"A HISTORY OF THE DAVIESS-McLEAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION IN KENTUCKY, 
1844-1943" by Wendell H. Rone.  Probably published in 1944 by 
Messenger Job Printing Co., Inc., Owensboro, Kentucky, pp. 330-332.  
Used by permission.  [Daviess]

NORRIS LASHBROOK:  This much beloved brother was born on November 15, 
1869, near Masonville, in Daviess County, Kentucky, and was the son 
of Norris and Lucy Bean Lashbrook.  His father was a veteran of the 
Civil War having enlisted in Dr. C. T. Noel's Company of Wheeler's 
Confederate Cavalry While in this war he fought in the battles of 
Murfreesboro, Tenn., Perryville, Ky., Chickamauga, Tenn., Missionary 
Ridge, Dug Gap, Kenesaw Mountain, and Peach Tree, Georgia, 
Bentonville, N. C., and various other skirmishes.
	The subject of our sketch was converted at the age of eighteen 
and was baptized into the fellowship of Sugar Grove Baptist Church by 
Elder B. F. Swindler.  By this same church he was licensed to preach 
in August, 1890.  His ordination did not take place until July 21, 
1905, when, at the call of Zion Church, he was set apart to the work 
of the ministry by Elders R. T. Bruner, B. F. Jenkins, D. E. Yeiser, 
and deacons from Walnut Street, Bell's Run, Macedonia, Bethabara, and 
Red Hill churches.
	In the length of time between his being licensed to preach and 
his ordination he was in the midst of the struggle of deciding an 
answer to the question, "To preach or not to preach."  He proved to 
be Sugar Grove's greatest gift to the denomination.  Brother 
Lashbrook served over thirty churches in Daviess, Hancock, Ohio, and 
McLean Counties.  The following churches in this Association enjoyed 
his ministerial labors: Zion 1905-1906, Green Briar 1919-1911 and 
1914-1922, Oak Grove (Utica) 1923-1929, Old Buck Creek 1915-1920 and 
1929-1931, Sorgho 1930-1935, Friendship, 1909-1911, 1918, 1921, and 
1934-1935, Hopewell 1907, Macedonia 1907, Maceo 1908 and 1917-1920, 
Island 1915-1917, Brushy Fork 1922, Curdsville 1906-1908, and 
Pleasant Ridge 1915.  While pastor at Utica the present Sunday School 
annex was completed.  The Church at Friendship was constituted as a 
result of his labors in that community.  Brother Lashbrook was a very 
unselfish and humble man.  His unusual demeanor led to the following 
editorial being written and published in the Messenger-Inquirer on 
December 1, 1935.
	"For a generation the Rev. Norris Lashbrook went about this 
section preaching Christ and Him crucified, and when he came to die 
the other day he asked that only the simplest funeral be held.
	He had gone humbly and persistently and wanted no tribute but 
his own life which he knew would be remembered long after the words of 
formal eulogy cease to echo.
	Funeral sermons are largely formal.  We are accustomed to hear 
the virtues of the dead extolled and vices glossed over with undue 
praise, and of the dead who slip away into the unmeasured void few go 
without the trappings of funeral praise.
	When a man has lived his life in service as he understood it and 
then prefers that life to speak for him in the last hour it is so 
unusual that we pause to meditate.
	It was no magnificent cathedral in which the dead Baptist 
Minister implored men and women to change their ways, but in rural 
churches amid sylvan scenes, and ofttimes under the open sky with no 
canopy but the starry heavens.  But all about this and the neighboring 
counties are people who bear eloquent testimony to his pleadings, and 
they will pause in passing by the rounded mound of earth that holds 
his dust and drop a word of thanks."
	Our brother quietly passed on to be with Christ on the morning of 
November 26, 1935.  He was married to Miss Lorena Williams on March 15, 
1892.  One son was born to this union.  These two survived him.  
Funeral services were conducted from the First Baptist Church in 
Owensboro by the Pastor, Rev. Robert E. Humphreys.  His body was laid 
to rest in Rose Hill cemetery to await the resurrection at the last 
morn.  The Churches and the people and the Association were blessed by 
the life and labors of Norris Lashbrook.  Mrs. Lashbrook died August 
12, 1943.

Lashbrook Bean Noel Wheeler Swindler Bruner Jenkins Yeiser Williams 
Humphreys
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TN GA NC Hancock Ohio McLean

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