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.



EDWARD AND NANCY NATION were also Charter Members of the Church, on July

16, 1836.  He was already an ordained Deacon from Beaver Dam, and was

elected as the first Deacon of the new Church together with Joseph James,

on September 17, 1836.  His was the first death in the membership, as he

died on December 11, 1837.  He was a Messenger to the Gasper River

Association when it met with the Green River Church in 1837.  Nancy Nation

was lettered out of the membership shortly after her husband's death.  She

returned to the membership by letter on May 28, 1848, only to be lettered

out again on February 11, 1865.  She became a member again by letter about

1870 and eventually lettered out for the final time on September 8, 1877.



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