The Owingsville Branch was organized on 10 September 1902 at the farm home of soon-to-be Branch President John W. Shrout near the present, rural location south of today’s Owingsville Ward.  The Branch was destroyed by fire in June 1957 after which it met at various locations including the Bath County Court House, a funeral home, and for a time rented space in Mt. Sterling. The Owingsville Branch was dissolved on 5 September 1971.

     From 1971 to 1973, Branch President Lilburn P. Hackney presided over the Morehead Branch which met on the Morehead State College campus until the Owingsville Ward was organized on 25 November 1975.

     The Ward initially met at the Salt Lick Civic Center before moving to its PRESENT LOCATION ON STATE HIGHWAY 36, FIVE-TENTHS OF A MILE SOUTH OF OWINGSVILLE EXIT 121 ON INTERSTATE HIGHWAY 64 WEST OF MOREHEAD, KENTUCKY.

      From 1975, Bishops Donald R. Curtis (November 1975 to February 1981); Owens Ockerman, Jr. (February 1981 to August 1988); Eugene C. Norden (August 1988 to September 1993); Peter E. Pilling (September 1993 to April 1995); Robert A. Bylund (April 1995 to April 2003, a member of the North Lexington State Presidency); G. Edward Harris (April 2003 to April 2005); Ted A. Marshall (April 2005 to July 2012); and Seth J. Green (July 2012 to pesent) have served university students in this area of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Information furnished by Brothers Don Curtis and Don Copher