Person:Elijah Atherton (1)

Elijah Atherton

He grew up with his roots in the Liberty Baptist Church like Hiram Johnson and Moses Huber. His father was Rev. Moses Etherton, who was born about 1770 and came to Green County as a young man. Moses married Rachel Skaggs and they were early members of Brush Creek Baptist Church. Moses and Rachel were constituting members of Liberty Baptist in 1801. Rev. Elijah Etherton was received by experience and baptism into the Liberty Baptist Church on June 6, 1829.

He married Polly Pierce in Green County on June 24, 1829. In July of 1833, he was appointed church clerk at Liberty Baptist to replace James Pierce. Elijah became a minister in the early 1840's and began marrying people in Green County in Sept. of 1842. Elijah and his son, Rev. James A. Etherton, both on occasion are found in the LaRue County marriage records. The marriages they performed were for people that lived along Larue County's southern border from about Otter Creek to Mt. Sherman.

Rev. Moses Etherton was killed from a fall off his horse on Oct. 3, 1852 in Green County. Rev. Elijah Etherton had a farm on the head waters of Otter Creek on the Campbellsville-Hodgenville Road, now Hwy. 210. He was the pastor of churches in that corner of LaRue, Taylor, and Green County. He is probably buried somewhere in the vicinity of Corinth Church.

Rev. Moses H. Huber 'The Elder'

• Rev. Moses H. Huber was born in Mercer County, Kentucky on 24 Jan. 1795. The Huber family came to Green County in the early 1800's. Moses married Lydia Skaggs, the daughter of Rev. James Skaggs Jr., Hardin County, on 23 Feb. 1819. Rev. Skaggs helped to constitute the Rolling Fork Baptist Church in 1801. Moses Huber lived for a short time in Henry County, Tennessee near Sparta. However, Moses moved back to Green County with his family in the mid 1820's.
• Moses and his wife both joined the Liberty Baptist Church on Brush Creek in northern Green County. Moses joined by "recommendation" in May of 1829 and had close ties to this particular church till about 1850. There were many men from the Liberty Baptist Church that were bound to have influenced Moses. Men such as -

Rev. James Skaggs

Rev. David Elkin,

Rev. Joseph Pepper,

Rev. Moses Etherton,

Rev. William Downs,

Rev. John D. Oaks,

Rev. Johnson Graham,

Rev. Hiram Johnson, and

Rev. Elijah Etherton.

• Rev. Moses Huber was of the Baptist faith most of his life. He began to perform marriage's in about 1840 in both Green and LaRue County. thus, he was likely ordained as a mininster at Liberty Baptist in the early 1840's.
• He was connected with the Mt. Zion Separate Baptist Church near Zero in Hart County during the 1850's. He was pastor of Mt. Moriah Baptist Church from May of 1859 to Feb. 1864.
• On January 22, 1863, Moses Huber, 66, married Malinda Atherton, Etherton, 52. Both were born in Kentucky and both had been married once before.
• On April 29, 1868, Moses married America Kestler. This marriage record states that Moses was born in Mercer County, Kentucky and that he was 70 years of age.
• In April of 1868 he returned to Mt. Moriah as a member of that body. His first wife, Lydia had died in November of 1862. His second wife Malinda Atherton, Etherton is not with him. Moses married a third wife America Kessler in April of 1868. She was the widow of D. W. Kessler. In June of 1872, Moses and America joined the Mt. Zion Separate Baptist Church where they were members till Moses died 'cause Measles'.
• Moses Huber deeded much of his property to his three living children, James H. Hoover, Mary Hoover, and Mrs. Louisia Jane Johnson before he died. Moses spent some of his last days in the watch care of Sydney L. Johnson, his son-in-law, who was the first merchant and postmaster of Mt. Sherman. Moses H. Huber or Hoover as it was sometimes spelled died on 17 Nov. 1874 and is buried at Mt. Sherman by his wife Lydia.