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, p 113 [Barren County] WILLIAM RATLIFF was one of the early preachers in Green River Association. He was ordained to the ministry at Blue Spring church, in Barren county, in 1806. He was immediately called to the pastoral care of this church, and served it some ten or a dozen years, when he was called to his reward. He had the reputation of being a good, faithful man. It is regretted that so little is now know of him. Some of his posterity still live around old Blue Spring Church. Ratliff = none http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/barren/ratliff.w.txt