Thank you to everyone who has replied about land records. I was able to find him in the 1870 census and even maybe some new family members! If anyone knows of this Hooker line please drop me a line. Thanks again, Anne Menander Hooker and Eunice Culp 1860 Census of Osceola, Fond Du Lac Co., WI: p.812, Family #722 Manden Hooker 51 NY Eunice " 42 NY Jeanell " 14 WI Charles L. " 12 WI Lyman " 9 WI Emily " 7 WI Martha " 5 WI Rhoda " 2 WI 1865 Pierce County WI Homestead application Nov 20 1865. Feb 24 1871 Rufus Preston and George Lynch stated Menander Hooker had settled and improved S 1/2 of SE 1/4 section 18 Twp 27 Range 15 for the last 5 years. Entered and settled on 24 Nov 1865. Located George Lynch next door in 1870, not Rufus Preston. 1870 WI Pierce County Spring Lake PO Rock Elm Page 396-397. Hooker Manand 60 M Farmer NY Eunice 50 F Keeping House NY Charles 22 work on farm NY Lyman 18 work on farm NY Matilda 15 NY Rhoda 12 NY Possible brother to Menander is Abel Hooker: 1870 WI Pierce County Spring Lake PO Rock Elm Page 396 two houses away: Hooker Abel 59 M W Farmer 400 NY Martha 49 F W Keeping House NY Adelia 27 F W NY Charlott 22 WI Lucy 19 WI Elizabeth 19 WI Franklin 11 WI Harrison 6 WI 1880 Abel Hooker family lives in WI Pierce Spring Lake Dis 110 page 90A, with Frank 20and Phillander 16 both born WI. John Hooker born WI parents NY next door age 29, Almira and Flora Belle. Riverous Hooker WI nephew the next door of Erza Wood house and Cordialia. Anne Marie Black Ryan Council Bluffs, IA mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] Home Page for Genealogy and SW Iowa & NW MO Information: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~anneryan/ Always Searching For These Surnames: Anderson Ashley Babbitt Babcock Bellows Black Bracee Brewington Brown Bobet Cole Cook Corbit Cottrell Crandall Culp Dean Fairbanks Faukner Fuller Hazard Hooker Hurst Jones Kathan Kier King Lawton Long Mann Mellor Moore Nash Parish Peckman Pendleton Platts Powers Prescott Rankin Rose Saunders Schafer Scott Shepard Smeltzer Smith Tarne Taylor Thayer Thrasher Vandal Victor Welling Westlake Wood Yates Young