Abraham Lincoln and religion . Rev. Samuel Bristow,Morgan County Pioneer,Preached To Lincolns iDtereetlng both as an incident Inthe pioneer history of Morgan countytnd In Its relation to the growingmass of Lincolnlana is the identifica-tion of Rev. Samuel Bristow, pioneerBaptist preacher in Morgan county,Bs the same Samuel Bristow who wasthe first regular preacher at the Lin-coln family church in Indiana, thePigeon Church on Pigeon Creek InSpencer County. In 1816, a group of thirteen settlersalong Pigeon Creek, including Sam-uel Bristow and Lavina, his wife, or-ganized the Pigeon church with B

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Abraham Lincoln and religion . Rev. Samuel Bristow,Morgan County Pioneer,Preached To Lincolns iDtereetlng both as an incident Inthe pioneer history of Morgan countytnd In Its relation to the growingmass of Lincolnlana is the identifica-tion of Rev. Samuel Bristow, pioneerBaptist preacher in Morgan county,Bs the same Samuel Bristow who wasthe first regular preacher at the Lin-coln family church in Indiana, thePigeon Church on Pigeon Creek InSpencer County. In 1816, a group of thirteen settlersalong Pigeon Creek, including Sam-uel Bristow and Lavina, his wife, or-ganized the Pigeon church with Bris-tow as clerk. They were Separate Baptists, emancipationists and ratherCalvanistic. In November or Decem-ber, 1816, Thomas Lincoln brought hiswife, Niujjcy Hank;;, and his and Abraham, to Pigeon Kentucky churches with whichthe Lincolns had affiliated were Sep-arate Baptist and emancipationist, al-though the Lincolns were married bya Methodist preacher. The Kentuckychurches in the Lincoln country wer

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