A Sesquicentennial History of the Green River Missionary Baptist Church 1836 - 1986, Written and Compiled by Wendell Holmes Rone, Sr., For the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Church, 1987. By permission of author. Ohio County. BROTHER J. D. FINLEY was licensed by the Church to preach on December 9, 1871. It was repeated on March 7, 1872. Then, at the call of the Mt. Liberty Church, he was ordained by the Church to the Gospel Ministry by Baptist Ministers Benjamin F. Jenkins and R. H. Miller, on July 14, 1872. This was the last action taken by the Church in this respect during its first half-century of existence. Finley Jenkins Miller = none http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/ohio/finley.jd.txt