| TABLE OF CONTENTS | THE THORNY TRAIL - SUMMER - FALL 1980 | |
| Volume IX - Number 1 | ||
| SOCIETY RECORDS | ||
| Midland Genealogical Society Officers | 1 | |
| Programs of the Midland Genealogical Society | 1 | |
| Midland Genealogical Society Membership List for 1980-1981 | 2 | |
| THE THORNY TRAIL Exchange with Other Genealogical Societies | 5 | |
| THE THORNY TRAIL Placed in Other Libraries | 8 | |
| Necrology | 8 | |
| MIDLAND COUNTY, TEXAS RECORDS | ||
| Midland County, Texas Marriage Records, 1885-1900 | 9 | |
| Articles from the Midland Reporter and Gazzette | 14 | |
| Registered Cattle Brands | 15 | |
| CHURCH RECORDS | ||
| St. Joseph's Catholic Church-Stanton, TX, Early Records | 17 | |
| CENSUS RECORDS | ||
| Some Texas Counties 1900 Census: Andrews, Bailey, Cochran, | ||
| Crane, Dawson, Gaines, Hockley, Lamb, Loving, Lynn, Parmer, | ||
| Terry, Upton, Winkler, and Yoakum | 20 | |
| Ledger from the Jones Mercantile General Store, Desdemonia, | ||
| Eastland County Texas | 35 | |
| BIBLE RECORDS | ||
| Boone Family Bible | 36 | |
| CEMETERY RECORDS AND OBITUARY | ||
| Historical Marker, Fincastle, Virginia | 37 | |
| Obituary for Clarkey Mahaley Ann Campbell | 37 | |
| FAMILY RECORDS AND SKETCHES | ||
| Johnson Records of Bledsoe County, Tennessee and Phelps County, Missouri | 38 | |
| Colony Cullings | 42 | |
| QUANDRY QUARTER | ||
| Queries | 44 | |
| BOOK REVIEW | ||
| The Nutt Family Through the Years: 1635-1978 | 45 | |
| INDEX | 45 |