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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 CONFERENOES OJ' THE FOR THE YEAR 18 61 . • I •• '. ~ltS~billt. itnn.: SOUTHERN METHODIST PUBLISHING HOUSE. 1870. 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., CUL VERTON, GA. JOHN EARLY, D.D., LYNCHBURG, VA. HUBBARD HINDE KAVANAUGH, D.D., VERSAILLES, Ky. MINUTES . .. , I.-KENTUCKY CONFERENCE. HELD AT PARIS, Ky., Sept. 25-0ct. 1, 1861. BISHOP KAVANAUGH, President; T. F. VANMETER, Secretary. QUESTION 1. Who are admitted on trial? Samuel Veach, J. W. Ridgell, T. R. Malone, ANSWER. Joseph T. Smith. 1. Thomas Hall, Peter Taylor, G. W. Maley, Wm. Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? Atherton, W. B. Landrum, Isaac Collard, L. C. J. W. Zimmerman, T. J. Dodd, J. J. Johnson, Danley, John Sandusky. 11. H. W. Abbett, Richard Brass, J. W. Fitch, David Ques. 14. What preachers have died during McCasland, Levi Piersal, J. A. Humphrey, W. the past year? C. Campbell. 10. John Tevis. 1. Ques. 3. Who are admitted into full connec­ No memoir. tion? Ques. 15. Are all the preachers blameless in Duke Slavens, William D. Power, W. L. their life and official administration? Furnace. 3. Their names were called over, one by one, and their characters examined and passed. Ques. 4. Who are readmitted? S. L. Adams. 1. Ques. 16. What is the number of preachers and members in the several circuits, stations, Ques. 5. Who are received by transfer from and missions of the Conference? oth"br Conferences? Members in full connection, 23,952 John Sandusky. 1. Probationers, 2,697 Ques. 6. Who are the deacons of one year? Ques.17. What amounts are necessary for the B. M. Messick. 1. superannuated preachers, and the widows and Ques. 7. What traveling preachers are elected orphans of preachers, and to make up the defi­ and ordained deacons? ciencies of those who have not obtamed their None. regular allowance in their respective districts. Ques. 8. What local preachers are elected and circuits, and stations? ordained deacons? $51,739. William Adams, John Eads, (colored,) James Ques. 18. What has been collected on the fore­ Mast.erson, (colored,) Peter Sears, Anderson going accounts, and how has it been ap'plied? Woolfolk, (colored,) Henry R. Blaisdell, S. J. Collected, $1496 40 Adams. 7, Applied: Quee.9. What traveling preachers are elected To Conference claimants, 1265 55 and ordained elders? To Bishops' salary, 225 00 C. W. Miller, G. L. Gould, Joshua Taylor, J. Counterfeit, 3 00 S. Cox. 4. Amount not disbursed, 2 85 Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected $1496 40 and ordained elders? Thomas V. Brown. 1. Ques. 19. What has been contributed {pr the Missionary and Tract Societies? Ques. 11. Who have located this year? For Missions, $1164 98 S. L. Adams, J. B. Lock, D. Welburn, Solo- mon Pope, J. E. Nix. 5. Ques. 20. Where and when shall the next session of the Conference be held? Quee. 12. Who are supernumerary? At Flemingsburg, Ky. J. C. Hardy, S. S. Deering, J. F. Vanpelt. a. Ques. 21. Where are the preachers stationed Ques. 13. Who a.re superannuated? this yea.r? (297) 298 Kentucky Conference, 1861. LEXINGTON DISTRICT. Falmouth, Paul H. Hoffman. J. (J. Harrison, P. E. { Odd ville, R. Lancaster. Millersburg, T. P. C. Shelman. Lexington, Firet Charge, Robert Hiner. Carlisle, T. F. Vanmeter. Lexington, Second Charge, Stephen Noland. Cynthiana, W. J. Snively. Frankfort, W. McD. Aboett. Warsaw, J. H. Brooking. Versailles and Georgetown, W. F. T. Spruill. Crittenden, Thomas Rankin. Nicholasville, Clark Polley. Burlington, Jeremiah Strother. Paris and North Middletown, W. C. Dandy, and Owenton, David McCasland. Agent Educational Fund. Eagle Creek, J. P. Grinstead. Jessamine and Woodford, W. T. Benton. Jleasant Ridge, W. L. Furness. Winchester and Mount Zion, Joseph Rand. The Home Circle and Sunday-school Visitor, L. Mount Sterling, H. C. Northcott. D. Huston, Editor. Vienna, H. W. Abbett. Millersburg Female College, George S. Savage, Leesburg, W. H. Parker. Principal. Salem and Mount Zion, J. C. Hardy, Sup. Oxford, D. W. Axline. M.