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 203-204. [Bourbon County] JONATHAN PADDOX was among the earliest preachers of Russells Creek Association. He was a native of Pennsylvania, from whence he moved to Kentucky, before it was a state, and settled in Bourbon county. Here he united with a Separate Baptist church called Huston, by which he was licensed to preach, in 1792. About the year 1800, he moved to what is now LaRue [sic] county, and united with South Fork church. Here he labored with the old pioneers, in laying the foundation of some of the early churches of that region. He assisted Allexander [six] McDougal in gathering Nolin church, in 1803; and preached some years to the church of which he was a member. In 1814, he moved to Harrison county, Indiana, and settled near Corrydon [sic]. Two years later he returned to Kentucky, and took charge of South Fork church, which had been divided on the subject of slavery, under the ministry of Thomas Whitman, their former pastor. Under the care of good old "father Paddox," the church was soon restored to harmony. But the aged minister was not becoming too feeble to labor, and, about 1820, he returned to his children, in Indiana, and soon afterward went to his final Rest. Paddox McDougal Whitman = PA Larue-KY Corydon-Harrison-IN http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/bourbon/paddox.j.txt