This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DIB.2ACE/340.3 Message Board Post: Charles Henry Savidge had a son, Charles W. Savidge who became a somewhat famous Omaha, Nebraska Methodist minister and wrote an autobiography, http://www.rootsweb.com/~nechurch/MECHURCH/faith/pages/hfigcnts.htm in which he wrote: "When I was a boy on the Minnesota farm we hauled logs to the sawmill in the winter across the lake on the ice and, having a gentle team, when once I reached the lake I would hang the lines on the standard of the sled and, walking behind the load, I would preach to the sawlogs. And, by the way, I have preached to sawlogs since. "I remember at one time I preached on one of these occasions so loud, and became so interested in my theme, that the neighbors on the opposite side of the lake a half mile away heard me and they flocked to their doors and listened to my preaching." I found the Lake on the USGS map of the Middle Minnesota River Basin. Guess I'll have to find the coordinates of the farm Charles the elder bought in 1858, wander to Minnesota (from Maryland :-) and check it out. No biggie.