>I am trying to find out some information on Barbours Corners, I believe >next or close to Proctor? Can anyone help? I have a very old picture of >the Barbours Baptist Church. This is where my wife's ancestors, HAKES >lived. John Barbours is just west of Rt 87. northeast of Williamsport, "up the Loyalsock" as tha saying goes. Proctor is a very short distance. not more than 2 or 3 miles or so, to the northwest of Barbours, through a gap in the hills to a T intersection and you are there. Its not at all hard to find. There is not much of Proctor now but a few houses and a small church and a tiny general store. there used to be some sort of factory there and Proctor used to be much larger. It was sometimes called "Proctorville". Barbours is a somewhat larger community, but still very small. We found one of my husband's great grandmothers (Elenora Hoppes Steinhelper) and some of her family buried in the Barbours Cemetery. We also found that, back in the hills, northeast of Proctor a couple miles, there used to be a town called Hoppestown and that is where some of my husband's Hoppes ancestors lived. There is even a small cemetery there, buried in deep woods and weeds. I don't remember seeing the Hakes name when we were there, but then, we weren't looking for that name. The Barbours cemetery is not real small, go into Barbours, turn north near the bridge and you will come to the cemetery. I seem to remember passing a quarry or graval pit on the way in there. -- Carol Courter Updegraff PO Box 222 Glennallen, AK 99588-0222 cupdegraff@cvinternet.net