"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. 474-475.
Used by permission.  [McLean]

DEACON WILLIAM GRIMES STROUD:  W. G. Stroud was born in Rumsey, 
McLean County, Kentucky, on May 16, 1840, and was the only boy in a 
family of eight children born to Reuben and Caroline Pitt Stroud, 
natives of Muhlenberg and McLean Counties.  Reuben Stroud was the son 
of Lot Stroud who married Miss Nancy Grimes and emigrated to Kentucky 
about the year 1806 and settled on Green River near South Carrollton, 
Kentucky.
	Brother Stroud remained at home until grown and attended the 
schools at hand when occasion permitted.  Imbued with a patriotic 
zeal to serve his country, he enlisted on October 4, 1861, in Company 
H. Eleventh Kentucky Infantry (Federal), and was in the battles of 
Shiloh, Stone River, the siege of Knoxville, and the Atlanta 
Campaign.  In December, 1864, he was discharged as a Sergeant, his 
term of service having expired, and returned home to enter the 
occupation of farming, which was his main business until his death.
	He was married to Miss Karaeziek Plain, a daughter of John and 
Tamar Ross Plain, on January 17, 1867.  Ten children were born to 
this union.  Mrs. Stroud died on February 25, 1923, at the age of 
eighty-two.  She was known affectionately as "Aunt K." and was a 
faithful and lifelong member of Station Baptist Church.  About seven 
of the children are still living and two of them live on the old home 
place.
	Mr. Stroud became a member of Station Baptist Church by faith 
and baptism in the year 1861.  He remained a faithful and consistent 
member until his death, which occurred on January 11, 1929, at the 
advanced age of eighty-eight.  He was elected Clerk of the Church in 
March, 1866, and served in that capacity for fifty-two years and two 
months in succession, and in that time he missed but eighteen 
meetings of the Church.  This is a record unequaled in the annals of 
the Association and Churches.  From the year 1870 until his death, a 
period of fifty-nine years, he served this Church as deacon.  During 
all this long span of years he was present at each annual session of 
the Association, with very few exceptions, as a messenger from his 
Church.
	His funeral was preached at the Station Church on Sunday 
afternoon January 13, 1929, by his pastor, S. A. Kittinger, and his 
remains were interred in the cemetery across the road from the 
Church.
	For many years Mr. Stroud served as County Surveyor of McLean 
County.  He was a high-type citizen and Christian gentleman.  
Congressman David H. Kincheloe and many other outstanding men paid 
rare tribute to his memory.  The eulogy of one seems to be fitting in 
closing this sketch of such a good man: "A man of high order and 
native intellectuality, a student well informed, unassuming, a quiet 
leader whose leadership was always for good morals and the upbuilding 
[sic] of the community, that for over seventy years was William Grimes 
Stroud."

Stroud Pitt Plain Ross Kittinger Kincheloe Grimes 
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Muhlenberg

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