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.  Used by permission.  p. 262.  Daviess

DARNELL DOWDEN, D.D.:  In almost every record where we find the name of this
brother it is invariably given as being D. Dowden.  Our subject was born in
Woodford County, Ky., January 2, 1824.  Although he received but a scant
knowledge of letters in his youth by dint of close application in study in
later years he became a good scholar and acquired some knowledge of the
Greek language.  After making a profession of faith in Christ he united with
the Little Mount Church in his native county and near which he was born and
reared.  This was about the year 1839.  He was licensed to preach by the
same Church in 1841 and ordained in 1843.  After serving some churches in
and near his home he moved to the town of Leitchfield in about the year
1852.  He took charge of the church there and also some churches nearby.  He
labored in this field about ten years and then moved to Breckenridge County
where he lived to the end of his earthly life.

     His fields of labor were in Anderson, Washington, Spencer, Daviess,
Grayson, Meade, and Breckenridge Counties; and his ministry of fifty years
was greatly blessed in the organization of new churches and in soulwinning.
He was a man of rich religious experience and ardent piety of deep
convictions and courage to avow them.  He was readily recognized as a
theologian, thinker, an instructive preacher, and able writer.  His death
occurred in the city of Louisville, Ky., on the night of May 15, 1891, in
the 68th year of his age.

     He assisted in the constitution of Macedonia Church in 1849 and Calhoun
in 1850.  In the years 1851 and 1852 he served as the Missionary of the
Daviess County Association and his labors were rewarded with successful
revivals in many places.  He pastored Pleasant Grove Church in 1849-1850 and
Yelvington in 1850-1852.  We know of no other particulars of his useful life
other than that he was Moderator of Goshen Association from about 1875 to
1890: a period of fifteen years.

Dowden
=
Woodford Breckinridge Anderson Washington Spencer Grayson Meade

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