A History of Kentucky Baptists, From 1769 to 1885, by J. H. Spencer, 1886,
Reprinted by Church History and Archives, 1976, Lafayette, TN.  Licking
Association. Boone County.

MORRIS LASSING was raised up to the ministry within the bounds of Licking
Association.  He was born in Bavaria, Germany, Aug. 3, 1800.  He was
liberally educated by Catholic parents.  But after coming to mature years,
he became a free-thinker, or a disbeliever in revealed religion.  In 1824,
he emigrated to the United States, and shortly aftrwards settled in Boone
county, Ky.  In 1843, he was awakened from his delusive dream of
infidelity, and, after seeking and finding peace in the Savior, was
baptized by William Hume, in August of that year.  He possessed an
extensive stock of knowledge, and gave his church satisfactory evidence of
his call to the ministry.  Acordingly, he was ordained to that sacred
office, April, 29, 1854.  He immediately assumed the pastoral care of
Sardis church, in Boone county, and continued to serve in that position,
during the remainder of his earthly life.  He also traveled considerably,
and preached to the churches of his order, in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. 
He was afflicted with disease of the heart, some time before his death,
and died of that malady, Jan., 9, 1867.

Lassing Hume 
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Bavaria-Germany IN OH

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