| TABLE OF CONTENTS | THE THORNY TRAIL - SUMMER - FALL | 1983 Vol. XII No.1 |
| SOCIETY RECORDS: | PAGE | |
| Midland Genealogical Society Officers 1983-84 | 1 | |
| Programs of the Midland Genealogical Society | 2 | |
| President's Message | 2 | |
| Midland Genealogical Society Membership List for 1983-84 | 3 | |
| THORNY TRAIL Exchange With Other Genealogical Societies | 7 | |
| THE THORNY TRAIL Placed in Other Libraries | 10 | |
| Necrology: James H. Curnow, Bob Lampkin, (C. C. Thomas) | 11 | |
| Six Generation Tables: | ||
| Thomas Odom | 12 | |
| Margaret Jane Biser | 12 | |
| Ralph Weir Kinsey | 13 | |
| Melba M. McCaskill | 15 | |
| Melissa Jane Tipton | 16 | |
| Alexander Hyden | 17 | |
| MIDLAND COUNTY, TEXAS RECORDS: | ||
| Registered Cattle Brands, Midland County 1897 | 18 | |
| Register of Money Orders Issued at the Post Office at | ||
| Midland, Texas in 1885 | 22 | |
| Genealogical Periodicals in the Midland County Public Library | 27 | |
| FAMILY RECORDS: | ||
| News from Lily Freeman Walker, Marble Falls, TX | 40 | |
| Eager Inn Entered in National Register of Historic Places | ||
| Morgantown, Ohio | 41 | |
| The Sugar Bowl Letter and Dye Recipe (Henrietta Bortzfield | ||
| Schull - Springlake, Illinois) | 45 | |
| No Fantastic Dream! (Central Texas 1900-1950) | 46 | |
| CEMETERY RECORDS | ||
| Chambers County, Alabama - Reid Family Cemetery | 48 | |
| Parker County, Texas - Vardy Burial Plot | 48 | |
| FAMILY REUNIONS: | ||
| Yancy Family | 49 | |
| Sneed Family | 49 | |
| Owsley Family | 50 | |
| Callaways Family | 50 | |
| Erskine Family | 50 | |
| Hamner Family | 50 | |
| BOOK LIST FROM SPRING SEMINAR By LLOYD BOCKSTRUCK | 54 | |
| QUANDRY QUARTER | 62 | |
| BOOK REVIEWS | ||
| History of Miami County, Ohio Miami Historical Society | 64 | |
| Historic Fredricksburg (Virginia) By Francis Folliard Wilshin | 64 | |
| Records of St. Pauls Episcopal Church, Pendleton, South Carolina | ||
| By Edwin H. Vedder | 64 | |
| INDEX | 65 |