Carol, A big thank you for all of the Douthitt Journal entries which I enjoy so much, but this week's recording solved a long standing mystery for me. I finally found out when Harden McDaniel died. Harden, also known as Henson Harden and H.H., was the father of Sarah Elizabeth who married Minor Winkler and of Mary J. who married Winfield Winkler. Sarah and Minor are my great-grandparents. There are some family stories connected to Harden and his wife, Ann Caroline Payne. Caroline died on April 15, 1857 and was buried in the St. Lawrence Cemetery. I'm told that her gravestone is no longer there, but I saw it in the late 1970's. She was buried on the first row of graves next to the road. On each side of her grave there were two small stones with no inscriptions which appeared to be marking graves. I have no proof that Harden was buried at St. Lawrence, but I suspect that the two small stones may mark his grave and that of a child who appears in no other records besides the St. Lawrence Baptismal Records. The surviving children were ages 2 through 8 when Harden died in 1858. Before her death (of scarlet fever ), Caroline requested that her children be raised by her friends in the Mt. Zion community. In the 1860 and 1870 censuses, the children are with families who were members of the Mt. Zion Church. The youngest, Victoria married Edward Soper of Breckinridge County and the remainder married a member of the Mt. Zion community. Thanks again for the journal. You have the only written proof of my great-great gradfather's death. I am very, very glad that you chose to share this wonderful piece of history. I hope that others are as fortunate as I and find some of their relatives. Sena Muffett Schaefer

I want to throw out one of my brickwalls again. I'm looking for the BALSER family who lived in Owensboro, KY around 1900. Cordie BALSER was my great grandfather's sister. I do not know her husband's name. I have a picture of her sons that was sent in the early 1900's and they look to be in their teens or early twenties. Their names were: John BALSER Robert BALSER Jamey Cenus BALSER If anyone has information on this family, please let me know. I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks,