"A HISTORY OF THE DAVIESS-McLEAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION IN KENTUCKY, 1844-1943" 
by Wendell H. Rone, Probably published in 1944 by Messenger Job Printing 
Co., Inc., Owensboro, Kentucky.  Used by permission.  p. 253-254.
Daviess County

        JASPER BRISTOW:  This brother was a Primitive Baptist (Hardshell). 
He was born in Virginia about the year 1775.  Here he received a fair 
English Education for the day and grew to young manhood.  He was married to 
Miss Clarissa Powell in his native State.  To this union was born four 
children.  His wife died shortly after he moved to Oldham County, Kentucky.
        Elder Bristow served Bethabara Church as pastor in 1827-1828.  As he 
held to the views of the anti-missionaries some trouble arose in the Church 
and he resigned. He later moved his membership to Bell's Run Church and was 
a member there in 1839-1840.  During this period trouble again arose over 
the subject of Missions.  The pastor of Bell's Run, Elder Ancill Hall,
finally interposed in favor of missionary enterprises and Elder Bristow, 
failing to carry the Church in his favor, withdrew in the minority and 
constituted a Church called the United Baptist Church of Christ, at Barnett's 
Creek, Ohio County, Kentucky. This was in 1839.
        This leads us to go back a few years to the beginning of this spirit 
of opposition to the Missionary enterprises of the day.  It all came about 
through  the teachings of Alexander Campbell, Daniel Parker, and John Taylor, 
each one of whom violently opposed the missionary organization of the day. 
Some of the Churches of the Goshen Association began to manifest a spirit of
anti-nomianism [sic] as early as 1833.  The Association went on record as 
favoring the mission work of the denomination such as the Baptist Board
of Missions, the Kentucky Baptist Convention, the Bible Society, the Sunday
School Society, and the Temperance Society.  This brought a remonstrance 
from the Little Flock Church (Bell's Run) in 1834, but the Association 
still favored the work.  The Association made a definite stand on the
subject in 1838 by formally opening correspondence with the General
Association of Kentucky Baptists.  Two small factions withdrew from the 
Churches and the Association. One of these factions came out of the Panther 
Creek Church, Ohio County, in October 1840, and organized two small Churches 
located at Pellville and Roseville in Hancock County.  The other faction came
out of Bell's Run prior to this as already noted.  These three small Churches
constituted the "Panther Creek Association of United Baptists" in 1843.  The 
three Churches reported 96 members. Elders Bristow and William Downs were 
among the ministers of the new body. The growth of this body was small until 
after the Civil War. After that it had some increase.  It numbered 6
Churches and 210 members in 1870 and 10 Churches with 470 members in 1880.
After the organization of the Blackford Association in 1878 and the Ohio 
County Association in 1901 the majority of the Churches came over to these 
missionary bodies.  At present there are but two Churches left in this 
Association and both are located in Ohio County.  They alternate in enter-
taining their Association.  These two Churches still believe in the practice
of foot-washing as an ordinance of the "Church of God." We have been 
fortunate enough to find three copies of the minutes of this anti-mission body.  
They are for the years 1884, 1897, and 1899. The minutes of 1899 show the body 
to have 7 Churches with a membership of 298. The present membership of the two 
churches left in the Association is about 118.

Bristow Campbell Downs Hall Parker Powell Taylor
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Ohio-KY Oldham-KY Hancock-KY VA

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