Any familiar names here to anyone out there? >book called Ohio Source Records in which there is a section called >"Marriage Records, Franklin County, Ohio," wherein I find this: [page 230] >"Adams, John---Smothers, Hannah---April 29, 1821. Russell Bigelow, M. G. >[vol.] 2-[page] 89. >"John Smothers says his sister, Hannah Smothers, is of lawful age to marry >John Adams and that the parties is not nearer related than first cousins." >[A note symbol at the end of the statement refers one back to the footnotes >on the first page of the article where the appropriate footnote reads >"Original Records. These original records are fragments of paper stored in >the Probate Court Rooms."] >In "History of Salem Baptist Church (Allen County, Kentucky)" in Pioneer >Baptist Church Records of South-Central Kentucky and the Upper Cumberland >of Tennessee, 1799-1899, by C. P. Cawthorn and N. L Warnell (1985), is the >following: On Feb. 8, 1812, the following bretheren and sisters were >dismissed from the Salem Baptist Church on Trammel Creek in Allen County, >and constituted into a church called Testament Baptist Church. > "Henry Woodcock, chosen deacon and ordained; John Meador, clerk; >William Smothers; George Terry; Samuel Warner; John Meador; Lewis Meador; >Sally Meador; Mary Ann Terry; Hannah Tracy; Nancy Smothers; Sally Hudson." >(Note 185: Minutes of the Testament Baptist Church. Typed excerpts.) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com