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Sebastian Cabot Biffle

Submitted by Nick Arends.

The folowing from pages 171-172 , The History of Dunklin County, Missouri, 1845-1895, copyright 1896, by Mary F. Smyth-Davis. See family group sheet at: Sebastian Cabot Biffle and Rachel Ann Albright

Rev. S.C. Biffle, late pastor of Grand Prairie Circuit, M.E.C.S., in Dunklin County, was born December 24, 1848, in Wayne County, Tennessee. His parents, Johnson L. and Mary Ann Hill-Biffle, were born and reared in Tennessee, but removed to Missouri, locating in Bollinger County, when the subject of this sketch was but eight years of age. Here he grew to manhood, working on a farm and attending the country schools a few weeks each winter. When a young man, he also attended the Bellview Collegiate Institute a part of two years, and followed teaching for three years.

In 1866 he united with the M.E.C.S. and was licensed to preach by the Fourth Quarterly Conference of the Marble Hill Circuit in 1873. In 1874, he was employed by D.J. Marquis, Presiding Elder of the Charleston District, to take charge of the Gayoso Circuit, Pemiscot County, Missouri. October 15, 1874, he was admitted on trial in the St. Louis Conference, M.E.C.S., and was appointed to the Houston Circuit. Two years later he was received into full connection and has filled the following pastoral charges: Greenville Circuit, 1875 - 1878, Oak Ridge Circuit, 1878-1879, Poplar Bluff Circuit, 1879 to 1880; Marquand Circuit, 1880 - 1881; Houston Circuit, 1881 - 1883; Farmington Circuit, 1883 - 1887; Lutesville Circuit, 1887 - 1890; Doniphan Circuit, 1890 - 1892; Grand Prairie Circuit, 1892 to 1895.

His labors as a minister have resulted in good to a great many; during his pastorate in Dunklin County more than 300 persons were added to the Methodist Church. He was a prominent factor in the successful religious movement that has been going on in the south end of Dunklin County for the past three years.

November 3, 1874, Rev. Biffle was united in marriage to Miss Annie Allbright of Madison County, Mo., who has since this time shared the toils, trials and joys of an itinerant's life. To the union have been born three children, Atticus L., Mary C., and Sebastian C.

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