"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, pp. 465-466.
Used by permission.  [Daviess]

SAMUEL HENRY JESSE:  S. H. Jesse, or Captain Jesse, as he was 
familiarly known, was a native of Woodford County, Kentucky.  The 
family was of French descent, and settled in Virginia at the time of 
their emigration to America.  His grandfather, Samuel Jesse, was a 
Baptist preacher, who came to Kentucky in the year 1813, from 
Middlesex County, Virginia.  Our subject's father was then a boy of 
seventeen, having been born in Middlesex County, Virginia, in 1796.  
The family located in Woodford County, a mile from Versailles, the 
county seat.  His grandfather farmed and preached to neighboring 
Churches.  His father, Samuel G. Jesse, was married in Woodford 
County, Kentucky, in December, 1819, to Miss Parmelia Shouse, a 
native of the county, whose family was from Virginia, and early 
settlers of that part of the State.  Her father took part in the 
early Indian troubles, and was a resident of Kentucky while it was 
yet part of Virginia, and previous to its admission as a State.
	After farming some ten years in Woodford County, Samuel G. 
Jesse moved to Shelby County in 1829, and to Daviess County in 1847.  
His oldest son was Samuel Henry Jesse, the subject of our sketch, who 
was born near Versailles, Kentucky, on July 7, 1825.  When his father 
came to Daviess County he was in his twenty-second year.  He engaged 
in farming in Yelvington precinct.  On February 22, 1848, he married 
Miss Letitia Montgomery of Shelby County, Kentucky.  Some six or 
eight children were born to this union.
	A few years previous to this he had volunteered his services in 
a company raised in Shelby County for the Mexican War.  On reaching 
Frankfort, the quota was found to be already filled, and the services 
of the men were not accepted.  On the breaking out of the war of 
rebellion, his judgment regarded the cause of the South as just, and 
in 1862, he joined the Confederate Army, with which he was connected 
for a short time as a member of the Tenth Kentucky Cavalry, a 
regiment raised in this section of the State.
	Our subject was a man of outstanding intelligence and occupied 
a prominent position in the community.  He was a Mason for most of 
his life and held important positions in that Lodge.  He was also 
connected with the Grange farm movement and helped to organize that 
group in the County and served as one of the officers for a time.
	His contribution to the religious life of the Baptist Churches 
to which he belonged was outstanding.  He became a Christian in his 
early years and upon coming to Daviess County united with the 
Yelvington Church.  This was in 1848.  By this Church he was licensed 
to preach in March, 1856 and the Church afterwards proposed his 
ordination but he declined.  From 1849 to 1860 he served this Church 
as clerk and also served as a messenger to the Association.  About 
the year 1868 he moved his membership to the South Hampton Church 
where it remained until his death.  His active Christian service 
continued in this Church and in the year 1880 he assumed the chair as 
Moderator of the Church, a position he held until his death on 
October 24, 1904.  In that period he was elected annually to 
represent the Church in the Association and also served on a number 
of Committees in the Association.
	Brother Jesse was highly esteemed by all who knew him.  He was 
a stalwart Baptist and intelligent Christian citizen.  The South 
Hampton Church and the Association sustained a great loss in the 
death of Samuel H. Jesse.

Jesse Shouse Montgomery
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Woodford Middlesex-VA Shelby

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