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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 1 8 5 8. SOUTHERN METHODIST PUBLISHING HOUSE. 185i). BISHOPS OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH. JOSHUA SOULE, D. D., NASHVILLE, TENN. JAMES OSGOOD ANDREW, D. D., SUMMERFIELD, ALA. ROBERT PAINE, D. D., ABERDEEN, MISS. GEORGE FOSTER PIERCE, D. D., CULVERTON, GA. JOHN EARLY, D. D., LYNCHBURG, VA. HUBBARD HINDE KAVANAUGH, D. D., VERSAILLES, Ky. MIN UTE S. l.-K E N T U C K Y CON FER E N C E. HELD AT MILLERSBURG, Ky., September 1-9, 1858. BISHOP KAVANAUGlI, Presidentj DANIEL STEVE~SON, Secretary. QUESTION 1. Who are admitted on Ques. 8. What local preachers are trial? elected and ordained deacons? ANSWER. Brinkly M. Messick, 1\1. J. James W. Gunn, French Strother, W. Ambrose, Jacob 'Valk, Samuel J. Dai­ James J. Johnston, 'Villiam H. 'Waters, ley, William P. Furniss. 5. John Neal, Thomas Lop;an, (colored.) 6. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Ques. 9. What travelling preachers are Stephen Noland, Joshua Taylor, John elected and ordained elders? P. Grinstead, George L. Gould, Charles J ohIJ L. (}ragg, Thomas J. Godby, Wil­ W. Miller, Peter Conway. 6. liam H. Winter, David Walk, 'William F. Ques. 3. Who are admitted into full T. Spruill. 5. connection? Ques. 10. What local preachers are John S. Coxe, James Randall, Jesse B. elected and ordained elders? Locke, Hiram P. Walker, Jeremiah Stro­ Benjamin McDaniel, William H. Par­ ther, (an elder,) George W. Smith. 6. ker. 2. Ques. 4. Who are readmitted? Ques. 11. Who have located this year? John C. C. Thompson, 'Villiam F. T. Jonathan Stamper, Caleb T. Hill, Will. Spruill, John L. Scott, John R. Eads, E. Wilmott. 3. George S. Savage. 5. Ques. 12. Who are supernumerary ? Ques. 5. Who are received by transfer Orson Long, John Sandusky. 2. from other Conferences? Ques. 13. 'Vho are superannuated? G. W. Crumbaugh, Ransom Lancas­ Joel W. Ridgell, Samuel Veach; John ter. 2. Tevis, Isaac Collord, Thomas lIall, Wil­ Ques. 6. Who are the deacons of one liam. Atherton, Thomas R. Malone, John year? James. 8. 'Villiam W. Chamberlain, Seneca X. Ques. 14. What preachers have died Hall, John M. Johnson, Peter E. Kava­ during the past year? naugh, Milton Mann. 5. Benjamin T. Crouch, Sr., William M. Ques. 7. What travelling preachers are Vize.* 2. elected and ordained deacons? BENJAYIN T. CROUCH, SR., "Was born in John S. Coxe, James Randall, Hiram P. Newcastle county, Delaware, July 1, 1796. Walker, Oliver W. Landreth, George W. Smith. 5. • No memoir of Wm. M. Vize bas been furnished. '~11 4 Kentucky Oonference, 1958. His father, John Crouch, emigrated to Cecil glowin~ with an intense desire for the salva­ county, Maryland, and from thence to \Vash­ tion of his fellow-men, he moved forward, ington, Pa. Here his father died, before he fully sustained by the inspiring sentiment, was ten years old, leaving a widow with eight "The Lord will provide." In 1819 he was children to bring up under the disadvantages appointed junior preacher on the Oxford Cir­ of cheerless poverty. His father died in tri­ cuit, with the same excellent colleague, A. umph, a happy l\lethodist class-leader. His Wiley. Thi.; year he prosecuted his studies mother, afeer surviving his father thirty-six assiduously and successfully. 1820-In May years, and having li,-ed to see all her children of this year the Kentucky Conference was grown and in the Church of her own choice, laid off as a separate work, and he was ap­ and having been fifty~six years a devoted and pointed to the little Kanawha Circuit, within highly respected member of the Methodist the bounds of the new Conference. 1821- Episcopal Church, died in perfect peace, lIe attended Conference for the first time, March 7, 1842. Brother Crouch was the sub­ was ordained deacon, and was appointed to a ject of religious feelin~s and frequent awak­ kind of missionary field, lying partly in Ken­ enings and convictions from early childhood, tucky, partly in Tennessee. 1822-He was but did not join the Church till May, 1816, sent to the Shelbyville Circuit. 