My friends - I am stopping by today and pass along yet another update on a possible JP 2006 genealogical conference next summer, based in Paducah. I also have a little information on a few of the Primitive Baptist Churches in the JP region which I came across and want to pass along. As of today, at this time, we have 64 folks who have expressed interest in attending the second such conference in the JP region. We are edging closer to the minimum 100 mark necessary for us to proceed with planning. January 10th is the target date for determination of whether the numbers justify proceeding. I know that there have been people who have been out of pocket/out of town, etc., for the past week or more, so I will be stopping by each day with an update, in the event that some of our subscribers did not see the original and subsequent posts on this subject. One question which has arisen several times since I last sent an update has to do with a possible projected date for the conference, should it occur. The suggestions from the 2000 questionnaires most often placed the best time around the end of July - after the 4th of July holiday, but not past the first week of August, since many school terms in the country may begin as early as the second week in August. That is certainly not set in stone, and no one time frame will be workable for all people, but this was the most often suggested time in the 2000 questionnaires. I recently came upon some little bits of information about a few of the Primitive Baptist churches in the JP region, and I am showing that data below. I cannot, unfortunately, give a source citation for it, as it is contained in some old(very old, as the paper is turning yellow)notes that came to me from my original mentor, Ola Johnson Graham, of Murray, back in the early 1960's. Knowing the care that she took with her work, I suspect the information is reliable. -B ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Primitive Baptist Churches(Partial) - JP Region Calloway County: NEW PROVIDENCE: KNOWN MEMBER SURNAMES: Galloway, Grogan, Hutchens, McKinney, McNeely, Miles, Paschal, Poyner, Summers, Swann SHILOH KNOWN MEMBER SURNAMES: Holland, Parker, Rose OLD CONCORD NO KNOWN EARLY MEMBERS SURNAMES ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Graves County: OLD BETHEL BRUSH CREEK ZION KNOWN MEMBERS' SURNAMES: Adams, Bell, Boaz, Bowden, Brandon, Chester, Craft, Cross, Darnall, Davis, Haley, Hamilton, Lawson, Mathis, Perkins, Pryor, Rudd, Saffer, Smith, Vaughn NORTH MT. ZION KNOWN MEMBERS' SURNAMES: Gilbert, Lock, Miller PILGRIM'S REST KNOWN MEMBERS' SURNAMES: Beard, Kaler, Overby, Owen, Wolford MT. PLEASANT KNOWN MEMBERS' SURNAMES: Boaz, Collier, Davis, Shaffer, Vandergriff HARMONY KNOWN MEMBERS' SURNAMES: Crouch, Pullen, Turner ~~~~~~~~~~ Marshall County: SOLDIER CREEK (1820-1821) Soldier Creek Church, which was originally on Clark's River, was constituted May 13, 1820, at the home of William Owens (on Soldier Creek) with twelve members, viz., Leonard Kayler, William Baker, Selah Baker, Abraham Copeland, Sally Copeland, Mary Smith, Parker Harrell, Deliah Harrell, Anna Baland, Gabriel Washburn, Martha Henson and Henry Darnall. The presbytery was composed of Elders Fielding Wolfe, Henry Darnall and an Elder Payne. Soldier Creek Church was, perhaps, the oldest church in Kentucky west of the Tennessee River. When it was organized the State Legislature gave it eight acres of land, on which is located one of the oldest and largest graveyards in the County. In 1830 the Church received a deed to the land signed by Governor Metcalf. Hugh Gilbert was the first pastor of the Church. The first meeting house was built of logs and for a long time had no floors. KNOWN MEMBERS' SURNAMES: Adams, Baker, Baland, Bell, Bowden, Chester, Copeland, Craft, Creason, Darnall, Free, Hamilton, Harrell, Henson, Kayler, Locke, Lyles, Mathis, Rudd, Smith, Vaughn, Washburn, Wiley ORIGINAL MT. MORIAH Original Mt. Moriah Church, on Mt. Moriah Road, west of Calvert City, was organized in 1844 under the leadership of Elder Isaiah King, who served as pastor for the first seven years of the church's history. The church met at first in a small log cabin. Later pastors have included Elders Thomas Harrison, J. N. Wallace, E. M. Brashear, J. D. Shain, R. N. Grave, Gordon Hearon, and Arlie Larimer, the present pastor. A frame building replaced the log structure in 1871, and another frame building was built in 1906. KNOWN MEMBERS' SURNAMES None beyond those shown above. ROUGH CREEK KNOWN MEMBERS' SURNAMES: None have been located. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++