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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