Craven, Wesley R

Craven, Wesley R.

a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in Randolph County, N.C., April 15, 1856. His parents removed the following year to Missouri, where he wag converted at fifteen years of age. He was licensed to preach in 1877, and the same year entered the St. Louis Conference on trial. He died near Richwoods, August 4, 1881. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M.E. Church South, 1881, page 367.