In a message dated 10/15/99 9:26:03 AM US Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << Annette Bramblett sent us a list of the Friendship Baptist Church membership list that indicates that Tabitha remained a member of that church until 1877. Does this mean that old John dumped (divorced) Tabitha to marry a younger woman? Or is there some other possible explanation? >> I would check the 1860 and 1870 census for Tabitha.If she is not there then she probibly died and no one took heroff the chirch list Thomas H. Lindsay