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Methodism in Kentucky
term of service, several hundred were brought into the Church through his efforts. "In ex.hortation he had but few equals, and as a singer he had scarcely 路a peer among his brethren." Daniel Black traveled four years in the western end of the Conference, on the Henderson, Cumberland, Logan and Barren circuits. He died in 1827, leaving a small legacy of $175,.25 to be equally among his brethren of the Conference. "He was useful, in his life exemplary, in afflictions patient, in his death triumphant." David Wright, from the Cumberland District, located in 1829, after labor on Dover, Hartford, Bacon Creek, Barren, and Bowling Green circuits. Other than this we .have no information concerning him. Thompson J. Holliman, also from Gumberland District, traveled three years---{8reckinridge, Red River and Somerset-and was superannuated in 1826. He died prior to the Conference of 1828. but no memoir of him is路 given. Clement iL. Glifton oame from the Augusta District, but spent nearly all hiB twelve years of ministry in the western part of the Conference. He was at least an average Methodist preacher, as indicated by the charges he served. He located in 1835. Richard I. Dungan was left an orphan when a small boy. He was apprenticed as a tanner, then a profitable trade. Converted and called to preach before reaching his majority, he was ,admitted this year and assigned to the rugged John's Creek circuit, then trans.ferred to Missouri, where he remained for two years. Returning to Kentucky, he continued to travel until 1835, when, on account of his own feeble health and family circumstances, he asked a location. In 1839