Larry, Is there a source for the early Methodist records? I have a Rev. Samuel C. James (my 3g-gf) who was a local supply preacher for the Methodist Church. He was in Williamsburg County, apparently in the Lynches Creek area between Scranton & Coward, which was very near the Marion County line. I know that some of his relatives were members of Hebron Baptist at Friendfield -- (he doesn't seem to have been too successful at converting the family!) -- I'm not sure how he ended up Methodist. I also found in the Hebron Minute Books a Celia Cox, who may have been my 4g-gm; she was excluded from Hebron Church for joining a Methodist church. Donali Howell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry H. Jones" <ljones@sewanee.edu> To: <SCMARION-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 12:03 PM Subject: Re: [SCMARION-L] Early Churches | Then, I have some notes on Bethesda Methodist (now Southern Methodist) | Church in Oak Grove. | | I have some other notes on the "fourth quarterly conference of the | Methodist Church for the Marion District" held November 30, 1842. Evidently | the district involved some of Marlboro too. Churches involved were | Bethesda, Dothan, Marion Courthouse, Ariel, Old Neck, Millers, Liberty | Chapel, Union, Hopewell, Moodys, Tranquil, Schoolhouse, Clio, Parnassus, | Bethlehem, Macedonia, Ebenezer, Ark, Philadephia, Tabernacle, and Shiloh." | Unfortunately I don't know which ones besides Bethesda, Union, and perhaps | Dothan would have been in the area in which you are interested. |