"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, p. 347.  Used by permission.
[Daviess]

A. B. SMITH:  Very little is known of this man of God.  Enough is known, 
however, to create a longing to know more.  He was born about the year 
1828 and was a graduate of Georgetown College.  The first record we have 
of him is as pastor of the First Baptist Church in Owensboro, which 
pastorate he entered into in April, 1856.  He served acceptably and well 
until September, 1858.  The other churches that he served in Daviess 
County Association were: Bell's Run, 1863-1864; Curdsville, 1869-1870; 
Beaver Dam, 1871, Bethlehem, 1879-1881; and New Hope, 1884-1885.  He 
also served Pond Run, Green River, and Rochester Churches, in 1875-1876.
	He first married Miss Sarah Gilespie, who died in September.  
1866.  We do not know the maiden name of his second wife.  He had two 
sons by his first wife but no children by his second.  He died at 
Rockport, Ohio County, Kentucky, on April 8, 1898, at the age of 
seventy.  His ministry was notable and useful.  Here the curtain falls.  
We can but wish to know more about him but must be content to wait until 
the curtain is drawn aside and the now hidden things brought to view.  
Until then, these few lines are inscribed to his memory.

Smith Gilespie
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Ohio-KY

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