Information from Kansas West card file (discarded): 1840 - born October 19 in Harrison county, West Virginia 1878 - Kansas conference 1881 - married (2nd wife) Carrie C. Sample Lockwood (b. January 20 1848, d. August 20, 1894) on February 2 (they had four children) 1882 - Northwest Kansas Conference 1884 - elder 1895 - 2nd wife's memoir, Northwest Kansas Journal (p.38) 1897 - Stockton 1900-03 - Almena 1908 - superannuated 1909 - 3rd wife's memoir, Northwest Kansas Journal (p.53) 1914 - retired 1925 - died October 3 in Kansas; memoir Northwest Kansas Journal (p.123) 1st marriage was to Anna Brown. They had 6 chidren. 3rd marriage was to Celia L. Britton (b. June 3, 1848, d. April 4, 1908; buried Courtland, KS) surviving children: William A., Mrs. James Steward, Mrs. John Fleming, John M., Britton H., Gilead H. civil war veteran see also Agra-Snow Historical booklet, edited by W.R. Long 1940