While driving around yesterday, we slipped over the line into Harrison County, Missouri, taking backroads and looking things over. We came across a country church - Lone Rock Church which is beside Payne Cemetery. I took some photos and then went to the door to see if the church was locked. It was. I started to walk back to the car when this lady and her husband pulled in. The lady asked if I wanted to see inside the church. I did and she had a key!! It was beautiful inside and I took some photographs. What amazed me was that inside with this cast iron wood stove - probably the oldest I've ever seen in real life. I've seen illustrations of those kind of old stoves. It was incredible. Anyway, if anyone knows anything about this church, please e-mail me off-list. I'd like to put up a road trip page about it but don't know much beyond what the lady told me. (A lot of Decatur & Ringgold County folks came from Harrison County & vise versa, so there might be a cross-over interest here.) On another note - the countryside is absolutely beautiful!! The trees are the fullest I've ever seen them in a long, long time. I enjoyed looking at the herds of cattle and horses as we drove by. Thanks!! Sharon R. Becker Ringgold County IAGenWeb Coordinator srbecker@iowatelecom.net

that's very true, sharon, about mercer and harrison and decatur and ringgold counties comin' from one of the other counties. that's prob'ly because at one time iowa claimed part of mercer and harrison counties and missouri claimed part of decatur and ringgold counties..........so......there's a strip there.....'bout 13 miles wide......where folks were constantly in a state of flux as to which state and county they belonged to and owed taxes to. hell, the folks in missouri and iowa were ready to start shootin' their neighbors, kith and kin over this!.....mac ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Becker" <srbecker@iowatelecom.net> To: <IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com>; <iaringgo@rootsweb.com>; <iowa@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 12:45 PM Subject: [IADECATU] Off Topic? > While driving around yesterday, we slipped over the line > into Harrison County, Missouri, taking backroads and looking > things over. We came across a country church - Lone Rock > Church which is beside Payne Cemetery. I took some photos > and then went to the door to see if the church was locked. It was. > > I started to walk back to the car when this lady and her husband > pulled in. The lady asked if I wanted to see inside the church. I did > and she had a key!! > > It was beautiful inside and I took some photographs. > > What amazed me was that inside with this cast iron wood stove - > probably the oldest I've ever seen in real life. I've seen illustrations > of those kind of old stoves. It was incredible. > > Anyway, if anyone knows anything about this church, please e-mail > me off-list. I'd like to put up a road trip page about it but don't know > much beyond what the lady told me. > > (A lot of Decatur & Ringgold County folks came from Harrison County > & vise versa, so there might be a cross-over interest here.) > > On another note - the countryside is absolutely beautiful!! The trees > are the fullest I've ever seen them in a long, long time. I enjoyed > looking > at the herds of cattle and horses as we drove by. > > Thanks!! > > Sharon R. Becker > Ringgold County IAGenWeb Coordinator > srbecker@iowatelecom.net > > www.iagenweb.org/decatur > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IADECATU-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I am pretty sure this is "the Honey War" that Mac's talking about.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronald M McClure" <rmcclure@hot.rr.com> To: <iadecatu@rootsweb.com>; <IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com>; <iaringgo@rootsweb.com>; <iowa@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 1:38 PM Subject: Re: [IADECATU] Off Topic? > that's very true, sharon, about mercer and harrison and decatur and > ringgold counties comin' from one of the other counties. that's prob'ly > because at one time iowa claimed part of mercer and harrison counties and > missouri claimed part of decatur and ringgold > counties..........so......there's a strip there.....'bout 13 miles > wide......where folks were constantly in a state of flux as to which state > and county they belonged to and owed taxes to. hell, the folks in > missouri > and iowa were ready to start shootin' their neighbors, kith and kin over > this!.....mac > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sharon Becker" <srbecker@iowatelecom.net> > To: <IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com>; <iaringgo@rootsweb.com>; > <iowa@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 12:45 PM > Subject: [IADECATU] Off Topic? > > >> While driving around yesterday, we slipped over the line >> into Harrison County, Missouri, taking backroads and looking >> things over. We came across a country church - Lone Rock >> Church which is beside Payne Cemetery. I took some photos >> and then went to the door to see if the church was locked. It was. >> >> I started to walk back to the car when this lady and her husband >> pulled in. The lady asked if I wanted to see inside the church. I did >> and she had a key!! >> >> It was beautiful inside and I took some photographs. >> >> What amazed me was that inside with this cast iron wood stove - >> probably the oldest I've ever seen in real life. I've seen illustrations >> of those kind of old stoves. It was incredible. >> >> Anyway, if anyone knows anything about this church, please e-mail >> me off-list. I'd like to put up a road trip page about it but don't know >> much beyond what the lady told me. >> >> (A lot of Decatur & Ringgold County folks came from Harrison County >> & vise versa, so there might be a cross-over interest here.) >> >> On another note - the countryside is absolutely beautiful!! The trees >> are the fullest I've ever seen them in a long, long time. I enjoyed >> looking >> at the herds of cattle and horses as we drove by. >> >> Thanks!! >> >> Sharon R. Becker >> Ringgold County IAGenWeb Coordinator >> srbecker@iowatelecom.net >> >> www.iagenweb.org/decatur >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> IADECATU-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > www.iagenweb.org/decatur > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IADECATU-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

