Corbitt, John A

Corbitt, John A.

a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in Tipton County, Tennessee, December 28, 1836. He was converted at twenty-one; licensed to preach in 1872, and joined the White River Conference in 1876, when he was ordained deacon. In 1877 he was transferred to the Memphis Conference. He died January 2, 1880, having been for a year a superannuate. He was a faithful preacher, and a close student. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M.E. Church South, 1880, page 167.