Hi, Peggy, Check Texas Dog (McCarty) as his family were involved with the Primitive Baptist Church in Erath County as were Rev. Hurley, one of my neighbors- or his descendants were. My great Great Grandad Dr. (M.D.) and Rev. and pharmacist and land speculator and 1 or 2 brothers were Texas (Ranger?)short term volunteers in Taylor's Army in Mexico, They went home when their term was up. Gen. Taylor called it desertion- the Texas Rangers did not, but onlyold Ben McCullom and the Waco company stayed with Gen. Taylor and saved his army from certain ambush and anhilation by Indians and Mexican troops by outthinking the Mexicans with their own tactics, which Taylor never completely masterred. Dr. Hatchett's brother stayed in Matahuela Mexico and had an evangelical church in his home and practiced medicine with a permit letter from Benito Juarez. He also mined gold as a hobby and his son Santiago was the Engineer who built the railroad across San Luis Potosi. Santiago's granddaughter retired in 1989 as head of the Mexican National Assembly Secretaries Civil Service division. Before 1850 Dr. Hatchett was organizing churches-beginning in Gonzales and organized at least 17 "Churches of Christ to be called the Valley Mills or Pony Creek or whatever Baptist Church" His sons, Gus, Hamp, and Pink (Pinckney) also organized churchesfrom Erath County to the High Plains. At Pony Creek, as found in Howard Payne College and Robinson Family Records, "Choctaw" Bill Robinson worked as a team . The Church records, kept by Caudie Beach Duke for most of her life, says they 1. Organized the Church and ordained or recognized ordained Deacons present. 2. Had 2 back to back sermons- even in my day Rev. Howard Keith would preach over 1 hour and we had to leave early to meet my wife's dorm curfew at Tarleton. 3. Gave Right hand of Christian Fellowship to converts 4. Adjourned to the baptizing hole on Pony Creek below the present cemetery. 5. Returned to the church and gave right hand of church membership and fellowship to the baptized Christians. 6. Observed the ordinance of the Lord's Supper. 7. Elected delegates to the Paluxy Baptist Association 8. Had a spontaneous washing of the feet not taught as doctorine. Dr. B.D, Tidwell of Iredell and Howard Payne and Southwestern Seminary read the Centenial History and said he and his wife both belonged to different Iredell churches started by Dr. Hatchett. She was and remained Primitive Baptist but attended with him when he preached in Southern Churches. The North- South split was not over slavery- many Georgia churches of 1830's were integrated in the Clarkesville area- slaves had their names on the roll as full members . The split was over most National Missions being spent around the Great Lakes area and almost none on the expanding west and southwest. Ministers there were on their own and often carried guns in a holster or had a rifle by the door. These delegates met in Grandbury with the Paluxy Association . A report came in that Indians were raiding on Pony and Richardson Creeks and the Paluxy. All delegates stayed and completed the associational business the next day and returned home to find home and property undisturbed, but others had been raided and some burned. The Duffau Association of Primitive Baptists have a camp in Glen Rose which is sometimes rented to other local groups such as the United Pentecostal of Bosque County. These were at the Presbyterian Predestination or Calvinist persuasion. One pastor at Rocky Point professed the Free Will Baptist ideas of that association., which caused a ripple at the Erath County Southern Baptist Association- not questioning his freedom but the ideas of some Predestination leaners made fellowship shaky at one time. Southern, Missionary, and MBA or NABA churches , such as Rev. Ernest Ripetoe of Washington Street in Stephenville and the old Pontotoc community out of Dublin often sponsored summer "Singing Schools" around the County. His son Royce Rippetoe sang on WBAP live with the Stamps Quartet for years. Primitive Baptist Ministers, following the confession or creed of 1776taught 3 ordinances- - footwashing was equal to baptism and the Lord's Supper to some, including Rev. Hurley and Rev. McCarty and in my day, Gail Stephens- only most back then preferred the title of Brother to Rev. There were various types of Primitive. Baprists- some without instrumental music and some almost Quaker. The Dunsons attended one of these on U.S. 67 across from Roy Garrett's service station. (Parham's Wrecking yard now) Dr, Hatchet and brothers were ordained as Missionary (No Southern existed before 1860-s ) Baptist by his father in law Rev. B.T. Stephen in Pine Mountain Ga. (Chipley then) on his headstone in Selden cemetery, but his daughter's headstone says Angelina Isabella Stevens Hatchett. I think according to most records the name was Stevens. Some of his churches split over the Primitive and Southern Baptist, such as Iredell, Hico, and apparently Valley Mills. But that is more than you asked. Mr. McCarty may want to fill in some blanks or unintended protrayals- ALL Baptists have always believed in the Priesthood of each individual believer, just as most Presbyterian, Amish, Mennonites, Quakers, German Moravian or Unity of The Brethern, (Hussites ), Campus Crusade, and others of the historic Anabaptist movements. The West and Cameron Brethern churches had Czech language preaching once or twice a month by Rev. Frank Beseda.when I taught there 20 plus years ago. He preached many funerals of Czechslovakian immigrants in North McLennan Counties. Differences are partly on interpetations and national origin and and musical instruments, not on the basics of scripture itself. Also of practice of missionariesand financing them. Sorry I rambled, Charles Wyly