To all interested Woolseys: A little research into my data base and I find that Thomas Woolsey who appears in the 1830 and 1840 census of Buncombe Co, NC is the same Thomas with wife Elizabeth (Tucker) of the 1850 Rusk Co., Texas Census, with 9 children, all born in NC and probably all born in Buncombe Co., NC. Gilbert Woolsey who appears in the 1840 Buncombe Co., NC census is the same who md Hannah Tucker 4 Oct 1832 in Washington Co., TN. They had 10 daus and Gilbert is said to have died in 1864 in the infamous Andersonville Prison. Thomas Woolsey and his brother Rev. Gilbert Woolsey, a minister of the Free Will Baptist church, were the sons of William Woolsey and Sarah nee Woolsey, of Greene Co., TN. Another Woolsey place name: Just outside of Asheville, Buncombe Co., NC is a former suburb of Asheville, known as Woolsey, now known as Woolsey Dip, at the intersection of Merrimon Ave and Chatham road. In 1888, in the "Asheville Methodist" publication, reporting on the "Holston Conference" (Methodist Church), in a list of Local Preachers elected to Elder was one John Woolsey, otherwise not identified. Sincerely, Wilford W. Whitaker