Benjamin Franklin Orr 
Benjamin Franklin was born on August 5th, 1848 in Graves Co., KY.1 Benjamin Franklin's father was William McCain Orr and his mother was Nancy Matthews Adams. His paternal grandparents were Hugh Orr and Mary Finley; his maternal grandparents were Zadock B Adams and Elizabeth Isabell Parish. He had seven brothers and four sisters, named Unknown, Joseph Warren, Jesse Alexander, James Craig, William Henry, John Claiborn, Horace Lee, Mary Isabel, Margret Ann, Lucy Jane and Frances Caroline. He was the third youngest of the twelve children. He died at the age of 71 on July 31st, 1920 in Paris, Bourbon, KY. He was buried on August 1st, 1920 in Family Plot in Paris Cemetery, Paris, KY.2 3 General Notes
NEWS: Hardin/Spencer/Meade/Nelson/Breckinridge Co., KY, 21 Sept 1917 - 21 Oct 1917
THE LOUISVILLE COURIER-JOURNAL, Saturday Morning, September 22, 1917
more SOCIETY NEWS
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.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1721 in Scotland d.23 Jun 1808 in Washington, VA, USA
- b.1757 in Princeton,Caldwell Co., KY or Ireland d.28 May 1821 in Caldwell Co., KY
- b.1773 in NC d.1847 in Graves Co., KY
- d.UNKNOWN
- b.1750 in Princeton, Caldwell Co., KY d.1821 in Caldwell Co., KY
- b.02 Sep 1811 in Caldwell Co., KY d.22 Aug 1887 in Mayfield,Graves Co., KY
- b.1747 in Agusta,VA d.UNKNOWN
- b.1776 in Washington Co., VA d.1850 in Graves Co., KY
- d.1810
- b.05 Aug 1848 in Graves Co., KY d.31 Jul 1920 in Paris, Bourbon, KY
- b.1753 in city, Brunswick, TN d.1807 in city, Graves, KY
- b.05 Apr 1816 in city, Hopkins, KY d.08 Feb 1899 in Mayfield,Graves Co., KY
- b.1771 in city, Brunswick, TN d.17 Dec 1857 in city, Graves, KY
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Details of Benjamin Franklin's family with Sarah M Rice
Details of Benjamin Franklin's family with Elizabeth Owen Griffith
Details of Benjamin Franklin's family with Mary S Williams
Details of Benjamin Franklin's family with Kate W Weatherholt
1 Ancestry.com One World Tree
2 Alexander and Martha Orr's Descendants
3 Kentucky Death Records, 1852-1953 >Lyon> 1939
2 Alexander and Martha Orr's Descendants
3 Kentucky Death Records, 1852-1953 >Lyon> 1939
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