3. Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected deacons? Ques. 16. Who are located this year? Wiley V. Jones, William G. Davenport, John W. F. Toland, William T. Johnson, F. John R. Barden, James D. Whitehead. 4. Olin Dannelly, H. B. Smith. 4. ,

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Ques. 17. "Who are supernumerary? Helton District. James Peeler, Joseph F. Hines, Fountain White Col'd Loc'l P. Ray, H. C. McQuOwn, Robert Crawford, Mem’s. Mem's. Pr’s. John Carpenter, John Powell, William L. Belton Station. 148 4 Kidd. 8. 289 2 San Gabriel Circuit 451 6 Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? Salado and Davilla Circuit., 478 c Georgetown Circuit 257 5 P. Sneed, Cornelius McGuire, Joseph N. Liberty Hill Circuit 244 4 James M. Johnson, Drury Womack. 4. Burnett Mission 130 4 Lampassas Mission 128 2 Sugar-loaf Circuit 98 Ques. 19. What preachers have died during Gatesville Station 136 the past year? Leon Circuit 497 8 Gatesville Circuit 193 Benjamin A. Kemp. 1. 3049 40

Benjamin A. Kemp was born, on the eastern shore of Maryland, about the year 1823, Waco District. and departed this life, in the triumphs of a Waco Station 377 5 living faith, at Gatesville, Texas, Dec. 9, 1873. Marlin Station 130 He professed religion in his tenth year, and was Bremond Circuit 500 5 educated in the city of Baltimore. He re- Groesbeck Circuit 274 7 288 moved to Indiana in his twenty-seventh year, Owensville Circuit 4 Wheelock Circuit 170 and engaged in teaching. Having spent a Calvert and Heam Station. 81 year in this business, his health failed, and he Deer Creek Circuit 225 4 then traveled, and spent a year in the West Cedar Bridge Circuit 245 Bosqueville Circuit 348 4 his health was en- India Islands. Thinking Jonesboro Mission .• 174 tirely restored, he returned to his home in In- diana, and resumed his profession as a teacher. 2812 29 After a few years his health again failed, and his physician advised him to go to Texas, which he did about the year 1850. Soon after his ar- Springfield District. rival in Washington co., Texas, he was licensed Springfield Circuit... 344 exhort. In the year 1852 he was licensed 7 to Butler Circuit 209 3 to preach. In 1854 he was admitted on trial Centerville Circuit... 367 4 into the Texas Conference. Brother Kemp Redland Circuit 224 3 Navasota Mission... 90 was a deeply pious man. He kept a diary of Mount Calm Circuit 288 2 his life from his tenth year, in which are noted Dresden Circuit 386 5 many interesting facts. This biography, writ- Corsicana Station.... 153 1 Fairfield Circuit 227 2 ten himself, makes a large manuscript vol- .r by Corsicana Circuit 144 2 ume, and it might be of some interest to our Conference, as it notes many of the hardships, 2132 29 dangers, and trials endured by himself and others in planting Methodism on the frontier and thinly-settled portions of our country. Waxahachie District. Sometimes, fatigued and wearied, he had to Waxahachie Station 170 3 pass the night alone in the wilderness, making 542 6 his bed upon the cold ground, and this he did 549 2 without murmuring. Brother Kemp was a 174 369 4 constant reader Of the Bible. We find noted 121 2 in his own hand, upon the fly-leaf of his pocket 310 427 11 Bible, the time of commencing and the time Chambers Creek Circuit 25 of finishing the reading of his Bible through for the fifty-fourth time. He was a man of 2687 28 feeble health and slender constitution, and, therefore, was upon our superannuated list for several years previous to his death. We are Weatherford District. glad to that his end was peaceful and know Weatherford Station 72 3 triumphant. V Weatherford Circuit 248 4 Cranberry Circuit 109 2 Acton Circuit 303 4 Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in Cleburne and Marysville Station 247 5 Cleburne Circuit ^ 228 1 oflicial administration? their life and Alvarado Circuit... 383 1 Their names were called over, one by one, Mansfield Circuit... 288 5 Johnson Station Circuit —v 160 3 and their characters examined and passed. Fort Worth Station 125 Springtown Mission 95 Ques. 21. What is the number of local preach- Cartersville Circuit 192 3 Jacksboro Station 75 ers and members in the several circuits, stations, and missions of the Conference? 25261 81 . North-west Texas Conference , 1874 117

Stevensvilte Mission District. Marlin Station, Charles E. Brown. Marlin Circuit, James Truitt. White Col’d f.oc'1 Bremond Circuit, William T. Melugin, Wil- Mem's. Mem's. Pr’s. liam L. Kidd, Sup. 237 2 Groesbeck and Central Institute, J. Fred. Cox, 180 2 Poiuxv 365 3 Samuel J. Franks. 140 1 Thornton Mission, Mordecai Yell. 53 1 Hammond and Mount Vernon, James Grant, 353 4 78 1 Robert Crawford, Sup. 120 Calvert and Hearn Station, James M. Pugh. 89 4 Owensville Circuit, William K. Turner. 181 4 80 1 Wheelock Circuit, Wiley W. Thomas. Owensville High -school, Hiram M. Glass, 1876 23 Principal and Financial Agent.

