EV. CLEMENT NANCE was born in Virginia, in 1757, and died in Indiana, July 21, 1828. He made a profession of religion early in life, and joined the Methodist church. He commenced preaching in 1782. He left the Methodists and joined the Church of O'Kelly in 1793, or soon thereafter, in which he labored zealously. From the time that he united with the Christian Church, he co-operated with O'Kelly, Haggard, Hackett, Moore, Pendleton and others in Virginia. He attended the General Meeting in Conference at Shiloh in Halifax county in 1805. He served on the presbytery with Rev. James O'Kelly and others, which ordained Rev. Thomas E. Jeter this same year to the office of Elder in the Christian Church. Some years later he moved to Kentucky, and joined the Christians there in their formation as a distinct body. From there he moved to the territory of Indiana, and settled. This was about the year 1842. He became a member of the Indiana Central Conference, of which he was a member at the time of his death, and it is more than probable that he took some part in the organization of this Conference. He was well advanced in years at the time of his death which was in [55] his seventy-second year. He is spoken of with "great praise, not only as a good man, but as a very useful and efficient minister.

      At the time of his migration westward, there were Christian societies in the counties of Caroline, Halifax, Orange, Amelia, Fairfax, and probably others that could ill afford to spare his services.

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