Descendants of Thomas Woolsey 1803 - 1850/1860
THOMAS8 WOOLSEY (WILLIAM7, ZEPHANIAH6, JOHN II5, JOHN 4, GEORGE "JORIS"3, GEORGE SR2, WILLIAM WOLSEY1 ) was born 1803 in TN - Greene County, and died Bet. 1850 - 1860 in TX - Rusk County. He married ELIZABETH TUCKER 1829, daughter of JONATHAN TUCKER and MARY HARTMAN. She was born May 03, 1804 in TN, and died July 13, 1881 in TX - Cooke County.
CORR:
Posted by Sherry Shackelford Ratterree:
Hanna Tucker had a sister named Elizabeth who married Thomas Woolsey. They moved to TX 1840s; he died in TX, buried in Tyler TX area. The family moved to Calisburg, Cooke Co. TX close to Gainesville. My great grandfather was Stephen M. Woolsey. I have other info. and another lady in Arizona that you may want to contact. Let me know, I'll be glad to share.
CORR:
2000 Feb 17 from Wilford W. Whitaker
Subject: Thomas & Gilbert Woolsey of Buncombe County, North Carolina
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.
CENSUS:
1850 United States Federal Censusabout Thomas Woolsey
Name: Thomas Woolsey
Age: 47
Estimated birth year: abt 1803
Birth Place: Tennessee
Gender: Male
Home in 1850
(City,County,State): Rusk, Rusk, Texas 1850 October 29, 525/525
Woolsey, Thomas, 47, m, farmer, TN
Woolsey, Elizabeth, 46, f, TN
Woolsey, Mary, 20, f, TN
Woolsey, Stephen M, 18, m, farmer, NC
Woolsey, Nathan R, 16, m, farmer, NC
Woolsey, Robert L, 14, m, NC
Woolsey, Thomas I (?), 12, m, NC
Woolsey, Sarah Jane, 10, f, NC
Woolsey, Harriet C P, 8, f, NC
Woolsey, Elizabeth L, 6, f, NC
Woolsey, Hester Ann, 2, f, NC
Roberts, Patsey, 20, f, NC1860 July 9, Gainesville, Cooke, TX 364/376
Woolsey, Elizabeth, 54, 1806, f, farmer, $480/1075, TN
Woolsey, Stephen M, 27, 1833, m, farmer, NC
Woolsey, J R, 25, 1835, m, farmer, NC
Woolsey, Robert L, 23, 1837, m, farmer, NC
Woolsey, Thomas, 20, 1840, m, farmer, NC
Woolsey, Catharine, 15, 1845, f, NC
Woolsey, Elizabeth E, 13, 1847, f, NC
Woolsey, Hester A, 11, 1849, f, NC1870 October 18, Gainesville, Cooke, TX - 166/167
Woolsey, Elizabeth, 66, f, w, keeping house, $1800/$1000, TN
Woolsey, Robert, 32, m, w, farmer, pp $400, NC
Woolsey, Hester A, 22, f, w, without occupation, NC
Woolsey, Jospehine L, 6, f, w, at home, TX
1880 June 22, Precinct 1, Cooke, TX - Dist 111, 296/300
Woolsey, E (Elizabeth), w, f, 76, farmer, TN, PA, VA
Woolsey, J L V T, w, f, 18, g-daughter, TX, NC, MO
Woolsey, M E, w, f, 15, g-daughter, TX, NC, MO
CORR:
2003 August 17 from Chuck Taylor <[emailprotected]>
I have a Jonathan R. WOOLSEY, b. abt 1835, North Carolina, s/o Thomas and Elizabeth (TUCKER) WOOLSEY.
I found your Jonathan R. WOOLSEY, Sarah, with sons Ivy M., and Jonathan H., in the 1870 Federal Census, Cooke County, TX. They are enumerated in the household of a Hulet S. CALHOUN, and wife Katherine M. Jonathan's age, 35, born North Carolina. (OK so far.)
