"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. 329-330. Used by permission. [Daviess] HENRY THORNTON LAMPTON: Elder Henry Thornton Lampton was born in Nelson County, Kentucky, January 20, 1814. When a boy one year of age he was taken by his parents to Breckenridge County, Kentucky, where he grew to manhood. His early life was spent on a farm. Being extremely fond of books, and with a few advantages, he obtained a fair education. In early fire [sic] he united with a Methodist class, but was not fully identified with a church of that order until about his twenty-fifth year. About the year 1842 he was licensed to exercise his gifts and was ordained as a deacon in 1847 by Bishop Capers. After laboring as a deacon for about four years he began to doubt the correctness of the Methodist doctrine and polity. After a very tedious investigation of the subject he was baptized into the fellowship of the Constantine Baptist Church by Elder E. T. Hickerson, as he had become convinced of the Scripturalness of the Baptist Faith. One month later that church licensed him to preach, and, at the end of another month, he was set apart to the Baptist Ministry by Elders Darnell Dowden, J. Armstrong and A. J. Dye. This was about the year 1856. Immediately after his ordination he became pastor of the Constantine Church, and was soon after called to the care of the Hanging Rock Church in Grayson County. At different periods he also served the Churches at Stephensport, Hopeful, Millerstown, Leitchfield, Panther Creek, Bethlehem, Union, Pleasant Grove, and Mt. Pleasant (Fordsville). All of the above churches were in Goshen and other Associations. In 1870 he was called to the care of the Yelvington Church in this Association. The same year he was chosen pastor at Chestnut Grove, also in this Association. He pastored Oak Grove (Utica) from 1870 through 1872; Macedonia 1871-1873; Yelvington 1870-1873; and Chestnut Grove 1870-1874. Sometime in the year 1874 he moved to Rockport, Indiana, and commenced laboring at Baker's Creek, Grandview, Newtonville, and Rockport Churches. He gathered the church in the last mentioned place and ministered to it for three years. Later on in his life he labored at Cloverport, Kentucky, and other churches near there. After that time we lose record of him. During the Civil War he labored as a missionary of the Goshen Association with good success. In 1865 he held a four days debate with a Mr. Tandy, a Campbellite preacher, and carried all before him by the power of his arguments. His death took place in Owensboro, Kentucky, on August 27, 1897. We are inclined to believe that he is buried in the Elmwood Cemetery. In his latter days he was affectionately called "Father Lampton" because of his patriarchal appearance and pious manner. No preacher in this section was more widely known and there was none who was more fondly revered. He was exceedingly laborious and eminently successful during his entire ministry. We have found no particulars concerning his family life. Lampton Capers Hickerson Dowden Armstrong Dye Tandy = Nelson Breckenridge Grayson Rockport-Spencer-IN http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/daviess/lampton.ht.txt