On Saturday, September 15, 2007, we traveled with a distant relative, Janice Brooks to the Hunter River region of Australia in New South Wales. Janice joined the LDS Church sometime ago with her husband Ray and discovered through family history research that her great, great grandmother was a sister to Clint's great, great, grandmother (Mary Blanch Warby) in the Hunter River area. Our first stop was to St. James Church in Morpeth where the Warby's were married in 1846. It was wonderful to visit and realize that those two dear ancestors were actually in this building on that wonderful day. They later joined the LDS Church and immigrated to the United States. We went to the Campbell Hill Cemetery in Maitland to search for the grave site of Clint's great, great, great grandmother (Mary Wood Warby) who died at the age of 99 in 1885. We were not successful in finding the site but did find her husband James's gravesite in the East Maitland Cemetery. He died in 1858 at the age of 73. We stayed overnight nearby in a beautiful home in rural Australia near Clarence Town with church member Graham Clark and his wife. We attended and spoke in church at the LDS Salt Ash Branch in Medowie on Sunday. It was a great weekend to experience being at the beginning of church membership of the Warby family. We know there are lots of family members still living there and we plan to come back as often as we can.
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