Hi again, I am reminded, by the replies that I have received, that there was another church on Smith's Creek besides the Smith's Creek Baptist Church. It was called the "Smith's Creek Meeting House" and was, also, near Timberville. The Smith's Creek Meeting House was a Friends (i.e. "Quaker") church and some of it's records have survived. You can read them in: William W. Henshaw's, "American Quaker Genealogy", Vol. 6, which is available in most genealogy libraries. Being neighbors, of course, there was interaction between the Friends and the Baptists. For example, Margaret Rambo was a daughter of Jacob and Deborah Rambo, of Rockingham County, who attended the Smith's Creek Friends church. On May 19, 1777 she was married (probably at her parent's home) to a Barefoot Runyan (parentage unknown - contrary to some published "genealogy") who was from Shenandoah County and, probably, a Baptist. The minister who performed the marriage was the Rev. John Alderson, Jr. who had been the pastor of the Linville Creek Baptist Church but was in the process of moving to Greenbriar County around the time of the marriage. Norman