"A HISTORY OF THE DAVIESS-McLEAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION IN KENTUCKY, 
1844-1943" by Wendell H. Rone.  Probably published in 1944 by 
Messenger Job Printing Co., Inc., Owensboro, Kentucky, pp. 285-286.  
Used by permission.  [Ohio]

JAMES F. AUSTIN:  It is to be regretted that very little information 
has been found concerning this outstanding preacher.  He was 
considered one of the most eloquent pulpit orators in the Green River 
country in his day.  His birth occurred in Butler County in the year 
1819.  Here he received a scant education.  About the year 1842 he 
professed faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour and was baptized 
into the fellowship of the old Beaver Dam church by Elder Alfred 
Taylor.  By this same church he was ordained to the ministry in 1845, 
and in the same year took the pastoral charge of Salem Church in 
Butler County.
     He is known to have pastored West Providence, Green River, 
Walton's Creek, Slaty Creek, Beaver Dam, Pond Run, Mt. Carmel, and 
Hartford in Ohio County; Greenville, Nelson Creek, and Paradise, in 
Muhlenberg County; Cool Spring, Salem and Rochester, in Butler County; 
and others of which we are not informed.
     Some of the churches he served were members of this Association 
at the time.  He also served as a fraternal messenger from the Gasper 
River Association to this body on several occasions.  After the death 
of the venerable Alfred Taylor his mantle of leadership fell on the 
shoulders of J. F. Austin.  He served Gasper River Association as 
clerk for eight years and as Moderator for ten years.  His death 
occurred on October 4, 1883, in his 64th year.  He deserves a larger 
comment on his useful life but this is all the data we have.

Austin Taylor
=
Butler Muhlenberg

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