>From SC to AL and north to TN check out this diary which may also be reached vfrom a link on the Richmond County AHGP web site at http://www.rootsweb.com/~garichm2/ Are you looking for ancestors in Northern Georgia, Northeast Alabama or Chattanooga, TN around 1886-87? Karla Jones has submitted a summary of the Journal of John Joseph Pledger Jeans Murphy, written in 1886-87 while serving as a Mormon missionary in the Southern Mission. (GA - AL - TN) The author was born as John Joseph Pledger Jeanes (Jeans), and served in the Confederate Civil War as Jeanes (Jeans). His surname"...was changed to Murphy by an act of legislature after moving to Utah." He died in 1889 in Colonia Juarez, one of the Mormon colonies in Mexico. While the predominate Surnames in the Journal are Chambers, Jeans, Murphy and Pledger, he also mentions, by name, his old friends, soldiers he served with in the Confederate Army and people he met along the way. The summary of the Journal is truly a "Gold Mine" of Genealogical information and can be found at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/state/diary.html Be sure to leave Karla a "note of appreciation" in her guest book. You may forward this to anyone or any list that you think might be interested. Doris Robbins GA State Host for AHGP Be a volunteer ~ adopt a county today.... http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/state/