brother, Porter Clay, was an able Baptist minister; he lived in Frankfort, Kentucky, many years, and was pastor of the church there. He removed to Illinois and lived several years, and then removed to Camden, Arkansas, where he died at a good old age, and was buried there. Hon. Nathaniel Watkins, half brother of the Clays' lived and died at Jackson, Cape Girardeau, Mo. He was an eminent lawyer, a prominent and active Baptist.

It was here at this association I fist met Dr. Stephen F. Gano, whose grandfather, John Gano, of Revolutionary fame, preached the associational sermon at this old Clear Creek Church 1787, soon after his coming to Ky. Very touching allusion was made here to this John Gano as the man who had been Gen. George Washington's chaplain through the war, and had also baptized Washington himself, along with other soldiers, during the war. Not long since I spoke of this fact, when it was called in question, as none of the histories make mention of it; so I wrote to Dr. Gano, who is still living in Georgetown, Ky., now eighty-eight years old, and asked him about it, and he replied, date of Oct. 11, 1894, and says:

"I am the grandson of Rev. John Gano, who was the chaplain of Gen. George Washington during the whole of the Revolutionary struggle, and at its close, at Yorktown, was requested by Washington to deliver an address to the army and return his thanks for their services. He was pastor of a Baptist church in New York city when the war commenced, and he and two other his sons and son-in-law went into the service and served to the close of the war.

My grandfather was then in the middle age, and his oldest son, Capt. Daniel Gano, remained in the army after the close of the war and was ordered to Frankfort, Ky., with four hundred men, to watch the Indian depredations.

Rev. W. C. Buck, who established the fist Baptist paper at Louisville, Ky., came from Virginia, and said that he had met some Virginia Baptist who were present and saw the baptism of Washington by my grandfather in James River during the war; and some old Virginians who settled in Texas told my nephew, Gen. R. M. Gano, the same thing. The older ones of our family had no doubt about it, and my grandfather said he thought no more of immersing George Washington than he did of baptizing

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