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.