Smith, Turner H

Smith, Turner H., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was born in Buncombe County, N.C., May 15, 1818, and moved to Missouri in 1833. He united with the Church in 1839, was licensed to preach in 1846, and entered the St. Louis Conference in 1851. He was ordained deacon Oct. 1, 1854; and elder Oct. 12, 1856. He died April 20, 1857. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M.E. Church, South, 1857, p. 744.