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work was deeply felt by the Conference. He was on 

 the committee in the General Conference of 1808 that 

 framed the report for a delegated General Conference 

 in 1812. He located a second time in 1809, and re- 

 moving to the territory of Illinois, occupied a high 

 place among the people because of his usefulness as 

 a preacher and citizen, and died in holy triumph in 

 1824. 



Joseph Moore was born in Virginia in 1767. In 

 his childhood his parents removed to Rutherford 

 county in North Carolina. He enjoyed the advantages 

 of early religious training, and in youth became the 

 subject of divine grace. He was licensed to preach 

 in his nineteenth year, and five years afterward was 

 admitted into the traveling connection, and became 

 one of the pioneers of Southern Methodism. He was 

 appointed in 1791 to Pamlico Circuit in North Car- 

 olina; in 1792, to Yadkin; in 1793, to Union; in 1794, 

 to Little Pedee; in 1795, to Washington, in Georgia; 

 in 1796, to Broad River. During the ten following 

 years he filled appointments in North Carolina and 

 Virginia, and in 1806 asked and obtained a location. 

 In 1826 he reentered the South Carolina Conference, 

 and was appointed to the Lincoln Circuit; in 1827, to 

 Pedee; in 1828, to Sandy River; in 1829, to Reedy 

 River; in 1830, to Lynch's Creek; in 1831, again to 

 Reedy River; in 1832, to Hollow Creek; in 1833, to 

 Saluda; in 1834 he was supernumerary; in 1835 with- 

 out an appointment at his own request; in 1836 he 

 was superannuated, and held that relation until death 

 released him from his toils and sufferings. Whether as 

 a traveling or local preacher, he sustained the char- 

 acter of a workman that needeth not to be ashamed. 

 Though athletic in body and vigorous in mind, yet 



