My friends - Although we normally begin a new week of data posts on Mondays, I am going to slightly deviate from that schedule today to offer a couple of items from my "miscellaneous files" contained on the several hundred old 5" floppies that I mention from time to time. These files are somewhat different from the norm. There is always a lot of interest in early church minutes. I found that I had, years ago, saved some information from the original Church Book(which has subsequently been lost, as I understand it)from the original Antioch Church of Christ, which was located right on the Calloway/Graves county line and which was founded about 1836 by settlers who were primarily from North Carolina, some of whom had gone to Alabama and then on to the Jackson Purchase. This book of church minutes begins in 1838 and end in 1852. There are some missing pages, but the minutes consist of listings of new members, members who were dismissed, expelled, baptized, etc. The surnames contained in these minutes include Parkhill, Clapp, Jones, Turnbow, West, Nance, Williams, Armstrong, Simmons, Turner, Stroud, Price, Francis, Matheny, Chambers, Kelly, Hainline, Crider, Brush, Drown, Shutts, Lombard, Harris, Hale, Dalton, Thompson, Gray, Doom(s), Pogue and McAbee. Additionally, I have converted a file which contains the names of individuals who were on the federal pension rolls as of 1 January 1883 in Graves and Fulton counties. This file shows the name of the pensioner, the county and post office address for the pensioner, the cause for which the pension was allowed, the amount of the monthly pension and the date of the original allowance. This has many widows of War of 1812 soldiers, as well as some men who were wounded or otherwise disabled, and several "dependent mother" listings. The surnames contained in this file include Abernathy, Adair, Allison, Askew, Austin, Barton, Canter, Chappell, Cook, Davidson, Darrington, Emerson, Entrican, Farris, Heffin, Hunzaker/Hunsaker, Henry, Linder, Molohon, Myers, Nance, Newton, Owens, Peak, Plumbee, Rollins, Shetton, Simmons, Simpson, Smith, Wheeler, Winston and Youngblood. Subscribers to the JP, Calloway, Graves or Fulton lists can obtain a copy of either, or both files, by sending a request directly to me(not to the lists, please)Both of these files are available in rich text format or Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Because of the table attributes in one file and the general formatting in the other, it was necessary that rich text format be used. Any word processor will open an RTF file. Please specify either the "Antioch Church File" or the "Pensioners" file, or "Both Files" when sending a request. The file(s) will be sent as a rich text attachment to an e-mail message, unless PDF is specified. The entire file(s) will be sent. Time constraints do not permit me to go into the files and extract data on individuals. Your continuing assistance in not resending this entire message back to me with the request is, as always, appreciated. Tomorrow, we will focus on Ballard County. -B =====================================================================