To Justine Mann, Thanks very much for your reply to my inquiry on the various Cooper families of Newfield, NY. I am trying to identify the parents of my parernal grandmother Zaida (Scott) Richmond. The parents of Zaida were John Scott and Sally COOPER. They are buried in Bly cemetery, Marcellus, Mich. but I have been unable to obtain death certificates for either. Zaida was born in Veteran (the present town of Horseheads), Chemung county, New York in 1847. I found her parents and family living at Veteran in the 1850 census and at Catherine, then Chemung county, NY in the 1840 census. >From records filed at the Cass county, Mich. court house I have determined that John Scott was born in 1800 and Sally Cooper was born in 1802. From death certificates of a number of their children, the place of birth of John Scott was Scotland and the birthplace of Sally Cooper was Penn. They had a daughter Jane born in New York in 1827 thus their place of marriage was undoubtably New York. Searching thru the New York 1830 census I located a John Scott with wife and two young children living at Newfield, Tompkin county which would have fit their description completely. What is more fitting was the fact that they were living among a group of five COOPER families, and the three younger members of the family were in the same age group as Sally, 20 to 30 years of age. The boys names were Philip, Warren and Abel, all with children under 5 years of age. William Cooper, who appeared to be the father of these boys (age 50-60), was living among these families and still had 3 children 20-30, 2 children 15-20 and one child 10-15 in his household. Also nearby lived a John Cooper and wife, both age 70-80 who may have been the grand- parents. I haven't as yet checked the 1840 census of Newfield to see if these families still lived there but would appreciate hearing from you to know whether any of this family might tie into your ancestry. Don Richmond ritaalice@fcgnetworks.net