EV. JOHN N. FARRELL was born in Chatham county, North Carolina, about 1825, and died in 1898, in Texas.

      In 1845, he represented Hanks' chapel in the North Carolina and Virginia Conference at Apple's chapel, and at New Providence in 1855. He was licensed to preach by the Conference at Pope's chapel, in 1858. And at the Conference at Union chapel in Alamance county, in 1869, he reported as having preached regularly at two churches. He was assigned to the "Moore and Randolph circuit," which was composed of these churches: Antioch, Shallow Well, Moore Union, and Bethel.

      In 1860, at the Conference at Pleasant Hill in Chatham county, he was ordained to the gospel ministry, by the presbytery composed of Elders W. H. Doherty, B. N. Hopkins, and T. J. Fowler. The committee on itinerancy assigned him to the Cape Fear circuit: Christian chapel, Antioch, Pleasant Spring, Wake chapel, Pleasant Hill (Johnson), and Utley's. In 1862, at the Conference at Damascus in Orange county, he served on the committee on statistics, and was again assigned to the Cape Fear circuit. At the Conference, in 1864, at Antioch in Chatham county, he served on the committee on Home Missions, and was assigned to the New Hope Association. The churches he served this year were Damascus and New Elam.

      He was present at the Conference at Oak Level, in Franklin county, in 1865, and was elected a delegate to the Southern Christian Convention. He was appointed on a special committee with Rev. H. B. Hayes on the standing of the ministry. In 1866, at the Conference at O'Kelly's chapel, he was assigned to the charge composed of New Elam, Damascus, Antioch, and Zion, and [325] appointed with Revs. J. W. Hatch, W. D. Moffitt and E. W. Beale fraternal messengers to the Deep River Conference. In 1867, at Union chapel in Alamance county, he served on the committee on temperance; he was also present at the Conference at Salem chapel in Forsyth county, in 1868. At this Conference a Sunday School Convention was organized, and he was the delegate to it from New Elam. Though absent from the Conference at Union in Halifax county, Virginia, in 1870, he was assigned to Pleasant Hill (Chatham county), and Pleasant Grove (North Carolina). He attended the Deep River Conference as a deliberative member. He attended in 1871 the Conference at Mt. Zion in Orange county, and reported in charge of three churches and a mission point; eighty-three conversions; forty-eight accessions; thirty-four baptized, and three couples married. At the Conference at Shallow Well, Moore county, in 1872, he served on the committee on Sabbath schools, and had charge of two churches and received twenty-eight members into the fellowship of the church. He attended the Conference at New Providence in 1873, and had charge of Catawba Springs and Wake chapel, and received thirty-five into the church. He was chairman of the committee on temperance at the Conference at Hanks' chapel, in 1874. He attended the Deep River Conference at Pleasant Grove, and preached from Rom. 10:14, and was appointed on the presbytery of ordination with Revs. A. S. Nelson and J. S. Lawrence, to ordain Wm. G. Brady and H. A. Albright. He was a fraternal messenger from the North Carolina and Virginia Conference, in 1875, to the Deep River Conference at Shiloh in Randolph county. At the Conference at Pope's chapel, he raised the question as to whether the local. church had the right to license a member to preach. The Conference decided in the negative. He was chairman of the committee on temperance. [326]

      In 1876, he had charge of Catawba Springs and Wake chapel, but had no charge in 1878. In 1879, he had moved to Texas, where he continued to preach. He reported in 1884 that he had organized one church, and would organize another soon. For many years he was a most zealous and untiring worker in the Conference. In 1891, his post office was Gregory, Texas. He labored in Texas about fifteen years. He died as he had lived a triumphantly loyal member of the Christian Church.

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