Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 489-491 [Caldwell]

     R. W. MOREHEAD, D. D.  No minister of the gospel in western
Kentucky is more widely known or more beloved by all alike than Rev.
Robert Woodson Morehead, D. D., the present pastor of the First Baptist
church of Princeton.  He was born in Logan county, Kentucky, in 1834,
being the oldest son of James Duncan Morehead and Henrietta Poor
Morehead, both natives of Logan county.  His grandfather, Presley
Morehead, was a Virginian and was a major in the war of 1812.  The
Moreheads are of Scotch-Irish descent.  His grandfather on his mother's
side was Drewry W. Poor, also a Virginian and a colonel of militia,
being of Scotch-Irish blood.
     He was a student at Bethel College two years, and entered Union
University, at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in 1859, graduating there from
with the degree of Master of Arts.  He was licensed to preach in 1856
and was ordained at Green Ridge church, Kentucky, in 1859.  His first
charge was Bethel church, in Christian county, which he served from
1860 to 1864, although during the Civil war he was chaplain to the
First Kentucky Cavalry under General Ben Hardin Helm, former governor
of Kentucky.
     In February, 1863, he was united in marriage to Miss Helen
Garnett, of Christian county.  She was the only child of E. B. and
Frances Pendleton Garnett, both Virginians by birth.  She had four
brothers: Virgil A. Garnett, deceased in 1889; W. W. Garnett, president
of the Pembroke Bank; John P. Garnett, a retired capitalist of
Pembroke; and Hon. James B. Garnett, of Cadiz, for eighteen years
commonwealth's attorney of the fourth judicial district, and
universally acknowledged to be the ablest prosecutor the state has ever
produced.
     Dr. Morehead's father, Presley Morehead, was the first cousin of
James T. Morehead, Charles S. Morehead and Simon Bolivar Buckner, all
three governors of Kentucky, and of Governor John Morehead, of
Thompson, Indiana, secretary of the navy under President Hayes. 
They have three children, Clarence G., Charles S. and Miss Fannie, all
of whom reside in Princeton.
     Dr. Morehead was pastor at Cadiz in the latter part of the
sixties, and accepted a call to New Bethel, Lyon county, in 1874.  This
is one of the strongest Baptist organizations in Kentucky, and Dr.
Morehead served this congregation continuously for twenty-five years.
     The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him in 1891 by
Bethel College.  He is the author of numerous tracts, and has also
written "A History of Little River Association."  "The Divine Purpose
and Man's Free Agency" is his most ambitious production.  Dr. Morehead
is a man of strong religious convictions, full of zeal for the cause of
Christianity, but charitable to the shortcomings of others, and his
pure and beautiful life has been an inspiration to those about him. 
Loved and honored by all in the faith, and respected and pointed to as
an example by that class who claim no religious convictions and who
even at times are wont to scoff at Christianity, he has been a blessing
to the world. 

Morehead Poor Helm Garnett Buckner
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Logan-KY VA TN Christian-KY IN Lyon-KY

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