Logan County KyArchives Biographies.....Lyne, Mary Nelle 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 June 14, 2011, 11:46 pm

Source: See below
Author: Mrs. J. Wells Vick

    Miss Mary Nelle Lyne is one of four to whom this history is dedicated. She
is the great niece of Nimrod Long of whom much has been made mention in
connection of Bethel College and the Russellville Baptist Church. She is the
daughter of Mr. Seldon Lyne and wife, nee Bettie Trimble; a granddaughter of
Rev. Seldon Y. Trimble and wife nee Mary Morehead, who were missionaries to
Africa. A sketch will be given in connection with this biography relative to
Miss Mary's grand parents.

    Miss Mary Nelle was born in the New Union Baptist Church section of Logan
County, Kentucky. At an unusually tender age she was converted and baptized into
this church, which had sent her grandparents many years prior to Africa as
missionaries.

    She attended Logan College in Russellville, Ky. where she graduated; her
parents had removed to Russellville where their children could have educational
advantages. She was very active in the Russellville Church. She organized the
first Young Woman's Auxiliary in this church and was its first president.
Feeling the call of greater service for her Lord, she entered the Woman's
Missionary Training School in Louisville, Ky. where she graduated. This school
is now known as the Carver School of Missions and is connected with the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary.

    She was for ten years in Shanghai, China where she was principal of a Girl's
Elementary and High School of 500 students and with twenty Chinese teachers. In
her own words, "Sometimes I was the only American and sometimes there was one
co-worker."

    She was the State Executive Secretary of Kentucky Woman's Missionary Society
Training School in Louisville for five years. Following this she was appointed
by the Baptist Home Board to open work in Berkley, California and worked there
for five years.

    Miss Lyne returned to Kentucky in 1951 and makes her home with her sister,
Mrs. D. W. Browning, at 1112 Chestnut St. Bowling Green, Ky. She is very much in
demand as teacher of mission study classes and as guest speaker in various
churches.

    (The above biography was taken from "The Family of Major Gabriel Long of
Culpeper County, Virginia and Who Migrated to Logan and Christian Counties
Kentucky" by Vick.


Additional Comments:
Volunteer transcription - copied from FHL Film #855039

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/logan/bios/lyne526gbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/