A History of Kentucky Baptists From 1769 to 1885, Including More Than 800 Biographical Sketches, J. H. Spencer, Manuscript Revised and Corrected by Mrs. Burilla B. Spencer, In Two Volumes. Printed For the Author. 1886. Republished By Church History Research & Archives 1976 Lafayette, Tennessee. Vol. 2, p. 101 [Owen County] M. M. RILEY, a native of Owen county, where he was raised up to the ministry, and a graduate of Georgetown College, was called to the care of Mayslick church, in Mason county, about the year 1875, where he has continued to minister, much to the satisfaction of the church, to the present time. * He is a young man of excellent attainments, and is much esteemed for his deep-toned piety and devotion to the cause of Christ. *He has gone to Bowling Green Riley = Mayslick-Mason-KY Bowling_Green-Warren-KY http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/owen/riley.mm.txt