Susan, Thank you for this information. In studying the minutes of Lake Fork Church of Logan County (Mt. Pulaskia area), I found that they authorized their ordained members to help constitute a church "on the head timber of the Mackinaw" in June 1832. This would be Bethel Baptist Church which later met in Indian Grove township, Livingston Co. But do you, or does anyone, know where the "head timber of the Mackinaw" would be? At that time perhaps some of the present towns did not yet exist, so how else could they describe where this event was to occur? Robert On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 17:24:15 EST Missfiz@aol.com writes: > To Robert and list: > I hope this will not bore too many that are on this list, but I > thought this > proves that our 1830's Livingston Co. pioneers did travel and get > around more > than I certainly thought. I presume this was a religious meeting; I > wish it > stated names for we researchers!! > July 25, 1833 - "On the 25th day of July, the ox team and the big > road > wagon was called into service. Father, mother and all the children > in > company with a neighbor having about the same outfit, started over > to > Mackinaw (now Lexington, IL) a distance of twenty miles, to a camp > meeting. > The day was extremely hot and dry, consequently the oxen gave out. > We found > a pond of water into which we drove the oxen and allowed them to > stay until > sundown. We were only three miles from where we started. Our > neighbor > became discouraged and turned back. We were out on the prairie, > with no road > - not even a tangle in the grass - and seventeen miles before us > without a > horse. We took our course by the stars, travelled all night and > arrived at > the camp ground by eight o'clock next morning. It was a glorious > camp > meeting to us all, so our journey home was in broad day light; but > our drive > over there by night was not unpleasant, and was so much better for > the team." > Written by Woodford G. McDowell (1818-1904), Avoca Twp., Livingston > Co., IL > (just north of Fairbury) > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.