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transferred to the Missouri Conference, while Wylie B. Murphy was transferred to Kentucky from the Holston, T. N. Ralston from the Illinois, and Absalom D. Fox from the Ohio Conference. Washington Fagg was readmi tted. Thirteen men were received on trial, viz., Greenup Barker, Andrew J. McLaughlin, John Waring, Seybourne Crutchfield, William B. Maxey, Robert G. Gardiner, Edwin Roberts, William James, James J. Harrison, Alanson C. DeWitt, George S. Gatewood, Aaron Rice, and Theophilus Powell. Of these, Greenup Barker, Seybourne Crutchfield, and Theophilus Powell were discontinued at the end of one year. Barker was from Falmouth, Crutchfield from Somerset, and Powell from Pikeville. * James J. Harrison was discontinued at the end of one year, but later was admitted again and gave a short while to the work. John Waring labored on the ing and Greenupsburg circuits, then located. William Maxey, excellent in song and in evangelistic fervor, located in 1840, and Edwin Roberts died in 1842. Few men have manifested the zeal and effectiveness in soulsaving that characterized Edwin Roberts. Revivals followed wherever he went, and Roberts Chapel, in Jessamine county, and Mt. Edwin, in Woodford county, were named in his honor and stand as monuments to the memory of this good man. His zeal literally consumed him, and he burned himself out in six years! Aaron Rice "was strong of body and of a cheerful and happy disposition. At first he was considered of little promise, but his improvement was rapid, and al*Greenup Barker was the father of Rev. T. W. Barker, late of the Kentucky Conference.