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!i:g. He gave his life, his labors, and his fortune to the Church, 

 and was a friend to true religion and liberty. 



Kendrick, Bennet was born in Mecklenburg county, Virginia; 

 admitted on trial in 1799, and stationed in Greenville ; 1800, Ports- 

 mouth Circuit, in Virginia; 1801-2, Wilmington, North Carolina; 

 1803-4, Charleston, South Carolina; 1805, Columbia; 1806, Wil- 

 mington ; 1807, presiding elder of Camden District, where he ended 

 his days in triumph on the 5th of April, at the house of Edward 

 Crosland, between Cheraw and Long Bluff. He was studious and 

 skillful in the word of righteousness; of his excellences as a preach- 

 er, hundreds on the appointments which he filled bore witness, and 

 the poor Africans repeated his name and spoke of his death with 

 tears. 

 \f Kennedy, Wileiam McGee was born in North Carolina Janu- 

 ary 13, 1783; born again in July, 1803; admitted on trial in the 

 South Carolina Conference in December, 1805, and appointed for 

 1806 to Broad River Circuit, Georgia; 1807, Enoree, South Caroli- 

 na; 1808, Santee; 1809-10, Charleston; 1811-13, presiding elder of 

 Edisto (Charleston) District; 1814-17, Pedee District; 1818, Cam- 

 den; 1819, Wilmington; 1820-21, Charleston; 1822-25, presiding 

 elder of Pedee District; 1826-27, Augusta; 1828-29, Columbia: 

 1830-33, Columbia District; 1834-35, Charleston; 1836-37, Colum- 

 bia; 1838-39, agent for Cokesbury School. During the year 1839 

 his iron constitution suddenly gave way, and he was threatened with 

 paralysis; yet, feeling the inspiring influence of the centenary year 

 of Methodism, he still traveled and preached, perhaps more than he 

 was able, and exerted himself every way to promote its objects. At 

 the ensuing Conference he was reluctantly compelled to take a su- 

 perannuated relation, and on a journey shortly- after he passed the 

 night at the house of Dr. Moon, in Newberry District; rose at his 

 usual early hour in the morning, and after his devotions walked out 

 into the yard, where he fell, probably by a stroke of apoplexy, and 

 instantly expired, February 22, 1840. He was a man of one book 

 and one work, whose motto was, "All for Christ and the souls of 

 men;" an evangelist whose whole life was fashioned after the gospel 

 which he preached; a pastor of exemplary patience, tenderness, and 

 fidelity; a Methodist always weighty in Conference, fervent in wor- 

 ship, and holding a first rank among his brethren for Avisdom and 

 the unction of the Holy One. 



Kennedy, Francis Melton son of the Rev. William M. Ken- 

 nedy, was a native of South Carolina; born in the beginning of the 



