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In 1807 George Dougherty attended the last Annual 

 Conference in which his voice was ever heard on earth. 

 At this Conference he brought forward, and by his 

 earnest advocacy triumphantly carried, the resolution 

 which fixed the sentiment of the South Carolina Con- 

 ference true to obligation and duty for all time to 

 come : " If any preacher shall desert his station through 

 fear in time of sickness or danger, the Conference 

 shall never employ that man again." George Dough- 

 erty had no equal in his day among his own brethren, 

 and it is questionable whether he had any superior 

 anywhere whose career as a preacher extended only 

 through nine years. But God, who endowed him with 

 such noble faculties, saw best that he should pass over 

 only a brief segment of the sphere of human life, and 

 then sink into his last slumber amidst the soft and 

 mellow light which meets a good man on the verge 

 of life. 



James Russell . 



James Russell was born in Mecklenburg county, 

 North Carolina, as nearly as can be ascertained, in 1786. 

 He was admitted on trial in the South Carolina Con- 

 ference in 1805, when he was about eighteen or nine- 

 teen years of age, and appointed to Bladen Circuit; 

 in 1806, to Great Pedee and Georgetown; in 1807, to 

 Sparta; in 1808, to Appalachee; the two following 

 years to Little River; in 1811, to Louisville; and the 

 three following years to Savannah. In 1815 he located 

 on account of impaired health, and engaged in mer- 

 chandising at Vienna, in Abbeville District, and thus 

 involved himself in financial embarrassments from 

 which he was extricated only by death. He died at >l 

 Dr. Meredith Moon's, in Newberry District, on the 16th 

 January , 1825. A few days before his departure his 



