Greene County NcArchives Obituaries.....Ormond, William 1803
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Minutes of the Annual Conferences


WILLIAM ORMOND

William Ormond,-a native of North Carolina, born in Green county, near 
Kinston, of a respectable family, and his circumstances in life sufficient, 
with care and improvement, to have afforded him ample support. His 
constitution had been failing for some time by his constant, fervent, zealous 
exertions for souls in the late revivals, in which his labours had a 
considerable share. He was quick in body and mind, but affectionate, fervent, 
and faithful: he was gracious and gifted; and upon the whole, was a good man, 
and a good preacher. He had a high sense of the rights of men, of Christians, 
and of Christian ministers, but was open to information when candidly and 
mildly addressed. He laboured and travelled extensively from Maryland, in 
various circuits in Virginia, North and South Carolina, and even to Georgia. 

He became a travelling preacher in the year 1791, and ended his life and 
labours together, in Brunswick county, Virginia, on the 30th October, 1803, 
including about twelve years public labour. * It was judged he had taken the 
malignant fever while upon his station at Norfolk, but his having been absent 
from thence about thirty days makes it somewhat doubtful. He died happy in 
God, declaring with his latest breath, his soul enjoyed peace, peace, victory, 
victory, complete victory. 

To a friend he wrote, June 30th, 1803, “I expect to continue upon my station, 
for it appears I cannot well leave it at this time. I may as well die with the 
fever as with any other affliction, and there is as direct a passage from 
Norfolk to heaven, as from any other part of the globe. I have no widow to 
weep over my lifeless body; no babes to mourn for a father: and I find this 
world is a dangerous and troublesome place.” He was called from his station to 
attend a committee in the country, on some special business, and was 
returning, when obliged to take his bed, from which he never more arose. 
He has left a legacy to the Conference, another to build a house for God in 
the neighbourhood of his nativity; the balance to his relations, with 
particular instructions that a part of it be applied to the education of their 
children. So lived and so died William Ormond. 

The following account was handed us by one of his brothers: He was born on 
Friday the 22d day of December, 1769, in Dobbs county, near Green, and was 
convicted of sin the 10th of December, 1787, and was converted 11th of 
December, 1787, and was sanctified 20th of March, 1790.



Additional Comments:
(the above obituary is from “Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church for the years 1773-1839”, v.1, page 116, 1804)


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