"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. 453-454.
Used by permission.  [Daviess]

DEACON BENJAMIN TAYLOR DAWSON:  Deacon B. T. Dawson was born near 
Masonville, Daviess County, Kentucky, on August 25, 1836, and was the 
son of Joseph McAnn and Elizabeth Miller Dawson.  His father was born 
in Fayette County, Kentucky, and came to Daviess County in 1834, 
while yet a young man.  Here he married.  His wife was born in Shelby 
County, Kentucky.  His death occurred in February, 1868.  Both he and 
his wife and the subject of our sketch became constituent members of 
the Sugar Grove Church, in 1861, after holding their membership with 
the Bethabara Church for several years.  They had a family of eleven 
children and Benjamin T. was the eldest.
	Brother Dawson married Miss Nancy Jane Conyers, on April 15, 
1858.  She was the daughter of John and Margaret Speer Conyers.  Six 
children were born to this union.  Mrs. Minnie Camp of 311 East 
Seventh Street, Owensboro, Kentucky, is one of this number.  Soon 
after ther [sic] marriage he settled on a farm about two miles north 
of Masonville, where he lived the remainder of his life.  For a period 
of about nine years he served as Justice of the Peace.
	Brother Dawson united with the Bethabara Church in 1852, and in 
the year 1861 became a charter member of the Sugar Grove Church along 
with his wife, his father and mother, and perhaps other members of 
the family.  He was elected as deacon of the Church in 1866 and 
remained as such until his death, on April 22, 1921, a period of 
fifty-five years.  In that time he faithfully filled that office and 
also that of messenger to the Association from his Church.  For many 
years he attended the annual homecoming of the Church until he 
outlived all the other constituent members.  At the time of his death 
he had been a member of Sugar Grove Church for almost sixty years.  
He lived faithfully and died triumphantly.  Sugar Grove Church 
sustained a great loss in the death of Deacon Benjamin Taylor Dawson.  
Of him, it could easily be said, "He was a good man."

Dawson Miller Conyers Speer Camp
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Fayette Shelby

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