Otsego wills - liber 9 pg 97 Elias Cooke of Butternuts Dated: Feb 14 1846 Probated: Feb 8 1850 Mentions: sons Amos Richard H Orson Eber Elias Jason daus Lucy Carr Harriet Durema Annie gr d Marietta Slade dau Harriet Almira dau Jason & Eliza Cooke gr s Jason s. Alvaro, Stuart - William sons of Jason George B., David B., Woodbury, Elias, sons of Amos gr d Cordelia, Julia, Elizabeth, Emily daus Lucy Carr gr s Sterling F s Lucy Legrand s " Executors: son Amos John Waite Witnesses: Woodbury Cooke of Oneonta Sutton Pearsall of Butternuts Nelson R " NOTE: This abstract was very difficult to read, so the actual will may show different names. The index to all of Gertrude Barber's Otsego County will abstracts can be found at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyotsego/barberindex.htm Many will abstracts have already been posted, and can be read online. Will abstracts I posted to nyotsego-l in August 2004 or September 2004 can be found at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/nyotsego/2004-08 Aug http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/nyotsego/2004-09 Sep Marty Irons k2mi@frontiernet.net All e-mail scanned by Norton 2005 anti-virus, updated online daily. May all your ancestors YELL at you, telling you how and where to find them. PS: great great grandfather John F IRONS.... b. 1811 "somewhere"....possibly Otsego County NY.... m. 1834 Hartwick, Otsego, NY d. 1854 Cazenovia, Madison, NY.... please stand up on that brick wall and yell out the names I've sought for 12 years....LOUDER! Who were your parents? Were they from RI? Where were you born? Was it Otsego County NY? Did you have a brother named Orlando? Who were your other siblings?