Then to confirm my suspicions, Stephen Marion WOOLSEY, brother, is enumerated right next door, with his wife Serena (HUNT) WOOLSEYand family.
To further confirm my suspicions, Jonathan's mother Elizabeth (TUCKER) WOOLSEY, is living just two dwellings away with some of Jonathan's siblings.
CORR:
2004 April 21 from Wilford Whitaker:
In the Union or Union Hill Cemetery, near what was once Custer City, Cooke County, Texas, there is a headstone for Elizabeth Tucker Woolsey, wife of Thomas Woolsey.
Elizabeth Woolsey 3- May 1804 - 13 Jul 1881
"A brave woman who begged for the life of her son after losing her son-in- law in the Great Hanging of 1862."
It appears the northern tier of counties in Texas had many people who opposed secession from the Union, and in Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas, confederate sympathizers, who were afraid there was a conspiracy against them, rounded up at least 40 of these "Northerners" and hanged them!
Thomas Woolsey and Elizabeth Tucker had a daughter Mary Ann Woolsey, who married in Cooke Co, TX 28 Aug 1859 to Alexander D. Scott. It may be this Scott that was hanged as they had two children, the youngest born in Jan 1863, possibly after the father was hanged. Mary Ann married a second time in 1866.
It appears that Elizabeth Tucker Woolsey's appeal to spare her son may have been effective, as she had three sons who would have been about the right age, but none died in 1862, and they all joined up with the Confederates and served from the South during the Civil War.
Certainly seeing his brother-in-law hanged for his Northern tendencies, would make a believer of most of us.
Does any one have any info on "The Great Hanging of 1862"? Its victims and/or survivors?
Another son of Thomas Woolsey and Elizabeth Tucker was Napolean Boneparte Woolsey, "Uncle Boney" or "Bone" Woolsey, for whom Woolsey, Stevens County, Oklahoma, is named. - Wilford W. Whitaker
BOOK: Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville Texas 1862
CORR:
2004 April 21from boatkitten
This also may explain why Mrs Woolsey's other boys signed up with the Confederates despite their true convictions. It sounds much like the witchcraft hysteria of the 1600's:
"Fearing that the stories of Unionist plots to storm the militia arsenals at Gainesville and Sherman might prove to be true, Hudson activated the state troops in North Texas in late September 1862 and ordered the arrest of all able-bodied men who did not report for duty."
"Texas state troops led by Col. James G. Bourland arrested more than 150 men on the morning of October 1. In Gainesville he and Col. William C. Young of the Eleventh Texas Cavalry, home on sick leave, supervised the collection of a "citizen's court" of twelve jurors."
"..... the jury condemned seven influential Unionists, but an angry mob took matters into its own hands and lynched fourteen more before the jurors recessed."
"Violence in Gainesville peaked the next week when unknown assassins killed Young and James Dickson...... Nineteen more men were convicted and hanged. Their execution was supervised by Capt. Jim Young, Colonel Young's son. ........ in Decatur, Capt. John Hale supervised a committee that hanged five suspects. A Southern partisan shot a prisoner in Denton."
"The Union League was powerless to exact revenge; many members fled along with the families of the slain prisoners, leaving bodies unclaimed for burial in a mass grave. ...... The half-hearted prosecution of those responsible for the hangings...increased resentment among the remaining Unionists in North Texas, but the failure of a Union League march on Decatur indicated the futility of further attempts at retaliation."
For the full story: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/GG/jig1.html
Here is another website with some interesting info on those hangings in Texas, but from a different slant:
http://victorian.fortunecity.com/palace/400/hist1865.htm
It says:........"As the war developed, those who opposed it had the courage to try to form a "Peace Party" among their sympathizers in North Texas and with anti-slavery Native Americans from Southern Oklahoma."
"The Confederacy would not have it, and a roundup began. Eventually, a mob of 500 worked with the Confederate Military to hang 40 people suspected of belonging to the Peace Party. Two others were shot while resisting. The hangings took place in nearby Gainesville and are documented in two Texas Historical Society accounts, both titled "The Great Hanging at Gainesville." In Sherman, an anti-slavery editor was shotgunned to death in front of his newspaper office."
