"A HISTORY OF THE DAVIESS-McLEAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION IN KENTUCKY, 
1844-1943" by Wendell H. Rone.  Probably published in 1944 by 
Messenger Job Printing Co., Inc., Owensboro, Kentucky, pp. 436-437.
Used by permission.  [Daviess]

MRS. MONTIE TAYLOR BUNCH:  The subject of this sketch is the third 
child of Elder James P. Taylor and Susan Mary Stevens Taylor and was 
born near Winfield, Kansas, on March 8, 1875.  In early childhood she 
was brought to Kentucky where she has since lived, save for a few 
years spent in Texas.  She was educated in the rural schools at hand; 
at Carr Institute, Fulton, Kentucky; high schools at San Antonio and 
Center Point, Texas; Morgantown Seminary, Western Kentucky State 
Teachers College, Bowling Green, Kentucky; and Evansville College, 
Evansville, Indiana.
	For nearly one-half century she taught in the public schools of 
Kentucky.  Up until recently she served as the efficient principal of 
the Lincoln Grade School, Owensboro, Kentucky.  She is known and 
loved by a large number of men and women as the teacher who helped 
them to begin a successful life.
	In the year 1877 she was united in marriage to Mr. Marion E. 
Bunch.  Two children blessed this union, Mrs. Bamma Bunch Richman, 
Durham, North Carolina, and Dr. Marion E. Bunch, Jr., Professor of 
Psychology, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri.
	In the year 1887 Mrs. Bunch was converted and baptized into the 
fellowship of the First Baptist Church, Fulton, Kentucky, by the 
pastor, Elder W. H. Williams.  One of her richest blessings was the 
joy of having the immortal Dr. B. H. Carroll as her pastor in Waco, 
Texas.  She has taught constantly in the churches of which she has 
been a member, as Sunday School teacher, in Training Schools, and in 
the work of the W. M. U. For over fourteen years she has taught the 
T. E. L. Class of the First Baptist Church in Owenesboro [sic], 
Kentucky, one of the largest women's classes in the entire city.
	As a Bible student she has few peers.  Her teaching is 
Biblical, Baptistic [sic], and profound.  There are very few 
preachers who have a deeper knowledge of the Word of God than she.  
The answer to her ability may be found in her own statement: "I have 
a burning thirst for the knowledge of God's Word, and as one of old 
has said, so can I say, 'As the heart panteth after the waterbrook, 
so panteth my soul for thee, O God.'"
	Mrs. Bunch is a member of the Taylor family which has given 
over twenty preachers to the Baptist denomination within the last one 
hundred and forty years.  She is a granddaughter of Elder Alfred 
Taylor, pioneer preacher of the Green River counutry [sic], and is a 
double first cousin of the late Elder H. Boyce Taylor of Murray, 
Kentucky.

Bunch Taylor Stevens Richman Williams Carroll
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KS Fulton TX Butler Warren IN NC MO


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