The Jubilee History and Biographical Sketches of the [Black] Liberty 
Association, G. R. Ford.  Printed and Published by Times Publishing 
Company of Smith's Grove, Ky., 1916. Also taken from Barren's Black 
Roots, Vol. 3, Michelle B. Gorin, (C) May 1993. Used by permission.

REV ELZY LEWIS the subject of this sketch was born a slave in 1856, in 
Barren county, Ky., on the farm owned by Mr. Jack Lewis, near Barren 
River.  He was the third child and next to the youngest of four children 
of Mrs. Francis Lewis.  He professed a hope in Christ in 1876, during a 
revival that was being conducted by Rocky Hill by Rev. Ben Rogers and 
was baptized and united with that church.  It seemed that almost from 
the first he felt the call of God to the ministry, for within six months 
after his baptism he was in active service of his Master, preaching the 
gospel of Jesus Christ to a sinful world.  He died during the summer of 
1900 at Summer Shade, Ky., which in the discharge of his pastoral 
duties, being a valiant worker and soldier of the cross, he died on the 
firing line.  A christian gentleman, a fearless advocate of right, a 
loving husband and father, a potent factor of the church.

Lewis Rogers
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Barren-KY

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