a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in Stokes County, N.C., March 12, 1796. He received an early religious training, but a very limited education; experienced religion in 1817; in the following year united with the Virginia Conference; spent his latter years in connection with the North Carolina Conference, and died August 24, 1869. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M.E. Church South, 1869, page 310; Simpson, Cyclop. of Methodism, s.v.