Seeking info on the marriage of Sarah MILLER and N.S. BASTION/BASTIAN in Athens. I'm confused about whether it should be Menard or Sangamon, since I know the county boundaries changed. So I'm posting it on both lists. Here is how Bastion described it in his Bible: The marriage took place " Thursday evening 6 O'clock, in the evening, December 8, 1835, and the house of D. Allen, Athens, Illinois, by Rev. Hooper Crews." He was b. 1808 in NY, and came to IN as a child. He turns up in Lebanon, St. Clair Co. in 1830, as a teacher, but I can't track how or why. She was b. in Davidson Co. TN 1809, came to Sangamon co. with relatives in 1828, according to the obit BASTION (sometimes spelled BASTIAN) wrote after her death in 1850. I know very little about her, except he says that she became the tutor to the children of Peter CARTWIGHT, the famous Methodist preacher and evangelist who later became a member of the IL legislature. I can't find her in the 1830 census, but the obit says that Sarah and BASTION met in 1833. Probably it was in Sangamon Co, because he was the minister of the Methodist church there for two years starting that year. They appear to have immediately left for Dubuque, where he was then a teacher. As he was never again assigned by the Methodists to a church in Sangamon Co., she never lived there again. I don't know where in the county either Nicholas or Sarah lived. D. ALLEN may well have been one of her relatives. Does anyone know this family? Or it may have been a friend of either hers or his, or just someone with a large enough house. Too many options, unfortunately. I'm also interested in Rev. Hooper CREWS. Was he the settled Methodist minister in town? Was he a circuit rider who just happened to be there when they wanted to get married? Is there someone who can track down the Methodist church's history for me, to see if he shows up on the right dates? The Methodists did keep good records. Thanks, Doris Waggoner Seattle