Linda Crawford wrote: >Several people have contacted me about Urbana and it is most appreciated. > Hi Folks, Please reply to the list on this type of topic so we all can learn more about Washington County! List moderator, Would you consider setting the "reply" to automatically reply to the list instead of the individual? This discussion list doesn't have a lot of traffic, so I don't think seeing all/most of the replies would be too burdensome. Many Washington County familes are inter-related anyway, so what at first might not seem a "related" (forgive the pun) topic to many of us could very well become one quickly. Linda, Would you mind posting a compilation of what you've learned about Urbana Chapel? Thanks, Sherry

I was asked to reply to the list about what I had learned. I need to back up and give my reasons for wanting to know more about Urbana. I was raised in Urbana, MO in Dallas County in Southwest MO in the Ozarks. Our Urbana was supposed to be named for Urbana TN or Urbana Chapel Methodist Church. The town was named by Jane Reser Glanville after where she had came from in the 1840s to the area. Her husband was postmaster of a small post office name Andersonville MO, but for some reason this office was closed and about three miles to the northeast a small settlement was beginning to grow. The Reser family was among those living near by. It is stated that Jane was given the honor of naming the new post office. There are the two versions stated above, but it became the Urbana MO post office in 1856. I had found in my files a notes saying they lived near Chuckey TN. I have found that the cemetery can be located on the TOPO map for that area of TN. There is an Urbana Road near Jonesboro. I haven't had time to see yet if it goes by the cemetery. Urbana Methodist Church was formed in 1817 and later became Limestone Methodist Church-page 1057 of the Washington Co History. Then on page 848 it tells of the Bethesda Academy, an orphanage and Industrial school that was next to the railroad and Urbana Cemetery. It was operated by the Cumberland Presbyterians, but ran into financial problems and closed. Then from Washington County Tombstone Inscriptions, Vol. II it states the Urbana Methodist Church was located at Limestone and is now used as a public cemetery. Does anyone know what type of Methodist Church it was, such as M.E. South, etc. Jane's husband Rev. Thomas Glanville was murdered in his home in 1863, supposedly because of what he preached. He was against slavery. His son by his first wife was also murdered the same night. I want to visit your area some day. Linda Crawford