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.

JOHN O'BRYAN became the Fourteenth Pastor to serve the Green River Baptist
Church, beginning in November, 1894 and concluding in December, 1895.  He
was in his sixty-sixth year at the time he was called, having been born in
Hopkins County, Kentucky, on April 4, 1828. He made his home in
Madisonville, Kentucky at the time he served the Church.
	He was licensed by the Richland Baptist Church, Hopkins County, in 
April, 1857, and ordained by the same Church in September of 1858.  He pastored
the Richland Church for 28 years; Salem, 11 years; Silent Run, 15 years;
Pleasant Grove, 6 years; Olive Branch, 4 years; Zion, 4 years; Earlington,
4 years; Prospect, 4 years; Madisonville, 18 months; LaFayette, 1 year;
Slover, 2 years; Robards, 1 year; Green River, 1 year; and was a Home
Missionary in Little Bethel Association from 1867 to 1875.  He also served
the Dawson Springs Church for 14 years.  One can easily see that most of
his ministry was spent in his native County and in the bounds of Little
Bethel Association.
	Brother O'Brayan departed this life on April 26, 1913, in Madisonville,
Kentucky, in his eighty-fifth year.  A very brief obituary statement said
that he did so "rich in good works."  We have no particulars concerning his
family life.
	
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