| TABLE OF CONTENTS | THE THORNY TRAIL SUMMER - FALL 1984 | Vol. XIII No.1 |
| SOCIETY RECORDS: | Page | |
| Message from the President | 3 | |
| Midland Genealogical Society Officers 1984-85 | 4 | |
| Programs of the Midland Genealogical Society | 5 | |
| Membership List of the Midland Genealogical Society | 6 | |
| Six Generation Charts | 16 | |
| Necrology | 14 | |
| MIDLAND COUNTY RECORDS: | ||
| Early Tax Records of Midland - 1889, 1890 | 23 | |
| Register of Money Orders Issued at Midland, TX Post Office | 33 | |
| Inventory of Midland Newspapers | 37 | |
| Registered Cattle brands 1899 (Continued) | 40 | |
| FAMILY RECORDS: | ||
| Family letter from Lin Cowden - Dec. 9, 1876 | 42 | |
| What's In A Name? | 42 | |
| Early History of Texas: Judge Alfred F. Rea | 43 | |
| Early History of Texas: Jacob Bookman | 44 | |
| Charts of the Noble Von Landenbergs | 43 | |
| CEMETERY RECORDS: | ||
| Salem Methodist Church Cemetery - Troup County, Georgia | 46 | |
| Ellerslie Cemetery - Harris County, Georgia | 56 | |
| FAMILY REUNIONS: | ||
| The FOX Reunion | 60 | |
| The International BELL Society | 61 | |
| QUANDRY QUARTER: | ||
| Addilese Haag Thomas J. W. Watson | ||
| Patricia Fair Larry King | ||
| Neal Fair Lisa Lawson Hale | ||
| Beverly Lancaster Altha Odem | ||
| Max Perry Rosalind Redfern | ||
| Elizabeth Faller | 62 | |
| BOOK REVIEWS: | ||
| "A Bedwell Family" by Larry King | 66 | |
| "Roach Families of York County, South Carolina" | ||
| By Max Perry | 66 | |
| NATIONAL GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY FIFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE | 67 | |
| INDEXES | 69 |