I HAVE A strange request for the readers in Monroe and Belmont Counties who happen to have an old hymnal hanging around the house somewhere. What I would like will not take long but it would mean so much to me if anyone of you could come up with a representative sample of a hymn written by one of my ancestors. I have several hymnbooks but none contain the hymns written by my Grandmother's brother Leonard ORANGE or her brother-in-law Leonard MOBBERLY. i AM NOT SURE THAT THE GIVEN NAMES FOR mobberly IS ABSOLUTELY correct, but if you find a hymn written by one by that surname, it will be he. My Mother who was raised in Monroe Co, when she was not in TX, was the d/o of Nora ORANGE GREEN and James Frankin GREEN and they all attended the Church of Christ which did NOT allow musical instruments orf any kind in the church. I do not remember the church name, I just remember that the song leader would get and pitch the song, start it where he thought it was a comfortable range, and soon you would hear four part harmony from every corner and bouncing off of the rafters of the church. Beautiful singing. Litlle was i to know that i would grow up to become a vocal music teacher and wish for that abiity to harmonize many times over. I knew that I could harmonize, hear a counter part, as a little girl and sang at home w/ Grandma Green and my Mother. But, I grew up thinking everyone did that. Not so! Then my grandparents moved to Ashland Co. and I attended the same kind of church back on Third and Church St. in a small community church where the song leader did the same thing as they had done in Monroe Co. Does this type of denomination still exist?? Since I was a keyboard major in college, I never attended a piano free church again. I am off of the track however. What I want is a copy of a a hymn from one of those old books that an ORANGE or MOBERLY composed. I looked in Grandma's books and I do not have any w/ those hymns in them. If you have an old hymnal, sometime could you take five minutes and look for the composer's name? I would dearly love to find a sample of their writing if any still exists. Thank you. Marjory Ann PETTY Peck Austen, a granddaughter from Monoe Co.. Marjory PETTY Austen Author of "You Can't Do That!" http://www.mappa.petty.com/