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, pages 180-181.

ROBERT GAILBREATH was of Irish extraction, and was born in Westmoreland
county, Penn., 1791.  His parents moved to Kentucky when he was about
eight years old.  Being fond of study, he acquired, with few advantages
from schools, a very fair English education.  He was raised up in a
Presbyterian church, but when he obtained evidence of his conversion, a
candid examination of the subject of baptism led him to accept Baptist
views.  He united with old Beargrass Church, not from 1817.  He was
licensed to exercise his preaching gift, in 1819, and having been
sufficiently proved, he was ordained to the pastoral care of Little
Flock church in Bullitt county, by Moses Pierson, George Waller, Ben.
Allen and Z. Carpenter, April 24, 1824.  In 1827, Mr. Gailbreath
gathered a small church called Fishpool, some four miles North of Little
Flock.  Of this new organization, also, he was chosen pastor, having,
for the sake of convenience, given his membership to it.  He was also
pastor of the church at Shepherdsville, for a time.  In 1851, he
resigned the charge of Little Flock and Fishpool, and moved to
Louisville.  This move was unwise.  It took him from a field of labor in
which he was appreciated and loved, and where he had spent the prime of
his life, usefully, and might still have been useful, for years to come.
In the city, he was comparitively a stranger, he was a country preacher,
and there was no demand for his ministrations.  The move virtually
closed his labors, and he spent about thirteen years in idleness, as far
as his holy calling was concerned.  He died at his home in Louisville,
August 23, 1864.
        Mr. Gailbreath was above medium, as a preacher.  He had
considerable poetical genius, which he indulged, for recreation.  He was
a man of umblemished morals, and of faultless christian deportment.

Allen Carpenter Gailbreath Pierson Waller
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Bullitt Westmoreland-PA

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