The information below came from an obituary for Lydia Catherine SKEEN DAVENPORT. She was born November 23, 1849 the daughter of James and Lydia A. (Moore) Skeen. She married John DAVENPORT October 30, 1870. Children: Clara D. Davenport Schuman, Catherine Davenport, Jessie Davenport and Georgia Davenport. DAVENPORT, MRS. LYDIA C. - of 1118 South Thirteen Street, died early Sunday, December 31, 1939 at the residence, age 90 years. Survived by two daughters, Mrs. Clara Schuman, Springfield; Mrs. Jesse Tinch, Decatur; four grandsons, two great-grandsons and one great great grandson. Does anyone know anything about this family. I would love to add this branch to my family tree. Thanks for any help.

According to the book on early pioneers in Sangamon County, George Davenport (1781-1845) came to Sangamon County in the fall of 1819. I will be interested to see if he is in the line you are asking about. Robert On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 16:19:40 EST GENOBUF@aol.com writes: > The information below came from an obituary for Lydia Catherine SKEEN > > DAVENPORT. She was born November 23, 1849 the daughter of James > and Lydia > A. (Moore) Skeen. She married John DAVENPORT October 30, 1870. > Children: > Clara D. Davenport Schuman, Catherine Davenport, Jessie Davenport > and Georgia > Davenport. > > DAVENPORT, MRS. LYDIA C. - of 1118 South Thirteen Street, died early > Sunday, > December 31, 1939 at the residence, age 90 years. Survived by two > daughters, > Mrs. Clara Schuman, Springfield; Mrs. Jesse Tinch, Decatur; four > grandsons, > two great-grandsons and one great great grandson. > > Does anyone know anything about this family. I would love to add > this branch > to my family tree. Thanks for any help. > > > ==== ILSANGAM Mailing List ==== > To post a message send to: > ILSANGAM-L@rootsweb.com > regardless of whether you subscribe to the list or the digest > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

My father's aunt Arissa Shetter Stanton and her husband, James Stanton, lived in Loami until they died. They had 9 living children when Arissa died in 1939. They were married abt. 1870. James worked for the railroad. If anyone has any information on this family, please contact me at: lehampton@thegrid.net Linda Hampton

Thanks to those folks who kindly responded to my query about Table Grove. The mystery surrounding my grandparents wedding site may still be questionable, but at least I know where Mt. Pulaski is now. Would anyone on the list/digest have knowledge (especially photos, reciepts, etc.) of Fisher's General Store in Loami? My Great Grandfather Hamlet Webb FISHER, Grandpa Richard A. FISHER, his brother John and their mother, Virgilla (Hunsaker ) owned this little store for many years until it burned down. Apparently Great Grandma Virgilla forgot to pay the insurance premium, so it was a total loss. Uncle John owned a second store. I have a picture of Grandpa working in the first store. If anyone has any information that could be shared, I will be most grateful. Thank You! Donna (FISHER)

Sorry Mac, We were discussing Island Grove and then we went to Loami TWP. That is where the plat map is from. I wish I did have one from Island Grove but I do not. Margarette

Does that Plat Map show a farm owned by a William and/or Elkanah Butler. It is said that these men owned property in Island Grove. Mac -----Original Message----- From: MaggeD@aol.com [mailto:MaggeD@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 12:30 PM To: ILSANGAM-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ILSANGAM-L] Island Grove Do you have the exact location of the Fancy Point Church? I have a Plat map that shows a church that I think may be Fancy Point but I am not sure. Margarette ______________________________

Robert, we've corresponded before on other lists -- but you said a magic word here in Sangamon County, too! That is McKINNEY. My husband is descended from the McKINNEY family who came to Sangamon Co., IL from Kentucky. They are buried at the McKINNEY Cemetery which is north of Springfield close to Capital Airport. I can get the exact location for you if you need it. I don't know if they were the "McKinney settlement" you're seeking or not. Can't tell you how delighted we were to stumble over this cemetery a few years ago, though. The McKINNEY's grand-daughter, Eleanor LANTERMAN was the second wife of PB Elder Milton CARPENTER, son of PB Elder Chester CARPENTER. She is also my husband's ancestor.

