"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. 445.
Used by permission.  [Daviess]

DEACON JACOB FRANK BRUNER:  Professor J. Frank Bruner, as he is 
familiarly known, was born on October 11, 1883 at Chambers, in 
Hancock County, Kentucky.  He is the son of John Bayse and Mary Hite 
Bruner.  He has been able to secure a good education.  He attended 
the grade schools of Ohio County, did his high school work in the 
normal department of the University of Kentucky at Lexington, and 
received his B.S. degree from the same institution.  For some time he 
also attended the Universities of Chicago and Indiana.  For thirty-
three years he taught in the grade and high schools of Kentucky.  In 
this time he served as the efficient Principal of the Whitesville 
School for a number of years.
	He was converted at the age of sixteen and was baptized into 
the fellowship of Old Panther Creek Church by Rev. J. Denham Hocker.  
He has served as Clerk, Deacon, Financial Secretary, teacher in the 
Sunday School and as Sunday School Superintendent in the different 
Churches of which he has been a member.  He was ordained a deacon by 
the Calvary Baptist Church, Lexington, Ky., in the spring of 1917, 
and has served the Hartford, Auburn, and Whitesville Churches in that 
capacity during the last twenty-six years.  He served at one time as 
the Assistant Moderator of the Association and has served on several 
important Committees since coming into this Association of Baptists.
	He was married to Miss Isa Lee Wells of Whitesville, Kentucky, 
on August 4, 1913.  They have one son, Marshall, who is now serving 
in the armed forces of our country.  Professor J. Frank Bruner is a 
good man and a worthy Church leader and respected by all who know 
him.

Bruner Hite Hocker Wells
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Hancock Ohio Fayette IL IN Logan 


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