Recapitulation. BELTON DISTRICT. 3049 40 W. R. D. Stockton P. E. Waco “ 2812 29 , Springfield “ 2432 29 Belton, Thomas H. B. Anderson. Waxahachie “ 2087 28 2526 31 Port Sullivan and Cameron Circuit, James A, 1876 23 Walkup, one to be supplied. San Gabriel Circuit, James K. Lane, James 15,382 180 Peeler, Sup. 14,051 210 Salado and Davilla Circuit, to be supplied (by Increase 1331 E. R. Barcus). Decrease 30 Georgetown Circuit, James S. Lane, James Campbell. Ques. 22. How many infants have been bap- Liberty Hill Circuit, J. W. B. Allen, Samuel tized during the vear? C. Vaughan. 968. Sugar-loaf Circuit, H. S. P. Ashby. Ques. 23. How many adults have been bap- Gatesville Circuit, to be supplied (by R. W. tized during the year? Flournoy). 1698. Leon Circuit, Rigdon J. Perry, John Carpen- ter, Sup. Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday- W aco Circuit, Thomas Stanford. schools? Deer Creek Circuit, John W. Walkup. 114. Texas University, William G. Veal, Agent. • Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday- school teachers? CORSICANA DISTRICT 707. Wm. C. Young P. E. , Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- Corsicana Station, Horace Bishop. school scholars? Dresden Circuit, James M. Jones. 4980. Birdston Mission, Joseph B. Womack. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the Mexia Circuit, James D. Shaw. superannuated preachers, and the widows and Mount Calm Circuit, W. W. Jared. orphans of preachers? Fairfield Circuit, R. C. Hendrick.

2 000 . Butler Circuit, Thomas Gilmore. $ , G. Redland Circuit, James J. Davis. Ques. 28. What has been collected or#the Centerville Circuit, W. Frank Compton. foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Navasota Mission, plied? James D. Whitehead. American Bible Society, J. S. McCarver, Agent. Collected, $1,147 40. Applied to claimants. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for WAXAHACIIIE DISTRICT. missions? Andrew Davis P. E. $1,806 09. , Waxahachie Station, Geo. Graves, Joseph Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of W. the Conference be held? Hines, Sup. Waxahachie Circuit, At Corsicana, Texas. Cyrus H. Ellis, Fountain P. Ray, Sup. Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed Lancaster Circuit, John J. Davis, William D. this year? Robinson. Ennis Circuit, A. D. GaskilT. WACO DISTRICT. Chatfield Circuit, William Vaughan. Milford Circuit, W. L. Kestler. Wm. G. Connor P. E. , Hillsboro Circuit, Willis J. King. Waco Station, to be supplied (by M. H. Wells). Peoria Circuit, Willis F. Graves, H. C. Mc- Waco City Mission, Samuel P. Wright. Quown, Sup.

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Fort Graham Circuit, Osgood A. Shook. Meridian Circuit, John R. Randle. Chambers Creek Circuit, Samuel S. Yarbrough. Jonesboro Mission, William E. Weaver. Eastland Circuit, J. R. Barden. WEATHERFORD DISTRICT. Fort Griffin Circuit, Levi H. Collins. Palo Thos. IF. Hynes P. E. Pinto and Graham Circuit, to be supplied , (by J. Manlove). Weatherford Station, Matthew D. Fly. Bosqueville Circuit, William C. Collins. Weatherford Circuit, James Hiner. Jacksboro Circuit, Thomas G. A. Tharp. Granberry Circuit, Samuel D. Aiken. Black Springs Mission, N. A. Duckett. Acton Circuit, to be supplied (by J. P. Hulse). Assistant Bible Agent. William Monk. Cleburne and Marysville Station, Oscar M. Addison. DISTRICT. Cleburne Circuit, Isaac N. Reeves. COMANCHE Mansfield Circuit, John P. Mussett. Peter W. Gravis P. E. , Caddo Grove Circuit, Joseph J. Shirley. Comanche Circuit, Evander A. Bailey. Fort Worth Station, Richard H. H. Burnett. Brown wood Mission, H. J. McQuary, Hugh Springtown Mission, John G. Warren. Griffin. Cartersville Circuit, A. K. Miller. San Saba Circuit, A. W. Cornett. Alvarado Circuit, William Price, John Powell, Sup. Fort Mason and Llano Mission, John T. Gra- ham. Granberry High-school, W. P. Wilson, Prin- Rockvale Circuit, R. B. Womack. cipal. Burnett Circuit, Wiley Y. Jones. STEVENSVILLE DISTRICT. Lampassas Mission, John R. White. Cow-house Mission, William G. Davenport. John F. Neal P. E. , Hamilton Mission, George R. Bryce. Stevensville Circuit, William A. Sampey. Poluxy Circuit, E. W. Simmons. William F. Alexander transferred to Wr ~* North Bosque Circuit, N. F. Law. Texas Conference.

XXXII.—WEST TEXAS CONFERENCE.

Held at Gonzales, Texas, December 2-7, 1874.

Bishop Keener, President; O. A. Fisher, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected Answer. Charles Thomas, Avery G. Nolen, deacons? Doroteo Garcia, Fermin Vidaurri, Felipe N. Temple G. Wools, Doroteo Garcia, Fermin Cordova. 6. Yidaurri, Felipe N. Cordova. 4.

Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? <^ies. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Temple G. Wools, John E. Yernor, Wm. C. dained deacons? Kingsbury, Thomas R. Atkins, N. W. Keith, Temple G. Wools, Doroteo Garcia, Fermin J. J. Honeycutt. 6. Vidaurri, Felipe N. Cordova. 4.

Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Wm. M. Crow, at his own request. 1. deacons? W. T. Merri wether, Wm. H. Keck. 2. Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- Ques. 11. What local preachers tion? are ordained None. deacons? None. • Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are None. elected elders? Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from None. other Conferences? Ques. 13. W'hat traveling preachers are or- Henry W. South, E. H. Holbrook. 2. dained elders?

Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? None. Wm. G. Cocke, M. A. Black, John B. Den- Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected ton, Wm. L. Ridout. 4. elders? West Texas Conference , 1874 ,

Thomas W. Glas3. 1. Recapitulation,

Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained White Cord Lne'l Menu’s. Mem's. Pr's. elders? Thomas W. Glass. 1. San Antonio District 823 1 15 1760 24 Ques. 16. Who are located this year? 1151 11 “ None. Corpus Christi 786 11 12

Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? Total this vear 4520 12 62 Total last year 3859 37 44 James W. Cooley, T ; T. Smothers. 2. 18 Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? Increase 661 Decrease 25 Jesse Hord, Thomas Mvers, A. B. Duval, R. M. Leaton, R. Gillett, Alejo Hernandez. 6. Ques. 22. How many infants have been bap- Ques. 19. What preachers have died during tized during the year? the past year? None. Ques. 23. How many adults have been bap- Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in tized during the year? their life and official administration? Their names were called over, one by one, Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday- and their characters examined and passed. schools? Ques. 21. What is the number of local preachers and members in the several circuits, stations, Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday- and missions of the Conference? school teachers?

San Antonio District Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- White Cord Loc'l school scholars? Mem’s. Mem's. Pr's. 1768. San Antonio Station 68 1 Cibolo Circuit 102 2 Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the Medina Circuit 159 3 superannuated preachers, and the widows and Uvalde Circuit 83 4 orphans of preachers? Sutherland Springs Circuit. 215 2 Kerrville Circuit 159 3 $800. Bandera Mission 37 1 Ques. 28. What has been collected on the 823 1 15 foregoing account, and how has it been applied? San Marcos District. Collected, $516 30 Applied as follows: San Marcos Station San Marcos Circuit R. M. Leaton, 42 90 Lockhart and Prairie Lea Circuit A. B. Duval, 21 20 Seguin Station Jesse Hord, 21 20 Gonzales Circuit Blanco Circuit. T. Myers, 85 80 Mrs. Lafferty, 69 55 Mrs. Harris, 129 55 Mrs. Davidson, 69 55 R. Gillett, 76 65

Victoria District. $516 30 Victoria Station 30 269 2 Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Concrete Circuit 214 2 missions? Hallettsville Circuit 233 2 Sandeis Circuit 59 2 $1,184 15. Leesburg Circuit 206 1 26 Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of Clinton Circuit 114 2 the Conference be held? At San Antonio, Texas. 1151 11 Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed Corpus Christi District. this year? Corpus Christi Station. DISTRICT. Bockport Circuit SAN ANTONIO St. Mary’s Circuit J. S. Gillett P. E. Beeville Circuit , Goliad Circuit San Antonio Station, H. G. Horton, Thomas T. Helena Circuit. Smothers, Oakville Mission Sup. Nueces River Circuit Cibolo Circuit, J. W. De Yilbiss. Corpus Christi Mexican Circuit. Sutherland Springs, Eli Y. Seale. San Diego Mexican Circuit Medina Circuit, Temple G. Wools. Uvalde Circuit, A. J. Potter. 120 German Mission Conference , 1874.

Kerrville, W. C. Kingsbury. CORPUS CHRISTI DISTRICT. Bandera Mission, to be supplied (by James A. A. Killough, P. E. Boyd). Corpus Christi Station, C. M. Rogers. SAN MARCOS DISTRICT. St. Mary’s Circuit, J. E. Vernor. IF. J. Boyce P. E. Rockport Circuit, W. G. Cocke. , Beeville Circuit, N. W. Keith. San Marcos Station, O. A. Fisher. % Oakville Circuit, Thomas R. Atkins. San Marcos Circuit, J. Vest. W. Helena Circuit, H. A. Graves. Lockhart and Prairie Lea Circuit, B. John Nueces River, John C. C. Black. Denton. Goliad, James H. Tucker. Seguin Station, Buckner Harris. I Gonzales Circuit, W. T. Thornberry. Blanco Circuit, W. L. Ridout. MEXICAN BORDER MISSION Mountain City Circuit, E. H. Holbrook. DISTRICT. Thompson ville Circuit, James W. Brown. A. H. Sutherland P. E. Coronal Institute, R. H. Belvin. , Corpus Christi Mexican Mission, Dorotea VICTORIA DISTRICT. Garcia. San Diego Mexican Mission, Felipe N. Cor- J.G. Walker P. E. , dova. Victoria, Henry W. South. Laredo Mexican Mission, Fermin Vidaurri. Leesburg Circuit, A. F. Cox. Brownsville Mexican Mission, to be sup- Clinton Circuit, to be supplied, J. W. Cooley, plied. Sup. Rio Grande City Mexican Mission, to be sup- Concrete Circuit, Mark A. Black, A. G. Nolan. plied. Hallettsville Circuit, Jefferson J. Honeycutt. Conception and Presenas Mexican Mission, to Texana Circuit, J. F. Cook, E. G. Duval. be supplied. Yorktown Circuit, C. R. Shapard. District Superintendent American Bible Soci- Charles Thomas transferred to German Mis- ety, Wesley Smith. sion Conference.

I XXXIII.— GERMAN MISSION CONFERENCE. IS Held at Houston, Texas, December 16, 1874.

