Hi List and Dwayne I believe that Jesse Caudle built a Church in Macoupin Co. Ill 1830-1880. Jesse, Joshua, Isham, and Thomas Parish Caudle were very active in Churches in Wayne, Macoupin, and Greene Co Ill. Do you have any information about Jesse Church? Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dwayne Wrightsman" <dwayne55@comcast.net> To: <ilmacoup@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 7:35 PM Subject: Re: [ILMACOUP] Trustees as Land Owner > Linda, > > That's great that you found the deed to the Virden CoB. Thank you for > bringing it to our attention. If the deed is not too long, could you > prepare a summary of the essential facts in the deed. > > My maternal great-grandfather, John H. Brubaker, was the first elder in > charge of the Virden church. His oldest son (my maternal grandfather), > Irvin J. Brubaker, was one of the early deacons. So was my paternal > grandfather, George W. Wrightsman. The Virden church was organized the > same > year (1912) that the West Otter Creek church closed. My paternal > grandmother's father, Javan Gibson, was elder in charge at that time. The > new Pleasant Hill book that your committee published a few years back has > a > 1912 photo (p. 352) of the West Otter Creek church with a number of > Brethren > in it, including my father, Okal Wrightsman, who was a tiny baby at the > time. He was held by his mother, Melva Wrightsman Gibson (daughter of > Javan > Gibson). > > Last year I wrote a book entitled SUGAR CREEK BRETHREN which follows the > Brethren who settled on the Banks of Sugar Creek in Auburn Township in > 1830 > when Isham Gibson (father of Javan) founded the congregation. It then > moves > on to the Otter Creek congregation in Macoupin County, also established by > Isham Gibson in the 1740s and even into the 1760s when the Pleasant Hill > group formed. Isham Gibson was kicked out of the Brethren in the late > 1760s > just as Pleasant Hill was taking off. He moved to Missouri shortly > thereafter and died. > > At one time the Otter Creek congregation included the satellite Brethren > groups at Pleasant Hill in Virden-Girard, the "new" Sugar Creek in Auburn, > Macoupin Creek over near Farmersville, and the Bear Creek group over in > Christian County. Probably the most interesting chapter in the book is > the > naming of all the early Brethren buried in the Thayer Cemetery behind > Maggie's Tavern. Most people do not know that this cemetery started out > as > a Brethren burial ground in 1833 on the farm of Elder John Dick. Yes, > this > is the same Dick family that the library in Carlinville is named after. > > If anyone wants to take a peek at my book, copies are at the Lincoln > Presidential Library in Springfield and in the local libraries in Virden > and > in Auburn. > > Dwayne Wrightsman > Lee, NH > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ilmacoup-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ilmacoup-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of Linda Kmiecik > Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 6:34 PM > To: ilmacoup@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ILMACOUP] Trustees as Land Owner > > Today at the Macoupin Co. Courthouse I looked for any deed to the Virden > Church of the Brethren, incorporated in 1912, which apparently no one has > ever had. I looked under "B" for Brethren and Baptist, "C" for Church, > "V" > for Virden, and thought about "G" for German Baptist Church. I noted > several deeds between David C. Vaniman and Trustees of the Church of the > Brethren and Trustees of the German Baptist Church for other lands. > Surely, > I thought, such deeds would not be listed under "T" for Trustees! > Wrong!!! > I found not only the deeds for the Virden Brethren church property in > Grantee Book 21, but noted many others for Trustees of Hettick Church, > I.O.O.F., Stults Burying Ground (Palmyra), churches in Carlinville, > Modesto, > and elsewhere, school districts, banks, companies, and many other > entities. > > Thus, at least in this 1900-1920 period, it might be wise to look under > "T" > for trustees of those groups. > > Linda Kmiecik > > Check out Macoupin County ILGenWeb page at > http://www.macoupinctygenealogy.org/. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ILMACOUP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > Check out Macoupin County ILGenWeb page at > http://www.macoupinctygenealogy.org/. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ILMACOUP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message