This may be something your already know, but thought I'd send it just in case. Rev. Samuel Mills Tenney began a life-long effort to preserve the records of the PCUS (Southern Presbyterian church) in Texas in about 1903, which continued to the founding of the Historical Society in Montreat as the Archives of the southern church. Whether or not Rev. Tenney was able to convince the Galveston church to send their records to Montreat, I don't know. After the PCUS and PCUSA combined, the southern records were still kept at Montreat. Then in 2006, PCUSA closed the Montreat archives and moved the records-- some to the original churches, some to Columbia Theological Seminary in Athens, GA and most to Philadelphia. IF (big if) the Galveston records (or copies of them) were at Montreat, then contacting the PCUSA Historical Society in Philadelphia would be a good move. This is the link to the PCUSA Historical Society http://www.history.pcusa.org/ If you choose from the links at the top of the home page, you can search their catalog database, etc. You can also contact them directly via the "contact" link. This is the link to the library at Columbia Theological Seminary http://www.ctsnet.edu/Library.aspx You'll see the link to the catalog and also one to the Montreat Collection. Having dealt with our church's records of the period you're looking for, may I say that the church didn't seem to be the record-keeper for marriages and funerals in those early days, as much as was the pastor. So you might also search for any journals kept by Rev. R. F. Bunting and Rev. Dan McNair. These may or may not have been archived under the name of the church; also, some personal journals have been published by genealogy-minded descendants of early pastors. I Googled R. F. Bunting and found that his letters are in the University of Texas library. The papers occupy .41 linear feet of shelf space, and numbers approximately 150 items. and other references. www.state.tn.us/tsla/history/manuscripts/findingaids/411.pdf - Googled Dan McNair, and found that by tracing his wife's membership, he left First Presbyterian Church of Galveston, Texas and went back to Thibodeaux LA, where he was Stated Supply, and then her membership was moved to Prytania Street Church in New Orleans. A reference indicated that he may have died there: Daniel McNair from The Southwestern Presbyterian, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1883. . So a search for his papers might be from LA instead of TX. I hope some of this proves helpful, and if it is, I'd like to hear about it. Adding to the store of genealogical sources is never a waste of time. Bettie Sarver Crockett, TX bwsarver@gmail.com