Elder Jno. S. Pardue, Bethpage Sumner County, Tenn. He is of English descent. He is rather tall and slender, with dark complexion. He is the son of J. G. and Amanda (Flowers) Pardue. He was born in Monroe County, Kentucky, July 6, 1847. He was brought up on a farm. He made profession at old Hopewell in Sumner County, Tennessee, and united with said church in 1861, when he was only fifteen years of age, and was baptized by Elder Jonathan Wiseman. He was ordained by said Hopewell Church in July, 1877 by Elders J. H. Jackson, and R. S. Blankenship, with Deacons W. M. S. Wilks, J. W. Wiseman and J. G. Pardue. He was thirty years old when ordained and had fought the impression for fifteen years. He has served as pastor the following: Independence, Hopewell, Pleasant Hill, Rock Bridge, New Harmony, Pleasant Grove, Cornwell's Chapel, and Bellwood. Besides this, he has operated a good deal as missionary of his Association and done quite a deal of independent evangelistic work. In one meeting he had eighty-four conversions. He has been a very active man in his Association along all lines. He attended the common schools with an additional course in Gallatin under tuition of Elder G. W. Griffin. He assisted in the constitution of three churches. The number baptized and married is not known. Among those he baptized, were Elders I. M. Ashlock, Jas. Ashlock, and J. W. McQueen, all faithful ministers (one dead) and all coming from the Methodists. He was married to Miss M. E. West in 1872 A. D. By whom he has ten children.