The following is from SOME PIONEER PREACHERS AND TEACHERS of TENNESSEE, compiled by ROSALIE AUSMUS KEEVER, 1974 (This publication is a Bicentennial project of the Tennessee Society, NSDAR) PETERS, TOBIAS, lived in Anderson County. He was an exhorter, or a local preacher of the Methodist church. The Peters' home was often the scene of religious services for the entire community. His son James was one of the leaders of Morgan County. James was born near what is now Clinton, Tennessee, August 25, 1798. In 1823 he married Rachel McCartt. She was the daughter of Robert and Hannah McCartt who lived on the headwaters of Emory River in Morgan County. He and his wife had six boys and seven girls. Several teachers and preachers in this family. Jerry Bryan (P.S. this is the first I had heard that Tobias himself was a Methodist minister. I knew that James was a Methodist minister, and that a number of James' children were Methodist ministers. There is a Francis Asbury Peters in Anderson County, no doubt named after the famous Methodist circuit rider Bishop Francis Asbury. But Francis Asbury Peters was the son of Henry Peters, Jr. and the grandson of Henry Peters. So I gather that both the Tobias Peters line in Anderson County and the Henry Peters line in Anderson County were big in the Methodist church. What I don't know is whether Tobias and Henry were related.) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com