A Sesquicentennial History of the Green River Missionary Baptist Church
1836 - 1986, Written and Compiled by Wendell Holmes Rone, Sr., For the One
Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Church, 1987. By
permission of author. Ohio County.

MONT M. HAMPTON became the Sixteenth pastor of the Green River Church in
March, 1897, and served through March, 1898, a period of one year.  He was
born on December 25, 1855, in Butler County, Kentucky.  He professed faith
in Christ at age fifteen, in 1870, and united with the Lebanon Cumberland
Presbyterian Church in Butler County.  He adhered unto that faith until
October 25, 1890, when he was baptized into the fellowship of the Green
River Church by pastor James N. Jarnagin.
	On Saturday, June 13, 1891, he was licensed to preach the Gospel of Christ
by the Green River Church.  On May 31, 1892, he was ordained to the full
Gospel Ministry by Pastor T. H. Balmain and Brethren J. S. Rogers, Joseph
B. Rogers, Sr., A. Rogers, S. T. Stevens and C. S. Taylor of Slaty Creek
Church; Pastor G. W. Gordon of Cool Spring Church; Pastor J. C. Davis of
Rosine Church; Dr. J. S. Coleman (Pastor), Rev. James N. Jarnagin, and Bro.
Joseph Blackburn Rogers, Jr., from Hartford Church; Brother J. M. Rogers
from Beaver Dam Church; Pastor A. J. Snodgrass, Rev. J. H. Aldrage and
Brother W. E. White from Mount Vernon Church.  Dr. Coleman served as the
Moderator and Questioner, and Brother Joseph B. Rogers, Jr., served as the
Clerk of the Council.  After a thorough examination, approval of the
Council's findings, and the Laying on of the Hands of the Presbytery
(Council) the candidate was fully ordained to the Ministry.
	During his brief ministry he served the Cool Spring, Green River, Salem,
New Harmony, New Zion and Mt. Zion Churches as Pastor.  His untimely death
at age forty-four too[k] place on September 1, 1900, in Ohio County,
Kentucky.  He was buried in the Green River Cemetery.  Brother Birch
Shileds [sic] drew up proper Resolutions of Respect and Remembrance
concerning him which were adopted by the Church in September, 1900, and
spread on the Minute Book of the Church.  He was considered as a very
useful member of the Church.

Hampton Jarnagin Balmain Rogers Stevens Taylor Gordon Davis Coleman
Snodgrass Aldrage White Shields
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Butler-KY

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