Cole, Leroy

Cole, Leroy a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Essex County, Virginia, June 5, 1749. He was converted in 1777; the same year was licensed to preach, and admitted into the travelling connection. He began his ministry in North Carolina; preached regularly until long after the Revolution; served the Church some years as a local preacher, and spent his latter life as a superannuate of the Kentucky Conference, dying triumphantly, February 6, 1830. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1831, page 115.