From: John Gray of Rutherford County, Tennessee
To: Robert Bird
Date: 2 Oct 1807
Type: Land on Beaver Creek
Names Cited: Rowen
[Source: Barren County, Kentucky Deed Book B, page 164]

From: Robert Bird and wife Rachel
To: James Bridges
Date: 1810
Type: Land on Beaver Creek
Names Cited: McFadden, Roads
itnesses: John Reed, Elisha Fowler, Ephraim Bridges
[Source: Barren County, Kentucky Deed Book B, page 295]

Robert Bird was an early settler in Marshall County, Illinois. He came to Walnut Grove, Tazewell County, Illinois in the fall of 1827, and he lived there until 1830. In 1830, he came to Richland Township, Marshall County where he lived until 1849 when he emigrated to Oregon where he subsequently died. His family consisted of Robert Bird, Jr. who was living in Rutland, Marshall County in 1880, and John Bird, William Bird, Elijah Bird who accompanied their father to Oregon. There were also two daughters. Elijah Bird was killed in a fight with Indians. When the Robert Bird family came to Round Prairie, Marshall County, Illinois in 1830, the only white people Robert Bird, Jr. remembers were [among a few others] Allen Gray, John Gray, and William Gray, Capt. Abram Keedy, and the Perkins family - all living on Crow Creek. On 15 August 1831, Robert Bird and his wife, Rachel Bird, sold a piece of land in Columbia (now Lacon), Marshall County, Illinois for $38.00. That same year, Robert Bird made a claim which he later sold to Nathan Patton. In May, 1832 during the Black Hawk War, the settlers built a fort around the Dever cabin for protection from the Indians. Robert Bird, Sr., who was left-handed, designed the fort - he being the only one who had ever seen one. Robert Bird's son, Elijah Bird, and Abram Keedy, Eliza Foster, Mary Keedy, and Louisa Keedy attended school during the winter of 1836 at the Lancaster's house.

[Source: Information from Allen Gray]

[Source: Nathaniel S. Haynes, History of the Disciples in Illinois 1819-1914, pages 318 - 321]

The Restoration Movement in Illinois: Marshall County

The Crow Creek congregation, afterward known as the Salem Christian Church, was located about seven miles south and a
little east of Lacon. It was constituted probably in the home of Nathan Owen, just down the hill from the old Salem Cemetery,
June 12, 1836. The agreement signed was the following:

The believers in Christ on Crow Creek mutually agree to constitute themselves in a congregational capacity on the
Bible alone, and to take the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments for their rule of faith, practice and discipline.
And to have their names registered together and to live in subjection to each other according to the above-named rule.

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This is signed by Nathan and Elizabeth Owen, William B. and Stephen James, Milly Alm Davis, Isaac and Elizabeth Black, I.
F. and Mary Ann Miller, Betsy Martin, Susanah Bird, Elder H. D. and Patsey Palmer, Isaac and Eliza Polk, William and
Alethee Maxwell. Meetings were held in the homes of the members and in groves when weather permitted. About 1845 a
house was built which served the people except during protracted meetings or on County Co-operation days, when they
adjourned to the groves. This chapel stood two miles east of old Salem Cemetery. Its walls were of brick made near by, but
the lumber was hauled by ox teams from Chicago, a distance of 125 miles as the crow flies. Some of the sons of the men who
helped in this work are yet living. In later years it was used for a schoolhouse and was finally torn down.

Henry D. Palmer was doubtless the great spiritual leader in this work through many years and its influences were far-reaching.
It was here that Mr. Palmer taught O. A. Burgess the right way of the Lord, saving him from unbelief and starting him on his
great career. Nathan Owen was chosen deacon in 1836 and the next year Mr. Palmer was chosen elder. Both of them were
resident preachers and farmers, as also John L. McCune. The church grew at one time to a membership of 193 and was visited
by all the pioneer ministers in that section of the State. The last remnant of the membership went to Washburn about 1896.

JAMES E. SATTERFIELD was born February 16, 1832, in Princeton, Caldwell County, Ky. He is a son of Elijah Satterfield, whose father, James Satterfield, was among the earliest settlers of Caldwell County, having come from South Carolina in 1798, and having located on the farm where subject now lives, two and a half miles south of Princeton, where he died in 1820. Subject's mother was Mary Satterfield, daughter of Edmund Watkins of Virginia. Mr. Watkins left his native State as early as 1810, immigrating to Logan County, Ky., where he lived several years, and later moved to Muhlenburgh [sic] County, which was his home until his death in 1834. Elijah Satterfield was a farmer by occupation and spent his life in Caldwell County, dying in the year 1846. Mrs. Satterfield, subject's mother, was born in March, 1815, and is still living in Caldwell County. James E. is the only child of his parents. He was reared on a farm and in his youth enjoyed good educational advantages at Princeton and Cumberland Colleges. After his father's death he became a student in the Emory & Henry College, Washington County, Va., in which institution he remained three years. After leaving school he came back to Caldwell County, and engaged in farming on the old homestead, which he owns and on which he has since resided. Mr. Satterfield was married February 16, 1858, to Miss Anna L., daughter of Rev. Milton Bird, D.D., and Elizabeth A. (Dunham) Bird, the former a native of Barren County, Ky., and the latter of Marietta, Ohio. Dr. Bird was a prominent minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and died in 1872. Mrs. Bird is still living in Caldwell County. Mr. and Mrs. Satterfield have a family of seven children, as follows: H. Kent, F.P., Hugh L., Coleridge M., Birdie, Robert Raymond and Nannie. Mr. Satterfield votes the Republican ticket.

[Source: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, Kniffin 2nd ed., 1885]