EV. HENRY GANT was born in North Carolina, but removed to Tennessee. At the North Carolina and Virginia Conference at Pope's chapel, in Granville county, in 1847, Rev. John Walker was authorized to license Rev. Henry Gant to exercise his gifts "as the good Spirit may direct." From this time he labored in Tennessee as a licentiate of the North Carolina and Virginia Conference, in connection with the Rev. John Walker. He presented a letter of recommendation for his [270] ordination to the Conference at Union chapel in Alamance county, in 1859, and also a petition to withdraw and form a Conference to be known as the Tennessee Christian Conference. The committee on ordination recommended that he be ordained, whereupon Elders W. H. Doherty, Thos. J. Fowler, and S. Apple were appointed the ordaining presbytery and Rev. Henry Gant was solemnly set apart to the gospel ministry, on October 9, 1859, at 11 o'clock A. M. The Tennessee Conference was organized, but co-operation was broken by the Civil War.

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