Bishop Keener, President ; J. B. A. Ahrens, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected Answer. John Christopher Kopp, Freder- deacons? ick William Hardt, Charles Schmitz, Michael John G. Krauter, William Lieser. 2. Henchel. 4. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? dained deacons? William Lieser, August Scheurich. 2. John G. Krauter, William Lieser. 2. «R Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? m deacons? None. Louis Reinhardt. 1. Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained tion? deacons? John G. Krauter. 1. Hi Louis Reinhardt. 1. Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are None. elected elders? Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from None. other Conferences? Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Charles Thomas, from West Texas Confer- dained elders? ence. 1. None. $$: Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected None. ciders? m : 1

. 121 German Mission Conference , 1874

William Knolle. 1. Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday- school teachers? Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained 133. elders? William Knolle. 1. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- school scholars? Ques. 16. are located this year? Who 837. A. Engel, J. Wohlschlegel, at their own re- Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the quest. 2. superannuated preachers, and the widows and Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? orphans of preachers? John A. Schaper. 1. Nothing. Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? ** Ques. 28. What has been collected on the A. Albright. 1. foregoing account, and how has it been applied? Ques. 19. What preachers have died during Collected, $73 80 the past year? None. Applied as follows: Conference trunk, 10 00 Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in F. W. Hardt, 10 00 their life and official administration? Wm. Lieser, 10 00 Their names were called over, one by one, C. A. Grote, 43 80 and their characters examined and passed.

Ques. 21. What is the number of local preach- $73 80 ers and members in the several circuits, stations, Ques. 29. What has been contributed for and missions of the Conference? missions? $977 75.

New Orleans District. Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of the Conference be held? White Col’d r.oc'l At Galveston, Texas. Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed New Orleans 170 this year? 100 Sorapam Street and Carrollton 46 1 HOUSTON DISTRICT. 17 A. Pauley E. John , P. 333 1 Houston Station, John Prensing. Galveston, John C. Kopp, jr. Houston District. Bellville, John G. Krauter. 18 Industry, Herman Evers. 89 1 Bastrop, William Lieser. 30 Long Prairie, to be supplied 77 2 (by Edward Pow- 25 2 itzki). Houston and Cypress, to be supplied (by W. 239 5 R. J. Thoenssen). Marshall, to be supplied. New Braunfels District. ORLEANS DISTRICT. New Braunfels ., 118 1 NEW Fredericksburg 69 1 J. B. A. Ahrens P. E. New Fountain... 75 1 , Llano 56 1 New Orleans: Yorktown 20 1 Dryades Street, J. B. A. Ahrens. Craps Street, C. A. Grote. 338 5 Sorapam and Carrollton, Charles Schmitz. Lake Charles, Aug. Scheurich. Recapitulation. Mobile, to be supplied. New Orleans District. 3331 1 Editor of Familienfreund J. B. A. Ahrens. , Houston “ 239 5 New Braunfels “ 338 5 NEW BRAUNFELS DISTRICT. 910 Total this year 11 Frederick Vordenbaumen, P. E. New Fountain, Jacob Kern. Ques. 22. How many infants have been bap- Fredericksburg, Michael Henchel. tized during the year? Llano, F. W. Hardt. 131. Yorktown, to be supplied. Ques. 23. How many adults have been bap- New Braunfels, Jacob Bader. tized during the year? Cibolo and Elm Creek, John C. Kopp, jr. 1. Flatonia and Shulenburg Mission, Charles Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday- Thomas, John A. Schaper, Sup. schools?

22 . J. A. G. Rabe transferred to Texas Conference. 122 Los Angeles . Conference , 1874

XXXIV.— LOS ANGELES CONFERENCE.

Held at Carpenteria, Cal., October 28-31, 1874.

Bishop Pierce, President; A. Adams, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? Answer. Wm. L. Stephens. 1. M. W. Glover. 1.

Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Ques. 19. What preachers have died during None. the past year? None. Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? None. Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in -their life and official administration? Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- Their names were called over, one by one, tion? and their characters examined and passed. Alonzo M. Campbell, Jesse D. Franklin, Franklin McKean. 3. Ques. 21. What is the number of local preachers and members in the several circuits, stations, Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? and missions of the Conference? None.

Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from Los Angeles District. other Conferences? white Cold Loc't W. H. Mason, Wm. Monk, D. L. Cogdell, Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. Z. A. Parker. 4. Los Angeles Station 28 1 Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Los Angeles Circuit 18 1 None. Los Nietos Station 124 4 New River Circuit 75 1 El Monte Circuit 55 1 Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected Santa Anna Circuit 157 2 deacons? San Bernardino Station 48 Jesse D. Franklin, Franklin McKean. 2. San Bernardino Circuit 8 Julian Circuit 42 Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- Wilmington 15 2 dained deacons? 570 3 9 J. D. Franklin, F. McKean. 2.

Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Santa Barbara District. deacons? San Luis Obispo Circuit 40 Wm. L. Stephens, Franklin A. Stout. 2. Santa Clara Circuit 39 T Carpenteria Circuit ai 1 Ques. 11. W hat local preachers are ordained Tehatehapie Circuit 29 deacons? Santa Mafia Circuit 44 2 Havilah Circuit 4 W. L. Stephens, F. A. Stout. 2.

Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are 189 3 elected elders? None. Arizona District. Salt River Circuit 21 Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Prescott Circuit 8 1 dained elders? None. 29 1

Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected Recapitulation. elders? Los Angeles District 570 3 9 None. Santa Barbara “ 189 3 Arizona “ 29 1 Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained elders? Total this vear 788 3 13 None. Total last year 769 15 Ques. 16. Who are located this year? Increase 19 3 Decrease 2 R. A. Latimer, C. W. Harris, I). M. Rice, i W. H. Mason. 4. Ques. 22. How many infants have been bap- Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? tized during the year? Jesse D. Franklin. 1. 52. ; ,

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Ques. 23. How many adults have been bap- Los Angeles and New River, J. W. Leach. tized during the year? Los Nietos, A. Adams. 81. El Monte, G. E. Butler. Santa Anna, J. E. Miller. Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday- San Bernardino, to be supplied (by M. J. schools? * Law). 14. San Diego, to be supplied. of Sunday- Ques. 25. What is the number Julian City, to be supplied (by A. B. Gill). school teachers? Wilmington, W. A. Spurlock. 72. Wilson College, A. M. Campbell, President; Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- W. A. Spurlock, Agent. school scholars? Los Nietos Collegiate Institute, S. M. Adams, 458. Principal.

Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the DISTRICT. superannuated preachers, and the widows and SANTA BARBARA orphans of preachers? W. Moores, P. E. assessment. No Santa Barbara and Carpenteria, D. L. Cog- Ques. 28. What has been collected on the dell. foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Santa Clara, J. W. Allen. plied? Santa Maria, W. L. Stephens. Collected, $75 95. Applied to the support San Luis Obispo, Z. A. Parker. of Sister Mary Cox. Tehatchapie, T. Brown. Weldon, F. McKean. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Cambria, to be supplied. missions? $321 30. ARIZONA DISTRICT. Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of the ConfeTfence be held? W. Monk, P. E. Nietos, Cal. At Los Salt River, A. Groves. Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed Prescott, to be supplied (by W. Shaw). this year? Walapa, to be supplied. Tucson, to be supplied. LOS ANGELES DISTRICT. P. 0. Clayton P. E. , I. G. Parks transferred to North Georgia Los Angeles, A. M. Campbell. Conference.

XXXV.— PACIFIC CONFERENCE.

Held at Stockton, Cal., October 7-12, 1874.

Bishop Pierce, President E. K. Miller, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from Answer. Timothy S. Paul, William O. As- other Conferences? kins, John S. Clark, Milton McWhorter. 4. C. Chamberlain, from Mississippi Confer- ence. 1. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? C. C. Snell. 1. John Anderson. 1. Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected Thomas Birkett. 1. deacons? Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- Rufus F. Allen. 1. tion? Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- R. F. Allen, W. H. Howard, John F. Camp- dained deacons? bell. 3. Rufus F. Allen. 1.

Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected None. deacons? 124 . Pacific Conference , 1874

Alexander F. Trousdale, Timothy S. Paul, Santa Rosa District ( continued). T. F. R. Garner, Charles Luce. 4.

White Cold Loc'l Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. deacons? Vacaville Circuit 67 Alexander F. Trousdale, Timothy S. Paul, Dixon Circuit 54 T. F. R. Garner, Charles Luce. 4. Humboldt Circuit 4 Punta Arenas 13 Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are elected elders? 995 1 11 None. Colusa District. Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are ordained elders? Colusa Station 100 \ None. Colusa Circuit . 1 Chico Station 49 Chico Circuit Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected 53 2 Princeton Circuit 30 1 elders? Millville Circuit 75 2 3 Thomas G. Morgan. 1. Yuba City Circuit 108 9 Wheatland Circuit 90 9 Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained Knight’s Landing Circuit 89 1 elders? Tehama Circuit .T. 14

None. 654 2 13 Ques. 16. Who are located this year? L. Cately, G. M. Edwards. 2. Visalia District.

Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? Visalia Circuit • 104 4 Tul6 River Circuit John Anderson, John Wood, S. W. Da- 6 Kingston Circuit 42 3 vies. 3. Millerton Circuit 219 1 8 Mariposa Circuit 74 1 Ques. 18. are superannuated? 1 Who Snelling Circuit 52 T. H. B. Anderson, B. C. Howard, Ira Tay- Modesta Circuit 183 4 lor, James L. Porter, L. J. Hedgpeth. 5. Linden Circuit 119 Sonora Circuit 52 1 Ques. 19. What preachers have died during Merced Circuit 64 Chowchilla Circuit the past year? 30 Amador Circuit None. 866 2 21 Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in their life and official administration? Recapitulation. Their names were called over, one by one,

and their characters examined and passed. San Francisco District , 840 3 11 Santa Rosa “ 995 1 11 Ques. 21. What is the number of local preach- Colusa “ 654 2 13 Visalia “ 865 2 21 ers and members in the several circuits, stations, and missions of the Conference? Total this year 3354 8 56 Total last year 3316 4 57

Increase 38 4 San Francisco District. Decrease 1

White Cold Loc’l Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. Ques. 22. How many infants have been bap- San Francisco Station 65 1 1 tized during the vear? 50 1 177. 29 1 76 • • Ques. 23. How many adults have been bap- 56 tized during the year? 136 125 2 2 198. 55 87 1 Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday- 39 1 schools? 1 50. 46 1 30 2 Ques. 25. What is the number of Sunday- school teachers? 840 3 11 310.

Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- Santa Rosa District. school scholars? 168 3 2339. 95 1 40 Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the 126 1 superannuated preachers, and the widows and 84 1 . orphans of preachers? 194 4 20 $800. 76 2 Suisuh Circuit 54 Ques. 28. What has been collected on the . 125 , Pacific Conference , 1874 foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Davisville Circuit, B. F. Burris. plied? Punta Arenas Circuit, to be supplied. Collected, $545 45. Applied to claimants. Napa and Sonoma Circuit, to be supplied. Humboldt Circuit, W. O. Askins. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for Pacific Methodist College, E. E. Hoss, Pro- missions? fessor. $972 85. DISTRICT. Ques. 80. Where shall the next session of COLUSA the Conference be held? Barton P. E. T. C. , At San Jose, Cal. Wheatland Circuit, C. C. Wright. the preachers stationed Ques. 31. Where are Yuba City Circuit, C. P. Jones. this year? Colusa Station, E. K. Miller. Colusa Circuit, E. H. Robertson. SAN FRANCISCO DISTRICT. Princeton Circuit, B. H. Russell. George Sim, P. E. Millville Circuit, R. E. Sawrie. Chico Station, J. Kelsay. Francisco Station, J. Mahon. San W. Chico Circuit, W. H. Howard. Sacramento, Chamberlain. C. Tehama Circuit, G. W. Fleming. Finley. Stockton, W. A. Marysville Circuit, to be supplied. Hicksville Circuit, M. McWhorter. Knight’s Landing Circuit, J. Gruwell. Circuit, Winter. Woodbridge W. M. Sheridan Circuit, to be supplied. I. L. Hopkins. San Jose, Meridian Circuit, to be supplied. Santa Clara Circuit, T. S. Burnet. Mountain View Circuit, R. Pratt. Gilroy, W. F. Compton. VISALIA DISTRICT, Hollister, Overton. J. M. if. B. Avery P. E. Salinas, L. C. Renfro. , Watsonville Circuit, to be supplied. Linden Circuit, Joel Hedgpeth. Tres Pinos Circuit, to be supplied (by C. J. Modesta Circuit, J. G. Shelton. Pickle). Fresno Circuit, Alexander Odom. r Circuit, Staton. Agent of Pacific Methodist W . M. Winter. Snelling F. M. , Sonora Circuit, T. D. Clanton. SANTA ROSA DISTRICT. Merced Circuit, W. D. Senter. Chowchilla Circuit, C. C. Snell. J. C. Simmons, P. E. Kingston Circuit, T. S. Paul. Santa Rosa Station, O. P. Fitzgerald, J. An- Visalia Circuit, N. Futrell. derson, Sup. Tule River Circuit, J. H. Neal. supplied Santa Rosa Circuit, J. C. Pendergrast, S. W. Los Banos Circuit, to be (by A. F Davies, Sup. Trousdale). Petaluma, J. K. P. Price. Mariposa Circuit, J. M. Alsanson. Healdsburg, J. M. Lovell. Cloverdale, J. M. Ward. J. W. Craig transferred to Columbia Con- Ukiah Circuit, L. D. Hargis. ference. Little Lake Circuit, J. F. Campbell. T. H. B. Anderson transferred to North- Lakeport Circuit, R. F. Allen. west Texas Conference. Suisun Circuit, S. Brown. W. H. Mason transferred to Los Angeles Vacaville Circuit, J. S. Clark. Conference. !

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XXXVI.— COLUMBIA CONFERENCE.

Held at Dixie, Oregon, September n-14, 1874.

Bishop Pierce, President; Joseph Emery, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 19. What preachers have died during Answer. S. W. Davies, Angelo Hardison. 2. the past year? None. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? None. Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in their life and official administration? Ques. 3. AVho are discontinued? None. Their names were called over, one by one, and their characters examined and passed, ex- Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- cept E. J. Dawne, who was suspended for one tion? year. John N. R. Bell. 1. Ques. 21. What is the number of local preach- Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? ers and members in the several circuits, stations, None. and missions of the Conference? Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from other Conferences? Umatilla District. John N. R. Bell, Thomas B. White. 2.

White Cold 1 Loe'l Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. None. Powder River Circuit 26 Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected Grand Ronde 25 Walla Walla 7 deacons? John N. R. Bell. 1. 67

Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are ordained deacons? Willamette District. Bell. 1. John N. R. Brownsville Circuit 1 641 144 5 Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Corvallis Station 64 1 deacons? Junction City Circuit 106 1 Thomas V. B. Embree. 14 1 Lebanon Circuit 75 1 Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained 32 La Fayette and Tillimook 125 1 deacons? Oregon City Circuit 100 — 4 Thomas Y. B. Embree. 1. 723 14 Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are elected elders? Jacksonville District. E. G. Michael, F. W. D. Mays.* 2. Jacksonville Circuit 65 2 Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- 108 3 dained elders? 26 2 E. G. Michael, F. W. D. Mays. 2. 199 7 Ques. 14. What local preachers are elected elders? Recapitulation. None. 57 Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained 723 14 elders? Jacksonville “ 199 7

None. 979 21 Total last year 1054 18 Ques. 16. Who are located this year? A. E. Sears, B. R. Johnson. 2. Increase 3 Decrease 75 Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? None. Ques. 22. How many infants have been bap- Ques. 18. Who are superannuated? tized during the year?

C. H. E. Newton. 1. 22 . 1874. 127 Illinois Conference ,

Ques. 23. How many adults have been bap- UMATILLA DISTRICT. tized during the year? (P. E. to be supplied.) 64. Walla Walla Circuit, to be supplied. Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday- Powder and Grand Ronde, to be supplied. schools? Boise and Payette, to be supplied. 8 . Umatilla Meadows, to be supplied. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- school teachers? WILLAMETTE DISTRICT. 40. T. B. White, P. E. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- Bradley. school scholars? Brownsville Circuit, J. E. Skipworth. 352. Dallas Circuit, N. M. Corvallis and Benton Mission, B. R. Baxter. Ques. 27. What amount is necessary for the Junction City Circuit, to be supplied. superannuated preachers, and the widows and Eugene and Coast Fork, F. W. D. Mays. orphans of preachers? Lebanon Circuit, D. C. McFarland. answer. No Salem, to be supplied. Michael. Ques. 28. What has been collected on the La Fayette Circuit, E. G. supplied. fore-going account, and how has it been ap- Tillimook Circuit, to be plied? Albany, to be supplied. No answer. Oregon City Circuit, Angelo Hardison. Corvallis College, Joseph Emery. Ques. 29. What has been contributed for missions? $105 25. JACKSONVILLE DISTRICT. J. Stahl P. E. Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of W. , the Conference be held? Jacksonville Circuit, J. N. R. Bell. At Lebanon, Linn county, Oregon. Roseburg Circuit, R. C. Oglesby, S. W. Davies. Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed Oakland Mission, J. W. Stahl. this year? Josephine Circuit, to be supplied.

