Lynn and Joyce: Thank you both for the follow-up. First thing, our Mullens were from Ohio, moved to New Gable, Pennsylvania in about 1878. Mary became a missionary and spent some time in Sierra Leone, in Africa, came back to the States and founded perhaps as many as three schools for black Africans. The one in Uree, I have a photo of, taken about 1900. It was a post card which was entitled "Mary Mullen School, Uree, North Carolina". If the school is still standing, I would certainly love to see a recent photo. [By the way, I live on the West Coast.] Is there someone at the Bill's Creek Baptist Church who would be willing to correspond with me? It is possible that the family never lived in Uree, and that Mary was only there for the school. I know nothing at all about the Reverend Hench or where he or Mary died. Only that it was a machinery caused death. One of my mother's notes indicates Boydton, Virginia as his place of death. Thanks for the input. ..... Jerry