A Sesquicentennial History of the Green River Missionary Baptist Church
1836 - 1986, Written and Compiled by Wendell Holmes Rone, Sr., For the One
Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Church, 1987. By
permission of author. Ohio County.

THURMAN TAYLOR MOORE, the Twenty-Third Pastor of the Green River Church,
served on three occasions for a total of twelve years and eight months. 
The first time was from January through December, 1919; secondly, from
January, 1924 through December, 1925; and thirdly, January, 1928 through
August, 1939.  He was Pastor when the Church observed its Centennial (100th
Anniversary) in July, 1936.
     Brother Moore was born on August 1, 1888, in Butler County, Kentucky;
being the son of James Temple Moore (1862-1931) and Asberrie (Hudnall)
Moore (1862-1945).  The three of them are buried in the Old Riverview
Cemetery at Morgantown, Butler County, Kentucky.  He departed this life on
September 19, 1965, in his seventy-seventh year.
     He was born near Logansport, in Butler County, on Green River, and grew up
in the Big Bend Area near Salem Baptist Church.  He attended Grade School
at Salem, went to Morgantown High School, attended Bethel Men's Baptist
College, Russellville, and Western Kentucky College at Bowling Green.  
     He felt called of God to preach the Gospel of Christ at age sixteen (in
1904), after his conversion and baptism previously, and was licensed to
preach by the Salem Church about 1910.  His ordination took place in 1911
at the same Church, and he attended the Southern Baptist Convention as a
representative from the Gasper River Association and Messenger from the
Salem Church that same year.  He had previously served as a Messenger from
the Salem Church to the Gasper River Association in 1909-1911, and he
continued serving in that capacity through 1917.  He served the Salem
(1914-1917), Richland (1914-1919), New Harmony (1915), Sandy Creek (1915)
and Union (1915) Churches.  In 1914 and 1918 he represented Gasper River
Association at the General Association of Baptists in Kentucky.
     From 1919 through 1942 he served the following Churches in Butler County:
New Harmony (1919, 1941-1942); New Liberty (1919); Richland (1919-1920,
1925, 1929-1937); Temple View (1919 and 1921); Big Muddy (1924); Morgantown
(1922-1924); Pleasant Grove (1929-1930); Sandy Creek (1929); Salem
(1929-1931); Rochester (1932-1935); and New Midway (1934) all in Gasper
River Association.  He served Quality Church also (1934-1936) in that same
body.  Three Ohio County pastorates were at Green River (1919, 1924-1925,
1928-1939); Slaty Creek (1934-1942) and Rockport (1937-1941).  Three
Muhlenberg County pastorates were at:  Beech Creek, for one-half time
(1926-1927), Hazel Creek, for one-fourth time (1926-1928); and Bethlehem
for one fourth time in 1926-1928) and (1941-1942) and one-half time in
1943-1945.  He served Sacramento Church, in McLean County, for one-fourth
time in 1943-1944, and for one-half time in 1945-1947.  From 1949 through
1955 he served the Church full time.  This was his last pastorate.
     He preached the Annual Sermon before the Muhlenberg County Association, 
in 1926; and did the same before the Gasper River Association in 1916, 1923,
1925, 1929, 1930, 1931, and in 1933.  He was Clerk of the Gasper River body
in 1912-1916, and served as the Moderator in the period 1919-1924 and
1937-1938.
     On December 29, 1908, he was united in marriage to Monnie B. Hilton of
Butler County.  To this union was born seven children - five daughters and
two sons - Bernice (Moore) Stuarat, Sibyl (Moore) Swetman, Mary (Moore)
Lampe, Charlotte (Moore) Smith, Joyce (Moore) Kincaid, and Thurman H.
Moore, deceased.  Another son, James Temple Moore (b. July 7, 1915 - d.
December 24, 1935) was in military service, Company D, 11th Infantry, where
he died, at age twenty.  His widow, five daughters, 17 grand-children, and
14 great-grandchildren survived him.  His widow has died in recent years. 
They are buried in Riverview Cemetery, Morgantown, Kentucky.

Moore Hudnall Hilton Stuart Swetman Lampe Smith Kincaid
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Butler-KY Russellville-Logan-KY Bowling_Green-Warren-KY Muhlenberg-KY 
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