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

BEDFORD FRANKLIN FLENER (1844-1924), the father of John Harrison Flener,
was born in Butler County, Kentucky, the fifth child and second son of
William Harrison Flener and Mary Ann (Snodgrass) Flener.  There he grew to
manhood, and on October 24, 1865, was united in marriage to MISS VIRGINIA
C. MARTIN at the residence of William Martin in the presence of P. H. Hill,
W. B. Neel, Milburn Neel and T. S. Wilson.  Joe W. Adkins signed the Bill
of Consent which accompanied the Butler County Marriage License, secured on
October 18, 1865.  She was probably a native of Butler County, also.
	They became the parents of at least five children, as follows:  James C.
Flener (b. August, 1878); William Martin Flener (b. June, 1881); JOHN
HARRISON FLENER (b. May 13, 1884) and his twin Harriett Flener (b. May 11,
1884) and Mollie G. Flener (b. February, 1892).  There were probably
others, but we are short on records.  Green River Church Records show that
only B. F. Flener, William Martin Flener and John Harrison Flener of the
above family became members of the Church.  William Martin Flener was
elected as a Deacon of the Church on March 27, 1909, and ordained on the
following April 23rd.  He was lettered out in 1913.
	
Flener Snodgrass Martin Hill Neel Wilson Adkins
=
Butler-KY

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