This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RAB.2ACI/2642 Message Board Post: This is a lengthy post from the Coomer family board which pertains to the Coomers that moved to Adair, KY by 1850. I have been trying to sort through the Coomers from NC and wondered if there is anyone with good information on these families. My ancestor was William Coomer who was born in 1804 (in Pulaski Co, KY per all census reports) and died during Civil War service in a hospital in Lexington KY on 11 September 1864. He is buried in the national cemetery in Lexington. His son, William Charles, my gg-grandfather, was in the same unit (Co G, 37th KY reg). The elder William's widow, Lavisa Coomer (Vice per Stokes county marriage record) applied for widow's pension benefits in 1864 in Adair Co, KY and later in Pike Co, IN where she died in 1891 at age 86. William Charles had moved to Pike sometime after the 1880 census. Lavisa's first pension renewal in Pike was in 1866. The entire family was living together in Adair, KY in 1850. The elder William appears to have had 6 contemporaries from NC listed below. I included William. John b 1796 or 1797 NC William b 1804 Pulaski, KY Elijah b 1805 NC George Washington b 1809 Stokes, NC Jesse b 1815 Stokes, NC Berry b 1816 Stokes, NC Some researchers have connected my William and George Washington Coomer with William Coomer and Sukea Beasley, who were from Stokes, NC per Sukea's father's will dated 25 Oct 1800. This might make sense for William because there is a William Coomer in the 1800 Stokes census who then was absent in 1810, appearing in the 1810 Pulaski, KY census. In 1800 the Stokes William had one son (John?) and in Pulaski in 1810 had 4 sons. By 1820, it appears that William had gone back to Stokes as he disappears from the Pulaski census and is listed in Stokes. By 1830 in Stokes, the William's are listed as Jr. and Sr. and it appears that the Jr. is William of William and Lavisa (Vice). Further it appears that there is a second family in the household, probably either William or Lavisa's brother or sister and spouse. Because of this William Jr/Sr listing in Stokes in 1830, it appears that my William is a son of William and Sukea since he is not found in KY at the time and he and Lavisa were married in 1827 in Stokes. The 2 males under 5 years listed would most likely be Benjamin (Berry Green) Coomer, first son of William and Lavisa, and either another son who later died or the son of the other couple living in the household. Certainly George Washington would likely be a son of William and Sukea since the eldest William was living with George in Adair in 1850. I wonder if the reasearcher's on George's line have an exact birthdate for him. Since the eldest William appears to have been living in Pulaksi in 1810 it makes me wonder if George W. was actually born ~1811 after the family returned to Stokes. Although census reports have consistently shown him born in 1809 in NC, perhaps he did not know his true age. The other possibility would be that the family returned to NC for a visit although travel would have been arduous in that day and time. I would appreciate any other researcher's interpretation of these census reports, especially if you have concrete evidence of parentage of the 6 men listed above. I would be very interested in finding the siblings of William and George.