EV. JAMES M. MINNIS was at the North Carolina and Virginia Conference at Apple's chapel in Guilford county, North Carolina, in 1845, as representative from Pope's chapel. At this Conference "the committee on ordination reported the names of Joseph Evans and James M. Minnis as suitable persons for ordination to the office of Elder." They were ordained, October 5th, by the presbytery composed of Revs. D. W. Kerr, J. S. Swift, and J. K. Cole. [267]

      In 1848, he was in Sumner county, Tennessee, had held a number of meetings, and reported to the Conference at New Providence. (He says he and those laboring with him were taken for Campbellites.) At the Conference at Hanks' chapel in Chatham county, in 1856, a committee was appointed to correspond with him, he having located in Tennessee, and to forward to him copies of the Conference minutes. The correspondence was ordered at the Conference, in 1857, to be continued. He attended the North Carolina and Virginia Conference, in 1864, at Antioch, in Chatham county, and the fourth day's session was opened with prayer by Rev. Jas. M. Minnis. At this time he had pastoral charge of Midway and resided at Franklinton, in Franklin county, North Carolina.

      In 1869, his name was ordered to be erased from the list of Elders of the Conference, he having connected himself with the Methodist Episcopal Church. For lack of data, the further history of his life cannot be traced.

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