It would be interesting to see how many went to Barton Co MO. I bet there may have been a wagon train going there. I have heard others going besides yours and some of mine. If you come across Sutton, York, Bandy, Martin, I would be interested in receiving any info. Sutton and Bandy went from Montgomery Co IL. York from Macoupin and Martin may have been there before and think the Martins would have been from Moultrie Co vicinity. All of these surnames are kin one way or another. My ggrandparents John and Frances Emeline Thompson Sutton left from Montgomery Co with two children tween 1869 and 1873 but returned to Macoupin Co before 1878. While there they had at least a set of twins, one twin was my grandmother, Nancy Martha Jane Sutton. But John's sister Martha Sutton Bandy lived there the rest of her life and another sister Mary Sutton York lived there and is buried there. Sorry, I don't know the history of the Asbury name and church/cemetery. Gloria At 01:52 PM 7/8/99 -0400, you wrote: >Hi everyone. > >I was wondering if any of you might have a membership list for Asbury Chapel, Barr Twp. Also, does anyone know who or what it was named for? My husband's great-grandfather Job Rives (also spelled Rees or Reeves) was born in Macoupin County 6 OCT 1850 and moved to Barton Co., MO by 1870. His oldest son was William Asbury Rives. I thought there might be some connection with the name. > >Also, the Methodist church that Job helped to construct in Barton County was Central Chapel. It seems that several Macoupin County families migrated to the Barton County area in the 1860's. I have a roster for Central Chapel and I would be more than happy to do lookups on this list. I also have a cemetery directory for Vernon County, which borders Barton County. I will do lookups on this also. > >Thanks for your help. > >Susan > >--------------------------------------------------- >Get free personalized email at http://www.iname.com > > >==== ILMACOUP Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from ILMACOUP-L-request@rootsweb.com, send a message to > ILMACOUP-L-request@rootsweb.com >that contains in the body of the message the command > unsubscribe >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. AOL requires a subject line. > > ------------------ Gloria Frazier Macoupin County ILGenWeb County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/macoupin.htm