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Rush, Frederick was born in Orangeburg District, South Caro- 

 lina, June 4, 1802; converted in 1813; admitted on trial in the Con- 

 ference in January, 1829, and appointed to Hollow Creek Circuit; 

 1830-31, Congaree; 1832, Cypress; 1833, Cooper River; 1834, Wa- 

 teree Mission; 1S35, Black River; 1836, Santee; 1837, Newberry; 

 1838-39, Black River; 1840, located; 1852, readmitted, and sent to 

 Black Mingo Mission, two years; 1854, Cheraw Mission; 1855, 

 Edgefield; 1856, Lexington; 1857, superannuated; 1858, Ashepoo 

 Mission, where he died in great peace on the 8th of August. " If I 

 had not made the necessary preparation before," said he in his last 

 sickness, " I could not do it now : that has all been attended to, and 

 I have no fear." He was a good, plain, sensible preacher, and some- 

 times his ministry told with fine effect upon his hearers, and many 

 will rise up in the day of eternity and call him blessed. 



Sexter, Anthony was born in Lincoln county, North Carolina, 

 January 28, 1785; converted in 1806; admitted on trial in the South 

 Carolina Conference in December, 1808, and appointed for 1809 to 

 Pedee Circuit; 1810, Bladen; 1811, Little Pedee; 1812, Buncombe; 

 1813, Sparta, Georgia ; 1814, Georgetown ; 1815, Charleston ; 1816- 

 17, presiding elder of Broad River District. As a Christian, lie was 

 without offense; and as a minister, he was blameless. He was a 

 man of strong mind and benevolent heart ; a single and steady pur- 

 pose to glorify God ; an unwavering faith, fervent love, and burning- 

 zeal. These were the exalted attributes of this good man. As the 

 veteran soldier, retiring from the field faint and exhausted by 

 fatigue, yet only now retiring because he can do no more, so he, 

 unable even for the smallest labor, and almost dead, reluctantly gave 

 up the toil and retired to his house in Georgetown, whence he was 

 taken December 23, 1817, to the house not made with hands, eternal 

 in the heavens. 



Smith, Isaac was born in New Kent county, Virginia, August 

 17, 1758; converted in April, 17S3; admitted on trial in the travel- 

 ing connection in April, 1784, and appointed to Salisbury Circuit, 

 North Carolina ; 1785, Tar River ; 1786, Charleston ; 1787-88, San- 

 tee Circuit; 1789, Edisto; 1790, Charleston; 1791, Broad River; 

 1792, Santee; 1793, presiding elder of the district embracing nearly 

 the whole of South Carolina; 1794, Charleston, and Edisto (six 

 months each) ; 1795, in charge of Santee Circuit, and presiding elder 

 of a still more extensive district than in 1793; 1796, located and 

 settled in Camden; 1797, supernumerary on Santee Circuit; after 

 which, he again located; 1820, readmitted, and appointed to Co- 



