FYI...Char ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Charles Compton" <ccompton@coosavalley.net> To: "Bob Burgess" <sanbob@netside.com>, "EZ Langston" <EZ@popstar.com>, <SCNEWBER-L@rootsweb.com>, "Charlotte *" <coats@hotmail.com> Subject: Upper Duncan's Creek Baptist Church AKA Langston Baptist Church Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 06:22:02 -0500 This Church's name was The Baptist Church of Christ of Upper Duncans Creek, later known as Langston Baptist Church. There is a microfilm available which contains the minutes of this Church from 1832 to 1840, a six year gap, and then 1846 to 1888. Sunday school records are also in this film from 1868 to 1899. This film is available on an inter library loan basis from: Baptist Historical Collection Furman University Library 3300 Poinsett Hwy. Greenville, SC 29613-0600 Get ready for some very hard reading! If you borrow this film they will allow you some two weeks with it and believe me, you will need it. The writing is not very good in places and the data appears to be scattered about as if the book were apart when it was copied. You just have to be real careful that you don't make erroneous date assumptions. I learned more from that film about some aspects of my family than I have from anywhere else so far. Now, I need some help from some of you in regards to this same Church. Last summer I visited this Church's cemetery and found the markers of my ancestors in a terrible disarray. Upon speaking to the pastor, I learned that about 1960 someone who "had one too many" drove through this cemetery and knocked many of the markers over and dragged them about. I would very much like to restore these to their original locations THIS SUMMER. I am about 60% sure that I know where they go, BUT I would like to see a picture maybe someone took of this cemetery to help me be sure. I do NOT need to be able to read the names, just see the arrangement of the markers, as they are different sizes. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Charlie ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com