"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. 347-347.  Used by 
permission.  [Henderson]

WILLIAM WARREN SCHWERDTFEGER:  The last name immediately identifies this 
man of God as being of German descent.  He was born in Newburgh, 
Indiana, on November 26, 1866, and was the son of Louis and Nancy Jones 
Schwerdtfeger.  In his early life he worked on a farm and in the coal 
mines.  He was converted at the age of seventeen and baptized into the 
fellowship of the Spottsville Baptist Church, in Henderson County, by 
Elder J. B. Roll.  In the year 1885 he was licensed to preach by this 
church and was ordained in 1886.
     Thus began an active ministry which was to last for over forty-
five years.  In that time he pastored the following churches in 
Henderson County: New Hope, Spottsville, Ohio Valley, Cash Creek for 13 
years, Audubon, a mission of the first church in Henderson which became 
a church under his ministry, Hebbardsville, Advance, Bethel, Bluff City, 
and Robards.  His pastorates in this Association were at Bethel, Mt. 
Vernon, Green River, Mt. Liberty, Richland, and Basin in McLean County; 
Delaware Creek and Curdsville in Daviess County.; and Bethlehem and Mt. 
Pisgah in Muhlenberg County.  His outstanding pastorate of thirty-four 
years at Cherry Hill in Henderson County made history in the Ohio Valley 
Association.  His pasorate [sic] of twelve years and six months at Mt. 
Liberty in this Association was the longest in the history of that 
church.
	His educational advantages were not very good yet he performed a 
work that was almost miraculous.  He served as the missionary of the 
Ohio Valley Association in 1910 and 1911 and preached the Annual Sermon 
before the same body in 1892.  Brethren M. M. McFarland, F. L. Walker, 
and a young man by the name of Ledbetter were ordained under his 
ministry.
	Brother Schrwerdtfeger was first married to Miss Eliza Stewart and 
of this union four children were born, with one dying in infancy.  After 
the death of his first wife he married Miss Claudia Hill.  One son and 
one daughter were born to this union.  The son is now a deacon and 
Sunday School superintendent in the Spottsville Church.
	The subject of our sketch died in the hospital at Henderson on 
September 27, 1933, and was buried in the Spottsville cemetery where he 
awaits the resurrection of the just.  During his ministerial life he 
made his home in McLean and Henderson Counties.

Schwerdtfeger Jones Roll McFarland Walker Ledbetter Stewart Hill
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IN McLean Daviess Muhlenberg

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