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1864 Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for the Year 1864 Methodist Episcopal Church, South Asbury Theological Seminary ePLACE: preserving, learning, and creative exchange Conference Journals Methodist Episcopal Church, South 2017 1864 Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for the Year 1864 Methodist Episcopal Church, South Follow this and additional works at: http://place.asburyseminary.edu/mechsouthconfjournals Part of the Appalachian Studies Commons, Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, and the Genealogy Commons Recommended Citation Methodist Episcopal Church, South, "1864 Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for the Year 1864" (2017). Conference Journals. 20. http://place.asburyseminary.edu/mechsouthconfjournals/20 This Periodical/Journal is brought to you for free and open access by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South at ePLACE: preserving, learning, and creative exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Conference Journals by an authorized administrator of ePLACE: preserving, learning, and creative exchange. MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCES OF THE FOR THE YEAR 1864 . • I •• ,. ~lu~billtt ~tnn.: SOUTHERN !\IETHODIST PUBLISHING HOUSE. 1870. BISHOPS OF THE lIETHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH. JQSHUA SOULE, D. D., NASHVILLE, T ENN. JAMES OSGOOD ANDRE 'V, D. D., SUMMERFIELD, ALA. ROBERT P ArNE, D. D., ABERDEEN, MISS. GEORGE FOSTER PIERC1E, D. D., CULVERTON, GA. JOHN EARLY, D. D., LYNCHBURG, VA. HUBBARD HINDE KAVANAUGH, D. D., VERSAILLES, Ky. MINUTES. '1. I.-KENTUCKY CONFERENCE. HELD AT MAYSVILLE, Ky., September 7-12, 1864. J. C. HARRISON, Prewidentj DANIEL STEVENSON, Secretary. QUESTION 1. Who are admitted on trial? William Atherton. 1. ANSWER. Daniel M. Bonner. 1. No memoir. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Ques. 15. Are all the preachers blameless in J. J. Johnson, J. A. Humphrey. 2. their life and official administra tion ? Quas. 3. Who are admitted into full connec­ Their names were called over, one by one, and tion? their characters examined and passed, except L. J. T. S. Smith, J. W. Zimmerman, G. T. Gould, D. Huston, whose case was again referred to the J. E. Letton. 4. Presiding Elder of Covington District for inves­ tigation j the cases of J. W. Ridgell and C. W. Ques.4. Who are readmitted? Miller were referred to the PreSIding .Elder of None. Harrodsburg District for investigation. Ques. 5. Who are received by transfer from Ques.16. What is the number of preachers other Conferences? and members in the several circuits, stations, George W. Dungan. 1. and missions of the Conference? Ques. 6. Who are the deacons of one year? Whitelrobationers, 874 Josiah Fitch, T. J. Dodd, H. W. Abbett. 3. Colore probationers, 261 Ques. 7. What traveling preachers are elected White members, 14,029 a.nd ordained deacons? Quee.17. What amounts are necessary for the None. superannuated preachers, and the widows and Ques. 8. What local preachers are elected and orphans of preachers, and to make up the defi­ ordained deacons? ciencies of those who have not obtamed their Peyton F. Adams,* J as. Witt,* Aaron Green * regular allowance in their respective districts, (colored), Wyatt Triplett* (colored). 4. circuits, and stations? Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are elected $37,435 25. and ordained elders? Quae. 18. What has been collected on the fore­ J.W. Fitch,* W. L. Furniss,* L. B. Piersall.* 3. going accounts, and how has it been applied? Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Collected, $32,727 26 and ordained elders ? Quee. 19. What has been contributed for the William ShermaD,* D. D. Duty.* 2. Missionary, Sunday-school, a.nd Tract Societies? Quee. 11. Who have located this year? For Missions, $943 85 D. W. Axline, J. F. Vanpelt, Elias Botner, Ques. 20. Where and when shall the next ses­ W. J. Snively, T. G. Bosley. 5. sion of the Conference be held? Ques. 12. Who are supernumerary? At Covington, Ky. E. P. Buckner. 1. Ques. 21. Where are the preachers stationed Ques. 13. Who are superannuated? this year? George W. Maley, S. Veach, T. R. Ma.lone, Isaac Collard, Thomas Hall, W. B. Landrum, LEXINGTON DISTRICT. L. C. Danley, J. Sandusky, J. C. Hardy. 9. John G. Bruce, P. E. Ques. 14. What preachers have died during Lexington: the past year? First Charge, W. F. T. Spruill. Second Charge, to be supplied. • Elected, but not ordained. Frankfort, G. W. Merritt. (479) 480 Kentucky Oonference, 1864. Georgetown, to be supplied. Kenton, Daniel M. Bowman. Nicholasville, Duke Slavens. Newport, W. C. Dandy. Versailles, Stephen Noland, Sup. Alexandria, P. H. Hoffman. Jessamine and Woodford, J. A. Humphrey. Brookville, L. P. Piersall. Winchester and Mount Zion, W. F. Taylor. Falmouth, A. Miner. { Vienna, W. B. Landrum. Odd ville, George W. Smith. Mount Sterling, to be supplied. Millersburg, Samuel Kelly. Oxford, H. J. Perry. Cynthiana, S. X. Hall. Leesburg, R. Lancaster. Carlisle, Milton Mann. Paris and North Middletown, G. S. Savage. { Flat Rock, to be supplied. Kentucky Institute for the Education and Train- Wa'rsaw, J. H. Brookmg. ing of Feeble-minded Children, Wm. McD. Crittenden, Orson Long. Abbett, Superintendent. Burlington, T. F. Vanmeter. Owenton and Eagle Creek Mission, to be sup­ L. D. Parker, Chaplain Eighteenth Regiment plied. Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. Millersburg Male High School, T. J. Dodd, Prin­ cipal. HARRODSBURG DISTRICT. Educational Fund, S. L. Robertson, Agent. J. R. Bads, P. E. Harrodsburg, Joseph Rand. MAYSVILLE DISTRICT. Lawrenceburg, to be supplied. E Johnson, P. E. Perryville, William Bickers. Maxville, George W. Dungan. Maysville, B. Messick. Danville, Stanford, and Lancaster, H. P. Walker. Washington and Germantown, T. P. C. Shel· Bryantsville, W. W. Chamberlain. roan. Madison, to be supplied. Shannon and Sardis, J. C. C. Thompson. { Richmond and Providence, J amesE. Letton. Mount Olivet, F. J. Johns. Crab Orchard, Joshua S. Taylor. Flemingsburg, E. M. Cole. Somerset, J. T. S. Smith. Tilton, George L. Gould. Pulaski, to be supplied. Poplar Plains and Hillsboro, W. D. Power. Irvine, John L. Gragg. Owingsville, W. H. Parker. Sharpsburg and Bethel, B. F. Sedwick. SHELBYVILLE DISTRICT. Lewis, W. L. Furniss. Jedidiah Foster, P. E. { Richland, J. W. Zimmerman. Orangeburg, Josiah W. Fitch. Shelbyville, H. C. Northcott. Shelby Circuit, W. G. Johns. Taylorsville, G. W. Crumbaugh. MISSION DISTRICT. Bloomfield, W. H. Winter. P. E., to be supplied. La Grange, W. C. Atmore. Westport, J. Strother. London, to be supplied. Bedford, T. J. Godbey, Barboursville and Manchester, to be supplied. Carrollton, Peter E. K'avanaugh. Booneville and Proctor, to be supplied. Newcastle, W. T. Benton. Williamsburg, to be supplied. Lockport, Thomas Rankin. Yellow Creek, to be supplied. Simpsonville, J. S. Coxe. Mount Vernon, to be supplied. Carroll Male and Female Academy, J. J. John­ Morehead, to be supplied. ston, Principal; H. W. Abbett, Teacher of Morgan, to be supplied. Languages. Prestonburg and Piketon, to be supplied. Jackson, to be supplied. John S. Bayles, Chaplain Sixteenth Regiment Mount Pleasant, to be supplied. Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. Whitesburg, to be supplied. COVINGTON DISTRICT. J. D. Onins, transferred to Western Virginia W. B. Kavanaugh, P. E. Conference, and stationed at Parkersburg. L. G. Hicks, transferred to Louisville Con­ Covington, J. C. Harrison, E. P. Buckner, Sup. ference. Louisville Oorife1oence, 1864. 481 2.-LOUISVI.LLE CONFERENCE. HELD AT HENDERSON, Ky., October 19-, 1864. BISHOP KAVANAUGH, President; N. H. LEE, Seeretary. QUESTION 1. Who are admitted on trial? was married a second time to Miss Annie Hock­ ANSWER. John W. Price, Thomas D. Payne, ersmith, Feb. 15, 1855; and died at Madisonville, Wm. T. Davenport, Francis M. Rose. 4. Ky., Oct. 15, 1863. He joined the M. E. Church Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? when about twenty years of age. Of the cir­ Daniel H. Limebaugh, Andrew D. Gray, Dan­ cumstances of his conversion and call t.o the iel S. Campbell. 3. ministry, nothing is known by the committee. Ques. 3. Who are admitted into full connec- He was admitted into the traveling connection tion? in the Louisville Conference in 1846, and con­ tinued a regular effective preacher until the fall Wm. R. Johnson, Montgomery M. Hunter. 2. of 1859, fillmg a number of important appoint­ Ques.4. Who are readmitted? ments with great acceptability and usefulness. None. At the Conference which was held this year, he Ques. 5. Who are received by transfer from was compelled-by a painful disease from which other Conferen~es ? he had been suffering intensely for several years, None. and which would have caused anyone not thor­ Ques.6. Who are the deacons of one year? oughly devoted to the work to have retired Timothy C. Peters, Dennis Spurrier, Wm. T. from the effective ranks long before-to accept Reid. 3. a superannuated relation, in which he continued Ques. 7. What traveling preachers are elected tillliis death. He bore his afflictions with great and ordained deacons? patience and resignation, and during his last Daniel H. Limebaugh, W. R. Johnson, Mont­ hours expressed himself as fully ready for death. gomery When asked by a brother who was with him to M. Hunter. 3. the last, "Do you have any doubt as to your Ques. 8. What local preachers are elected and acceptance with God?" he replied readily and ordained deacons? emphatically, "No, sir; the Lord will not for­ Gideon McDaniel, James S. Parish, Benjamin sake me." Again he was asked, "Do you enter­ F. Biggs, Wm. T. Davenport, 4; Israel Simms, tain an., doubt about going to heaven after (colored.) I,: death?' To which he replied, "No, no. Though Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are elected I walk through the valley of the shadow of and ordained elders? death, I will fear no evil." When asked if he James A. Lewis, Samuel C. Allen, E. W. Bot­ had any message to send to his brethren of the tomley, Thomas G. Harrison, Philip G. Hardi­ Conference, he said, "Tell them that up to the son, Thos.
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