"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, p. 414.  
Used by permission.  [Daviess]

BRAXTON BRAGG SAWYER, A.B., Th.M.:  This young and promising preacher 
of the Gospel was born in Hanceville, Alabama, on July 13, 1911, and 
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Sawyer.  He was converted under the 
preaching of Rev. Russell Duffer and was baptized into the fellowship 
of the Hoxie Baptist Church, Hoxie, Arkansas, in June, 1933.  On July 
31, 1933, he preached his first sermon in the Arbor Grove Church, 
near Hoxie, Arkansas, as he had felt the call to preach immediately 
after his conversion.  By this same Church he was licensed to preach.  
On April 15, 1934, he was ordained to the ministry by the Arbor Grove 
Church with Revs. G. L. Richardson, C. N. Glover, and J. T. Ashcraft 
serving as the presbytery.
	Bro. Sawyer graduated from High School in 1933 and in 1939 
received the A.B. Degree from Ouachita Baptist College, Arkadelphia, 
Arkansas.  He entered the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 
the fall of 1939 and received the Master of Theology Degree from that 
institution in May, 1942.  From first to last he has served the 
following Churches: Harmony Arbor Grove, Mt. Pisgah, Truman, Cash, 
Fisher, and Pleasant Grove, all in Arkansas.  Karn's Grove, Maceo, 
Yellow Creek, South Hampton, Dawson, all in Daviess County, Kentucky.  
Since about June, 1942, he has been pastor of the First Church of 
Pulaski, Virginia.  Miss Della Frances Bell, a member of the Dawson 
Church, has been serving as Secretary to Bro. Sawyer for about one 
year.  He preached the annual sermons before the Mt. Zion Association 
in Arkansas and the Daviess-McLean Association in Kentucky in 1936 
and 1940 respectively.  Revs. Hugh Cantrell, Gordon Oliver, and J. C. 
Wright have all been ordained under his ministry.
	He was married to Miss Ruth Coker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. 
W. Coker of Harrisburg, Arkansas, on December 11, 1935.  They have 
one child, Joy Ann Sawyer.  Mrs. Sawyer has been a constant help and 
inspiration to her husband in his ministry.  Bro. Sawyer has been 
very successful in the work of evangelism and over 150 people have 
professed faith in Christ under his ministry and he has baptized over 
600 into the fellowship of Baptist Churches.  He gives promise of a 
useful and extended ministry

Sawyer Duffer Richardson Glover Ashcraft Bell Cantrell Oliver Wright 
Coker
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