Born Nov. 4, 1762 - Died Jan 27, 1839
Served 3 years in Revolutionary War from Dinwiddie Co., Va. in Buford's Detachment. Lost an arm at the Waxhaws, May 29, 1780. Remembered as successful buisness man, educator and civic worker, but most outstanding as devout Methodist minister. Is credited with establishing five churches. He established Pentecost Methodist Church in 1785. William and delilah Pentecost were buried in family plot. In 1909 their bodies were re-interred in a single grave in the Pentecost Church cemetery.