I'm looking for the parents of William Van Buren Cole b. 23 Aug 1841 in Syracuse, Onondaga Co., New York..I am interested in finding who his parents and any siblings he might have before he left N.Y. and headed to Ohio or Illinois where he married Leah Lorrian ? about 1862-1864.. They're first child was born in 1864 Illinois Then William moved to Iowa, where he and his wife Leah had 6 more children... Oscar J. 1866, Josephine E. 1869, Edna C. 1871, Mary E. 1873, twin sons William L. and Willard C. 1875. The family moved to Omaha, Douglas Co., Nebraska where I find then in the 1880 census with a baby named Annie (6 months old)..The whole family moved again to Oregon where William and Leah had another son Fred C. born in 1883..After that I find the family in Guerneville, Sonoma Co., California..... The Cole's have another daughter born Maude M. 1887..William d. 02 December 1896 in a San Francisco hospital from Tuberclocis and is buried in the Guerneville cemetery...I would appreciate any information on William Cole and his family from New York and his parents names as well as his wife's maiden name..Thanks so much for any help.. nfoladydi@webtv.net