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    1. Claude Woolsey, rich?
    2. heather e blair
    3. Well, I was down in Fayetteville, Arkansas during the Christmas holidays and had an opportunity to use the genealogy collection at the public library. It is truly excellent! I looked for my own great-grandfather, Charles Elisha Woolsey (1888-1955) and found him in some city directories from the 1930s, just as my family members had told me. What I didn't know, is that his younger brother, Claude Woolsey (1891-1989) also lived in Fayetteville, and was in the directories from 1927-1933. That was news enough, but what surprised me was his address: 123 Mt. Nord. Mt. Nord street is the poshest of the posh in Fayetteville. It is only one block long, and the red brick mansion on the NW corner was the family home of Senator J. William Fulbright. Granted, the houses on the north side are genuine mansions, and the ones on the south side just very nice and very large. I don't know offhand whether 123 Mt. Nord is on the north or south side of the street, and the ice storm prevented me from checking it out. Still, what a surprise to have had a wealthy gg-uncle! - Heather PS -- there are other Woolseys in Fayetteville descended from the Greene County, TN bunch. In looking for something else at the courthouse archive, I found a big lawsuit in the 1920s where the Fayetteville Woolseys (not my branch) were all suing each other.

    01/17/2001 01:05:26