A History of Kentucky Baptists, From 1769 to 1885, by J. H. Spencer, 1886, Reprinted by Church History and Archives, 1976, Lafayette, TN. Cumberland River Association. Pulaski County. MALACHI COOPER was one of the pioneer preachers of Pulaski county. He gathered old Fishing Creek church, about 1803, as is supposed, and ministered to it many years. He was Moderator of the Cumberland River Association, as early as 1811, and represented his church in that body, as late as 1822. It is regretted that little else is known of him. A numerous posterity survives him, and among them several useful ministry. Cooper = none http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/pulaski/cooper.m.txt