LEE - MILLER - NATION

SARAH LEE (b. May 6, 1773) was also a Charter Member, when the Church was organized in her log-cabin home on July 16, 1836. She continued in the membership until her death, on October 20, 1852, at age seventy-nine.

Her kinsman, Samuel Lee, was converted in the revival of 1838. It is possible he was her son, and was born about 1802. His wife, Lydia, according to the Ohio County Census for 1850, was born about 1804. Sarah Lee was living in their home at that time. 

HANNAH LEE, who also a Charter Member, was probably a daughter to Sarah Lee and a sister of Samuel Lee. She married William H. Porter on December 21, 1848. She was born about 1816 and died in the year 1888, at the age of   seventy-two and after having been a member of the Green River Church for fifty-two years. In the 1870 Ohio County Census, Samuel Lee was living with the Porters. Sarah and Lydia Lee are buried in the Green River Cemetery, near Cromwell. 

A Sesquicentennial History of the Green River Missionary Baptist Church 1836 - 1986, Written and Compiled by Wendell Holmes Rone, Sr., For the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Church, 1987.

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RICHARD H. MILLER, a son of Andrew Miller, and an older brother of the well known Dr. A. B. Miller, and Dr. A. J. Miller, was a native of LaRue [sic] county, but was carried by his parents to Ohio county where he grew to manhood with but a few educational advantages. He was converted in early life, and was baptized into the fellowship of Mt. Zion church, in Ohio county. In this church he was raised up to the ministry, and, in 1856, succeeded his brother, A. B. Miller, in its pastoral charge. He was also pastor at Cool Spring, and, perhaps, of some churches, in Goshen Association. He was a warm, animated preacher, and "labored with great zeal and good success." The Lord was pleased to take him away in the prime of life. 

A History of Kentucky Baptists, From 1769 to 1885, by J. H. Spencer, 1886, Reprinted by Church History and Archives, 1976, Lafayette, TN. Gasper River Association. 

EDWARD AND NANCY NATION were also Charter Members of the Church, on July 16, 1836. He was already an ordained Deacon from Beaver Dam, and was elected as the first Deacon of the new Church together with Joseph James, on September 17, 1836. His was the first death in the membership, as he died on December 11, 1837. He was a Messenger to the Gasper River Association when it met with the Green River Church in 1837. Nancy Nation was lettered out of the membership shortly after her husband's death. She returned to the membership by letter on May 28, 1848, only to be lettered out again on February 11, 1865. She became a member again by letter about 1870 and eventually lettered out for the final time on September 8, 1877.

A Sesquicentennial History of the Green River Missionary Baptist Church 1836 - 1986, Written and Compiled by Wendell Holmes Rone, Sr., For the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Church, 1987.