It says, in part: "Eventually, they hanged Patrick Jennigsm, Sam Smith, and a slave called "Cato". "
Also - "Civil War Recollections of James Lemuel Clark edited by L.D. Clark, Texas A&M Univ Press, 1984. 7 of the 12 jurors were slaveholders and they insisted on a simple majority rule in the decisions for execution. So the slaveholders alone could condemn a person to death." "Clark was son of Nathanial Miles Clark, who was hanged. This book edited by Great Grandson."
"In 1860 Cooke County pop was 4,000, 66 were slaveowners which owned 300-400 slaves. These men exerted power and influence far out of proportion to their numbers. They knew how to play up the sectionalism without which the slavocrats of the South would never have been able to raise a rebellion against the US."
"This from Clark book pg 43: Junius Foster, unionist editor of Sherman Patriot, refused to retract a public statement approving of Colonel Young's death. He was killed by shotgun blast, probably by Young's son"
Ironically, the "Handbook of Texas" paints Colonel Young and his sons who did the hanging as the "good guys" who were simply fighting against evil. I guess you will always find two sides to the story when it comes to war.
Handbook of Texas Online: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/YY/fyo14.html
"..Because his health was impaired, (Colonel) Young had to return to his home, then in Cooke County, Texas. There had gathered in the cane brakes along Red River north of his home a gang of bandits who owed allegiance to neither the Union nor the Confederate governments but preyed on either side without distinction, killing and robbing for loot."
"While Colonel Young was hunting for a friend who had been killed by this gang, he was himself murdered, on October 16, 1862. His son, James D. Young, following the trail of the assassins, located one of them in the Confederate Army. At the point of a pistol he forced this man to accompany him to the scene of the murder and had him hanged by his father's slaves."
"Although Jim Young confessed twenty-two years later, none of the assassins were jailed."
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/SS/ees25.html
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2004 April 21 from Tommy Doan:
There have actually been several books written on the subject. These are listed along with a brief description of the account at the TSHA web site. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/GG/jig1.html
* George Washington Diamond's Account of the Great Hanging at Gainesville, 1862 (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1963).
* Thomas Barrett, The Great Hanging at Gainesville (Gainesville, Texas, 1885; rpt., Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1961).
* L. D. Clark, A Bright Tragic Thing (El Paso: Cinco Punto Press, 1992).
* L. D. Clark, ed., Civil War Recollections of James Lemuel Clark (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1984).
* Michael Collins, Cooke County, Texas: Where the South and West Meet (Gainesville, Texas: Cooke County Heritage Society, 1981).
* Richard B. McCaslin, Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 1988).
* James Smallwood, "Disaffection in Confederate Texas: The Great Hanging at Gainesville," Civil War History 22 (December 1976).
CORR:
2004 April 21 from Wilford Whitaker
I have also heard from a gentleman who is with the Cooke Co, TX Historical Commission. I should have read my notes more thoroughly as I just found the following under Elizabeth Tucker Woolsey:
From an email from Jonathan Sykes, Sr. 7 Apr 2000, from data supplied to him by one Bill Scott, 29 Jan 2000.
McCaslin, Richard B. TAINTED BREEZE, Louisiana State Univ. Press. PO Box 25053, Baton Rouge, LA 70894-5053. p. 74.
