This is your Monday next post; I'll be back next Tuesday or Wednesday depending! Membership list 1889 from the minutes. They updated later. Males: S C WALKER (died 13 Dec 1895), Wm TWYMAN, W A CRENSHAW (died 6 May 1891), E F B HATCHETTE, J M PIPER (excluded for joining the Presbyterian church), W D LOCKE (dismissed 25 Apr 1896), J C THOMAS (dis Dec 188-, then crossed out), C H HATCHETTE (dis 15 Nov 1890), J F EDWARD (dis 20 June 1889), Wm THOMAS, Henderson WEST, W T HATCHETTE, H C FURGERSON, John LOCKE, Eugene FURGERSON, William EDWARDS, Elliott FURGERSON (dis 1 Feb 1893), Charles THOMAS, Ed? SCOTT (dis Mar 189-), J R LINDSEY, W P FURGERSON, Peter CLINE (dis 1892), R H JEFFRIES, G W FURGERSON (excluded Dec 1882), S G COX, Clarence THOMAS, Albert? BRADLEY (dead Apr 1896). Females: Gertrude? A HATCHETTE, Patsy WALKER, Francis V THOMAS, Ann PIPER, Millissie CRENSHAW (now THOMAS 3 Oct 1894), Mollie HUTCHENS (dis 1893), Margaret E LOCK (dis 25 Apr 1896), Theonia MINOR, Alice FURGERSON (died Nov 1892?), Belle THOMAS (now KINSER), Sudy WEST, Catherine THOMAS, Lizzie TWYMAN (dis 25 Apr 1896), Everlena WEBB, P L FURGERSON, Annie LOCKE, Mary L COX, H H LINDSEY, E T? JEFFRIES, M B JEFFRIES, Malinda MILLER, Lula MILLER, Minnie MILLER, Alicy SCOTT (dis Mar 1893), Margaret LINDSEY, ___ WILTSHIRE, F(lorence?) TRIMBLE, Alice? TRIMBLE (excluded), Susan BRADLEY, T B BRADLEY, Sarah LOCKE, Jennie FURGERSON. This ends the membership lists at Blue Springs but for a few posts, I'm going to post some information about the families shown as members. EMORY. There were two Emory families shown on the 1840 census with a widow as head of household - Elizabeth who had a son 16-20 and Sarah who had a son 16-20, a son 21-30, a son 31-40. Both households had daughters. Unknown as to which Emory family was referred to as members. John DURHAM was found on the 1840 Barren Co census; his widow & family are on the 1850 census in District 1, house 241-248. Sally DURHAM, 45, born VA. Children (all born KY) included Jesse, 11; Anne E, 12; John, 9; Polly, 7; Lucy F, 6 and Sarah J 4. Barren Co marriages show that John Durham married Sarah WINES 15 Mar 1831, marriage by Rev Cornelius DEWEESE. There is no record of William ARMSTRONG on the 1850 Barren Co census, nor was any marriage found here. He does appear on the 1840 census. Melvina ARMSTRONG was thought to possibly be his wife. Alexander FORD is listed in the 1850 census, district 2, house 1051-1072. He is shown as 29, farmer; wife Sarah A, 24 - both born KY. Children: Catharine P, 7; William H, 5; Absolm T, 3 and John C, 1. Barren Co marriages show that he married Sarah M STOVALL 31 Jan 1842; married by Rev Thomas SKAGGS. Willis GALLOWAY, 1850 census, district 2, house 197-201; 23 years old, born KY. Wife, Lucinda, 28, born KY. Children: Martha C, 8; Mary J, 7; William F, 5 and Robert C, 10/12. He and Lucinda married here 23 July 1840 by Abraham WOODARD. James T WITHERS, 1850 census, district 2, house 1040-1059. 31 yrs old, farmer, born KY. Wife, Nancy J, 29, born KY. Children: William H, 10; Martha P, 8; George, 6; Nancy J, 4 and Elizabeth, 1. No marriage found in Barren Co. Beverly BRADLEY, 1850, District 1, house 1035-1054, 34 yrs old, farmer, born KY. Wife, Malinda J, 28, born KY. Listed with them was John, 18; Thompson W, 7; Robert F, 4; George W, 3 and Thomas SMITH, 17, laborer, all born KY. Beverly BRADLEY married Martha WITHERS 9 Feb 1849 (by Rev PETTY). There is also a marriage of a Beverly Bradley to Jane DALE 4 Jan 1841 by Thomas EDWARDS. Malinda J appears to have been Jane. Harriet A ALLEN is shown as d/o William Austin ALLEN and his wife, Sarah Ann. She appears district 1, house 519-530 on the 1850 census with her father. He 45, farmer, born VA; her mother was 28, born KY and she had siblings Thomas B, 12; Mary, 10; Charles A, 8 and John W, 2. to be continued - Sandi Sandi's Puzzlers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html SCKY Links: http://www.public.asu.edu/~moore/Gorin.html GGP: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/