 There, she ran the household while her sister Susan "Sue" Ann Bennett took on new initiatives with the Southern Methodist Church.One of Sue's most ardent wish was to organize a Methodist-affiliated school in south-eastern Kentucky - she had studied the region in 1886 as part of the Southern Methodist Woman's Department of Church Extension and found no churches of any denomination in many of the counties there.Her report at the Kentucky Conference helped to create a new role for women in the Southern Methodist Extension Department