History of Kentucky Baptists From 1769 to 1885, Including More Than
800 Biographical Sketches, J. H. Spencer, Manuscript Revised and
Corrected by Mrs. Burilla B. Spencer, In Two Volumes. Printed For the
Author. 1886. Republished By Church History Research & Archives 1976
Lafayette, Tennessee. Vol. 2, pages 540-541. [Allen County]
JOSEPH SKAGGS was a good, humble man, of moderate ability, but of
devoted piety. He was licensed to preach, by Union church in Warren
county, about 1841, and was ordained a year or two afterwards. Soon
after his ordination, with the aid of George Butler and O. H. Morrow, he
gathered Harmony church in Allen county. To this congregation, and
perhaps to some others, he ministered a few years. He died of lung
disease, about 1855.
