. Holston Methodism [electronic resource]: from its origin to the present time. hurch andwas baptized by the Rev. James Axley at Stone DamCamp Ground about the year 1820. He joined withabout a hundred others. He was married to LucindaBroyles December 13, 1847, Dy tne Rev. Thomas Wil-liamson, a local preacher. His wife joined the Churchabout the year 1822, under the Rev. George the year 1832 he was appointed assistant classleader under Jonathan Waddell, who died a short timeafterwards and left him in charge. This was at oldUnion Church, on the Greeneville Circuit. His assist-ant was
. Holston Methodism [electronic resource]: from its origin to the present time. hurch andwas baptized by the Rev. James Axley at Stone DamCamp Ground about the year 1820. He joined withabout a hundred others. He was married to LucindaBroyles December 13, 1847, Dy tne Rev. Thomas Wil-liamson, a local preacher. His wife joined the Churchabout the year 1822, under the Rev. George the year 1832 he was appointed assistant classleader under Jonathan Waddell, who died a short timeafterwards and left him in charge. This was at oldUnion Church, on the Greeneville Circuit. His assist-ant was Julius Broyles. In 1838 he removed within the bounds of JonesboroCircuit and became class leader at Seviers Church, hav-ing been appointed to that position by the Rev. R. He lived many years neighbor to the Rev. E. CONFERENCES OF I&54, 1S55, T^5^ 1^57- 19? F. Sevier, whom he greatly admired. He was alwaysready to discharge any duty that his relation to theChurch required of him. He was a delegate to severalDistrict Conferences, and often attended the sessions of. JACOB F. BROYLES. the Annual Conference. On being asked by his sonwho was the best preacher he had ever heard, he re-plied: Creed* Fulton. He then named the follow-ing as great preachers: E. F. Sevier, John Henninger, 198 HOLSTON METHODISM. Thomas Stringfield, Samuel Patton, W. T. Senter,William P. Kendrick, E. E. Wiley, John Tevis, and Stevens. Mr. Broyles, as are all deeply pious men, was agreat Bible reader, and he was particularly fond ofthe New Testament scriptures. In his religion he wasnot demonstrative, but he greatly enjoyed camp meet-ings and revival exercises. Such was his devotion to Methodist doctrines andusages that at the close of the Civil War, when thepreachers of the Church, South, were not permittedto occupy the section where he lived, he attached him-self to the Methodist Episcopal Church temporarily;but as soon as the Southern preachers returned totheir flocks, he resumed his place in
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