Thank you for sharing this with me. I just rechecked my chapter on Sangamon County, regarding the McKinney settlement. In one of the church records we have (probably the records of Salem Sugar Creek church, which date back to 1830), there is mention in the minutes in 1837 of a request being received by brethren living in McKinney's settlement for help to organize a church which was granted. I haven't been able to match this church up with any of the 19 churches in the Sangamon Association at that time. I would indeed like to know the exact location of the cemetery, and if there are names of the burials it might help me determine which church name we are actually talking about. If the McKinney's granddaughter married Chester Carpenter's son, we must be talking about some folks who were born back in the 1700's again. Thanks for the help you've given me earlier, and now on this. I appreciate it very much. Robert On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 20:44:09 EST Vnbailey@aol.com writes: > Robert, we've corresponded before on other lists -- but you said a > magic word > here in Sangamon County, too! That is McKINNEY. My husband is > descended > from the McKINNEY family who came to Sangamon Co., IL from Kentucky. > They > are buried at the McKINNEY Cemetery which is north of Springfield > close to > Capital Airport. I can get the exact location for you if you need > it. I > don't know if they were the "McKinney settlement" you're seeking or > not. > Can't tell you how delighted we were to stumble over this cemetery a > few > years ago, though. The McKINNEY's grand-daughter, Eleanor LANTERMAN > was the > second wife of PB Elder Milton CARPENTER, son of PB Elder Chester > CARPENTER. > She is also my husband's ancestor. > > > ==== ILSANGAM Mailing List ==== > New - 4th Presbyterian Church INDEX, Springfield, IL > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilsangam/church.htm > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Bill Hall, Thanks for the info on the church the Jarretts gave the land for. I read this in an old issue of the Circuit Rider at the library. The Jarretts married into my Davis family and the Davises were Methodist from Island Grove Methodist. Margarette

I had read that the Jarretts had given some land for a church and I thought that maybe was Fancy Point. I know where the Sulphur Springs cemetery is. Do you have a membership list of Union Church. I believe that my GG-Grandfather was buried from that church in 1910 (wonder if it is the same Union church). There were sure a lot of little churches in the area. I know of another very close, I think it was Baptist also, Just up the road about a mile from the corner where the Huffacre mansion was built called Fancy Point. So I figure the area was known as Fancy Point. That is the corner that all of my family lived around. It is the crossroads of Loami Road and Waverly Road. The family in Island Grove in the 1820's were mostly living around there by the 1840's but none of them were the members of Fancy Point Church. Wonder if they were in Union. I am cooking Thanksgiving Dinner but we are not eating till 6:00PM here in CA so you will probably be looking for the leftovers by then. I have been getting things all ready and while I wait till time to start cooking I have been reading the E-mail. This is the only list that is active today. I will find those plat maps and scan and send to you, shows some of the churches. I may be able to do that late tonite. I remember sending you some scanned images before to a different E-mail address, so you can send that to me privately if you would like. Margarette

Margarette (and everyone else), Hi, again. I've enjoyed the dialogue and can add just a little. My family records indicate Jonathon Jarrett gave the land for the Sulphur Springs M.E. Church, in the "south suburbs of Loami." According to Lucy Dodd's reminiscence: "The Reverend Mr. Peck, a Baptist minister, organized the first Sunday school. Then the Methodists organized one. Mrs. Melissa Withrow (born 1841) came to Loami Township with her father and mother from the East in 1843. She attended this church and remembered distinctly of going to Sunday school when only 6 years old. She remembered only one minister of that church, whose name was Rev. McMurry." According to the "History of Sangamon County", this Methodist church was "close to the Sulphur Springs Cemetery, up on a hill above the Old Sulphur Springs, north of the Jim Stanton home." I know this thread concerns the Baptist churches in the area, but thought someone might be interested......Bill Hall > -----Original Message----- > From: MaggeD@aol.com [mailto:MaggeD@aol.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 3:15 PM > To: ILSANGAM-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ILSANGAM-L] Island Grove > > > I had read that the Jarretts had given some land for a church and >

Doing a search on the internet, I came up with Mt Pulaski is in Logan County and Table Grove is in Fulton County. Hope that helps some. Patty At 01:36 PM 11/23/00 EST, you wrote: >I have not heard of Table Grove but I don't believe that Mt Pulaski is in >Sangamon Co. Also the Illinois Statewide index only goes up to 1900. >Perhaps find the county that Mt Pulaski is in and then write to the >courthouse for marriage records. > >Waverly is in Morgan Co so maybe that is where Table Grove is. > >Wish I could help. > >Margarette Davis >

