Hi Ernest and Potter List! Thanks to Ernest for confirming what I was beginning to suspect! The Potters that I am researching are all over the country. The trail begins in 1910 in Washington State and goes back in time to Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Indiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, North and South Carolina, Virginia and maybe, Massachusetts. These families moved around a lot! While searching William Alonzo Wilson's family (parents William Wilson and Rachel Littlehale of Massachusetts and Maine) I am finding family in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and of course all of the Midwestern states where I have found the Potters. In all cases, I find Potter and Wilson descendants together often with the names Macomber, Littlehale (Hale or Little) West, Williams and many of my husbands associated early Rice ancestors (Axtell, Lewis, Palmer, Carson, Simmons, Stright, Barber and Williams). I am beginning to suspect that we are related back many generations and the our families have intermarried more than once!!! What this has taught me?? Keep our eyes and minds open and look for groups of names and patterns of migration. Get a map and track them with color coded pins. These people of early generations had smaller groups of people with whom to relate. They may moved often and moved as units or followed friends and relatives to the most distant places!! I thought I had no ancestors in the country past 3 generations back but I didn't know about the Wilsons and Potters and their families. Each discovery is fascinating! Even when you think you know your history from family stories, do not assume anything. My Mother was raised by her Mother's sister after her Mother died. Her father was "disowned" and the story was that he came from Germany and had no relatives in the this country. In the 1910 Iowa census, I found her father's parents! I also found that they had 7 living children!!! We were all raised in the same small town in Iowa. Where did I find Granddad?? -- Two blocks down the street from my Mother's grandparents. I know that one of my neighbors and friends was also my cousin. Scary if you think about it! I have rambled enough but I hope you gain something from my boo-boos! I am currently searching the 1860 census records from Missouri for Clay, Cass, Platte and Jackson counties. These counties are in the area surrounding Kansas City. If you think may have Potters in those counties, I would be happy to respond to reasonable requests. Thanks for all your help!! Glenna Rice