XXXVII.—ILLINOIS CONFERENCE.

Held at Murphysboro, III., September 2-7, 1874.

Bishop Wightman, President ; Colin Murchison, Secretary.

Question 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 7. Who are the deacons of one year? Answer. James White, Webster Full, Wm. J. H. Threlkeld, J. F. Hensley. 2. L. Thurman. 3. Ques. 8. What traveling preachers are elected Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? deacons? J. A. Garrison, C. T. MeAnally, J. Y. Buzby, W. A. Cross, T. M. Prickett, J. A. Green- N. Auld. 4. ing, G. Knispel, J. P. Glass, J. A. Garrison. 6.

Ques. 3. Who are discontinued? Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are or- J. W. Moss, E. C. Harper. 2. dained deacons? Ques. 4. Who are admitted into full connec- W. A. Cross, T. M. Prickett, J. A. Green- tion? ing, G. Knispel, J. P. Glass, J. A. Garrison. 6. A. Cross, T. M. Prickett, J. A. Green- W. Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected ing, G. Knispel, J. F. Robb, A. W. Smith, deacons? Jesse 8. P. Glass, H. Rice. F. A. Taylor, C. M. Whitson, William L. Ques. 5. Who are readmitted? Thurman, J. Hedgpeth, J. E. Wallace. 5. None. Ques. 11. What local preachers are ordained Ques. 6. Who are received by transfer from deacons? other Conferences? F. A. Taylor, C. M. Whitson, William L. J. J. Prather, D. Ptews, J. P. Glass. 3. Thurman, J. E. Wallace. 4. —

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nna comiort in Ques. 12. What traveling preachers are to many. May his aged wne professed, and his elected elders? the religion she has so long in the footsteps of their father! J. F. Robb, A. W. Smith, A. D. Hocker, R. children follow P. Jones. 4. Holcomb was born, in Jackson Ques. 13. What traveling preachers are or- Hiram G. 1831; professed religion dained elders? co., Tenn., Feb. 18, and joined the M. E. Church, South, Feb., J. F. Robb, A. W. Smith, A. D. Hocker, R. and was soon afterward licensed a local P. Jones. 4. 1853, preacher. In 1871 he was admitted on trial elected Ques. 14. What local preachers are into the Louisville Conference, and transferred

elders? . , the same autumn to the Illinois Conference. J. B. Steidly. 1. His first circuit in this Conference was La which he traveled with great Ques. 15. What local preachers are ordained Prairie Circuit, endearing himself to the people elders? acceptability, burning zeal None. by his many good qualities and for' the Master’s cause. In 1872 he was ap- located this year? Ques. 16. Who are pointed to the Patoka Circuit, to which he re- i Beagle, D. Charles, W. J. Bullivant, J. A. J. moved his family from Kentucky. Here he Stephenson, H. W. B. Lewellen, John A. labored with his usual zeal one year, and, by Duckworth. 6. unanimous request, was returned at our last his third year Ques. 17. Who are supernumerary? Conference. He entered upon prospects; had made sev- W. C. Blundell, J. Howard, T. D. Deeds, D. with very flattering just closed a McKinney. 4. eral rounds on his circuit; had successful meeting at Keysport, at which he are superannuated? Ques. 18. Who evidently overworked himself; came home sick; ‘ Holt. 1. R. P. suffered terribly for five days, and then sweetly Ques. 19. What preachers have died during fell asleep in Jesus. It may be said of Brother the past year? Holcomb that his zeal consumed him. He people J. D. Gray, H. G. Holcomb. 2. certainly fell at his post, exhorting the to meet him in heaven. Brother Holcomb was married to Susan Taylor in 1853, with whom James D. Gray was born, in Wilson co., he lived happily until death removed her. On to Illinois when Tenn., May 11, 1813; came Jan. 13, 1867, he was again married to Miss M. to Nichols quite young; was married Maria J. Blewitt, of Kentucky, who now mourns his religion Dec. 18, 1837; Nov. 23, 1837; professed loss. Heaven bless the widow and orphan chil- was licensed to preach July 2, 1843; ordained dren of our dear brother! deacon in 1851. Brother Gray was most of his life a local preacher; was frequently employed Ques. 20. Are all the preachers blameless in to supply vacant circuits while a minister of their life and official administration? the M. E. Church, and was always acceptable. were called over, one by one, He was eminently useful as a local preacher Their names their characters examined and passed. blameless in life, well versed in the doctrines and the of the Bible, understood the economy of Ques. 21. What is the number of local preach- his Church, and was zealous in the cause of ers and members in the several circuits, sta- movers Master. Brother Gray was one of the tions, and missions of the Conference? in the organization of our Conference in Illi- nois, identifying himself with the Conference, Canton District. and traveled the Salem, Rome, and Patoka his Circuits. The last-named circuit embraced White Col’d Loc'l home, where he had lived for over thirty years. Mem's. Mem's. Pr's. which, His last work was the Okaw Mission, on 51 owing to his feeble health, he could render but Midway and Cuba 55 2 41 1 little service; but, whenever he could, he would Marietta Mission 20 attend his appointments. His Ikst sermon was 140 3 in the house of Brother Mordecai Smith, the 144 where he had been converted thirty-six 150 2 same 100 1 funeral of years before. The occasion was the 62 Sister Smith. He alluded to the coincidence, 66 and remarked that he thought he should close Carthage Mission 20 his ministerial labors in the same house where 849 9 he had commenced his Christian life. This was in October. He returned to his home and District. continued to fail until Dec.- 18, when he fell Dana asleep in Jesus, giving the most convincing Jacksonville Station 27 testimonv of his preparation for the home of Waverly Circuit 262 Brother Gray was emphatically a Shelbyville Circuit 22 the good*”. Girard Circuit 141 in- good man, and has left the savor of a holy Pana Station 72 fluence behind him. His memory is precious Pana Circuit 90

