I posted this several months ago, but in hopes someone new is on the list that might help me connect my Nathaniel Woolsey, I am posting this again. ======================================= I am interested in the family of Nathaniel Woolsey of KY. With the kind help of a researcher at the library, we found the following and I hope someone can help me know if we are in fact correct. Catharine J. Woolsey Dawson, born in KY and married to Francis Etherton Dawson from TN, was my great-great-grandmother. We were looking for her ancestry. There was a Zephaniah Woolsey I ran across in KY and TN, but his wife Susannah obviously died early on and he remarried two more times. No children listed for him and Susannah, nor could we find his migration to IL, so we excluded him. At the time Francis Etherton Dawson and wife Catharine Woolsey lived in IL (1830's - 1860's), there were no other Dawsons from TN/KY in the county at the time. There were other Woolseys � same age grouping and all from KY. On the 1850 census in Franklin County, we find: 1. Catharine Woolsey Dawson (age 36) and husband Francis Etherton Dawson with four children, Roxanne (13), Henry T. (11), Susannah (9), Mary A. (7). They later had Martha and Jane Etherton. 2. Mary Ann Woolsey (age 26) married to Isaac Campbell with widowed Susanna Woolsey (age 64) living with them � obviously Mary Ann's mother, three children, Josiah (5), M.S.(3f), Elizabeth (1). 3. Thomas Woolsey (age 39) married to Elizabeth J. (sorry we failed to write down her maiden name) with two children, Nancy J. (2) and James F. (3 months). 4. Martha A. Woolsey (age 32), married to Thomas W. Simpson with 7 children, Polly (13), Ellen (11), William (8), E. (6f), Isaac (4), Andrew (3), Nancy J. (2), and a 63 year old woman named Hannah Simpson(probably T. W. �s mother). And marriage records for but obviously lived in different county (didn't find on census): 1. Elizabeth Woolsey married to Daniel Clayton (m.9/19/1850). 2. Daughter (didn�t get her name) married to a Dial. (Sorry, he was working so fast it was hard to keep up. (Note the naming pattern of Francis and Catharine's children: Susannah, named for her Catharine's mother; Henry T. - Thomas could be for Uncle Thomas Woolsey; Mary A. and Martha, named for Catherine's sisters. Henry may be for the Dawson side - who knows? Also, two of Catharine's siblings have daughters named Nancy J, both age 2 and may be named after their grandmother Nancy Plumstead - (if I am connecting to correct line.) In the 1840 census for Franklin County: 1. Nathaniel Woolsey with 1 male between 20-30 (Thomas), 1 male between 50-60 (Nathaniel), 1 female between 10-15 (probably Elizabeth), 2 females between 15-20 (Mary Ann and unknown), 1 female 50-60 (Susannah). Catharine and Martha would have been married by this time, too. Nathaniel is the only Woolsey in Franklin county from KY with this age/size family. Nathaniel is not anywhere on 1850 census, so he probably died and Susannah went to live with daughter Mary Ann and herhusband Isaac Campbell. On the 1840 census, F. E. Dawson and Catharine Woolsey Dawson are in Jackson Co. IL, which borders Franklin Co.; however, they moved to Franklin Co. by the next census. 1830 census Can�t find the family anywhere. May have been in process of moving or in a state we didn't think to check. We checked KY, TN, OH,IN, MO, and IL. Any ideas or help here would be appreciated. 1826 � A Nathaniel Woolsey paid taxes in Pulaski County, KY. He did not pay taxes in 1827, so he was gone by then. 1820 census � Nathaniel Woolsey in Pulaski Co. KY 1810 census � Nathaniel Woolsey in Pulaski Co. KY. It is the researchers belief that Nathaniel is the son of Richard Woolsey and Nancy Plumstead Woolsey, who were in Washington Co. VA. He looked up so much and said other researchers put this Nathaniel with them. I looked up this family on the LDS library and there is no wife for Nathaniel. Also, it puts him dying in NY (but that record was entered in the LDS library �not computer � in the 1930�s therefore is an old record that may be subject to updating, since they didn�t have access to all the tools we do now). ================================================== This is all pieced together and I would like to find someone from this particular line to either confirm my findings, or set me straight. Thank you. Shirley scpetty00@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/