This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hedgpeth, Spencer, Farnsworth, Alexander, Stubbs, Stanley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BMB.2ACE/1182.1 Message Board Post: Hi Kenny, I checked an article I have, that was written about the Methodist Episcopal Church South in Kansas by Rev. Joab Spencer. It appeared in the Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society Vol 12. On page 158 Thomas R. Hedgpeth is mentioned (there is a small paragraph about him). He had transfered to the Western Conference (Kansas) for a term of 2 years in 1870. He returned to the Missouri Conference after that and it lists him as being buried at "Salisbury" MO. The appointments listed in the article show him at Holton, Kansas for 1871.........he may have been there in 1870 as a late appointment since they often did 2 year terms in each place. There may be some info about him in the St. Louis Christian Advocate newspapers that you might want. My research time frame is 1866-1868 and I've even found letters written to the paper by your Thomas Riley Hedgpeth, where he comments on his church work. Fayette Missouri has archival material for the Methodist Episcopal Church South. They have a website online with a database of the old circuit riders online. I just checked my print out of that and it does list your Thomas Riley Hedgpeth as being buried at Salisbury MO in "Chariton County".........sorry, I should have checked that first. And, it lists one source as the obit in the St. Louis Christian Advocate: 20 April 1887-page 6. It says that he died in Rockport Missouri at the home of his son..........I think that may be in Atchison County Mo. Here is a link to that database: http://www.cmc.edu/library/metharchive/meth_directory.asp And, they did transport people that far for burial back then. I have one account of someone dying in Morris County Kansas and being brought back to Clay County MO for burial in 1850. Karren A.