History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 602. [Scott County] [Georgetown City and Precinct] J. TAYLOR MOORE, merchant and clergyman; Georgetown; fourth son of Robert and Ann E. (Pratt) Moore, was born and raised within four miles of Georgetown, Scott County, Ky.; his father was a native of Scott County, where he grew to manhood; he was a farmer and died in 1838, leaving five sons; J. Taylor Moore was born in 1835; he was educated in the county schools; he started in life as a farmer, and at the age of twenty-one, in 1856, he married Miss Melvina Muir, of Fayette County, Ky.; twelve years later she died, leaving four children, two of whom are living; he married Sophia Lewis, of Clark County, in 1876, up to which date he had followed farming at his homestead, in this county; he moved to Georgetown, and in 1878, formed the partnership of Moore & Lemon, since which time he has conducted a grocery business; at the age of twenty-two years, he united with the Missionary Baptist Church, of which he remained a member twelve years; in 1871, he joined the Particular Baptist Church, at Georgetown, was licensed to preach in 1872, and ordained to the ministry in 1875, in which year he became assistant pastor of the church at Georgetown; he is now the pastor of four churches, viz.: Bryant's Station Church, in Fayette County; Elizabeth Church, in Bourbon County; Sardis Church, in Boone County, and that of Georgetown. Beloved by his pastorate, and recognized by all as a Christian gentleman, is the subject of these lines. Moore Pratt Muir Lewis = Fayette-KY Bourbon-KY Boone-KY http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/scott/moore.jt.txt