"The jurors were not entirely insensitive to pleas for mercy by family members and friends of the accused. A majority of the men tried by the Citizens Court were acquitted, principally due to the staunch determination of William C. Young - who conducted the examination of prisoners before the jury - to ensure that some standards of justice were upheld. The impassioned speech of Elizabeth Woolsey, a widow who had two sons in the Confederate Army and two more at home who had been arrested, particularly moved the jury, and they released her boys. p. 79: With his executioner standing nearby as witness, Hampton, "knowing that death was certain," bequeathed half his estate to Alexander Scott and the remainder to the "heirs of the widow Woolsey."
p. 106-107. "Elizabeth Woolsey successfully pleaded for her sons, but not for her son-in-law, Alexander Scott."
p. 222. "Elizabeth Woolsey is listed in the 1860 Cooke County census (F.N. 376) as a single woman from Tennessee, age fifty-four, working as a farmer, with $1,525 in real and personal property. She had seven children born in NC, including four sons who were of military age in 1862. She paid taxes in 1862 on 160 acres, 2 horse, 4 Cattle, and 4 sheep."
So Alexander Scott was the unfortunate "son-in-law". Isn't that an interesting bit of tragic history, but her pleading was not in vain, as her two sons were spared!
Thomas Woolsey and Elizabeth Tucker had the following children: [CSA = Confederate States of America]
1. Mary Ann Woolsey, md 1) Alexander Dudley Scott, 2) William Benton.
2. Stephen Marion Woolsey, CSA, md 1) Serena Hunt, 2) A. A. Brown.
3. Jonathan Roadman Woolsey, CSA, md Sarah Elizabeth Howell.
4. Robert L. Woolsey, CSA, md 1) Nancy Goss, 2) Mary E. Perkins.
5. Thomas Jefferson Woolsey, CSA, md M. Ida Steadman, moved to Yakima, Washington [www's old stamping ground]
6. Sarah Jane Woolsey
7. Harriet Catherine P. Woolsey md 1) Hulet S. Calhoun, 2) Lazarus Dobkins.
8. Elizabeth E. Woolsey md 1) Jesse M. Rowlings, 2) Capt. J. W. Varley.
9. Hester Ann Woolsey md Lazarus Dobkins.
10. Napolean Bonaparte Woolsey md 1) ___ ___?, 2) Mary E. Thurman, 3) Arobella Belle ____, 4) J. Tussey, an Indian girl, 5) Geneva E. Plato, moved to Stevens Co, Oklahoma.
CORR:
2004 April 28:
From: Ron Melugin
Subject: Re: Great Hanging of 1862
The book you want is Richard McCaslin, Tainted Breeze: the Great Hanging in Gainesville, Texas, 1862 (LSU Press, 1994). There are several references to Elizabeth Woolsey and the book has bio. info in appendix for victims of the great hanging. There is a footnote reference to E. Woolsey: Malissa C. Everett, "A Pioneer Woman," WTHA Yearbook (West Texas Historical Assn.?), III, (1927), p. 64. the McCaslin book says that E. W. had 2 sons in confederacy and 2 sons at home (out of 7 children born in North Carolina), but doesn't give their names. Her son-in-law who was hanged was Alexander D. Scott who was married to Mary Woolsey.
From Cemetery Records of Cooke County, other Woolseys buried at Union Hill Cemetery near Callisburg in NE Cooke County: Tiney Isaline Woolsey (2-14-1874--1883, daughter of S. M. & Sirre);
Sallie Woolsey (2-14-1874--7-10-1888, daughter of S. M. & A.).In Fairview Cemetery Records (Gainesville): Sirrenia (Lena) Woolsey (12-5-1830--7-10-1874, wife of S. M.); Mrs. A. A. Woolsey (2-10-1847--4-27-1901, wife of S.
M.).
Children of THOMAS WOOLSEY and ELIZABETH TUCKER are:
- MARY ANN9 WOOLSEY was born 1830 in TN. She married (1) ALEXANDER DUDLEY SCOTT August 28, 1859 in TX - Cooke County. He was born 1821 in KY, and died October 1862 in TX - Gainesville, Cooke. She married (2) WILLIAM BENTON 1866.
