Jean, I'll check that location. I don't remember it but I'm not that familiar with Sangmon co., IL but it was where my Knight family moved to MO from and some of their children actually passed through Izard/Stone Co., AR on their trek to OK. My line stayed in MO and I still haven't found my ggg gp burial locations but I suspect that they may have traveled on to KS----just speculation at this point. Some of their children relocated back to Howell/Oregon County, MO and stayed but married into other families. Most of the older girls married and stayed in IL. Only my gg gm and her sister married in MO, and their younger brother married there and was the family that passed through Izard/Stone in route to OK. None of the descendants have been successful in finding the resting place of ggg gp----another one of thooooooooosssseeee mysteries. Thanks, Beth Actually, my grandfather was born in Vandalia, ILL. Is that anywhere near Sangmon County? His father packed up their family in a covered wagon and moved them to MO. Here's a brief write up about Edward Grant Alsop, my great-grandfather. The named changed with one of the family, something about a feud over religion, I think...can't recall the details. He was the 8th child of David O. Alsop. He and his wife, Armina, farmed a small plot of land around Vandalia, Illinois in 1905. His wife, "Mina",had brothers in Southwest Missouri. the brothers wrote her letters about the Oklahoma land rush. Ed decided to load a covered wagon with all their worldly possessions. And, sending his wife with the five younger children on a train to MO to stay with her brothers, he took his younger brother, Thomas Frank (Frank) and William David, who was 12 at the time with him on the wagon trek across the country during the dead of winter, so that the ground would be frozen hard and there wouldn't be a problem with getting the wheels stuck in the mud. Frank in his excitement, painted on the side of the wagon, "Oklahoma or Bust" They picked up Mina and the other children in Crane, MO. and continued west. At the Mo-Ok border in a town called Seneca, they stopped at a livery stable. They had to freshen the horses and get everything set for the final phase of the trip. While they were there, the owner told them that if they didn't have a gun, they wouldn't have a chance, since Ok was filled with "marauding Indians and Highwaymen everywhere. So, after Mina cried all night over the issue (since they didn't own a gun and she feared they would all be killed), Ed decided to turn their family back to Southwest, Mo. When law and order were established in Oklahoma, Ed Alsup realized part of his dream and moved there around 1920. This information taken from an article written by my cousin, David Alsup in the Alsup Update. A newsletter written for Alsups by Henry Conor of Mn. My grandfather (William David Alsup) settled in Lawrence County, MO. At 10:57 AM 1/23/2014, you wrote: >Jean, > >A question, >Did your Alsup come from Sangmon County, IL? >And what county in MO did they arrive in to start homesteading? >Beth