Good Day to all WOOLSEY Researchers: Name here is HOLLIS DON WOOLSEY. It has been several months scenes I posted a note on the list. That post listed the family of William A. and Caroline WOOLSEY of Jackson Co. Ill. 1840 to 1869. I made my first post around the first of this year, looking for info on my great grand parents, John Johnson WOOLSEY and wife Armildia. At that time, Whit graciously did a search in Ill. for any matches for a John. He found none, but very quietly suggested that I look at the above William A. family. Now I do not know if Whit knew something special or just wanted to teach me to play this game of "find the lost stick "(branch)! At any rate, I got into the game pretty well and did a fair job of researching them. I will not repeat that listing now, but would like to add to it. I lost trace of the William A./ Caroline Woolsey family in Ill. at 1869 and with no John there. I have not yet been able to do a line by line search of the 1860 Census in Ill, but could not find anything on the Web for that one. 1870 Census Lynn Twp Cedar Co. Mo. Page 49 #354-354 WOOLSEY Richard 25 m Day Labor Ill b: abt 1844/45 Mary 30 f Tn b: abt 1840 Albert 3 m Ill b: abt 1867 William A 6/12 m Mo b: abt 1870 Note: This would show a movement from Ill. to Mo. between 1867 and the first of 1870. Page 50 # 369-369 WOOLSEY William A. 21 m Farmer Ill b: abt 1849 Sarah 22 f Ky b: abt 1848 CAROLINE 50 f Tn b: abt 1818/20 JOHN 16 m Ill b: abt 1853/54 VOUGHT Edward 8 m Ill b: abt 1862 Note: William A. SR died around the first of 1865. Caroline would seem to be the Mother and John a brother. The Edward VOUGHT is the son of Caroline's daughter, Sarah VOUGHT, who died in 1868 Jackson Co. Ill. And Sarah's husband Francis Marion VOUGHT died Feb 6 1862 in the Civil War. 1880 Census Denton Co. Tx. ED/100 Page 32 Dist. 3 # 296-296 WOOLSEY Richard S. 36 m Ill Tn Tn b: abt 1844 Mary A. 37 f Tn Nc Nc b: abt 1843 Albert C. 13 m Ill Ill Tn b: abt 1867 With a Health Note Charles 8 m Mo Ill Tn b: abt 1872 Etta C. 7 f Mo Ill Tn b: abt 1873 1890 Vet's Census Denton Co. Tx ED/56 WOOLSEY Richard Pvt Co.H 27th Ill Inf En: Aug 10 1861 Dis: May 101865 Length of Service 2 yrs 8 Months This last entry about Richard is the key that ties the above WOOLSEY family to the one in Jackson Co. Ill. But, the Names, Ages, State of births, and other relative Names are EXACT. Now, to my John Johnson WOOLSEY. Born: March 6 1853 Ill. Married: Sept 8 1873 Lynn Twp Cedar Co. Mo. To: Armildia RUTH 1874 to 1880 Two Sons born Cedar Co. Mo. and maybe a third that died at birth and we cannot get the correct date 1877 or1887. 1883 to 1894 Five or six children born Denton Co. Tx. 1900 Census Comanche Co. Tx. 1910 Census Comanche Co. Tx. 1912 John Johnson WOOLSEY died Comanche Co. Tx. Note: In each location; Lynn, Cedar Co. Mo. Denton Co. Tx, and Comanche Co. Tx. I also find Armildia's family RUTHs. If I were playing poker, here is where I would increase the money in the pot. FOUR names found in the William A. WOOLSEY family from Jackson Co. Ill are repeated in my John J WOOLSEY family. William, Milton, Caroline, and Lockey. This last name Lockey is very unusual and I do not see it but three times in any of my searches anywhere. The other time I see Lockey is in the family that might be Caroline's parents. That is another story to be worked out. OK group, here is where each of you can put your 2 cents into the $ 64 million question. Is the JOHN in the Mo. family my JOHN? Would like to receive as many thoughts on this as possible, and what more would it take to solidify the connection? Thanks for putting up with such a long post. Hollis D Woolsey