MARR:
Texas Marriage Collection, 1814-1909 and 1966-2002
about Alexander D. Scott
Name: Alexander D. Scott
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 27 Aug 1859
Spouse: Mary Woolsey
Marriage City: Cooke
Marriage State: Texas
Source: Texas Marriages, 1851-1900Texas Marriage Collection, 1814-1909 and 1966-2002
about J. H. Palmer
Name: J. H. Palmer
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 21 Mar 1895
Spouse: Mary Ann Scott
Marriage City: Newton
Marriage State: Texas
Source: Texas Marriages, 1851-1900CENSUS:
1870 October 18, Gainesville, Cooke, TX - Precinct 1, (Jno L Lovjoy, Ass't Marshall) 170/191
Benton, William, 46, m, w, farmer, $475/$460, TN
Benton, Mary, 42, f, w, keeping house, TN
Benton, Sarah J, 22, f, w, without-occupation, TX
Benton, William B, 15, m, w, works on farm, TX
Benton, John E, 14, m, w, works on farm, TX
Benton, Blake, 11, m, w, works on farm, TX
Scott, William W S, 10 w, m, works on farm, TX
Benton, Rufus B, 10, m, w, works on farm, TX
Scott, Mary A, 8, f, w, at home, TXCORR:2010 November 21from Mike Oakley
I am a 5th great grandson of Zephaniah Woolsey.
5th great grandfather Zephaniah Woolsey 1740-1807.
4th great grandfather William Woolsey # 8 on the list of children of Zephaniah and Sarah, died Greene county, Tennessee,
3rd great grandfather Thomas Woolsey , died in Rusk county, Texas # 2 on this link
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~woolsey/resources/descends/woolgen/wlwilliam1782_1846.html.
2nd great grandmother Mary Ann (Woolsey) Scott Benton. died Cooke county, Texas...married to Alexander Dudley Scott ( Great Hanging of Gainesville 1862 )Great grandmother Mary Alexander (Scott) Nix Hassell, died Stephens County, Texas.
Grandfather Alonzo Veich (Bates) Nix, died Jefferson county, Oklahoma.Mom Mary MV Magaret ( Nix ) Oakley, died Tarrant county, Texas.
Alexander was hanged during The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas in October 1862. Alexander is on the List of Victims who were hung at the following website
http://gainesvilletx1862.blogspot.com/2008/04/victims-of-great-hanging-at-gainesville.html
Gainesville, Texas 1862 where they are asking for families to share their stories about their family member who was involved in the Hanging at Gainesville.1. C. F. Anderson
2. George W. Anderson
3. Richard J. Anderson
4. William B. Anderson
5. Thomas O. Baker
6. Bennet C. Barnes
7. Barnibus Burch
8. Samuel Carmichael
9. Ephraim Chiles
10. Henry Chiles
11. Nathaniel M. Clark
12. Henry Cockrum
13. John Mansil Crisp
14. Arphaxton R. Dawson
15. Rama Dye
16. Hudson John Esman
17. Henry S. Field
18. Thomas B. Floyd (shot)
19. James T. Foster (shot)
20. Curd Goss
21. Edward D. Hampton
22. M. D. Harper
23. William W. Johnson
24. C. A. Jones
25. David Miller Leffel
26. Leander W. P. Jacob Lock
27. Abraham McNeese
28. Richard N. Martin
29. John M. Miller
30. John A. Morris
31. John W. Morris
32. M. W. Morris
33. William W. Morris
34. James A. Powers
35. William R. Rhodes
36. Alexander D. Scott
37. Eli M. Scott
38 Gilbert Smith
39. William B. Taylor
40. Eli Sigler Thomas
41. James A. Ward
42. William Wilson Wornell
43. William Boyles (not arrested but later shot and possibly died from wounds)
44. Hiram Kilborn (shot) not claimed as one of the Citizen Court victimsCENSUS:1860 July 10, Gainesville, Cooke, TX - 377/38
A D Scott, 39, mrd, farmer, $1000/351, KY
Mary Scott, 38, f, TNChild of MARY WOOLSEY and ALEXANDER SCOTT is:
1.MARY ALEXANDER10 SCOTT, b. January 1863; d. TX - Stephens County; m. NIX HASSELL. - STEPHEN MARION WOOLSEY, b. 1831, NC - Buncombe County; d. 1875; m. (1) SERENA HUNT, December 03, 1862, TX - Hopkins County; b. TX - Gainsville; d. July 1874; m. (2) A A BROWN, June 24, 1875, TX - Cooke County; b. 1847; d. 1901.
