7. Solomon Joseph’s father seems to have been a Separatist Baptist, which movement had begun in the Great Revival (1801-1803) in Paris, Kentucky. (His granduncle Peter’s father-in-law, Henry Skaggs, was a Baptist preacher of that period and region as was his granduncle Marshall’s father-in-law, Benjamin Lynn.) The Campbellites followed the teachings of one Alexander Campbell. This Irishman of Presbyterian training lived in West Virginia in 1810 where he taught a simple evangelical brand of Christianity to promote unity among the churches. Cambellites joined with Baptists in 1813 and in 1832 united with Kentucky Christians to form the Disciples of Christ or Christian Church. A major driving force of this movement in the west was Barton W. Stone (born 1772), who moved his Christian Messenger west to Illinois and then to Missouri, where he died in 1844. It may be of some interest that Sydney Rigdon, one of the prominent leaders of the LDS Church was earlier a member of the Campbellite movement [Extract].