a Baptist minister, was born in Russell County, Virginia, February 15, 1807. He joined the Methodists February 24, 1838, but soon after united with the Baptists; was licensed in La Grange, Tennessee, April 14, 1839, and engaged in itinerant labors in the Big Hatchie Association; was ordained October 17, 1841, and for several years was pastor of the Big Black Church, near Denmark, Madison County, Tennessee, also having charge of the Bethlehem Church in Hardeman County, for ten years, as well as of several others in Tennessee; and finally of the churches at Maple Springs, Denmark, and Araratall in Madison County, and Woodland, Haywood County. He died in August 1881. See Bornri, Sketches of Tenn. Ministers, page 191. (J.C.S.)