CORR:
2003 August 17 from Chuck Taylor <[emailprotected]>
I have a Jonathan R. WOOLSEY, b. abt 1835, North Carolina, s/o Thomas and Elizabeth (TUCKER) WOOLSEY.I found your Jonathan R. WOOLSEY, Sarah, with sons Ivy M., and Jonathan H., in the 1870 Federal Census, Cooke County, TX. They are enumerated in the household of a Hulet S. CALHOUN, and wife Katherine M. Jonathan's age, 35, born North Carolina. (OK so far.)
Then to confirm my suspicions, Stephen Marion WOOLSEY, brother, is enumerated right next door, with his wife Serena (HUNT) WOOLSEY
and family.CENSUS:
1870 October 18, Gainesville, Cooke, TX - 169/170
Woolsey, Stephen M, 38, m, w, farmer, $500/$500, NC
Woolsey, Serena, 36, f, w, keeping house, VA
Woolsey, Manda, A, 5, f, w, at home, TX
Woolsey, William J, 4, m, w, at home, TX
Woolsey, Margarett A, 3, f, w, at home, TX
Woolsey, Thomas H, 10/12 Aug, m, w, at home, TX
Parsons, William, 22, m, w, farm laborer1880 June 18, Precinct 1, Cooke, Texas - Dist 111, 250/254
Woolsey, S.M.(Stephen Marion), 49, farmer, NC, TN, TN
Woolsey, A.A., w, f, 31, wife, TN
Woolsey, Mandy, w, f, 14, dau, TX, NC, TN
Woolsey, W.J., w, m, 12, TX, NC, TN
Woolsey, Thomas H, w, m, 10, TX, NC, TN
Woolsey, M A, w, f, 6, dau, TX, NC, TN
Woolsey, T I, w, f, 6, dau, TX, NC, TN
Woolsey, Jessie, w, f, 3, dau TX, NC, TN
Woolsey, Cardinal, w, f, 1, son, TX, NC, TN - JONATHAN ROADMAN WOOLSEY, b. 1835, NC; d. 1900, TX - Cooke County; m. SARAH ELIZABETH HOWELL; b. 1843, AL; d. OK.
PHOTOS:
Joyce Lorena Smithson website http://home.att.net/%7Egingerthree/Woolsey.htm
Jonathan Roadman Woolsey, wife Sarah Howell, daughter Rosana (Annah) Woolsey mrd LackeyCENSUS:
1870 October 18, Gainesville, Cooke, TX - 168/169
Calhoun, Hulet S, 35, w, m, farmer, $948/$800, NC
Calhoun, Katherine M, 28, f, w, keeping house, MS
Saunders, Laura, 16, f, w, without occupation, LA
Woolsey, Jonathan R, 35, m, w, farm laborer, pp $500, NC
Woolsey, Sarah E, 27, f, w, without occupation, AL
Woolsey, Ivy M, 1, m, w, at home, TX
Woolsey, Jonathan H, 3/12, m, w, TX, Feb
Wuinn, Daniel, 59 (?), m, B, nurse, MS1880 June 18, Precinct 1, Cooke, Texas - Dist 111, 250/254
Woolsey, S.M.(Stephen Marion), 49, farmer, NC, TN, TN & family
253/257
Woolsey, J R, w, m, 45, farmer, NC, TN, TN
S E, w, f, 35, wife, AL, NC, TN
J A, w, m, 10, son, T, NC, TN
Pauline, w, f, 6, dau, TX, NC, AL
Lorena, w, f, 6, dau, TX, NC, AL
Rosana, w, f, 1, dau, TX, NC, ALCORR:
2003 August 15 from Joyce Emilio
My great-grandfather was Jonathan Roadman Woolsey. He married Sarah Elizabeth Howell. I don't know where or when, but they turned up on Gainsville, Tx. Their children were Annah, born February 16, 1874. Married Nathaniel Leonedus Lackey September 28, 1898 in Cooke County, Tx. May have been in Gainsville or Dexter, or somewhere nearby. Lorena, born February 16, 1874 in Gainsville, Tx, married Samuel Albert Sobiesky Lackey on February 4, 1987 in Cooke County, Tx. There was also a brother Jonathan who married Lula, but I have no information on where or when.CORR: 2003 August 15 from Joyce Emilio:
I live in California. My grandparents eventually left Texas between 1902 and 1903 because farming was so difficult. They moved to Oklahoma, then in 1919, moved to California. My grandfather had four brothers and four sisters. All sisters and one brother passed away before he moved out here. His remaining two brothers, Nathaniel and Charley, moved to California before Grandpa did. I know there were some Woolsey relatives in Alabama, Grandma had a picture of a child that was taken there, but I don't know who the child was.CORR: 2003 August 17 from Chuck Taylor <[emailprotected]>
