Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 523-524 [McCracken]

     WILLIAM J. FLOURNOY.  For many years the subject of this sketch
was a prominent factor in western Kentucky.  As a minister of the
Baptist church, preaching in various localities, and establishing
churches, he wielded a potent influence.  Of the life and family of
William J. Flournoy we make brief record as follows:
     William Flournoy was born in Virginia in 1811, and in his
native state was reared and educated.  Coming west to Paducah,
Kentucky, in 1833, he engaged in merchandising, and conducted a
general store for two years.  From 1835 to 1839 he was in the drug
business at Paducah, and after 1838 devoted his energies to the work
of the ministry of the Baptist church, preaching at various points
in western Kentucky, thus gaining a wide acquaintance and exerting
an untold influence for good.  In 1843 he was pastor of the Mayfield
Baptist church.  Much of his time, however, was spent in traveling,
and he was the founder of a number of churches that remain as
monuments to his useful work.
     Shortly after Mr. Flournoy came to Kentucky, in 1835, he
married Miss Jane Calhoun, daughter of Patrick Calhoun, her native
place being Smithland, Kentucky.  As the years passed by sons and
daughters were born to this worthy couple, who grew up to occupy
useful positions in life.  Their daughter, Mary E., who became the
wife of George Pigeon, of Paducah, died at the age of thirty years;
Julia died in 1862, in the bloom of youth; Ellen F. is the wife of
Bell Bidwell, of Texas; Kitty is the widow of Colonel Whitford, of
Memphis, Tennessee, the colonel having died in 1895; Mathew [sic]
W., who served in the Confederate army all through the Civil war,
died in 1890, at the age of fifty years; Guita M., died at the age
of twenty-two years; James E. is a well-known farmer of Ballard
county, Kentucky; Jennie C. is the wife of Boswell Jones, of St.
Louis, Missouri; Sallie B. is the wife of William Rodgers, of
Paducah, Kentucky.  The venerable mother of this large family is
still living, is now eighty-five years of age, and is in excellent
health.

Flournoy Calhoun Pigeon Bidwell Whitford Jones Rodgers
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VA Livingston-KY TX TN Ballard-KY MO

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