>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 probably died and no one took her off the church list > >Thomas H. Lindsay Tabitha is not listed in the 1860 and 1870 censuses for Forsyth County, but she could have been living with someone. (It takes a LONG time to go through a census line by line - and it is easy to miss someone when you do that.) The Friendship Church listing gives a date (1877) after Tabitha's name and then DBL (dismissed by letter). This does not sound like someone finally woke up to the fact that she was dead and removed her name twenty years later. Is it possible that Tabitha could have moved somewhere else, but didn't bother getting her "letter" from the Friendship Church until much later? I don't really know that much about Baptist Church practices. What do you think? David Roper David L. Roper 1112 Judson Ave. Judsonia AR 72081 (501) 729-4414