"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. 418-419.  
Used by permission.  [Daviess]

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WAITE:  Pastor B. F. Waite was born at Newman, 
Daviess County, Kentucky, on March 12, 1894, and is the son of 
Abraham Lincoln and Jeannette Waite.  He was converted at the age of 
seventeen while sitting on a mail truck in front of the Union Station 
at Owensboro, Kentucky, and was baptized into the fellowship of the 
Newman Baptist Church by Rev. W. L. Shearer.
	In his youth he labored on a farm and served as a grocery clerk 
and shoe salesman.  He also attended school as opportunity afforded,.  
being a student in LaRue College and the Daviess County Business 
College.  After answering the call of the Lord to preach the Gospel 
he attended the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, 
Kentucky, taking the English Bible course offered at that 
institution.
	In the year 1920 he answered the call of God to preach but 
resisted keenly these impressions for four years.  He finally 
surrendered to this call in 1924 and was licensed to preach by his 
home Church.  On August 3, 1924, he was ordained to the ministry by 
this same Church, by a presbytery composed of Revs. W. O. Connell, W. 
K. Sisk, and William Varble.  He was immediately called to the care 
of Mt. Olive Church in Union County, Kentucky.  Since that time he 
has served the following Churches: Deanefield, and Concord, in Ohio 
County; Cash Creek and Hebbardsville, in Henderson County; and 
Curdsville, Macedonia, and Hall Street Churches in Daviess County.  
The last mentioned pastorate was the most successful to date in his 
entire ministry.  The membership grew from about 185 to 700 in the 
twelve years, 1930 to 1942, that he served the Church.  Many needed 
improvements were made and the building cleared of all indebtedness.  
The present basement to the building was completed during the last 
year of his pastorate there.  Since October, 1943, he has been pastor 
of the Church at Truman, Arkansas.
	The ministry of Brother Waite has been consistently 
evangelistic.  He has held over fifty evangelistic meetings in about 
thirty Churches in this and surrounding counties and the conversions 
may be numbered in the hundreds.  The author is glad to be numbered 
among the two young men who have answered the call to preach under 
his ministry.  Rev. Robert Shaver of Hawesville, Kentucky, was 
converted under his ministry.  The author was licensed by the Hall 
Street Church in July, 1936, and ordained in March, 1937.
	Brother Waite preached the doctrinal sermon before the 
Association in 1938 and the annual sermon in 1940.  He also served on 
several important committees in connection with the work of the 
District Mission Board and made several reports on different subjects 
to the Association.
	He was married to Miss Alma Laymen, the daughter of William and 
Mary Ann Laymen, of Sorgho, Kentucky, on November 24, 1913.  Five 
children have blessed their home, Hazel, Virginia Ruth, Mary Joe, and 
Alma Truett, all girls and one son, Alan Ray.
	The warm evangelistic heart of Rev. B. F. Waite has been a 
blessing to multitudes and the many who have been led to the Lord 
under his ministry are indeed trophies of the grace of God and speak 
well of his untiring efforts to reach the multitudes with the Gospel 
of Christ.  He is a good minister of Jesus Christ.

Waite Shearer Connell Sisk Varble Rone Shaver Layman
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Louisville-Jefferson-KY Union-KY Ohio-KY Hebbardsville-Henderson-KY
Hawesville-Hancock-KY AR

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