. Holston Methodism [electronic resource]: from its origin to the present time. ar Conaro Smith was with thefirm (1837) the amount of green ginseng collectedand handled at the factories was something over 86,000pounds. This yielded about 25,000 pounds of choiceclarified root, which was barreled and shipped to Phil-adelphia, and was designed for the Chinese market. When Yancey County was established, John W. Mc-Elroy, a lifelong Methodist, was elected the first clerkof the Superior Court, and Conaro Smith became hisdeputy. In 1836, at a camp meeting held at CaneyRiver Camp Ground by the Rev. Ch
. Holston Methodism [electronic resource]: from its origin to the present time. ar Conaro Smith was with thefirm (1837) the amount of green ginseng collectedand handled at the factories was something over 86,000pounds. This yielded about 25,000 pounds of choiceclarified root, which was barreled and shipped to Phil-adelphia, and was designed for the Chinese market. When Yancey County was established, John W. Mc-Elroy, a lifelong Methodist, was elected the first clerkof the Superior Court, and Conaro Smith became hisdeputy. In 1836, at a camp meeting held at CaneyRiver Camp Ground by the Rev. Charles K. Lewis, atthat time preacher in charge of Reems Creek Circuit,Dr. Smith professed conversion and joined the Meth-odist Church. In June, 1837, he was licensed topreach, and in the same year was admitted into theHolston Conference. In the year 1841-42 he was onthe Jonesboro Circuit, assisted by William Hicks; andthat year the two succeeded in adding to the member-ship of the circuit eight hundred persons. The fourthquarterly meeting of the circuit that year was held at. CONARO D. SMITH, 320 HOLSTON METHODISM. Brush Creek Camp Ground, the present site of John-son City. At that meeting two persons were instantlykilled by lightning during divine service. It was thehour of the Sunday night service. The Rev. WilliamMilburn had closed a sermon full of pointed appealsto sinners, and quite a number had come to the atmosphere was heavy and murky. It was dense-ly cloudy, with low, rumbling thunder; flashes oflightning were frequent. Three young persons werestanding in the door of a tent, a frame building, whichwas about twenty feet in the rear of the pulpit. Theywere: Miss Mary Taylor, sister of the late Rev. G. Taylor, of Carter County, Tenn.; a youngMr. Miller, of North Carolina; and a young man bythe name of Gillespie. The two young gentlemen hadtheir arms across each others shoulders. The threestood close together, with Mr. Gillespie in the
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