Burkhead, Lingurn Skinmore

Burkhead, Lingurn Skinmore a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was born in Davidson County, S.C. In 1849 he was admitted into the North Carolina Conference, and served as pastor and presiding elder until his death, December 2, 1887. Five times he was a member of the General Conference of his church, and a delegate to the OEcumenical Conference of 1881. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M.E. Church, South, 1887, page 133.