Hi all, Wanda Cole is researching the early Cole family and came across the following Temple information. She has graciously allowed us to post it here. Her interested isn't the Temple line, but the Cole. The interesting thing here is that Elizabeth was in Chester Co, PA about the same time as Thomas and William Temple. Which leaves us with the question of how or if she is connected to them. ____ > Elizabeth Temple's husband Stephen Cole died before her and that he and she are buried in a church yard in Chester co., PA. She died around 1733. And since you found a a Thomas Temple whose life dates were 1700 to ____? It seems to me that there may be a connection between Elizabeth Temple Cole and your Thomas Temple. I have wondered if the Thomas Cole mentioned above was one of her sons. Stephen Cole and Elizabeth Temple Cole who resided in Chester Co., Pa. in the seventeenth century. They had a number of children including several sons. A Stephen, James, Mark, perhaps a William. Some of them were in Bedford County, Va., by 1750. A Rev. War soldier Henry Jolly left information in the Draper Manuscripts. He mentions two other Jolly Families in his tales. There is also a Jolly wife of a William Temple Cole Sr. My husband's line is Cole. His grandfather came from Benton Co., Mo, although we do not know where he was born. In Cooper County, Mo, which is near Benton there settled two brothers -- Stephen and William Temple Cole. It is said the two were born in Wythe Co., VA., and by 1745 there were several brothers who were sons of Elizabeth Temple Cole in the Western part of Virginia. Stephen and older man than the one who came to Mo., a James, and Mark (there is a Mark Cole in the Missouri line as well). But I have not been able to make a connection to this line or to any other Cole line. Good luck with your Temple research. There is a publishing house in the Western part of New Jersey which lists some Temple members in it. At the time Elizabeth lived, Western New Jersey was part of the PA settlement. If I run across the New Jersey address I will send it to you. Meanwhile there are several Church of the Latter Day Saints libraries in New Jersey and surely some of them would carry the Temple history. Sincerely, Wanda Cole in New Jersey <