This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Colby, Cooper Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wQJ.2ACEB/753 Message Board Post: Henry Colby, age 21 and born in Lafayette Co., Missouri, is listed on the "Civil War Slave Compensation Claims Index" by his last slave owner, Nancy Cooper of Lafayette Co., Missouri. I am not related to this family, just passing on this information. The link for the site is listed below. Joyce http://www.slcl.org/branches/hq/sc/jkh/slaveclaims/18-reg-owners-a-d.htm