Official record of the Holston Annual Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, ninety-sixth session, held at Princeton, WVa., October 8-14, 1919 . Fuel Co. Brother Nuckolls was the son of Clark S. and Rosa Bourne HaleNuckolls and a member of a family of eight daughters and four sons,every one of whom has blessed the world by an honorable and useful the sacred influences of such a home as this the childhood of BrotherNuckolls was spent. He was educated at Jefferson Academy, Ashe county,North Carolina, and early in life he entered business with his father atOld Town, Va., with brig
Official record of the Holston Annual Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, ninety-sixth session, held at Princeton, WVa., October 8-14, 1919 . Fuel Co. Brother Nuckolls was the son of Clark S. and Rosa Bourne HaleNuckolls and a member of a family of eight daughters and four sons,every one of whom has blessed the world by an honorable and useful the sacred influences of such a home as this the childhood of BrotherNuckolls was spent. He was educated at Jefferson Academy, Ashe county,North Carolina, and early in life he entered business with his father atOld Town, Va., with bright prospects for a successful career beforehim. But the hand of the Lord was upon him calling him to the highand holy work of the Christian ministry. He was not disobedient tothe heavenly vision, but while the dark clouds of civil war were spread-ing over our southland, and our native state was calling her young man-hood to the defense of her constitutional liberties, there was a more im-perative call to him to enter the ranks of that host that fights not againstflesh and blood. On May 31, 1861, he was licensed to preach by the Quarterly Confer-. HOLSTON ANNUAL 73 ence of Grayson Circuit, held at Independence, Va., Rev. J. M. McTeer,presiding elder, and admitted on trial into the Holston Conference atGreeneville, Tenn., in October of the same year. From this Conferencehe was returned to his home circuit as junior preacher, and here beganthe active work of an itinerant preacher that continued without inter-mission for twenty-four years, during which he was pastor of the Grayson,Hillsville, Floyd and Wytheville Circuits in Virginia and the Athensand Concord and other circuits in Tennessee. During the years 1867,1868 and 1869, Brother Nuckolls woik was in Upper East Tennessee,and he was frequently locked out and forbidden to preach in his ownchurch. His friends frequently opened the closed churches by climbing intowindows, and while the service was being conducted parties stood on
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