"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. 274-275. [Daviess] JAMES H. L. MOORMAN: This brother was the most prominent preacher in Goshen Association in his generation. He was a native of Virginia and was raised up to the ministry in Little Otter Church in Bedford County, Virgina. He began to "exercise" in public during a great revival in that church in 1801-1803 and was soon afterwards ordained to its pastoral care. About 1810 he moved to Kentucky and settled in Hardin County where he united with Bethel Church. But having been called to the care of Goshen Church in Breckenridge [sic] County, he moved to that vicinity in 1818. The county was thinly settled at the time and Goshen was the only Church, and Elder Moorman was probably the only preacher. As he was a man of better education than most of the settlers, he was called to fill the office of justice of the peace, and later that of sheriff of the county. However he was active and zealous in the ministry and succeeded in laying the foundation of a number of churches. In 1825 he assisted his brother, William Moorman, and Ancil Hall and D. J. Kelly to constitute Bethabara Church. In 1829, he gathered a small church in the village of Cloverport and became its pastor. He was a warm advocate of missions and was one of the first collecting agents of the Executive Board of the Kentucky Baptist Convention. He assumed the duties of this office, along with Elder D. J. Kelley, in March, 1834. His labors were prosecuted with much zeal and efficiency, for more than three months, when he was suddenly called by the messenger of death to his final reward, June 17, 1834. Elder Moorman was a preacher of superior ability but very few particulars of his useful life have been preserved. He was of an extensive family, many of whom were prominent citizens and valuable church members, in Breckenridge and adjoining counties. Elder Moorman performed marriages in Daviess County in 1820 according to the records. Hall Kelley Moorman = Bedford-VA Breckinridge-KY Hardin-KY http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/daviess/moorman.jhl.txt