EV. JOHN T. PETTY was a member of and labored within the bounds of the North Carolina and Virginia Conference. He died on August 13, 1854, at Rienzi, Tishomingo county, Mississippi, at the residence of his son-in-law Dr. J. B. Stephens, in the 53rd year of his age. He removed to Mississippi in 1849. [187]

      In 1833, he attended the General Meeting at Kedar in Warren county, and was assigned to the Haw River circuit with Rev. Shubal G. Evans. The Conference was held at New Providence in Orange (now Alamance) county in 1834, and he served on a committee composed of Revs. Joseph H. Bland, John T. Petty and John Walker. In 1838, at the General Meeting at Pope's chapel, he was ordained by Revs. J. Fuller, S. Turner and J. P. Lemay as the presbytery. He served this Conference as its secretary. In 1840, he was at the Conference at Union, in Orange (Alamance) county. At the Conference at Pleasant Grove in Randolph county, in 1843, he was appointed on the committee on the state of the church. And in 1844, at the Conference at Hanks' chapel, in Chatham county, he was appointed on the committee on finance. After the report of the committee which was adopted, he was, at the instance of the former treasurer, made treasurer of the Conference. He attended the Conference at Apple's chapel, in Guilford county, in 1845, and in 1846, the Conference at New Providence.

      At the time of the Conference at Union, in Alamance county, North Carolina, in 1852, though, now present, he was residing in Mississippi, and letters of ordination were ordered to be issued to him (his being lost).

      The committee on memoirs at the Conference at O'Kelly's chapel, in 1854, announced his death and that of Rev. Wm. Crank, to whose memory resolutions of respect were adopted. He was a faithful minister in the Christian Church for more than twenty years. "He was a zealous Christian and minister of the Christian Church, devoting much of his time to the ministry, and died, as we believe, in the full assurance of a blissful immortality." [188]

[LCM 187-188]