1823-Re­ near the close of his twentieth year. He was turned to the Shelbyville Circuit, having been prompted to this decision under the pungent ordained elder; and durin~ this year he was conviction that God would not much longer married to Miss Hannah V. Talbott, daughter bear with him jf he persisted in rejecting his of Nathaniel 'l'alhott, in the vicinity of Shel­ grace. At a camp-meeting in Ohio, in the byville. 1824-lIe was superannuated, and month of August, after he had joined the resided in New Castle. 1825-He was ren­ Church, God, for Christ's sake, pardoned his dered effective, and appointed to Lexington sins. He was impressed from early child­ Circuit. 1826-Appointed to Frankfort and hood that he would have to preach the gospel; New Castle. By the close of this year his and, coincident with his conversion, there was health, in comequence of exposure and ex­ a confirm!Ltion of that early and cherished cessive labor, had again failed, and he was impression. IIis father's house had long been induced once more to take a superannuated a home for Methodist preachers; and their relation, in which he continued for three suc­ pious conversation and earnest prayers, se­ cessive years. During this period, in 1828, conding the example and precepts of his pa­ he was elected to the General Conference, rents, made him think well of religion, and which met in Pittsburg, Pa. 1830-lIe was inspired a great veneration and love for the reappointed to Frankfort. 1831-He was ap­ ministerial character. From the period of pointed to the Ohio, subsequently Louisville his conversion, he was never able for a single District, and at this Conference elected to the hour to dispossess himself of a deep and abid­ General Conference, which met in Philadel­ ing consciousness that God had called him to phia in 1832. lIe was continued on the Lou­ the tremendous work of the Christian minis­ isville District for four consecutive years. try. N early three years, however, were per­ 1835-Appointed to Shelbyville and Brick mitted to pass after his conversion in unavail­ Chapel. 1836-Was sent to the charge of ing efforts to excuse himself in living the life the Fourth Street and Eighth Street Churches of a private Christian. And although he was Louisville. During this year he attended a~ careful to shun sin, and to perform the duties a delegate the General Conference, which met of religion faithfully, acting in the capacities in Cincinnati. 1837-Was appointed to the of a class-Ie tder and exhorter, yet his heart Louisville District, and was continued for four was constantly oppressed with the conviction successive years. 1841-Appointed to Lex­ that his duty was in the itinerant field. It ington District, where he was continued for was not, however, until arrested by disease, four successive years. During the period of and at the very verge of the grave, as all his eldership on this district, he attended the thought who saw him, that he resolved to give General Conference in New York. 1846- himself wholly to this work. Just from a Appointed to the Shelbyville District. At bed of sickness-no property j no education; this Conference he was elected to the first no horse, no money to buy one with-the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal prospect was not the most cheering that might Church, South, which met in Petersburg, Va., be imagined. lIe was licensed to exhort in in 1846, having been a member of the Con­ 1818, by William Hunt. On the 10th of vention which convened in 1845, in Louisville April, 1819, he was licensed to preach, and Ky. lIe was continued on the Shelbyvill~ commenced his itinerant career under the di­ District four years. 1849-lIe was Presiding rection of the Presiding Elder, as helper to Elder of Harrodsburg District. 1850-Ap_ A. Wiley, on the Whitewater Circuit, Ohio pointed to New Castle Circuit, and was a Conference; and as he had no horse, he member of the General Conference, which started on foot with his saddle-bags on his met in St. Louis. 1851-Reappointed to New arms, containing part of a Bible, a hymn­ Castle Circuit. 1852-Stationed at Carrollton. book, and a few articles of clothing; but 1853-Reappointed to Carrollton. 1854-Ap- Kentucky Conference, 1858. 5 pointed to Lagrange, and attended the Gene­ Lex'ington District. ral Conference at Columbus, Ga., to which he White White Col'd Cord Lac'l Mew'R. Prob'.. Mem·s. Prob's. Pr's. had been elected at the preceding Annual ---------------- Conference. 1855--Returned to Lagrange.