I can't be 100% sure that I've "fixed" your Jonathan Rodman WOOLSEY into the "big tree" -- but I'm about 98% sure that I have.
I have a Jonathan R. WOOLSEY, b. abt 1835, North Carolina, s/o Thomas and Elizabeth (TUCKER) WOOLSEY.
I found your Jonathan R. WOOLSEY, Sarah, with sons Ivy M., and Jonathan H., in the 1870 Federal Census, Cooke County, TX. They are enumerated in the household of a Hulet S. CALHOUN, and wife Katherine M. Jonathan's age, 35, born North Carolina. (OK so far.)
Then to confirm my suspicions, Stephen Marion WOOLSEY, brother, is enumerated right next door, with his wife Serena (HUNT) WOOLSEY and family.
To further confirm my suspicions, Jonathan's mother Elizabeth (TUCKER) WOOLSEY, is living just two dwellings away with some of Jonathan's siblings.CORR: 2003 August 18 from Wilford Whitaker
Chuck, I can confirm that Jonathan R. Woolsey is the son of Thomas Woolsey and Elizabeth Tucker. We find them in the 1850 census of Rusk Co, TX where he is listed as Nathan R. Woolsey.
Then in the 1860 census of Cooke Co, TX where J. R. Woolsey is in the family of Elizabeth Woolsey.
Jonathan R. Woolsey was in the Civil War, CSA and received a pension in Cooke Co, TX under Jonathan R. Woolsey and J. Rhode Woolsey, and wife Sarah.
They are also found in the 1880 Census of Cooke Co, TX.
Thomas Woolsey traces back to John Woolsey and Mary Sammis.CORR: 2003 Sept 5 from Joyce Emilio:
J.R. Woolsey died in 1900 in Cooke County, and when my grandparents moved to OK between 1902 & 1904, Sarah went with them. She died in OK. What I have found interesting is, six months before J.R. passed away, he and Sarah were traveling back and forth from their son Jonathan's house in OK to their place in Cooke Co, TX. I know that from a letter she wrote to my grandparents. J.R. was not in the best of health, according to his CSA pension application. It is amazing that they traveled around like they did.CORR: 2003 Sept 10 from Joyce Emilio:
I had thought that my g-grandfather, Jonathan Roadman Woolsey and his wife Sarah, had taken off and moved away from the family for some reason, and had become "lost" due to the distance. It looks like it might have been J.R.'s father and mother who did that. I have also found a Catherine Woolsey and several others listed in Cooke County, and have wondered if they are brothers and sisters of J.R. I have an ancestor on my father's side, actually two . . . they were brothers, who moved from VA to TN. When I contacted a lady from that surname (Rucker) in VA, she was shocked to hear from me. Turns out that entire family had given up ever finding the brothers or their families because they didn't know what had happened to them. Now descendants of those brothers always go to the Rucker Family reunions in VA.NOTE: for SARAH ELIZABETH HOWELL:
1850 United States Federal Census
about Sarah Howell
Name: Sarah Howell
Age: 6
Estimated birth year: abt 1844
Birth Place: Alabama
Gender: Female
Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Beat 4, Randolph, Alabama
Family Number: 408
Household Members: Name Age
John S Howell 30
Mary Howell 32
John P Howell 13
Nancy Howell 8
Sarah Howell 6
Eliza Howell 2 - ROBERT L WOOLSEY was born 1837 in NC. He married (1) NANCY GOSS Abt. 1863. He married (2) MARY "Molly" E PERKINS Abt. 1873 in TX..
