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. Livingston County.

WILLIS CHAMPION was born in Edgecomb Co., N. C., Feb. 1801.  He was only
four years old when he was brought by his parents to Livingston Co., Ky.,
where he spent most of his long and useful life.  His father went into the
constitution of Salem church, in 1805, and he was baptized into the same
organization, in October, 1819.  He was licensed to preach, in June 1833,
ordained, by J. W. Mansfield and Abel Teague, in December, 1834, and
immediately called, unanimously, to the pastoral care of Salem church, of
which he still remained a member.  To this church he ministered 40 years. 
In 1804, he gathered Friendship church, between Cumberland and Tennessee
rivers.  To this church, which, at the time of his death, was the largest
in Little River Association, he ministered 20 years.  About a year before
his death, he moved to Illiois.  But he soon returned to his home in
Kentucky, and died, at the residence of his brother, in Livingston county,
Aug. 9 1876.
     Mr. Champion's gifts were not above mediocrity; but he was a man of
undoubted piety, and his zeal was according to knowlege.  He was five
times elected Moderator of his Association, and was four times chosen to
preach the introductory sermon before that body.  During his ministry, he
baptized 870 persons; and his great popularity was evinced in that he
married 440 couples.

Champion Mansfield Teague
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Edgecomb-NC IL

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