EV. ANDERSON CRAVEN was born and reared in Randolph county, North Carolina. He died about the year 1872.

      He attended the North Carolina and Virginia Conference, in 1853, at Mt. Pleasant in Randolph county. This part of the North Carolina and Virginia Conference was known as the Deep River circuit, which later was formed into the Deep River Conference and finally into the Western North Carolina Conference. In 1858, he was pastor of the church at Parks' Cross Roads. In 1860, [294] the Deep River circuit was assigned to Rev. D. T. Deanes, which included the churches to which Elder Craven preached.

      The Deep River Conference was organized in 1865, and he was thereafter a member of that Conference. In 1872, after the adoption of the report of the committee on memoirs, Rev. W. S. Long was requested to preach a sermon before Conference in memory of Rev. Anderson Craven. At the time of his death, Elder Craven resided in Randolph county, North Carolina. He was an excellent preacher, a good man, and much esteemed by those who knew him best.

[LCM 294-295]