Hi, Margarette, yes, I remember you, nice to hear from you again, anytime. I have promised another person that I will try to find the sketch and the obituary of Elder Robert Bagby (1811-1845) and post it on here, hopefully it will be next week sometime. Elder Brice Alsbury may have been a brother to Elder John Alsbury (who once ran for office against Lincoln), I'm not sure, anyway Elder Brice Alsbury was born in 1805 and died in Arkansas in 1894. Yes, I think this church was probably pretty close to Liberty. I'll check again on David Simms, had forgotten he was in Ten Mile, but knew he had moved to Morgan or Pike, somewhere and I think I have him listed in several churches. My notes on George Davenport say that he came to Sangamon County in 1819, and was first a member of Sangamo Church (org. in 1820) which was later called Richland. It was also in close proximity to Liberty and Spring Creek. I'm sure it will be a relief to a lot of the people on this list if I ever get my research done and move on. ha. If only the old records had all survived, I wouldn't have this problem of trying to dig out the history. Robert On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:01:05 EST MaggeD@aol.com writes: > Hi Elder Robert, > > Some of the names in this church are very familiar to me. I am > Margarette > Davis, the descendant of Jeremiah Moore and the Carters and Evans of > Liberty > Church. We have corresponded before. Isn't this church pretty > close to the > Liberty Church? At least it is pretty close to where I thought the > Liberty > Church was but maybe I am wrong. > > I think this George Davenport lived very close to my people and they > were > supposed to lived in Island Grove. The Jacksonville Road runs > through Island > Grove from Springfield to Jacksonville. Alsburys married into my > Hodgerson > family but not Brice Alsbury but he may have been a brother to Levi > who was > son of Charles Alsbury. I believe Charles was a preacher also but > maybe I am > mixed up. David Simms was with Jeremiah Moore and the others in Ten > Mile in > Hamilton co and asked for his letter to move to Liberty same time as > the > Moores. He was married by Robert Moore in Hamilton Co. He later > moved to > Morgan Co, I believe. Lewis Robertson was married to one of the > Hodgerson > girls and he had a son named Brice (probably named for Brice > Alsbury) After > Robertson's wife died he married an Alzina Ray Evans(I see you have > Rays in > this church) Alzina Ray was the widow of John Evans who was in the > Liberty > church and later the Fancy Point church. > > I believe this church was very close to Island Grove or what became > Island > Grove TWP when the twps were formed. Berlin is in Island Grove TWP. > In our > correspondence a while back you were looking for Berlin church on > Spring > Creek. Is it possible this was Berlin church? > > TTYL, Margarette Davis > > > ==== 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.