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.

BENJAMIN T. MAYHUGH, the ninth Pastor of Green River Church, served on two
occasions.  The first time, from January through December, 1880; and the
second time, in May, 1886 through March, 1888.  He was serving the Church
when it observed its Fiftieth Anniversary, in July, 1886.
    Brother Mayhugh was born on May 10, 1836, in Person County, North
Carolina; and died on Juy 21, 1923 in Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana,
where he was living with his daughter Lydia Ruth (Mayhugh) Brown.  He is
buried in Bedford, Indiana.  He died in his eighty-seventh year.  He was
the son of Willilam Cornelius Mayhugh (1793-1867) and Lucy Eppes (Wells)
Mayhugh (1798-1887).  His father was a native of North Carolina and his
mother of Virginia.  They had married on July 15, 1815, in Dinwiddie
County, Virginia, had seven children, and came to Kentcuky by covered wagon
around 1843.  Both are buried in Bethel Church Cemetery, near South Hill,
Butler County, Kentucky.  On the way to Kentucky from Virginia, the family
walked the journey because their wagons were loaded with supplies and
household necessities.  They herded their cattle right along with them,
which was a means of their main food for winter.  William Mayhugh settled
on land on Big Muddy River, near Provo, in Butler County.
    Brother Mayhugh was married, first, to Nancy Jane Knight (b. August 18,
1840 - d. August 18, 1862) on September 5, 1858.  She was buried in the
Rock Spring Church Cemetery.  He married, secondly, Elizabeth J. Pendley
(b. November 10, 1842 - d. April 29, 1891) on February 18, 1866, at the
home of William Pendley by Pastor J. R. Jenkins.  She was buried in the
Brown Cemetery, Butler County, Kentucky, upon her death.  She had
previously married a Childress, and was a widow when she maried Brother
Mayhew [sic].  He married, thirdly, Eliza F. Richards, on May 30, 1893, at
the home of the groom.
    Two children were born to the first marriage:  Amanthus B. Mayhugh
(1859-1930) and Sarah J. Mayhew [sic] (1861-1936); and nine children were
born to the second marriage; Elbert N. Mayhugh (1867 - ), John Rollin
Mayhugh (1868-1937), James Redman Mayhugh (1871-1950), David Rhoads Mayhugh
(1873-1955), Ida Octava Mayhugh (1875-1878), Ben Christopher Mayhugh
(1880-1955), Lizzie Pearl Mayhugh (18880-1921), Annie (Lennie) Grace
Mayhugh (1882-1883) and Lydia Ruth Mayhew [sic] (1885-1971).
    Brother Mayhugh became a Christian in early manhood and united with the
Bethel Baptist Church in Butler County.  By that Church he was licensed to
preach the Gospel of Christ in 1864.  Becoming a member of the Rock Springs
Church, in Butler County, in 1865, he served as a Messenger from it to the
Gasper River Association that year and again in 1866.  By it (Rock Spring)
he was ordained to the Baptist Ministry, in 1866. He and Pastor John F.
James served as Missionaries of the Gasper River Association in 1867.  They
held a protracted meeting of days in July, 1867, and on the 19th organized
Mt. Olivet Baptist Church of 18 members, mostly from the Methodists, who
were baptized according to the Scriptures (by immersion) by them.  Brother
Mayhugh became a constituent member, served as the Church Clerk in
1867-1869, and as a messenger to the Gasper River Association from the
Church in 1867-1876 or longer.  He also pastored the Church in 1870 and
1876, and possibly at other times.
    He was also Pastor at Bethel Church (18677-1969; 1875-1876 or longer),
Rock Spring (in 1875-1876 or longer), Rochester (1872-1874) and Salem
(1869-1872, 1876 or longer) in Butler County.  In fact, he served the
last-mentioned Church a total of fourteen years.  He is credited with
serving the Friendship, Huntsville, New Gasper, Highland, White Stone,
Quarry, Green Ridge, Richardsville and Union Churches, some of which were
in Warren County and others in Butler County.  He preached the Annual
Sermon before the Gasper River Association, in 1894.  His name appears for
the last time in the Kentucky Baptist Annual for 1902.  There our record of
him ceases up to his death, in 1923.  He had a very good pastorate at the
Green River Church as the second one-half century of existence was entered
into.

Mayhugh Brown Eppes Wells Knight Pendley Jenkins Childress Richards
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Person-NC Bedford-Lawrence-IN Dinwiddie-VA Provo-Butler-KY Warren-KY

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