You might look at this web page about the Lone Rock Cemetery: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~moharris/paynehc.html juanita > While driving around yesterday, we slipped over the line > into Harrison County, Missouri, taking backroads and looking > things over. We came across a country church - Lone Rock > Church which is beside Payne Cemetery. I took some photos > and then went to the door to see if the church was locked. It was. > > I started to walk back to the car when this lady and her husband > pulled in. The lady asked if I wanted to see inside the church. I did > and she had a key!! > > It was beautiful inside and I took some photographs. > > What amazed me was that inside with this cast iron wood stove - > probably the oldest I've ever seen in real life. I've seen > illustrations of those kind of old stoves. It was incredible. > > Anyway, if anyone knows anything about this church, please e-mail me > off-list. I'd like to put up a road trip page about it but don't know > much beyond what the lady told me. > > (A lot of Decatur & Ringgold County folks came from Harrison County & > vise versa, so there might be a cross-over interest here.) > > On another note - the countryside is absolutely beautiful!! The trees > are the fullest I've ever seen them in a long, long time. I enjoyed > looking at the herds of cattle and horses as we drove by. > > Thanks!! > > Sharon R. Becker > Ringgold County IAGenWeb Coordinator > srbecker@iowatelecom.net > > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > ---------------------------------------- > Your support makes IAGenWeb possible. > ~Visit The Friends of IAGenWeb Store today~ > http://www.cafepress.com/iagenweb/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I would love to have a picture of the inside of the church. I have an article about why it's named Lone Rock..I will find it and scan it or type it for you Sharon. Has to do with the one lone rock that stood near where the cemetery is. (Wagons were coming through, and the tire hit the only rock in the area, knocking off the little ?girl? that was sitting in the back of the wagon. She is the first person buried there at the cemetery.) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Becker" <srbecker@iowatelecom.net> To: <IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com>; <iaringgo@rootsweb.com>; <iowa@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 12:45 PM Subject: [IADECATU] Off Topic? > While driving around yesterday, we slipped over the line > into Harrison County, Missouri, taking backroads and looking > things over. We came across a country church - Lone Rock > Church which is beside Payne Cemetery. I took some photos > and then went to the door to see if the church was locked. It was. > > I started to walk back to the car when this lady and her husband > pulled in. The lady asked if I wanted to see inside the church. I did > and she had a key!! > > It was beautiful inside and I took some photographs. > > What amazed me was that inside with this cast iron wood stove - > probably the oldest I've ever seen in real life. I've seen illustrations > of those kind of old stoves. It was incredible. > > Anyway, if anyone knows anything about this church, please e-mail > me off-list. I'd like to put up a road trip page about it but don't know > much beyond what the lady told me. > > (A lot of Decatur & Ringgold County folks came from Harrison County > & vise versa, so there might be a cross-over interest here.) > > On another note - the countryside is absolutely beautiful!! The trees > are the fullest I've ever seen them in a long, long time. I enjoyed > looking > at the herds of cattle and horses as we drove by. > > Thanks!! > > Sharon R. Becker > Ringgold County IAGenWeb Coordinator > srbecker@iowatelecom.net > > www.iagenweb.org/decatur > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IADECATU-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I wanna also say that alot of my family lived on the land surrounding Payne cemetery. And if you look at census informatino, if you didn't know any better, you'd think they moved back and forth and back and forth from Iowa to Missouri...but the Iowa/Missouri line changed all the time back then and they really just stayed put. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Becker" <srbecker@iowatelecom.net> To: <IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com>; <iaringgo@rootsweb.com>; <iowa@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 12:45 PM Subject: [IADECATU] Off Topic? > While driving around yesterday, we slipped over the line > into Harrison County, Missouri, taking backroads and looking > things over. We came across a country church - Lone Rock > Church which is beside Payne Cemetery. I took some photos > and then went to the door to see if the church was locked. It was. > > I started to walk back to the car when this lady and her husband > pulled in. The lady asked if I wanted to see inside the church. I did > and she had a key!! > > It was beautiful inside and I took some photographs. > > What amazed me was that inside with this cast iron wood stove - > probably the oldest I've ever seen in real life. I've seen illustrations > of those kind of old stoves. It was incredible. > > Anyway, if anyone knows anything about this church, please e-mail > me off-list. I'd like to put up a road trip page about it but don't know > much beyond what the lady told me. > > (A lot of Decatur & Ringgold County folks came from Harrison County > & vise versa, so there might be a cross-over interest here.) > > On another note - the countryside is absolutely beautiful!! The trees > are the fullest I've ever seen them in a long, long time. I enjoyed > looking > at the herds of cattle and horses as we drove by. > > Thanks!! > > Sharon R. Becker > Ringgold County IAGenWeb Coordinator > srbecker@iowatelecom.net > > www.iagenweb.org/decatur > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IADECATU-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message