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Chloe Russell, became the wife of Hubbard Saunders, 

 a traveling preacher; and Sarah Campbell, the daugh- 

 ter of Mrs. Russell by a former marriage with General 

 Campbell, who distinguished himself at the battle of 

 King's Mountain, was married to Francis Preston. 

 She became the mother of twx> of South Carolina's 

 gifted sons, who retained the beautiful impress of 

 her piety — the honorable William Campbell Preston, 

 whose commanding eloquence was often heard in the 

 Senate Chamber at Washington, as representative from 

 the State, and the late General John Preston, who 

 long survived, an ornament both to Church and State. 

 " In the Conference of 1787," says Thomas Ware, " I 

 volunteered with two other young men, who esteemed 

 the reproach of Christ greater riches than earthly 

 treasures, to accompany Tunnell to the Holston coun- 

 try." His last appointment was in this frontier field 

 (1789), where he fell at the head of seven itinerants, 

 the victim of a disease developed by his exposure and 

 fatigues. Three short sentences contain the obituary 

 record of this remarkable man: '''John Tunnell died 

 of a consumption at the Sweet Springs, in July, 1790. 

 He was about thirteen years in the work of the min- 

 istry ; a man of solid piety, great simplicity, and godly 

 sincerity; well known and much esteemed both by 

 ministers and people. He had traveled extensively 

 through the States, and declined in sweet peace." 

 Bishop Asbury, in laying him in his grave at Dew's 

 Chapel, says: 



I preached his funeral-sermon; my text, "For me to live is 

 Christ, and to die is gain." (Phil. i. 21.) We were much blessed, 

 and the power of God was eminently present. It is fourteen years 

 since Brother Tunnell first knew the Lord ; and he has spoken 

 about thirteen years, and traveled through eigh't of the thirteen 

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