Folks, someone sent me a cemetery record recently. The name started with Green something for Columbia County, New York which stated the contents of a stone for Amos King Jr. died 1815 in his 37th year. I back tracked and found that if this is so then he could have been born in 1787. I have no idea if he is who I think he might be since I now know that my fourth great grandfather Amos King and Hopestill (AKA Haskins) Hoskins had only 6 children raised to maturity before her death about 1793 or a little less than 12 years into the marriage. If he (Amos Jr.) is who I hope that he is....He may have had siblings known to have been born in New Salem, Hampshire County, Massachusetts and Columbia County New York 2 in the first and 6 in the second. The parents as I stated were married in 1781 in New Salem. The children known to have been born are: Nahum King 25 July 1783, William Oliver King 1785 both in New Salem. The recorda of Massachusetts give that they left New Salem in 1785. We know that children born in Columbia County New York were Lovisa King in 1789, Lydia in 1791, and Isaac in 1793. This leaves a huge gapping hole in the line up where Amos King Jr. could easily fit. Until just days ago and finding in the History of Johnson County, Nebraska Todd Creek Disrict a historical sketch on Horace and Desire Jane King and 3 of 5 sons. Each with a prosperous farm next to one another. One of the sketches tell of the life of Desire Jane as a new widow that her father in law was Amos King and that he had 6 children by his first wife and 9 children by his second whom he married after the death of wife one (Hopestill) the second wife is only identified as Miss Bassett of New York. It has long been a thorn in our sides (descendents of Nahum King 1845 in the Oregon Territory) which figured that Hopestill was born in 1741 but that she had 10 children in both New Salem and Canaan (the farm becomes New Lebanon Springs later). However if the last one was born in 1811 how could a more than 60 year old woman be having children at that age? Go figure on that one please. The only thing that we could figure was that the birth year was incorrect; However nobody could account for a more accurate birth date for this woman. Apparently from this new information the birth year is correct and she had children continually into her 40's. We also had the will of her parents William Hoskins and Mary Cole Hoskins which in this record William gave the use of but not ownership to 3 daughters in Norfolk county, Massachusetts. Since it was the use of until their deaths who is to say that in 1798 they changed the will for distance and what if without knowing it or maybe they did needed to change the award and legacy that she would have come to use as her inheritance. Daniel Lewis Frommherz Oregon