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appointed to Wadesboro Circuit; in 1852, to Newberry; in 1853, to 

 Yorkville ; in 1854, to Marion Street Station, Columbia ; the three 

 following years to St. James and Spring Street, Charleston; and in 

 1858, to Aiken, where he died on the 29th of October. He lived 

 the life of a perfect and upright man, and his end was peace. 



Boyden, Edward D. was born in Charleston, South Carolina, 

 January 14, 1827; professed religion in May, 1853, and in Novem- 

 ber of the same year was admitted on trial in the Conference ; trav- 

 eled successively the Black Swamp, Marion, and Conwayboro cir- 

 cuits; died in 1856, and was buried in his native city. He was a 

 man of no ordinary promise, but a mysterious Providence called 

 him home. With a voice tremulous in death, he declared, "All is 

 well," and Ml asleep in Jesus. 



Carter, Benjamin was a native of the Western waters, a soldier 

 in the Kevolutionary War, in which he received a wound which 

 greatly weakened him in his labors ; was admitted on trial in the 

 itinerancy in 1787, and employed about six years. He was a happy 

 Christian, a pointed, zealous preacher, a strict disciplinarian, and 

 feared not the face of man; filled the Burke Circuit in 1792, and 

 died in August of that year at Shoulderbone, in Washington comity, 

 Georgia, blessed with consolations in his last hours. 



Connor, James was born in Buckingham county, in Virginia ; 

 entered the itinerancy in 1787, with Benjamin Carter; traveled two 

 and a-half years, ami died at Augusta, Georgia — his last appoint- 

 ment — in 1789. A pious, solid man, promising usefulness to the 

 Church, he was suddenly taken from labor to reward. 



Capers, William (see Chapter XV.). 



Capers, Samuel Wragg was a hal f-brother of Bishop Capers; 

 born in Georgetown, South Carolina, March 5, 1797*7 educated~at 

 Lodebar Academy, in Sumter District ; received on tria lin the trav- 

 eling connection in 1828, and sent to Orangeburg Circuit ; in 1829, 

 selected as the traveling companion of Bishop McKendree; in 1830 

 and 1831, stationed in Camden; in 1832 and 1833, in Wilmington, 

 North Carolina; in 1834, in Fayetteville; in 1835 and 1836, agent 

 for the Cokesbury Conference School ; in 1837, Winnsboro Circuit; 

 in 1838, Santee ; located for one year, and in 1840 readmitted and 

 sent to Darlington Circuit; in 1841, to Spartanburg; in 1842 to 

 AVadesboro; in 1843, to Columbia; the two following years to Cum- 

 berland Street Church, Charleston; in 1846, to Wilmington; the 

 three following years presiding elder of Charleston District; in 

 1850, in charge of Columbia District, where he remained four years; 

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