To all interested Woolsey researchers: The Missouri Woolsey families are very difficult to follow and need much more research. It is my hope that some of you who are related to the Woolsey families there will seek more census records, obituaries, estate files and marriages, etc. to help define these families more clearly. In regard to the different suggestions re: Abigail Woolsey who md William Zuck: 1. There is nothing I have found that would indicate that Abigail is a dau of Zephaniah Woolsey and Delilah Masoner. In research, however, one must start with a premise and then try to prove or disprove it, so Zephaniah Woolsey and Delilah Masoner must remain as possibles. 2. Abigail Woolsey, d/o Nehemiah and Mary Ruth Curtis. Again this is a possibility, but I have a different connection for Abigail, d/o Nehemiah and Mary Ruth Curtis. Abigail, b abt 1822, md as his 2nd wife, Stephen Woolsey (s/o Gilbert Woolsey and Abigail Woolsey) (These families really become convoluted.) Abigail had at least four children by Stephen Woolsey so I don't think she is a possibility. 3. At first glance, Abigail Woolsey, d/o of Jeremiah Woolsey and Polly (the Ancestral File has Mary Stephens, but I haven't proved that) seems to be the best possibility. The ages are about the same. However, Abigail Woolsey, d/o Jeremiah Woolsey shows up in the 1850 census of Fentress Co., TN and in the 1860 census of Fentress County, TN, as Abigail Woolsey in Mary Woolsey's (and George Woolsey, her brother's) family. So, I think we can rule out Jeremiah Woolsey as her father, although I don't have a marriage for this Abigail Woolsey. 4. Which leaves us where we started. I don't know the parents of Abigail Woolsey who md Wm Lafayette Zuck. According to the records sent to us, Abigail Woolsey md William Zuck in 1848 and so should appear in 1850 and 1860 censuses under his family. That would be the first place I would look. Where were the Zucks in the Census years? Sincerely, Wilford W. Whitaker