In a message dated 2/17/01 10:16:11 PM Pacific Standard Time, joantoni@open.org writes: > 52 in the household, including 14 male slaves...! Which also makes me > wonder what Rockingham county was like. Would that have been a tobacco > area or what that they had that needed that much help? You are correct. Tobacco over the whole state and cotton along the coastal plain. << I  am very interested in knowing if the county has done a survey of their cemetery burials I am interested in the name HERBEN-HERBIN-HARBIN >> There have been several cemetery volumes that have been published over the years with the project still ongoing by the James Hunter DAR Chapter in Madison, NC. From Rockingham/Stokes Cem., Vol. 5: Mt. Bethel Christian Church, Hwy 65, New Bethel Township John A. Herbin 12 Apr 1859 - 28 May 1951 Mary Ann McCollum Herbin 17 June 1862 - 10 Feb 1920 w/o John Dwight Herbin 22 Aug 1897 - 2 Feb 1949 Pauline Haube Herbin wife of Dwight L. Herbin died 1927 These are all I found in the cemetery books. Elvin