Don, I delayed my answer to your questions about the Mt. Ararat Church partly in order to have a chance to make a telephone call to my parents to ask about some points. I hail from very close by Mt. Ararat. That is the left fork of the headwaters of Big Richland Creek. Going up the creek from the direction of Barbourville, Road 1803 turns up that fork and crosses over to Blackwater and on to Highway 80 at Bush. (I am from the right fork of the creek, what the road sign now calls Tedders Creek. My birthplace is not much more than two miles from Mt. Ararat Church.) The "fork in the road" is where Wallace Gilbert lived in the mid-1800s and where my grandfather, Claiborn Taylor, eventually moved. Mt. Ararat is the name of the church and was the name of the one-room school next door, while the post office used to be Gibbs, Ky. (which I always understood to be short for Gilbert). Mt. Ararat, in Knox County, is almost as much a part of the Sasser heartland as is Blackwater, in Laurel County, just across the hill. Mike has already answered your question about the word "received." My answer could not have approached his in thoroughness. I too thought the term referred to membership being transferred "by letter," but I wanted to ask my mother, who was the clerk of the Baptist Church on our fork when I was growing up. She confirmed my--and Mike's--interpretation. As for some of the names, one of the people is apparent Daisy Cobb, whose maiden name was Sasser (her husband was Jesse Cobb). I find it a bit confusing that her married name was not used, but my parents agree with me, saying they could not think of anybody else the name could refer to. (My father actually lived on the Mt. Ararat side before he and my mother were married, in 1938.) Surely they would know if there was another Dassie/Daisy Sasser. Daisy Sasser Cobb was a very good person and very religious, the type of person who likely would have held such an office in the church. You might find it interesting that Daisy and her husband were part of the migration to Oklahama. I do not know how long they lived there, but they eventually came back. I know that they were in Oklahama when my uncle, Don Taylor, who also lived there (and was married to Rachel Cobb, sister of Daisy's husband), was very ill. Since the date of my uncle's death is 1928, that allows plenty time for them to have returned to Mt. Ararat by 1933. I do not know how Daisy connects all the way back to Henry Sasser on her father's side. But--according to a document prepared by Dan Humfleet many years ago--her father was William Franklin Sasser, born January 31, 1891 (I still have not checked to see whether he is on your internet chart.) I do know Daisy's Sasser's lineage on her mother's side. Her mother was Mary Ellen Humfleet (born 1/31/1873), the third child of Arthur Humfleet, whose mother was Piety Sasser Humfleet, daughter of Henry Sasser. According to the Dan Humfleet document, William Franklin Sasser and Mary Ellen Humfleet Sasser had four children: Daisy Ethel, Levi, Maude Helen, and Frank. After her first husband's death, Aunt Mary Ellen married Steve Cobb, and they had two sons: Roy and Chester (the latter was well known in Knox County for his regular column in the local newspaper--"The News From Around Gibbs, Kentucky, by Old Chess Cobb"). I also have a list of other children and grandchildren of Aunt Mary Ellen--and some other dates. I believe that the Frank Sasser you ask about is Daisy's brother. According to a chart in my possession that was prepared, I understand, by Robert Helton, his full name was Arthur Franklin Sasser. He first married Maude Cottongim, then Maxine Murrell, and his third wife was Mazzie Davis. I have a list of their children too. I think the N.J. Gilbert you asked about probably was Nathan Gilbert, a son of Wallace Gilbert, who--according to p. 1 of your "SASSER's of laurel Co., KY" chart--was married to Nancy "Nany" Tuttle, a granddaughter of Henry Sasser. I think they lived at Mt. Ararat; I know their son, Jap Gilbert (who also once moved to Oklahama, as I remember one of his grandsons--also named Nathan-- telling when I was in grade school) lived there at what was probably the upper part of the original Wallace Gilbert place, as does Jap's son Jim Gilbert today. As for the founding of Mt. Ararat Church, I once heard Sam Gilbert, a grandson of Wallace Gilbert (and son of the younger Wallace Gilbert) say that his grandmother, Susan Jones Gilbert, had started that church. I am not sure when the Gilbert family came there, but I think it was not until about the middle of the century. It could be that Dr Ward had something to do with it, but in the absense of some evidence I would say this is unlikely. Sorry I cannot give more complete answers. Glenn ***************************************** Glenn E. Perry Department of Political Science Indiana State University Terre Haute, IN 47809 USA E-Mail: psperrg@scifac.indstate.edu (812)237-2505 (office) (812)234-5661 (home) ****************************************