A History of Kentucky Baptists From 1769 to 1885, Including More Than 
800 Biographical Sketches, J. H. Spencer, Manuscript Revised and 
Corrected by Mrs. Burilla B. Spencer, In Two Volumes.  Printed For the 
Author.  1886.  Republished By Church History Research & Archives 1976 
Lafayette, Tennessee. Vol. 2, pp 101-102 [Bourbon County]

JOHN HOLLIDAY labored much longer within the bounds of Bracken 
Association than any other preacher who has ministered among its 
churches.  He was a grandson of the famous old pioneer preacher, Thomas 
Ammen, of Tates Creek Association.  He was born April 24, 1797.  His 
father being a reckless, dissipated man, he grew up with very little 
education, and what was still worse, he followed the paternal example, 
till he was thirty years of age.  He was converted under the ministry of 
Robert M. Batson, and baptized into the fellowship of the church, at 
Millersburg, in Bourbon county, in the spring of 1828.  He commenced 
exhorting, with great zeal, immediately.  He was elected a deacon of the 
church, the following September, and licensed to preach a few months 
later.  He was ordained to the ministry, by William Vaughan and Walter 
Warder, January 30, 1830.  Jacob Creath, Jr., was present, and desired 
to take part in the ordination; but was prohibited from doing so, on 
account of his Campbellite proclivities.
	Mr. Holliday was called to the pastoral care of Millersburg 
church, in 1832, and continued to fill that position, except during two 
brief intervals, till 1862 - a period of thirty years.  Soon after his 
ordination, he was called to the care of Pleasant Spring church, located 
between Millersburg and Carlisle, to which he ministered about forty 
years.  In 1842, he gathered the church at Sharpsburg, which he served 
about five years.  Besides those already mentioned, he was pastor, at 
different periods, of the churches at Two Lick and Mt. Olivet, in what 
is now Robertson county, Beaver Creek and Union, in Harrison, Poplar 
Plains, in Flemming [sic], Irvingsville and Locust Grove, in Nicholas, 
and perhaps some others.  His last pastorate, which he resigned in 1876, 
on account of failing health, was at Locust Grove.  After this he 
labored in protracted meetings, and on other occasons, as his failing 
strength would permit.  He died at his home in Carlisle, Oct. 7, 1881.
	Mr. Holliday's gifts were scarcely above medium; but they were 
diligently used, and were consecrated by a warm, cheerful piety and a 
spotless life; and his labors of more than fifty years, were abundantly 
blessed of God, to the good of his race.

Holliday Ammen Batson Vaughan Warder Creath
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Robertson-KY Harrison-KY Fleming-KY Nicholas-KY

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