Reading over the email from Nita on the "Old Northwest Texas" books. The church was Turkey Creek of Saluda Baptist Church. I found an address for a chuch by that name in Ware Shoals, SC but their phone # did not work. I have copy and paste Nita's email to me so that those of you on this list can contribute. Julia Nita email From a book "Old Northwest Texas", mainly for Navarro County, there is reference to a group in South Carolina where Medlins and Ambrose Foster and relatives--Armstrong, Hall, Smith, Gibson and Roberts--were among the first members of the Turkey Creek of Saluda Baptist Church about 1785, later the families were living in Bedford/Lincoln area along the panhandle of LCT adjoining Bedford (Sinking Creek and Little Cane Creek area) where they were members of the charter New Hope Baptist Church, Fosters in the old Hannah's Gap Baptist Church. By 1822 some of them were in Marion County, Alabama, with some settling in Missouri--Cole/Platte/Moniteau counties. Medlin was the first to move to Tarrant County 18654, joined by Anderson, Hallford, Malone, Gibson, etc where they again were members of Baptist churches there. Their tradition was that an entire Baptist church made to the move to Texas. Before 1860, more from Tarrant, Hays/Travis counties moved to California where they again es! tablished Baptist churches.Other names were: Sorrels, Harris, Allen, Leterel, Henry, James, Phillips, Freeman (usually a preacher), Hodges, King, Leonard, etc. Question: Some of the LCT McNutt and Medlins were living around Lawrence Co., MO with Piland variations by 1860. Some of my folks from two other lines were in that area of MO before making it north central Texas by Oct. 1853--seems that some of the folks intermarried (difficult to get some of these different surnames separate because of these 1700's SC families who went to Alabama did not go to MO/Arkansas, but went straight to Texas. A Gilbert line seems to have the same problem--