<\. YSVILLE DISTRICT. HARRODSBURG DISTRICT. S. L. Roberl$on, P. E. J. G. Bruce, 1'. E. Maysville, H. P. Walker. Minerva, Milton Pyles. Harrodsburg, G. W. Merritt. Washington and Germantown, J. M. Johnson. Danville, J. R. Eads. Monnt Olivet, Milton Mann. Perryville and White Chapel, T. J. Dodd. Shannon and Sardis, B. F. Sedwick. Maxville, W. C. Campbell. Flemingsburg, S. X. H~ll. Lancaster and Stanford, B. M. Messick. Poplar Plams and Hillsboro, L. D. Parker. Lancaster Circuit, E. M. Cole. { Fox Creek, J. W. Fitch. Richmond and Providence, Duke Slavens. Orangeburg, Elkanah Johnson. Madison, F. T. Johns. Lewis, J. S. Cox. Crab Orchard, W. G. Johns. { Clarksburg, J. W. Zimmerman. Somerset, Joshua S. Taylor. Tilton, W. D. Power. Pulaski, J. L. Gragg. Owingsville, George W. Smith. Salvisa, P. E. Kavanaugh. Sharpsburg and Bethel, J. C. C. Thompson. J. S. Bayless, Chaplain to Col. Marshall's Reg­ SHELBYVILLE DISTRICT. iment of Kentucky Volunteers. L. G. lIic7cs, P. E. Shelbyville, D. Stevenson, J. F. Vanpelt, Sup. IRVINE DISTRICT. Shelby Circuit, J. J. Johnston. W. W. Ohamberlain, P. E. Simpsonville, G. L. Gould. Taylorsville, J. C. Miner. Irvine, L. B. Piersall. Bloomfield, J. W. Cunningham. Morehead, J. T. Smith. La Grange, T. J. Godbey. Morgan. to be supplied. Westport, W. C. Atmore. Prestonsburg, to be supplied. Bedford, G. W. Crumbaugh. Pikeville, RIChard Brass. Carrollton, J edidiah Foster. Stanton, to be supplied. Newcastle, W. H. Winter, S. S. Deering, Sup. Jackson, to be supplied. Lockport, J. A. Humphrey. Lawrenceburg, C. W. Miller. BARBOURSVILLE DISTRICT. { Anderson Mission, to be supplied. Elia. B()tner, P. E. COVINGTON DISTRICT. Ba.rboursville and Manchester, James Ra.ndall. W. B. Kavanaugh, P. E. Loudon, to be supplied. Mount Vernon, to be supplied. Covington, E. P. Buckner. Williamsburg, to be supplied. Latoma, David Walk. Yellow Creek, to be supplied. Jewport, H. J. Perry. Booneville and Proctor, to be Sllpplied. Alexandria, Orson Long. Whitesburg, to be supplied. Louisville Oonference, 1861. 299 2.-LOUISVILLE CONFERENCE. HELD AT LoUISVILLE, Ky., October -, 1861. BISHOP KAVANA.UGH, President; JAMES H. OWEN, SefYf'etary. QUESTION 1. Who are admitted on trial? Ques. 14. What preachers have died during ANSWER. Robert A. Holland, Dennis Spurrier, the past year? James M. Gray, Timothy C. Peters, James A. None. Crutchfield. 5. Quee. 15. Are all the preachers bla.meless in Ques. 2. Who remain on trial? their life and official administration? Henry M. Ford, Edmund W. Bottomley, Silas Their names were called over, one by one, Newton, Thomas G. Harrison, Philip T. Hardi­ and their characters examined and passed. son, James A. Ruddell, William F. Harwell, Ques. 16. What is the number of preachers David T. Phelps, Cornelius S. Daugherty, Sam'l and members in the several circuits, stations, P. Hines, T. J. Randolph. 11. and missions of the Conference? Ques. 3. Who a.re admitted into full connec­ tion? James M. Lawson, Samuel C. Allen, Charles Louiwille District. W. Pearcy, William T. Reid, John L. Brown, White IWhite Col'4 Co1'4 Lac'l Elijah A. Davis. 6. ________lldem· •• ~ ~ ~ ~ Ques. 4. Who are readmitted? Louisville: None. Brook Street ............ 325 17 3 Jackson St. (cord) .... 116 16 1 Ques. 5. Who are received by transfer from Walnut Street........... 259 1 1 1 2 other Conferences? Eighth Street ........... 241 6 4 E. G. Nicholson. 1. Center Street (cord).. 575 40 9 Twelfth Street.......... 180 6 1 Ques.6. Who are the deacons of one year? Shelby Street............ 195 16 2 James A. Lewis, D. A. Beardsley, F. B. Rogers, German City Mission 23 5 1 Seaman's Bethel ...... 63 13 1 10hn R. Strange, William S. Asbury. 5. Asbury Chapel ......... 38 10 1 Ques. 7. What traveling preachers are elected Portland .................. 140 15 Middletown................. 90 4 and ordained deacons? Jeffersontown .............. 280 15 130 10 2 James L. Edrington, James M. Lawson, Sam'l Louisville Circuit_ ....... 1'12 65 C. Allen, C. W. Pearcy. 4. Hancock Mission_ ....... 81 2 Ques. 8. What local preachers a.re elected and 2087 108 887 67 29 ordained deacons? Elijah Daker, Isaac H. Butler, Elijah Har­ man. 3. E lizaoethtown District. Ques. 9. What traveling preachers are elected Elizabethtown Circuit.. 4'1'3 95 2 and o~'dained elders? WestPoint ................ .. 350 47 25 10 6 Brandenburg_ ........... .. 129 15 61 10 3 Henry C. Settle, George W. Dungan, Elijah Big Spring ................ .. 468 70 3 A. Davis. 3. Hardinsburg ............. .. 897 111 1 Hawesville ................ 361 20 45 'I' Ques. 10. What local preachers are elected Hartford ................... .. 642 51 19 9 6 and ordained elders? l\(iIIerstown ................ 443 4!l 12 2 4 William Maul, John H. Myers. 2. Hudsonville .............. .. 510 50 8 3 Litchfield .................. 412 52 20 2 4 Quee. 11. Who have located this year? Flint Island...............