This week's Polk County News has the following info (in excerpts) on the following... Rev. Luther Lillard b 1815 Michael Columbus Higdon son of Thomas and REbecca Cate Higdon Zachariah Rose Isham Simmonds William Sims Rev. MC and Rhoda Higdon W.C. Lee William H. Rymer Eli and Mary Kerr Rymer Miss Allie Josephine Lemmons A. Cavett Lewis Shamblin H.F. Burns JL McDowell Granville Lee JE Johnson Rev. Judson Taylor All are mentioned in association with the First Baptist Church of Benton. The information is available in reprint from the Polk County News polknews@bellsouth.net They also have a looooong list of articles written on people and the communities around the area. Benton Book Mart has available a variety of heritage books and booklets Nancy Ward and Dragging Canoe The Overmountain Men Touring the East Tn Backroads The Copperbasin 1890 1963 The Railroad Comes to Ducktown Ducktown Back in Rhat's Time Torment in the Knobs The Melungeons Starr Tracks Old Ways Rediscovered American Folk Medicine Beloved Mother, Nancy Ward Scots-Irish in the Hills of TN Ghosts and Haunts of Appalachain Foothills The Bell Witch of Tennessee Ghosts and Specters of Old South Strange Tales of the Dark and Bloody Ground In Search of Confederate Ancestors Tracing Civil War Ancestors Tennessee's Indian People Tribes that Slumber History, Myths and Sacres Formulas of the Cherokee Joyce Gaston Reece Rootsweb Mail Administer for Meigs Co, TN, South East TN, North East TN, Raper, Gilbreath, Galbreath, Hembree, Knuckles Message Board Administrator for Gaston, Shields, Reece, Raper, Gilbreath, Galbreath, Hembree, Knuckles & Daugherty