The article mentioned a John Mulkey helping with starting the church. I am not sure if this Jonathan Mulkey or his son. Both were Baptist Preachers. They came from North Carolina to the Watauga Settlement. Jonathan Mulkey established the Kindrick's Creek Church at present-day Kingsport, Tennessee. He later replaced Tidus Lane at the Buffalo Ridge Baptist Church at Gray, Tennessee. The family migrated westward and in Kentucky they established what today is called the "Historic Mulkey Meeting House". There is a lot of early Baptist history in a book by the Rev. Glenn Toomey "Bi-Centennial Holston: Tennessee's First Baptist Association and its Affiliated Churches 1786-1985." Col Copeland was in the Greene/Jefferson County, Tennessee area about 1795-1799 or so where he gathered a militia unit to go to middle Tennessee to help in protecting the setters there. One of the men who went with him was John Sehorn, Jr who settled at Standing Stone. He married Mary Polly Graham. John died in 1809. Mary later married Benjamin Walker, Jr and reared 13 children. Many descendants live in the Overton County area today. John Sehorn, JR is found on the Jackson County records in 1801 and later in 1801 when Overton County was separated from Jackson he is found on those records. This family was Methodist. Some of Col. Copelands descendants married descendants of Mary Polly Graham Sehorn Walker. Leota Bennett ----- Original Message ----- From: "D&R" <dcran41266@comcast.net> To: <tnoverto@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 12:55 AM Subject: [TNOVERTO] COPELAND > http://www.stewartkin.com/histories/roaring_river_cemetery_by_eldridge.html > > The link to the Roaring River Baptist church, > > "In the late 1700's, Col. Stephen Copeland, a Revolutionary War soldier, > came to this area from Jefferson County, Tennessee, along with one of his > sons, Joseph (Big Joe) Copeland." > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNOVERTO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >