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Bunch, John was a classmate in the ministry of James L. 

 Belin, and like him a faithful and laborious missionary; born in 

 Charleston District, converted in his seventeenth year, and two years 

 afterward, 1812, admitted on trial into the itinerancy; passed seven 

 years successively as a preacher, but was compelled by ill health to 

 locate in 1819. He returned to the Conference in 1829, and traveled 

 successively the Congaree, Santee, and Black Biver circuits ; was 

 appointed in 1833 to the mission on North and South Santee, where 

 for four years he preached four or five times every Sabbath, walking 

 from plantation to plantation, and during the week catechising the 

 children and visiting the sick. The last year of his life was spent 

 in the work of a missionary on Cooper Biver, an extensive field 

 which he was the first to occupy, and where amid successful labors 

 he died September 7, 1838, charging his family with his dying ac- 

 cents to meet him in heaven. 



Bunch, Beddick son of the Bev. John Bunch, was received on 

 trial in 1849, and sent to Savannah Biver Mission; had just entered 

 upon the second year of his itinerancy in the same field, where he 

 died in great peace February 14, 1851, at the house of Thomas Harde 

 in Beaufort. He was pious, devout, and useful. 



Betts, Charles was born in North Carolina in the year 1800, 

 converted m his sixteenth year, and entered the traveling ministry 

 in the South Carolina Conference in 1818. His deep piety, vigorous 

 intellect, and great success as a preacher, gave him a leading po- 

 sition among his brethren, who honored him with frequent elections 

 to the General Conference, and also cheerfully accorded to him the 

 largest and most important appointments in the Conference. He 

 had a well-knit and powerful frame, and in the fifty-two years of his 

 itinerant labor taxed it to its utmost ability. During ail this time 

 he never turned a weather-side to the storm till about the close of 

 his life. In December, 1871, he took a superannuated relation, and 

 about the middle of September, 1872, died in peace at the house of 

 his son-in-law, Dr. E. B. Smith, in Marion. A good man, a faithful 

 friend, and a preacher of the word with power and with the Holy 

 Ghost, and with much assurance. 



Bell, Benjamin was born in Montgomery county in North Caro- 

 lina, November 15, 1801; born again August 9, 1818; licensed to 

 preach August 5, 1825, and admitted on trial in the traveling con- 

 nection in January, 1826. He possessed more than ordinary talents, 

 and by the success attending his ministry showed himself to be a 

 workman that needeth not to be ashamed. He continued his minis- 



