| TABLE OF CONTENTS | THE THORNY TRAIL - WINTER, SPRING 1981 | |
| Vol. IX No. 2 | ||
| SOCIETY RECORDS PAGE | ||
| Midland Genealogical Society Officers | 57 | |
| Message from the President | 57 | |
| Letter from the Editor | 58 | |
| Programs of the Midland Genealogical Society | 58 | |
| Necrology - Ethel Chaudoin | 58 | |
| Six-Generation Tables | ||
| Lillian Hunt Hanley | 59 | |
| Jane Beebe Hughes | 59 | |
| Alma Jeane Enloe Wheeler | 60 | |
| Burney William Driscoll | 61 | |
| MIDLAND COUNTY, TEXAS RECORDS | ||
| Registered Cattle Brands | 64 | |
| Confederate War Veterans Honored | 66 | |
| Civil War Pensions from Midland County | 67 | |
| CHURCH RECORDS | ||
| St. Joseph's Catholic Church-Stanton, TX, Early Records | 69 | |
| CEMETERY CHURCH RECORDS | ||
| History of Stonermouth Presbyterian Church, Ruddles Mills, KY | 97 | |
| COUNTY RECORDS | ||
| Lincoln County, Tennessee, Deed Book "A" (Feb.1810 - Oct.1811) | 100 | |
| FAMILY RECORDS AND SKETCHES | ||
| Making Jiternace | 62 | |
| The Rice Family of Houston County, Texas | 109 | |
| Will of Isaac Shinn | 111 | |
| Ancestry of Adolph Hitler | 111 | |
| BIBLE RECORDS | ||
| Hancock-Green Family Bible | 112 | |
| MILITARY RECORDS | ||
| Civil War Pensions | 113 | |
| Graves of Confederate Collingsworth County, Tx Veterans | ||
| are Decorated | 114 | |
| QUANDRY QUARTER | ||
| Queries | 116 | |
| Tips for Vacation Research | 116 | |
| BOOK REVIEWS | ||
| "Keith Kinfolks" | 117 | |
| "A Porter Family in America" | 117 | |
| "The Wright Book" | 118 | |
| INDEX | 118 |