> ----- Original Message ----- > From: Gloria Frazier <glofra@townsqr.com> > To: <ILMACOUP-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: 10 July, 1999 4:23 PM > Subject: Barton Co MO - Was Re: [ILMACOUP-L] Asbury Chapel > > Gloria wrote-- > > 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. > > I live in Barton county MO about 3 miles from the farms lived on by the RIVES - LILES family that Susan Rives mentioned in her email to the list. There are still Rives living in this area. My gg grandfather John PITMAN, his brother James and sister Hannah PITMAN SNOW (widow of Obed Snow) came from Macoupin county with their families to Deerfield, Vernon county MO in 1859/60 ( Vernon county joins Barton county on the north). During the Civil War, John Pitman returned to Macoupin county but imediately after the war ended he returned to Deerfield where his daughter, Nancy, married a neighbor boy, Tom Lawrence in 1867. Tom and Nancy are my great grandparents. Tom Lawrence with families of two of his sisters moved down to Barton county to the Central Chapel, Haines Grove & Caput neighborhood in early 1880s where were already living the Rives family. They also were founding members of the Central Chapel Methodist Church. I have just finished helping a CRUM researcher whose family came from Macoupin county to Vernon and Barton counties imediately after the Civil War and I have just sent BAKER and BROUGHTON family information to the Sangamon County IL mail list as those two families migrated to Barton county from Sangamon county just after the Civil War as well. Bob Douglas's explanation of what drew people to this area of Missouri is the best I have seen. Before the early 1880s the imigrants would have had to come by wagon and horseback as railroads were just being built here during that decade and no streams were large enough for transportation into the imediate area. I have transcribed copies of the Barton county 1860 and 1870 census and the Barton county Cemetery Books by Joan Kunkle that I would do lookups if anyone has a specific request. Warren Lawrence Lamar Missouri wlawrence@tiadon.com