To all interested Woolseys: I think it almost a miracle that we are corresponding with descendants of four brothers, the sons of Richard Woolsey and Nancy Plumstead, of Ulster County, New York, Washington County, Virginia, and Mercer, Pulaskia and Jessamine Counties, Kentucky, Jackson County, Indiana, and Randolph and Fayette Counties, Illinois. (and other areas) Yes, we have found descendants of Joseph Woolsey and Abigail Schaeffer (that includes me), Richard Woolsey and Elizabeth Mayner, Jacob C. Woolsey and Elizabeth Weger, and Nathaniel Woolsey and Susannah ?. We have a long way to go on these families, but this is such a great start! These Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, families have been very difficult to pin down, but we are making headway. Any documented (and undocumented) material you may have from those areas would be very helpful. Jacob C. Woolsey is a good example of how it takes concentrated effort to make a record complete. I have had a great deal of information on Jacob C. Woolsey from about 1842 to 1855, and now a descendant has a great deal of information on Jacob up to about 1840, when he becomes "lost" to that family. Jacob C. Woolsey, with several of his brother Joseph and Abigail's children, joined the "Mormon" church and we find Jacob C. Woolsey and family in Nauvoo, Illinois, from about 1842 to 1846, when they joined the exodus from Nauvoo to Indian Territory. Jacob C. Woolsey brought some of his family to Utah in 1848 (along with his sister-in-law Abigail Schaeffer and some of her children, as part of John D. Lee's group.) Jacob C. Woolsey's daughter Emeline married, as his eleventh wife, John D. Lee, who had previously married two of Joseph and Abigail's daughters, Agatha Ann (wife #1) and Rachel Andora (wife #6). John D. Lee also married his widowed sister-in-law Abigail Schaeffer Woolsey, but always claimed it was in name only, and for her protection. Abigail Schaeffer, widow of Joseph, took sick with the "Rocky Mountain Fever" and died at the "last or ninth crossing of the Sweetwater River", and her grave was dug by her brother-in-law Jacob C. Woolsey. I have BLM maps and hope to identify the site, perhaps next summer, as John D. Lee, in his "Journals" left a very good description of the place she is buried. We find Jacob C. Woolsey in the 1850 (1851)Census of Utah, living in Salt Lake City, and in 1852 and 1853 he was living in the South Cottonwood Ward (very close to where I now live). In the 1855 State Census, we find his probable family (a large one) living in the Provo City area (Brigham Young University). I say "probable family" because only the names and sex of the persons were recorded and not the ages, so it is difficult to sort out a family, unless one was better acquainted with it. After 1855, we lose Jacob C. and most of his family, but it is possible that some of them (many?) returned to Illinois. Well, that is what we are working on (among dozens of other projects). Well, I just thought you would find that interesting. Sincerely, Wilford W. Whitaker