Posted on: Morgan Co. IL Query Page Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Il/Morgan/266 Surname: ------------------------- I've found the following on Nicholas Featherkile of Morgan Co.: He died in 1837. 4 of the daughters and son George were still in Morgan Co. in 1850. I haven't found the James's yet. Found the following about Thornton Sheppard: "... preached in the Primitive Baptist Church for forty-nine years. In Illinois he ministered to four churches, walking twenty miles in order to cover his pastoral territory and receiving no pay for preaching or attendance. He did the same work in what are now Cass and Greene Counties, and at the Pisgah Sulphur Springs Baptist Church, in Morgan County, of which the family are still members."