a veteran minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in Screven County, Georgia, May 4, 1790. He joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1810, was licensed to preach in 1816, was admitted to the Carolina Conference in 1818, and labored earnestly in hard fields until 1870, when he took a superannuated relation, which he sustained until his death, July 31, 1884. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M.E. Church South, 1884, page 129.