Thanks John.... I think I was confusing the Cottage Home Baptist Church and Pleasant Grove Baptist Church. Jerry Mullins PO Box 733 Colfax, CA 95713 (530)346-1022 Researching: NORMAN/BAKER/SANDERS/THAXTON/MANN/HOPKINS WADKINS/MULLINS/GROVES/RODDEN/COOK/BLYTHE My Web Page : www.geocities.com/heartland/plains/6649 email: [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: John Drueke <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; Jerry Mullins <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 6:43 AM Subject: Re: [ILWILLIA] Cottage Home > Cottage Home is still around and not under water -- I stopped there > last summer on a genealogy research trip. > > It's in Grassy Township, about a mile north of Devil's Kitchen Lake > at a Y junction. I don't know the road names, but it is marked on > the Crab Orchard Lake 7.5 minute topo quad. The longitude and > latitude are 37 39 25N / 89 06 03W. > > The only building in sight is a Baptist church on a gravel drive. I > have read (can't remember where) that the church driveway was > once the location of stores and other buildings. > > Some of my Drueke ancestors were born at Cottage Home -- > delivered by a Baker and neighbors of a Thaxton. > > --- > John Drueke > http://www.siue.edu/~jdrueke/family/ > > > On 27 Mar 2000, at 8:12, Jerry Mullins wrote: > > > Does anyone know where Cottage Home was located? Is it under water now > > at the Crab Orchard Lake? Jerry Mullins PO Box 733 Colfax, CA 95713 > > (530)346-1022 Researching: NORMAN/BAKER/SANDERS/THAXTON/MANN/HOPKINS > > WADKINS/MULLINS/GROVES/RODDEN/COOK/BLYTHE > > My Web Page : www.geocities.com/heartland/plains/6649 > > email: [email protected] > > > > > > > > >