The reader has already heard of Big Springs as a locality where Free State Conventions were wont to be held.

Lawrence and Topeka were twenty-five miles apart, and both were on the south bank of the Kansas River.

Big Springs is midway between these towns, and is situated on the high divide, lying between the Kansas River and the Wakarusa.
Here, at Big Springs, were located four brethren, L.R.Campbell, C.
M.Mock, A.T.Byler and Jack Reeves.Bro.Campbell was a Disciple from Indiana, of much more than average attainments, and of great force of character.

In his immediate neighborhood, and as he had opportunity, he was a preacher, and when a church was organized he naturally became its leader and elder.

His early death seemed the greatest calamity that ever befell the church, though he raised a family of boys that in process of time have taken his place, and make his loss seem not irreparable.
C.M.Mock was not a preacher, yet there is many a preacher that might well be proud to make himself as widely and as favorable known as "Charley Mock," and to be remembered with as much affection.