Mt. Pulaski is in Logan County (I think it is the county seat). Table Grove is in Fulton County (I think), but is near the Schuyler Co. line. On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 13:36:29 EST MaggeD@aol.com writes: > I have not heard of Table Grove but I don't believe that Mt Pulaski > is in > Sangamon Co. Also the Illinois Statewide index only goes up to > 1900. > Perhaps find the county that Mt Pulaski is in and then write to the > courthouse for marriage records. > > Waverly is in Morgan Co so maybe that is where Table Grove is. > > Wish I could help. > > Margarette Davis > > > ==== ILSANGAM Mailing List ==== > New - 4th Presbyterian Church INDEX, Springfield, IL > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilsangam/church.htm > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

I have not heard of Table Grove but I don't believe that Mt Pulaski is in Sangamon Co. Also the Illinois Statewide index only goes up to 1900. Perhaps find the county that Mt Pulaski is in and then write to the courthouse for marriage records. Waverly is in Morgan Co so maybe that is where Table Grove is. Wish I could help. Margarette Davis

I too have a location I need help with: TABLE GROVE, IL My grandparents were married there. Amongst Grandma's fragile scrapbooks and memoirs was one of her printed wedding invitations. Table Grove is identified on the invitation as the place where Grandma Marguerite REINBACH (1894-1993 Daughter of Bruck Dessau REINBACH and Kate Hutchison of Waverly, IL) would marry Richard Allen FISHER (1888-1989 Son of Hamlet Webb FISHER and Virgilla Hunsaker) on October 29, 1919. Yet on the Seymour Family Tree (She was a descendant of John Granderson Seymour), it states that they were married in Mount Pulaski, Illinois. I am further frustrated by the fact that (for SOME reason) my grandparents marriage is NOT included in the Illinois Marriage Index! I found out that Grandma married someone before she married Grandpa Fisher but it lasted only a year. How can I find out about this marriage and divorce? Can anyone help? I have subscribed to this list for the past four years and have not presented members of the list with a request for assistance. Thank you in advance for any help you may provide. ----- Original Message ----- From: Mac Crawford <mscrawford@iquest.net> To: <ILSANGAM-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 9:02 PM Subject: [ILSANGAM-L] Island Grove > To those who might know, > > What was Island Grove? Where was it? Does it still exist? > > Thanks, > > Mac Crawford >

Do you have the exact location of the Fancy Point Church? I have a Plat map that shows a church that I think may be Fancy Point but I am not sure. Margarette

I understood what you meant about the earlier Island Grove Church. Just exactly where do you place the Libery Church for that is the Church where some of my ancestors were. And some of these people were said to have been from Island Grove. I don't have a copy of that map you were talking about for when I read the book, I borrowed it. From what I have read was that the church usually met once a month and people, in some cases, travelled some distance to attend. But I have figured that the Liberty Church must have been near the area where the TWPs of Island Grove, Curran and Gardner meet. Also on a voter list where some of the members of Liberty Church voted, it was described as all settlements along Spring Creek. The point that I was trying to make is that the present TWP lines may not be the exact boundaries of which land was originally called Island Grove. A daughter of John Carter who was a member of Liberty Church was born in 1828 and in her obit states that she was born in Island Grove. John Carter lived two doors from Thomas Evans who in one of th Histories of Sangamon Co. mentions that he was an early settler in Island Grove. Both John Carter and Thomas Evans are my GG-Grandparents and Thomas Evans wife was a member of Liberty Church. I am searching by files to find a map that shows exactly where Spring creek flows. I think it stats North of Springfield and flows through Gardner, Cartwright and Island Grove TWPS but there is a fork that heads down through the NW corner of Curran and into Island Grove and I don't know which fork is actually Spring Creek. The North fork runs almost to the Morgan Co. line.while the South fork ends in the middle of Island Grove. Margarette

