This could be a very good bet (and your average must be pretty high, although I note you say "perhaps" so you're apparently not ready to bet on this one, I don't blame you.) This Bethleham Road is apparently the one which runs n/n-e along the east boundary of Survey #641, from Decatur. Per the 1876 atlas, there is/was a road coming from the west, right along Rattlesnake Run which intersected Bethleham Road at Rattlesnake. The only other road in #641 ran out of Decatur to the n-w intersecting "Rattlesnake Road" (my name), then dog-legged a little ways to the west and continued n/n-w along the west boundary of #641. The roads out of Decatur must have been the "main" ones -- that "Rattlesnake Road" shortcut passed back and forth across the creek and couldn't have been passable during high water (unless it is on a bluff where the bluff is on one side, then the other -- even so, there wouldn't have been bridges in the 1830 +/- era.) This road may be abandoned now, we'll find out when we get there. Do you know anything about A. M. Kirkpatrick who apparently had land, in 1876, at the south end of #641? I'm wondering about current owners -- I'm not above driving up to someone's home and asking questions, haven't been shot at yet. I'll probably ask in Decatur whether there are any old-timers, like me or hopefully older, around the area. Neil -----Original Message----- From: hermfagley@juno.com <hermfagley@juno.com> To: OHADAMS-L@rootsweb.com <OHADAMS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, July 08, 1999 3:37 AM Subject: Re: [OHADAMS-L] Re: M.E. Church, Pittenger-Mahaffey-Woods-Quarry-Bicker-Rutherford-Pickerell-Carson-Grimes-Sm ith-Kirkpatrick-Tacker-White-McDaniel >I see a road named "BETHLEHAM" running n-s crossing RATTLESNAKE just west >of the ADAMS-BROWN Co,line. Perhaps 'BETHLEHAM" was the name of the >Methodist church >___________________________________________________________________ >Get the Internet just the way you want it. >Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! >Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. > > >==== OHADAMS Mailing List ==== >Help Instructions at: http://www.zoomnet.net/~chipmunk/SurnamesMail.html >or contact Betty at: chipmunk@zoomnet.net >Archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?surname=OHAdams >Your gracious donations to RootsWeb makes this all possible!! >Rootsweb: http://www.rootsweb.com/ >