EV. WILLIAM S. JORDAN was admitted as a licentiate at the North Carolina and Virginia Conference at Hanks' chapel, in Chatham county, in 1844. He represented Christian Union in this Conference. He resided in that section of the Conference, which was formed into the Deep River Conference, and later into the Western North Carolina Conference.

      In 1848, he was ordained to the office of Elder at the Conference at New Providence. In 1857, in his ministerial report to Conference, he states, "Preached [250] twenty-seven times, and labored with two churches. Owing to my situation in life and ill health, have been deprived from laboring as much as I desired." In 1859, he served Brown's chapel.

      The committee on memoirs at the Conference at Damascus, in Orange county, in 1862, says, "That God in his infinite wisdom has seen fit to remove from the toils and labors of earth to the reward of the righteous in heaven, our esteemed and much beloved" brother William S. Jordan. In his death "this Conference has sustained a very great loss" and the cause of Christ one "of her most zealous advocates."

[LCM 250-251]