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25. "What is the number of Sunday- Pana District {continued). Ques. school teachers? White Cord f.oc'l 531. Mein's. Mem's. Pr's. Ques. 26. What is the number of Sunday- New Douglass Circuit 190 5 115 3 school scholars? Shoal Creek Circuit ... Litchfield Station 63 1 3581. 141 2 Clinton Circuit necessary for the Heyworth Mission 30 Ques. 27. What amount is Springfield Mission 40 superannuated preachers, and the widows and 53 2 Lewistown Station orphans of preachers? Lewistown Circuit 95 1 $400. 1341 19 Ques. 28. What has been collected on the foregoing account, and how has it been ap- Salem District. plied? Collected, $185 00 Salem Circuit 136' Kinmundy Circuit 141 Applied as follows:

Rome Circuit 310 i Widow Gray, 25 00 Xenia Circuit 238 25 00 100 Widow Nance, Fairfield Circuit 25 00 Montrose Circuit 89 Widow Finley, Clay City Circuit 197 Widow Holcomb, 85 00 Altamont Circuit 148 Effingham 100 $160 00 1 Patoka .. 250 Martinsville Circuit 78 for Ques. 29. What has been contributed j Mt. Vernon 155 missions? I 1948 26 $385 43.

Ques. 30. Where shall the next session of Ashley District. the Conference be held? At Litchfield, 111. Murphysboro Circuit 138 97 De Soto Circuit Ques. 31. Where are the preachers stationed Marion Circuit 166 j Chester Circuit...'. 110 this year? Ashley Circuit 242 Nashville Circuit 136 McLeansboro Circuit 200 LEWISTOWN DISTRICT. 96 Equality Circuit T. B. Harben, P. E. Golconda Mission 31 69 Pulaski Minion Lewistown Station, R. F. Hayes. Columbia and Veranda 35 Paradise Circuit 110 Lewistown Circuit, A. F. Rogers. Canton, W. B. Johnsey. 14 1430 Midway, A. Merrill. Cuba and Marietta, A. D. Hocker. Indiana Mission District. Ottawa, to be supplied. Rushville, W. B. Beagle. Waldron Circuit 135 Mount Sterling, T. A. Scruggs. Galveston Circuit.. Vhite Creek Mission. 50 Pittsfield and Detroit, J. Y. Buzby. Washington Mission, S. Myers. 185 Lima, J. A. Greening. La Prairie, J. A. Garrison. Recapitulation. Carthage Mission, to be supplied (by H. C. Darneron). 849 9 Canton District Murchison, Agent. Pana 1341 19 E. M. College, Colin Salem 1948 26 Vshley 1430 14 Indiana Miss. 185 3 PANA DISTRICT. J. W. Price P. E. 5753 71 , 5507 67 Jacksonville, C. C. Mayhew. Increase. 246 4 Waverly Circuit, J. Metcalf. Shelbyville, D. Plews, D. McKinney, Sup. Carlinville, to be supplied (by Y. J. Sevier). Ques. 22. How many infants have been bap- Taylorville, W. Full. tized during the year? Pana, G. T. Nichols. 83. New Douglass, H. Rice. Ques. 23. How many adults have been bap- Shoal Creek, to be supplied. tized during the vear? Litchfield Station, N. P. Halsey. 407. Clinton Circuit, W. R. Howard, James White; Ques. 24. What is the number of Sunday- J. Howard, Sup. schools? Heyworth Mission, to be supplied. 83. Sherman, to be supplied. 9 11 I”

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SALEM DISTRICT. Carbondale, J. II. Threlkeld. VV. L. Thurman. li. It. Heater, P. E. De Soto, Marion, T. M. Ragsdale. Salem Circuit, J. L. Branstettor, T. I). Deeds, Blair, A. L. Davis. Sup. Ashley, A. W. Smith, W. D. Ward, Sup. Kinmundy Circuit, T. C. Hawkins. Nashville, R. P. Jones.

Rome Circuit, J. F. Robb. McLeansboro, ,J. F. Hensley. Xenia Circuit, T. M. Prickett. Equality, to be supplied. Fairfield Circuit, M. It. Collagen. (lolconda Mission, to be supplied. Montrose, Nelson Auld. Pulaski Mission, W. H. White. Clay City, J. J. Prather. Columbia and Baldwin, J. W. Nicodemus. Altaniont, George Knispel. Paradise, to be supplied. Effingham Circuit, C. T. McAnally. Patoka Circuit, T. L. Foster. GOSPORT DISTRICT. Martinsville, W. A. Cross, W. C. Blundell, Sup Mt. Vernon, to be supplied (by .1. M. Moore). Vnl P. Thomas, P. E. Okaw Mission, to be supplied. Gosport Station, Vnl. P. Thomas. ASHLEY DISTRICT. Stinesville Mission, G. W. Gilmore. Waldron Circuit, J. P. Glass. J. IF. Weateott, P. E. li White Creek Mission, to be supplied (by W. Murphysboro Station, J. B. Harris. Hamlin).