Carole, I was comparing your info with Antoinette's, who had also posted a query. She and I are trying to figure out shared names, and a MN connection, and last night I made a note that you 2 ought to communicate about James. I'll send you her e-mail address if you want - or maybe she'll see this note. Today's list to you of New Yorkers was disappointing to me: My Elijah and Olive Bailey Wilcox were in Ticonderoga, Essex CO NY 1820- 1868, but NObody ever heard of him. Except that it was in his son's 1928 MN obit. "The Elusive Elijah". Interesting how people tended to migrate straight west, in their familiar climate zones. Mine: upstate NY > WI . MN . SD > WA. But where did they start? !! Mary