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NEWS: Hardin/Spencer/Meade/Nelson/Breckinridge Co., KY, 21 Sept 1917 - 21 Oct 1917
THE LOUISVILLE COURIER-JOURNAL, Saturday Morning, September 22, 1917
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BARDSTOWN, Oct. 19:
The Rev. Ben F. ORR and daughter, Miss Olivia ORR, of Paris, Ky., attended the conference
at Hopkinsville, returning by Bardstown.
Mrs. R. C. CHERRY was host on Friday night to a number of ladies for Miss ORR.

1900 Census East Litchfield, Grayson Co., KY with wife and

Married 4 times 9 children all in KY

Between 1870-1920 Preacher in Louisville Conference in KY
Between 1880-1910 Methodist Preacher in Paduka,Princeton and Western KY and was Dist Supt.

HEMATITE METHODIST CHURCH
Trigg County, KY
"The Church in the Wildwood"
Hematite - The church in the Wildwood - Organized in 1888, the Hematite congregation worshiped in the school house for some years. Their first pastor was Rev. Ollie J. Bennett; presiding Elder, REV. B.F.ORR. The sanctuary, situated in Kentucky Woodlands Wildlife Refuge, was dedicated August 6, 1917, Rev. R. C. Bogard, pastor. With the dissolution of this "Church in the Wildwood," due to the formation of Lake Barkley, Hematite shall have written a proud page in the history of Methodism in Trigg Count
The schoolhouse where the church was first organized, in 1888, must have been the old Hematite School (originally called Empire School) -- not the latest one. It was located near the entrance to Empire Farm on what now is called the Mulberry Flat Road going toward the Silo Overlook. It was on a hill across the Mulberry Flat Road from the next right-hand entrance road which leads to where the original headquarters of the old Hillman Land Company was located. It was near and old black people's cemetery. Dora (Sherbut) Buck, born in 1887, attended this old one room grade school.