J. R. BARBEE has been one of the most active and useful ministers in
Union Association, for a number of years. He was raised up to the
ministry, in Mt. Pleasant church, in Jessamine county, which church he
represented in Elkhorn Association, from 1845, till 1851. In 1852, he
united with Silas church in Bourbon county, where he remained eight
years. He then moved within the boundary of Union Association. Of this
body, he was Moderator, from 1866, to 1873. He has been pastor of a
number of churches, and has performed much missionary labor. He is
still actively engaged in the ministry. His son, J. N. Barbee, late of
Mt. Olivet, in Robertson county, but now living in Kansas, was one of
the most active and useful preachers in that portion of the State.
