This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ihB.2ACI/4363 Message Board Post: Milburn, Joseph: Born Jan. 23, 1800, in Greene County, Tenn. He was the brother of Rev. William Milburn. He married Mary Milburn, who was his first cousin, in 1821. Rev. Joseph P. Milburn was their son. Joseph Milburn was an exhorter and later a local preacher for many years. He was admitted in 1855. When Holston Conference of the M. E. Church was organized in 1865 he entered that Conference in his fifty-sixth year. "His Christianity was illustrated by a life of earnest, devoted piety. His life was useful and beautiful; and his death was grand." He ceased at once to work and live on Jan. 8, 1873. He was buried at Milburntown, Greene County, Tenn. Milburn, Joseph P.: Born Feb. 5, 1832, in Greene County, Tenn. He was a son of Rev. Joseph Milburn and a nephew of Rev. William Milburn. He was converted at ten. Licensed to preach in '55 or '56. He preached for several years as a local preacher. Admitted to Holston (South) in 1861, but in the troubled times of the war he did but little as an itinerant preacher. He became a member of the M. E. Conference in 1865 and filled a number of important charges. He married Miss Amanda Wells in Sullivan County, Tenn. They had four children. Became supernumerary in 1876, but preached as his health would permit. He had expected to take active work in 1886, but about a month before Conference he became ill away from home and died. He was buried in Greene County, Tenn. Milburn, William: Born Sept. 16, 1797, near Winchester, Va. Brother of Rev. Joseph Milburn. Licensed to preach 1827 and "spent most of his time till 1843 in holding protracted meetings." Admitted in 1845 and served ten charges in the Southern Church. He was one of the loyal Union preachers who were expelled by the Southern Conference in 1862. He entered the M. E. Conference, upon its organization in 1865. In 1867 he was appointed Presiding Elder of Abingdon District, which was subsequently transferred to the Virginia Conference. He married Martha Faw in 1818. He continued in active work until stricken with paralysis in 1875. After painful and protracted illness he died Sept. 22, 1877, and was buried at Miburntown, Greene County, Tenn. He served as Chaplain of the 8th Tennessee Cavalry Volunteers during the war.