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and joyful confidence in God through Jesus Christ, and the witnesses 

 of his death thought this man of affliction and pain was wrapped up 

 in the vision of God at the time of his departure. He was a man 

 of great zeal, not wanting in sound understanding, a fervent preacher, 

 plain in his manners and address, manifesting himself wherever he 

 went to be a Christian and a Christian minister. 



Jenkins, James (see Chapter X.). 



Jones, Benjamin was born near Georgetown, in South Carolina; 

 admitted on trial in 1801, and sent to Richmond Circuit ; in 1S02, to 

 Charleston; in 1803, Rush River; in 1804, to Bladen Circuit, 

 where, in January, by a very serious providence, he ended his life — ■ 

 it is supposed by a convulsive fit and by falling into the water at a 

 branch of the Brown Marsh, which flows into the Waccamaw Lake. 

 He was found dead in two feet of water. He was a worthy, useful, 

 upright, and holy member of the South Carolina Conference. "Be 

 ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man 

 cometh." 



Jackson, William Jefferson was born in Jackson county, 

 Georgia, July 20, 1804, and at an early age became a resident of 

 York District, South Carolina; converted October 5, 1823 ; admitted 

 on trial in the Conference in January, 1827, and appointed to 

 Montgomery Circuit, North Carolina; 1828, Appling, Georgia; 

 1829, Little Oakmulgee; 1830, Liberty, Georgia; 1831-32, Morgan- 

 ton, North Carolina; 1833, Rutherford; 1834, Cheraw; 1835, Char- 

 lotte; 1836, Pedee; 1837, Cheraw; 1838, Camden; 1839, Waccamaw 

 Neck Mission; 1840-44, Wateree Mission; 1845, Santee; 184G, 

 Edgefield; 1847, Cheraw Mission; 1848, Santee; 1849-52, Cheraw 

 Mission ; 1853, superannuated, and continued to sustain that relation 

 till death. He was an earnest, practical, and useful preacher, and in 

 the various departments of circuits, stations, and missions, a faithful 

 laborer in the vineyard of the Lord. He died suddenly at his 

 home in Marlboro District, August 11, 1859. Just before his spirit 

 fled, the announcement of his triumph was, " Glory be to God, I am 

 going home to heaven!" 



King, James was born in Gloucester county, Virginia; admitted 

 on trial in the traveling connection in 1794, and appointed to Rich- 

 mond Circuit, Georgia; 1795, Catawba, North Carolina; 1796, Sa- 

 luda; and in 1797, Charleston, where he was taken with the yellow 

 fever, which soon put an end to his useful life, in his twenty-fifth 

 year. He had a good understanding, great zeal, and a pleasing ut- 

 terance; and the work of God revived under his animated preach- 



