"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. 351-352.  
Used by permission. [Livingston] 

BROOKEN T. TAYLOR:  We have been able to find but little concerning 
the life and labors of this eminent man.  He was born and reared in 
Henderson County, Ky.  In early life he obtained hope in Christ and 
united with a Baptist Church in his native county.  Having been 
licensed to preach he went to Georgetown College where he completed 
his course about the year 1854.  He then took charge of the church at 
Columbia in Adair County, Ky.  Here he labored with very remarkable 
success about four years.  From Columbia he was called to the care of 
the church at New Castle in Henry County.  After about two years of 
labor there, in 1860, he was called to the care of the First Baptist 
Church in Owensboro, where he labored two years.  During his pastorate 
here a new building was completed and dedicated.  Having peculiar 
beliefs in regard to formal dedications the church voted not to hold 
such a ceremony.  During his pastorate at the First Church he began 
to agitate strongly an opposition to the practice of intercommunion 
among the churches of the Association.  Elder Taylor took the position 
that each church should confine the administration of the Lord's 
Supper to its own members.  His great ability so influenced the 
Association for a time that it declared in favor of the views and 
advised the churches to "examine the Scriptural authority for this 
practice."  Many members, preachers, and churches still hold to the 
views he advocated, which are often referred to as Landmark Baptist 
beliefs.
	Elder Taylor preached the annual sermon before the Association in 
1861.  From Owensboro he moved to Henderson County and served the 
church at Henderson and others in the Little Bethel Association, from 
1863 to 1867.  During this period he served the Little Bethel 
Association as Moderator for three years.  About 1868 he moved to 
Missouri and accepted the care of the church at Columbia.  Here he 
spent the remainder of his very useful and eminently successful life.  
He died in the year 1899 and was buried at Smithland, Ky.
	Elder Taylor was a man of unusual mental strength and was 
variable in his moods and labors.  Few men have displayed a higher 
degree of intellectual power in the pulpit or enjoyed a higher degree 
of success in the ministry than he.  His character was high and 
unimpeachable.

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