"On the 10th of March, 1838, messengers from the Baptist Churches at Licking, Dry Creek, Four Mile and East Bend, Kentucky, and Ninth Street and Enon Baptist Churches, Cincinnati, Ohio, met in a school house on the northeast corner of Fourth and Scott Streets in this city. Elder S. W. Lynd preached from Acts 2:47, whereupon twenty-one brethren and sisters from various Baptist Churches presented themselves and were publicly recognized by the messengers from the above-named churches as the First Baptist Church in Covington, Kentucky."
============== Pastors of the Church
Rev. John B. Cook March, 1838 to January, 1839. Revs. Savage & Drury, Supplies January, 1839 to October, 1839. Rev. Joseph T. Robert October, 1839 to February, 1842. Rev. Asa Drury May, 1842 to January, 1845. Rev. R. C. Patterson, Supply September, 1845 to March, 1846. Rev. James M. Frost March, 1846 to June, 1848. Rev. Asa Drury, Supply August, 1848 to February, 1849. Rev. Samuel W. Lynd February, 1849 to November, 1852. Rev. John M. Peck November, 1852 to March, 1854. Rev. S. L. Helm September, 1854 to _________. Rev. William Price April, 1860 to October, 1861. Rev. W. P. Yeatman September, 1862 to February, 1868. Rev. G. F. Pentecost August, 1868 to December, 1869. Rev. W. H. Felix July, 1870 to December, 1884. Rev. W. O. Bailey March, 1885 to January, 1887. Rev. A. C. Davidson November, 1887 to August, 1893. Rev. C. G. Jones November, 1894 to May, 1902. Rev. C. W. Daniels October, 1902 to September, 1905. Rev. W. M. Wood January, 1906 to April, 1908. Rev. A. C. Davidson October, 1908 to October, 1912. Rev. R. B. McDaniel February, 1913 to September, 1917. Rev. L. L. Henson March, 1918 to May, 1928.
================ [Taken from The First Baptist Church, Covington, KY, Year Book and Directory, 1928. From a copy at the Kenton County Public Library, Covington, KY. - Scanned and formatted by Jim Duvall.]
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