Born: Tennessee, 1822.
Died: Hot Springs, Arkansas, 1901.
Became a Christian in 1837. Six years thereafter he was consumed with zeal to preach the gospel. But he could not read. His wife, whom he had just married, taught him, and his progress in knowledge was such that he was set apart to the ministry in 1848.
A loyalist refugee from Tennessee, he came to Williamson County in 1865 and settled on a farm near Herrin. Then he went preaching wherever people would assemble. He served as evangelist in the six southern counties for six years, and organized more congregations in that section than any other man. He had an impediment in his speech, but none in his Christian zeal.