EV. WILLIAM O. BAILEY was in attendance upon the adjourned Conference at Antioch in Isle of Wight county, Virginia, in 1838. He was received as an unordained or licentiate preacher. In 1839, he represented Barrett's chapel in the Eastern Virginia Conference at Providence, in Norfolk county. On motion, it was decided to ordain him on Sunday morning. Elders Mills Barrett and Joshua Livesay served on the presbytery of ordination, and accordingly on Sunday morning, May 5, 1839, Rev. William O. Bailey was ordained to the office of Elder. He labored in the bounds of the Conference only a few years, and then withdrew and joined the Baptist church.

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