"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. 412-414.  
Used by permission.  [Daviess]

WENDELL HOLMES RONE, SR.:  The author has often wondered what one 
could say or should say about himself.  To say much would be boasting 
and to say little would be unnatural.  He therefore gives a brief 
sketch of his life's particulars and leaves praise or condemnation to 
others.
	Wendell H. Rone, Sr., was born in Rochester, Butler County, 
Kentucky, on August 17, 1913, and is the son of Jake and Isa Taylor 
Rone.  On his maternal side he is a descendant of all the Taylor 
preachers who have served the Churches of the Green River country and 
elsewhere for over one hundred and thirty-five years.  His great-
great-grandfather was Joseph Taylor, who was ordained a Baptist 
minister in the year 1805.  His Great-grandfather was Alfred Taylor, 
one of the outstanding preachers in the Green River country from 1835 
to his death in 1865.  His grandfather was James P. Taylor, also a 
Baptist preacher for over forty years.  He is a second cousin of 
Elder H. Boyce Taylor, for thirty-five years the pastor of the Murray 
Baptist Church.  He is the twenty-third Baptist preacher in the 
lineage of Joseph Taylor, and of that number about five are still 
living.
	His education was secured from the public schools of Livermore.  
Kentucky, where he moved at the age of seven.  He also attended the 
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, 
graduating with the Th.M. Certificate in May, 1939.  He was converted 
at the age of thirteen and baptized into the fellowship of the 
Livermore Baptist Church by Rev. Roy Mason, now a pastor in Florida.  
He later moved to Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1934, and was licensed to 
preach by the Hall Street Church in July, 1936.  After being called 
to the Hopewell Baptist Church he was ordained at the Hall Street 
Church on March 28, 1937, by Revs. B. F. Waite J. B. Leavell, J. 
Edwin Hewlett, E. L. Skiles.  J. J. Willett, W. S. Coakley, H. M. 
Brown, and deacons from sister Churches.  Rev. J. B. Leavell preached 
the ordination sermon.
	He has pastored the following Churches, all within the bounds 
of the Daviess-McLean Baptist Association: Hopewell 1937-1940; 
Macedonia 1937-1939; Curdsville, six months in 1937-1938; Pleasant 
Grove, three months in 1940; Utica, March, 1940, to November, 1941; 
Seven Hills November, 1941, to date.  He has been a member of the 
Associational [sic] History Committee, with Brother B. Smith Jenkins, 
since December, 1939, and served as clerk of the Executive Mission 
Board from March 1939 to October, 1942, succeeding Rev. J. J. 
Willett, who had filled that position for twenty-five years.  He has 
served on the Baptist Hour Committee since its inception in December, 
1941, with Brethren L. C. Roberts and B. Smith Jenkins.  At the 
Associational [sic] session of 1941 he was elected as Assistant 
Moderator with Rev. O. L. Weir.  Because of the physical 
indisposition of the Moderator, B. Smith Jenkins, he was elected to 
that position by the Association at the October, 1942, meeting, and 
in consequence is occupying that honored office at present.  He 
preached the doctrinal sermon before the Association at Calhoun, 
Kentucky, in 1941, and served as President of the Owensboro City-wide 
Baptist Training Union in 1942.  At the 1942 session of the General 
Association of Kentucky Baptists he was elected to preside over the 
1943 session of the Kentucky Baptist Moderators' meeting.
	He was united in marriage to Miss Beulah Lee Kirtley, daughter 
of Ernest S. and Annie Alexander Kirtley, of Livermore, Kentucky, on 
June 30, 1934.  Three children have blessed this union; Wendell H. 
Jr., Ila Faye and Kyle Yates.  His wife was formerly a Methodist and 
a member of the Breckenridge [sic] Street Methodist Church.  She was 
the first of over two hundred persons he has baptized.  He has also 
officiated at 87 Weddings and has conducted 119 funerals to date.  He 
is the author of a History of the Hopewell, Macedonia, Utica, and 
Seven Hills Churches all completed while serving as pastor of these 
Churches.  By virtue of being Moderator of the Association he also 
occupies the position of Chairman of the Executive Mission Board.
	More has been said perhaps than should have been said.  The 
author thanks God that "he is what he is" and that he was counted 
faithful and "called into the ministry".  After all, he is only "a 
sinner saved by grace".

Rone Taylor Mason Waite Leavell Hewlett Skiles Willett Coakley 
Roberts Brown Jenkins Roberts Weir Kirtley Alexander
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