Thanks to all of you who helped me out with Nathaniel Athon. This is a summary from several of you, and especially Lynda and Linda! I have concluded (from this) that he was perhaps in BOTH the Pleasant Hill and Belleview area at various times.....but primarily the Blacksmith Shop would locate him in Belleview. Which brings up this question? What can you help me find out about Belleview. I know that it is south of Woodland....and that Woodland wasn't formed until 1900. And WHAT Methodist Church would have been in either Belleview or Pleasant Hill that Nathaniel Athon would have been the pastor for?? If anyone can discover this, it will help. I'd like to create a special Bios page for Ministers....as I think this is a BIG clue as to the part of the county the couple being married lived. So keep in mind any ministers of any denomination that you come across. Nathaniel Athon Davidson - Rockaway Volumes Volume 1 pages 404: "Beyond the McDowell store, and a little farther back from the highway, stood the blacksmith shop of Nathaniel Athon in 1850, and earlier. Work continued there 30 or 40 years longer. The services of a blacksmith were often needed by farmers..." " Page 410: "Athons and Crittendens were near neighbors in Baldwin Co., GA. Nathaniel Athon accompanied the Crittendens to Talbot Co. in 1825 and settled at Belleview. In the 1830 census, Nathaniel Athon was between 20 and 30 years of age, and his wife 15 to 20. Their one child, female was of age 5 to 10. They owned one slave. In 1840, he owned 4 slaves." "Nathaniel Athon was a blacksmith by trade, the first in Belleview. A native of North Carolina, he was 43 in 1850.... The 1860 census shows Nathaniel Athon a blacksmith and Methodist preacher with $2,200 of real estate and $4,545. of personal estate. He had sold his place in Land Lot No. 42 and at that time lived in the Pleasant Hill District." Pg 424 [in a section on Crittenden Lands] "...William Towns of Belleview, owned Land Lots No 27 and 41, 23rd Land District. He sold this property to Robert G. Crittenden by an indenture dated April 8, 1837. The place adjoined lands of Peter F. Mahone and Nathaniel Athon..." [Belleview is north from Talbotton on Highway 41 --just south of Woodland.] Pg 425 [in a section on Gifts of Love] "...Nathaniel Athon, who brought his family to Talbot County when the Crittendens came, and was a kinsman, sold Cincinnatus D. Crittenden the south half of Land Lot No. 42, 23rd Land District, on May 21, 1841 for $400.00. Hartwell Harrison was one of the witnesses to the instrument. Athon was a blacksmith and ironworker..." Pg. 564 [in a section on David Bryan Plantation] "...Cincinnatus D. Crittenden, of Talbot County, sold his plantation of about 600 acres to Bryan on February 12, 1844, for $2,175. The conveyance consisted of the north half of Land Lot No. 25, all of No. 26 except small parcels owned by J. D. Brooks, one acre; Peter F. Mahone, two acres; James M. Davis, one half acre; also, the south half of Land Lot No. 42, whereon Nathaniel Athon then lived..." In Volume 4 Rev. Nathaniel Athon on pages 82, 83, and 128 as performing marriage rites for local residents. Lynda [email protected] "Linda Gullette Hudson" <[email protected]> Virginia