Posted on: Des Moines County Iowa Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Ia/DesMoines/93 Surname: Wooden, Morgan, Paris ------------------------- Thomas Wooden was born in 1844, in Lick Creek Township, Davis County, Iowa, to Ransom H. Wooden and his wife Elizabeth ("Betsey"). Ransom and Elizabeth (Morgan) had been married in Henderson County, Illinois, on 25 April 1844. Thomas Wooden was drowned in the Mississippi River, at Burlington, in Des Moines County, Iowa in 1847 age the age of 3 years. Does anyone have any details of Thomas' drowning and the fate of his mother: Elizabeth ('Betsey') (Morgan) Wooden? Ransom H. Wooden later married again in 1849, to Jensey W. (Paris) in Clay Twp., Ralls Co., Mo. They had a large family and lived in Davis Co., Iowa, and later in Cowley Co., Kansas