EV. THOMAS C. MOFFITT was born July 6, 1806, and died October 25, 1854, in the forty-ninth year of his age. When about nineteen years old he was converted, and joined the church in 1826 or 1827.

      Elder Moffitt married in early life and reared nine children, who survived him. Among them were two sons, [148] ministers, Hugh T. and William D., and another, Abijah, sheriff of his county a number of years before his death.

      At the General Meeting or Conference, held at New Providence meeting house, in Orange (now Alamance) county, North Carolina, September 23, 1830, Rev. Thomas C. Moffitt being sufficiently recommended was "authorized to exercise his gifts as the good Spirit may direct." In 1833, at the General Meeting at Kedar (Mt. Auburn) in Warren county, he was ordained to the office of Elder by the presbytery, two of whom were Revs. D. W. Kerr and Alfred Apple; and he was at the General Meeting at New Providence in 1834; also at O'Kelly's chapel in 1836.

      In 1842, he organized Christian Union, Pleasant Ridge, Brown's chapel, Pleasant Grove, Park's Cross Roads, and Shiloh. In 1843, the Conference was held at Pleasant Grove, Randolph county, and he served on the committee on religious services with Martin Staley and B. Gragson "to arrange preaching for the meeting." The North Carolina and Virginia Conference met in 1844, at Hanks' chapel and he was in attendance. Also he attended the Conference at Apple's chapel in Guilford county, in 1845, at which time a successful conference was held. In 1846, he was at the Conference at Union church, in Orange (Alamance) county, at New Providence in 1848; and also he was at the Conference at Mt. Pleasant in Randolph county, in 1853.

      Elder Moffitt preached at Pleasant Grove more than twenty years, and was a zealous worker for his church and the cause of Christ. Popular and beloved, he was considered in his day, one of the most efficient ministers of his community, and two weeks before his death he preached a funeral sermon the master effort of his life.

      He married seventy-eight couples, baptized over two hundred, and received over four hundred members into the churches of his charge. [149]

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