> I would love to get hold of old church records for the area of Monroe, > Waxhaw and Mineral Springs. We know that Henry R. Rape was born in 1830 in > this area. His father, John Rape, built the Arbor at Mineral Springs Camp > Ground in that same year, they were said to have lived four miles from the > camp ground. Other family members have said that the family had moved back > to NC after my grandmother was born and that he died there. There is a book in the Heritage Center, Union County,Monroe NC, wtritten by George T. Winchester,called A Story of Union County and the History of Pleasant Grove Camp Ground,published in 1937.I was able to have the wonderful staff at the Heritage Center copy this for me(4 pages to a sheet,book is 104 pages, I think their charge is 8 cents a page,,anyway it was less than $5.00 to copy) contains infor about John Rape as builder of the Camp Ground and also memeber in sunday school. This would be a nice addition to your family information. If you live in the area you can go to the Heritage Center in the old Court House Bldg Monroe, as they have a lot more information on the Rape family,other books and a family file. Thanks, Nell, tracing the McCorkle, Stephenson, Penegar, Howey,Osborne, Orr, Beckett,Wolfe famiies with different spellings of each. >