I would be very grateful if someone would do an obituary lookup at the NY State Library for me. The individual is Reuben Fuller, who lived in Albany and died June 18, 1841. According to the Presbyterian Burial Ground inscriptions in Munsell's "Annals of Albany", he was 72 at death, so I'm assuming a birthdate of 1768 or 1769 for Reuben. I'm hoping to find an obituary listing his wife's, children's and parents' names and, with great good luck, birthplaces. I don't think the Times Union was publishing yet, but I've read that there was a lively newspaper culture in Albany at the time, with several papers extant. Unfortunately, I wouldn't know which paper would have the most informative obituary, but someone familiar with the library resources for Albany county might. Reuben has proved to be a stubborn brick wall. There is an oral family tradition that he was a Mayflower descendant, originally from Connecticut, but no further information on lines of descent. He appears in the 1800 Albany census. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Albany, baptized in 1813 and leaving the church in 1834. A church record indicates his wife, Sarah Ann (Tuttle) Fuller became a member in 1818 and died on April 25, 1823. He may have remarried, since I've found a death notice for an "Elizabeth, wife of Reuben Fuller", dated April 25, 1833, from Munsell's "Annals of Albany". Reuben Fuller had at least one daughter, Maria, who joined the church March 26, 1819, and one son, David Tuttle Fuller, who married Mary Frances Sinclair (sometimes "St. Clair"), also of Albany. I have much information on the David T. Fuller line down to the present. Thanks very much to anyone who might be able to help! _________________________________________________________________ Quick access to your favorite MSN content and Windows Live with Internet Explorer 8. http://ie8.msn.com/microsoft/internet-explorer-8/en-us/ie8.aspx?ocid=B037MSN55C0701A