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college for literary, classical, and scientific education, 

 to be located in his native district, and to be under 

 the control and management of the Conference of the 

 Methodist Episcopal Church of his native State. 



His death was announced in the Spartan, under 

 date of Thursday, December 5, 1850, in the following 

 words : 



This venerable minister and worthy gentleman departed this life 

 on Monday morning last, at half-past six o'clock. It was his lot to 

 pass through a protracted and painful affliction ; but a strong and 

 abiding faith in the merits of Christ, the consciousness of good in- 

 tentions, and a strong desire he ever entertained to be useful to his 

 fellow-man in discharging the duties of a Christian, strengthened 

 him for the approaching conflict, and enabled him in the last strug- 

 gle of life to resign his spirit with meekness and composure into the 

 hands of Him who gave it. Mr. Wofford expressed to the last an 

 entire resignation to the will of God, and only regretted that his life 

 had not been a closer walk, and a deeper love for the sacred obliga- 

 tions of our holy religion. He entertained no fears of his accept- 

 ance with his Maker through the atonement of the Eedeemer, and 

 frequently rejoiced with his Christian friends who visited him dur- 

 ing his sickness. He has been a minister of the Methodist Episco- 

 pal Church nearly a half century. He possessed a strong and active 

 mind, imbued with plain republican principles and a prudent firm- 

 ness and ardor for the rights and honor of his native State. His 

 hospitality is known and remembered by thousands. His last will 

 and testament w T ill prove a sufficient memorial of his affection and 

 devotion to the Church of which he was a member. By industry, 

 economy, and much care through life, Mr. Wofford accumulated a 

 very large fortune, the greater part of which he has devised for the 

 establishment of a college in Spartanburg, to be under the direction 

 of the South Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 

 South. When the facts are all known, as we are informed, it will 

 be found that this venerable gentleman has made one of the most 

 magnificent bequests ever made in South Carolina. The garnered 

 fruits of a long and busy life he has thus nobly devoted to religion 

 and science, that the present generation and those which follow may 

 reap the substantial and lasting advantages of his large bounty. 



His remains were conveyed to the burial-place of his former res- 



