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/WBB.2ACI/2950.1.1.1.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Darryn, What's the marriage date you have for Jesse Cooper and Mary Applegate? The 15 April 1806 date that is floating around always made me doubt that Basil Cooper was their son, since he (supposedly) was born 8 Feb 1806. The most best circumstantial evidence I had of the relationship between Jesse and Basil is the 1840 Dearborn county Census that lists the Coopers in close proximity. Until I read your postings here, I didn't realize how close. I just looked up the listing and was amazed. This is the order on the census page: Jesse Cooper (probably Jesse Cooper Sr.'s son) Robert Cofield (Amanda Wallingford's husband) Basil L. Cooper (Mary Wallingford's husband) Eli Cooper (probably Jesse Sr.'s son) Lester McAdams [?] Judah Bailey [?] Jesse Cooper Sr. Richard Moreland (Nancy Cooper's husband) Jacob Richards (Mary Cooper's husband) A few lines down is Thomas Cooper with a full family at home, the supposed brother of Jesse Sr. Cooper. (His daughter Mary would marry another of the Joseph and Jean Wallingford's children, Samuel, in 1846). A few lines down from that is John Jenkins (Malinda Cooper's husband). John Wallingford is listed on the previous page, which puts three (four when Samuel arrives) of the children of Joseph and Jean Wallingford in the same neighborhood. And there might be another. A long time ago I saw an online posting saying that this Eli Cooper of the 1840 census had married an "Aley Wallingford." At the time this rang no bells for me, but maybe here is another daughter of Joseph and Jean Wallingford, married to a Cooper? Had you ever come across that one? This Cooper/Wallingford settlement was quite a clan! Judith