ARNOLD, Steve – A Secor blacksmith at an early unknown date, probably 1857. He was born in Illinois in 1837.

ARNOLD, Wesley B. and Elizabeth – Arnold was born August of 1807 and died on January 27th, 1847. He patented the NE 1/4 of Section 32, Greene Twp. on September 1, 1838. He was no doubt related to John and Eliza Arnold.

ARNOLD, William A. and Harriett – Lived in Greene Twp. in the early 1850's, as they deeded a part of the NW 1/4 of Section 28 on January 26, 1850.

BAKER, David – Came from Germany in 1837 to Woodford County and became an early farmer in Section 31, Palestine Twp. at a later date.

BARINGER, Jacob L. and Mary A. Cline – Jacob was the son of John L. and Sabina Baringer. He was born at sea in 1830 as his parents were emigrating to America. He died in 1909 and is buried in Secor Cemetery. He was on a rented farm in Greene Twp. In 1846, and purchased the NW 1/4 of Section 31 there on December 17, 1854, from the Illinois Central. A sister, Lydia Martha, married Joel D. Powell, parents of Lewis, Ira and Elizabeth Powell of Secor. Jacob and Mary Baringer years later owned the farm north of El Paso where their grand-daughter, Mary Alice Schertz and her husband Owen now live.

BARINGER, John L. and Sabina Elizabeth (1808-1886.) – John was born September 1, 1805 and died March 26, 1875. He and Sabina came from Germany in 1830 and on this trip their son Jacob L. was born at sea. They settled in Philadelphia, then Dayton, Ohio, and in 1846 they moved to land west of Gabetown, Greene Twp. and John worked in the Gabetown sawmill for two or three winters. They patented the W 1/2 of the SE 1/4 Section 30 on June 23, 1853, and lived on the south line of that 80 acres. John and Sabina buried a 21 year old son in the Gabetown Cemetery who died May 1, 1859.

BARNARD, Francis J. and Mara – Purchased the W 1/2 of the NW 1/4 of Section 36 in Greene Twp. on March 9, 1852. Francis was on Panola Twp's. first board of highway commissioners in 1855.

BARNARD, M. N. – Mr. Barnard was no doubt a relative of the other Barnards, and was in Greene Twp. at an early date, removing into Money Creek Twp. with Young Bilbrey in 1850, where both were in the Money Creek Christian Church a year or two later.

BARNARD, Simpson Y. and Lydia – Simpson was born October 3, 1804 in N. C. and died January 23, 1874 in Green Twp. He moved into Tennessee from North Carolina at an early age, and came from Overton County into Greene Twp. in 1833, a friend and probable relative of the McCord family.

He established the first post office in that area on the stage and pony-mail line of that day which was located on or near the old Elias Ray homestead, a farm today owned by Leo Render, and described as the SW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section 25, Greene Twp. It was then a "metes and bounds" survey, although the land had been surveyed under the Jefferson system.

For an unknown reason the post office was named "Josephine" and lasted until the Panola post office opened in 1853. We know Barnard was Postmaster from 1836- 1840, possibly longer. Barnard moved into Panola and built its first new store in 1853, another building having been moved in from Greene earlier, then operating as Panola's first establishment. He became Panola's first Postmaster, but later went back into Greene to live. He was serving as its Township Treasurer in 1869, five years before his death.

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