Thanks for the updated reports from WWW. I have been taking notes on each posting. I have been listing those Counties in Ill, MO, and some in TN where WOOLSEYs are found and in what range of years. Hope this might help me later on. I too did not find My John Johnson Woolsey or his wife R. Milda Ruth in the Ill county where she was believed to have been born. In fact no Woolsey or Ruth at all there in 1860 Census. I have found a good number of Ruths in Cedar Co. Mo. where they were married 1873. Oh well, good digging. Hollis D Woolsey