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preacher, acceptable to all classes where he labored, and much be- 

 loved by all Christian people. 



Harmon, Alson Higler was born in Cleveland county, North 

 Carolina, in 1823 ; received on trial in the South Carolina Conference 

 in 1848, and sent for 1849 to Barnwell Circuit; 1850, to Edgefield; 

 1851, to Greenville Circuit; 1852-53, to Combahee, Ashepoo Mis- 

 sion; 1854, to Jocassee Mission; 1855, to Laurens Circuit; 1856, to 

 Wateree Mission; 1857, to Black River and Pedee Mission; 1858, 

 to Santee Mission; 1859, to Williamsburg Circuit; 1860, to Bennett- 

 ville Circuit; 1861, to Catawba Mission, where he died at the house 

 of Captain J. M. Ingram, in Lancaster District, South Carolina, on 

 the 20th of August. "Tell my brethren of the Conference," said 

 he, "that my work is done, and I shall rest now." A few hours be- 

 fore breathing his last, he said : "I never thought it would be this 

 way. I did not think religion could do so much. I thought I 

 should be afraid to die, but I am not ; nor am I excited. I feel calm, 

 and yet I am just as happy as I can be." Then, calling to his 

 stricken wife, he remarked with emphasis: "Religion is good to live 

 with ; good in health, and good in sickness ; but O it is better to 

 die with. For me to live is Christ; to die is gain." 



Hemmingyvay, WlIiiiTAM A. was born at Black Mingo, South 

 Carolina ; admitted on trial in the Conference in 1854, and sent to 

 Barnwell Circuit; 1S55, to Walterboro Circuit; 1856-57, to St. 

 James, Charleston; 1858, to Marion Circuit; 1859, to Morganton; 

 1860, supernumerary; 1861, to Williamsburg Circuit; from 1862-65, 

 chaplain in the Confederate Army; 1866, to Spring Street, Charles- 

 ton; 1869, to Manning Circuit, from which field of labor he was 

 called to reward on the 19th of May. When informed by his 

 physician that he must die, he replied, " I am ready; I have no 

 fears of death." 



__Ivy, Richard was a native of Sussex county in Virgin in,; entered 

 the itinerancy in 1777, and continued eighteen years in the work; 

 traveled extensively through Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Vir- 

 ginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia. He was a man of 

 quick and solid parts, and sought not himself, but spent his all with 

 his life in the work. He died in his native county in Virginia, in 

 the latter part of the year 1795. (See Chapter VII.) 



Jones, John N. was a native of Virginia; admitted on trial in 

 the traveling connection in 1790, and died in the city of Charleston, 

 South Carolina, in 1798, worn out with pain and a variety of weak- 

 nesses and afflictions of body. He appeared to have an unshaken 



