Shreeve, Richard S

Shreeve, Richard S., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was born in Alexandria County, Va., Oct. 5, 1839. He was graduated at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1860. He entered the Confederate army, serving from the beginning of the war till its close. In March, 1869, he was admitted into the Baltimore Conference. In 1871 he located, with the intention of residing in Kentucky, but was induced to remain, and the next year was readmitted. He, with his wife, was killed by lightning at the parsonage of Upper Botetourt, Va., June 25, 1874. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M.E. Ch., South, 1875, p. 137.