Liberty Church was organized in June 1826, "on Lick Creek" with 13 members (I have their names). In November 1834 the church moved her meetings to the meeting house near Sulphur Springs. Trustees were appointed in Nov. 1837, so there must have been a building of some sort. In Dec. 1847, trustees were appointed to obtain a deed from William Garrett for one half acre of land. By 1851 a new more comfortable house of worship had been constructed. The site is the location of the present Sulphur Springs Cemetery. Still later the hcurch was reportedly meeting in a school house again in Curran township. The Sulphur Springs cemetery site is at the southwest edge of Loami, about 4 mi. S. W. of Curran. As an additional note: Liberty Church apparently sprung from the earlier Lick Creek church (org. 1822-1823). Another church called Lick creek was organized in August 1830. In June 1832 a church called Union was organized on the head of Lick Creek, by 17 members dismissed from Liberty church. It had dissolved by 1838, but the Fancy Point church was later organized by many of the same people who formed it (Fancy Point would be just 6 years later). Are you sufficiently confused? :-) You may wonder why I am writing all of this today, Thanksgiving. Well, the kids are watching the Macy's parade, and setting the table, and my wife is cooking up a storm. Man, I can smell the turkey, pie, homemade rolls, and all the rest. Even the cats are trying to get in the house. I'm getting hungrier by the minute. :-) Robert On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 12:26:46 EST MaggeD@aol.com writes: > I understood what you meant about the earlier Island Grove Church. > Just > exactly where do you place the Libery Church for that is the Church > where > some of my ancestors were. And some of these people were said to > have been > from Island Grove. I don't have a copy of that map you were talking > about > for when I read the book, I borrowed it. > > From what I have read was that the church usually met once a month > and > people, in some cases, travelled some distance to attend. But I > have figured > that the Liberty Church must have been near the area where the TWPs > of Island > Grove, Curran and Gardner meet. Also on a voter list where some of > the > members of Liberty Church voted, it was described as all settlements > along > Spring Creek. The point that I was trying to make is that the > present TWP > lines may not be the exact boundaries of which land was originally > called > Island Grove. A daughter of John Carter who was a member of Liberty > Church > was born in 1828 and in her obit states that she was born in Island > Grove. > John Carter lived two doors from Thomas Evans who in one of th > Histories of > Sangamon Co. mentions that he was an early settler in Island Grove. > Both > John Carter and Thomas Evans are my GG-Grandparents and Thomas Evans > wife was > a member of Liberty Church. > > I am searching by files to find a map that shows exactly where > Spring creek > flows. I think it stats North of Springfield and flows through > Gardner, > Cartwright and Island Grove TWPS but there is a fork that heads down > through > the NW corner of Curran and into Island Grove and I don't know > which fork is > actually Spring Creek. The North fork runs almost to the Morgan Co. > > line.while the South fork ends in the middle of Island Grove. > > Margarette > > > ==== ILSANGAM Mailing List ==== > Search for a Sangamon County Marriage 1879-1881, includes age, > residence at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilsangam/marr1879.htm > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Yes, I do. In fact, I have a copy of the deed. Fancy Point church was organized in June 1844. Meetings were first held in the Fancy Point school. In 1856 James P. and America Hilyard gave one-half acre of land to the church as a site for a meeting house. I have heard that it was destroyed by a tornado late in the century, and that the church then met in a union church building somwhere in the area. Descriptions given of the location are as follows: 3 mi. S. of New Berlin; 5 or 6 miles N. of Waverly. Deed: N. W. Corner of Lot no. 1 (in Fancy Point?). I don't have the deed here at home, but I can find it next week and tell you more. Robert On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 12:29:48 EST MaggeD@aol.com writes: > Do you have the exact location of the Fancy Point Church? > > I have a Plat map that shows a church that I think may be Fancy > Point but I > am not sure. > > Margarette > > > ==== ILSANGAM Mailing List ==== > List problems? First, read the Welcome Message that you received > when you subscribed. Feel free to contact Morris Myers, > list administrator, with questions concerning this list! > mailto: gmm00@amdahl.com > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

I intended to mention that we do have the minutes of the Liberty Church in the Curran area, and also the Fancy Point church near Loami or New Berlin. Robert On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 11:07:47 EST MaggeD@aol.com writes: > I have read the Life on Sugar Creek book. It was great. I grew up > near that > area. > > The townships in Sangamon Co. were not formed until much later than > you are > talking of, so who knows what they called Island Grove in the > 1820's. When > the townships were formed Island Grove TWP was larger than it is now > and also > contained what is New Berlin TWP. > > Margarette > > > ==== ILSANGAM Mailing List ==== > Search for a Sangamon County Marriage 1879-1881, includes age, > residence at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilsangam/marr1879.htm > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.