To Heather E. Blair & interested Woolsey researchers: I thought someone would respond before now because we have quite a few researchers who descend from the Greene Co, TN Woolseys. Your George W. Woolsey is from a family of these Greene Co, TN, that need a lot of work yet. I have a copy of the will of Israel Woolsey, blacksmith, in which he mentions his son Andrew Woolsey. >From the 1850 census Greene Co, TN Andrew Woolsey has a wife Elizabeth L. with Jane, 8, & Alexander, 6, Woolsey. (George W. Woolsey was born in 1851 and should be in the 1860 census but does not appear with Andrew's family as below): In the 1860 Census of Mercer Co, MO Andrew has a wife Louisa (could that be Elizabeth Louisa?) with J. G. 18 f and A. N. 16 m. (Robert M. Woolsey, in his fine book THE WOOLSEY FAMILY states that Andrew md Elizabeth ____ and had Jane and Alexander.} In the 1870 Census of Lawrence Co, MO. Dr. Andrew & wife Louisa has a male George W. Woolsey 19 m, living with them. We need to find where George W. Woolsey was in the 1860 census. I don't know why George W. Woolsey does not appear with Andrew in the 1860 census. Well, you are in the right "church", we just don't know what "pew" to put George W. in. Now there was a general migration of many of the Greene County Woolseys into Missouri, but they didn't all go to the same place, nor did they leave at the same time. But most of the Woolseys in Missouri Census records are from Tennessee and especially from Greene Co., TN. That's a whole 'nother subject. Sincerely, Wilford W. Whitaker ----- Original Message ----- From: "heather e blair" <h431@midway.uchicago.edu> To: <WOOLSEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 10:00 AM Subject: George Woolsey(1851-1906) Barry/Lawrence Co., MO > Dear Woolseys, > My great-great grandfather was George Woolsey who died in Pierce City, > Lawrence County, Missouri in 1906. According to the 1880 and 1900 census, > he was born in September 1851 in Tennesee. He lived in Monett, Barry > County, Missouri on the 1900 census. His wife was Sarah Hand (1852-1922). > > The 1870 Pierce City, Lawrence County census has a Dr. Andrew Woolsey as > head of household, and a George Woolsey (age 19 and in school) living in > this household. > > I did a query on ancestry.com, and found an Andrew Woolsey in Greene > county, TN on the 1850 census. A newpaper abstract from Missouri mentions > that Dr. Andrew Woolsey, formerly of Pierce City has died in St. Louis in > 1897. > > I'm wondering whether Andrew is the father of George. Would anybody have > any information on the Woolsey family in Greene County that would include > Andrew and George, or describe a migration from Tennessee to Missouri? > > Thanks! > - Heather > > >