I think they are referring to an aread on Lake Fork in south Elkhart Township. Lake Fork is a tiny community on Route 54 southwest of Mt. Pulaski. Lake Fork Township is a tiny Township [about 3 miles by 6 miles] south of Laenna Township. Just to further confuse you, there is Lake Fork which is a tributary of Salt Creek. Sometimes it is called 'the Lake' and sometimes 'the Ditch' and sometimes Lake Fork as it meanders through FOUR Townships before connecting up with Salt Creek in Broadwell Township. The first known settlers to Logan [then Sangamon] County came in 1819 when James Latham moved north to high ground following spring floods and, along with son Richard and Ebenezer Briggs, made the first settlement by a spring at Elkhart. In 1820 Latham's son in law James Chapman and his wife Betsey built a cabin at Lake Fork on Salt Creek. Two years later the Chapman's moved along Salt Creek to Rocky Ford. Other earliest settlers include James Turley, John Stephenson, Aquilla Davis, Robert Musick and John Porter. In the 'Estate Record Index, Probate Estates 1-6684, 1821-1907' for Sangamon County [which is where estates before 1839 would have been filed] there is no listing for a record for Charles Harper. Such records, if they existed, would be held at IRAD in Springfield. If he died after 1839 and had a will it would have been filed in Lincoln. The Probate files for Logan at IRAD in Normal go back to the early 1850's. Cheryl Rothwell clrothwell@mindspring.com