Historical Sketches of Kentucky by Lewis Collins, Maysville, KY. and J. A.
& U. P. James, Cincinnati, 1847. Volume 1. Reprinted 1968.  Mason County.
The Methodist Episcopal Church. Pages 448-449. 

JOSEPH LILLARD was born in Virginia and came to Kentucky when quite young.
He entered the itinerant ministry in 1790, and was appointed to the
Limestone circuit.  His next and (as result of ill health) last
appointment was to the Salt River district.  In his local relations to the
church, although as a preacher, unpretending, yet, by the sanctity of his
life, and devotion to the church, he was very useful.  He died about 1853,
while on his way to Missouri.  It is not know when, where, or how he died.
His friends think he was murdered.

Lillard
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VA MO

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