This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Crofoot Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kYQ.2ACIB/178.2 Message Board Post: I have been in contact with a cousin of my son-in-law's for has been researching the Crofoot lineage for years. She sent me a copy of 'Crofoot Genealogy', by Robert E. Crofoot...published in 1954. There is an Appendix giving some additional information. This is the answer to why Gideon and Samantha's daughter, Sophia was not mentioned in the Will..... "Gideon and Samantha Crofoot had a fifth child, Sophia, who was born in Painesville, Geauga Co. (now Lake Co.) Ohio, Feb. 14, 1818. Sophia Crofoot joined the Mormon Church at an early age. For this her parents drove her from home and never spoke to her again. Because of this her name does not appear in some records of the Crofoot family. She married a man by the name of Whitehead. He beat her and made her life miserable, so she ran away from him and her home. In Jan. 1838, Sophia married George Noakes (born in Sussex, England) in Commerce, Hancock Co., Illinois. After this remarriage they are believed to have followed Joseph Smith, Jr. and other Mormons to the Far West. It is thought that they were in the group of persecuted Mormons led out of Missouri by Brigham Young, while Joseph Smith and other leaders were still held in jail. By Oct. 1852, after much hardship, the Noakes reached Salt Lake City. The George Noakes family are listed in the Church Journal of Pioneers, July-December 1852, as owning one wagon, one horse and 2 oxen." Hope this information helps your research. Joan