My friends - Let me say first that I am very grateful for the many expressions of good wishes which I received relative to my scheduled minor surgery last week. As it happened, the procedure was postponed, due to my surgeon having slipped on a wet floor and fracturing his leg. But I have "banked" all of the good wishes for use again, and, as I said, they were much appreciated. Today, I have a potpourri of items that I want to pass along, most of which are connected with Calloway County. Before moving to that county, however, our good friend Brenda Jerome passed along some information she found in "Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas" , showing some former JP residents who had removed to AR at various times. In this group are: Capt. Hiram Vardeman Gray - born 1822 Graves County, KY J.C. Cobb - born 1838 Fulton County, KY Virgil Y. Cook - born 1848 Boydsville, Graves County, KY Moving to Calloway County, I am listing below some Equity Court Cases which were heard in the Calloway Equity Court in the late 1850's and early 1860's. Most of these records were lost in the 1886 courthouse fire, but we do have some that survived. I have taken a sampling of those and shown them below. If any of our subscribers see a case involving their family, I may - depending on the case and how it was reported in the Equity Court Orders - be able to supply a bit of additional information. Send a message to me directly and I will check it. Grand Jury indictments - September, 1858: W.J.Mathis - disturbing the religious worship W.Goodwin - unlawful shooting at another and challenge to fight in single combat(duel) W.H. Hale - gaming James F.Collins - malicious wounding of another's cow Jaden Hawes - malicious wounding William Boggess - perjury Martha Tucker - arson Manuel Hargroves - carrying concealed deadly weapon & others Henrietta M. Goodwin vs. William Goodwin - divorce granted (March 1859) John K. Bonner vs.Drucilla Bonner - divorce granted John B. Tatum vs. M.J.Tatum - divorce granted Martin Lamb vs. J.W.Dunn (March 1859) - Case dropped J.T.Mathis vs. Ann E. Mathis (September 1859) - case continued, no details William Holland, et al. vs. M.G.Miller, et al - guardianship G.W.Barnett vs. Josiah Holland - case dismissed(no details) William H[ardy] Curd vs. John F.Spann, et al (March 1861) - no details W[illiam] H[ardy] Curd vs. B[enjamin] G. Martin - no details J[ohn] L[ewis] Utterback vs. Thomas Hudspeth - no details I will post others in this group as we go along. -B ========================================================================