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

EDMUND BEARDEN was one of the first preachers that settled in the present
territory of Little River Association, if he were not the very first.  He
was an ordained preacher in a church on Reedy river, in Greenville
District, S. C., as early as 1790.  Soon after this date, he moved to what
is now Caldwell county, Ky., and settled near the present site of
Princeton.  he appears to have been active in preaching among the settlers
in a large area of territory.  With the aid of Reuben Roland and Daniel
Brown, he constituted Eddy Grove church, near his home, in 1799.  In 1805,
he, with the aid of Daniel Brown and Robert Smith, constituted Salem
church in Livingston county.  These two churches became the mothers of a
numerous offspring.  It is not known that Mr. Bearden was pastor of any
church in the new country; nor have we any account of him, after the
eprformance of the above labors.

Bearden Roland Brown
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Livingston-KY

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