Born: Monroe County, Ky., 1800.
Died: Shelby County, Ill., 1880.
At the age of twenty he married and moved to Indiana, where he soon became a Christian and began to preach. He came to Illinois in 1836, and settled on Sand Creek in Shelby County, where he died. As a proclaimer of the gospel, he labored under many disadvantages, but by persevering industry he supported his family from his farm and gained a good knowledge of the Scriptures. His life was filled with self-sacrifices for others' good. He was never called an eloquent preacher, but his sermons were full of Bible truth, logically stated, and he was a powerful exhorter. Many hundreds were won to Christ by his ministry, in which he continued faithful unto death.