"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, pp.  352-353.  Used by 
permission.  [Shelby]

J. S. TAYLOR:  Elder J. S. Taylor was born in Shelby County, Kentucky, 
September 24, 1821.  He came to Ohio County while young where he 
received a good education for the day.  He professed faith in Christ as 
Saviour while a youth and was baptized into the fellowship of Bell's Run 
Church.  This church licensed him to preach the Gospel in November, 
1855.  He later moved his membership to Whitesville Church and was 
ordained at that place on May 30, 1856, by Elders J. P. Ellis, J. R. 
Gillespie, and J G. Howard.
	His services as pastor were not many and we have no record of 
them.  We have learned that he served as missionary for the Daviess 
County and Goshen Associations, and in this field led souls to Christ.  
Disease of the throat prevented him from preaching during his later 
years, and in 1870, he was elected to represent Ohio County in the State 
Legislature.
	The only thing we have been able to find concerning his family 
life is that he was first married to Miss Nannie Phillips in January, 
1847.  After her death he married Mrs. Susan Taylor in February, 1896.  
This union was dissolved by his death on March 3, 1897.  We regret that 
more particulars have not been found of his life.

Taylor Ellis Gillespie Howard Phillips 
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Ohio-KY

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