Okay, folks, I think I have our blog spot working now. Today the conversation is about spelling bees and ciphering matches and also includes picnicing as a form of entertaiment in the early days of Barry.  On the front page of the Barry County web site I have a place set up where you can log on to the blog anytime. You don't have to be a member - anybody can post to it.   http://barrycountymogenealogy.blogspot.com/ I posted a photo of the Freewill Baptist Church at Macedonia in the church book this morning. Darla snapped some the other day when we were out an about. I noticed that the first church there was built in 1875 and that the present building was constructed in 1901. Our newspapers that we have on line have a lot of items about Macedonia people and activities. Often funerals were held there at the church and mention as such in the papers of Barry.  http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mobarry/photos/church/Macedonia/macedoniaChurch.htm Thanks goes to Janel Foss who added an item about the Warren family from the Benton County Pionneer of 1966. And thanks goes to Linda Garret helped out by typing it for us. It has a lot information about the people who lived in and around Twelve Corners, Dent Cemetery area, the Mayflower and also Roller and Whittenburg. Whittenburg, I think, was actually nothing more than the area where the Methodist Church was that Rev. David Albert Akehurst started - it was accross the road from the Jody Sims Store. I don't know what they call it now - maybe Simsberry. That is in McDonald County but not far across the line. Rev. Akehurst had descendants in both counties and was mentioned in the article. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mobarry/data/warrenFamily.htm My Interent has been coming and going all day yesterday and today. Thanks to our helpers I have a lot of work to do so I hope it stays on long enough to get some pages done. Donna Cooper