This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Green, Young, Warder, Sissen, Dobbyns Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WBB.2ACI/2975 Message Board Post: Elisha Winfield Green was born into slavery in Bourbon County, Ky in 1816, Green was one of the first African-American ministers in Kentucky. Around 1848, he founded the First African Baptist Church in Maysville, Ky. which is now Bethel Baptist Church, and in 1855, he founded First African Baptist Church in Paris,Ky which is now First Baptist Church. His memoir is posted at: http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/greenew/greenew.html