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