CENSUS:1870 October 18, Gainesville, Cooke, TX - Precinct 1, (Jno L Lovjoy, Ass't Marshall) 166/167
Woolsey, Elizabeth, 66, f, w, keeping house, $1800/$1000, TN
Woolsey, Robert, 32, m, w, farmer, $400 pp, NC
Woolsey, Hester A, 22, f, w, without Occupation
Woolsey, Josephine L, 6, f, w, at home, TXCENSUS:Kansas State Census Collection, 1855-1925 1875 - Parker Twnshp, Montgomery, KS - Coffeyville, TX, 105/123R. L. Woolsey, 39, farmer, NC, TXMolly E Woolsey, 29, f, w, housekeeper, MO, TXJosephine Woolsey, 12, f, w, TX, TXMaggie Woolsey, 10, f, w, TX, TXEvalee Woolsey, 1, f, w, TX, TX
Children of ROBERT WOOLSEY and NANCY GOSS are:1. JOSEPHINE10 WOOLSEY, b. 1864, TX - Gainsville, Cooke.
2. MAGGIE WOOLSEY, b. 1865, TX.Child of ROBERT WOOLSEY and MARY PERKINS is:
3. EVALEE10 WOOLSEY, b. 1874, TX. - THOMAS JEFFERSON WOOLSEY, b. January 1838, NC; d. Aft. 1910, WA - Yakima, Yakima; m. M IDA STEADMAN, February 1871, WA - Yakima, Yakima; b. 1851, IL; d. July 29, 1897, WA - Yakima, Yakima.
2004 Oct 18: From the Yakima County Gen Web Site
Yakima County - 1888 Tax List
From R. L. Polk & Co.'s 1888 Puget Sound Directory
Woolsey S H, f $1027, N.Y. (North Yakima)
Woolsey T J, livestock $2662. Y. (Y - Yakima [now Union Gap]2004 Oct 18: From the Yakima County Gen Web Site
1871 Yakima Territorial Census
Pages 1-2 April 1871, Pages 3-12 May 1871
Column 13 - "Born within year" excluded - none marked.
Data entry & Proofing: Sue Ericksen
Historical Annotations: Jack Lines
pg=7, line=39, house=62, family=45, surname=Woolsey, fname=Thos, age=35, sex=M, occup=farmer, marr=M, birthplace=NC, mrd within year=Feb
pg=7. line=40, house=62, family=45, surname=Woolsey, fname=Ida, age=19, sex=F, occup=House Keeper, marr=M, birthplace=IL, mard within year=FebCENSUS:
1900 June 6, Walla Walla, Walla Walla, WA - WArd 2, Dist 88, Alder St, 522/63/79
1880 June 5, Atanum Valley, Yakima, WA - Dist 45, 55/58
Woolsey, J Thomas, w, m, 40, farmer, NC, TN, TN
Woolsey, M Ida, w, f, 23, wife, keeping house, IL, NY, TN
Woolsey, Elizabeth, w, f, 8, dau, goes to school, Washington Territory, NC, IL
Woolsey, Anettie, w, f, 6, dau, Washington Territory, NC, IL
Woolsey, Effie, w, f, 4, dau, Washington Territory, NC, IL
Woolsey, J Alvie, w, m, 2/12, Apr, son, Washington Territory, NC, IL
Steadman, R Henry, w, m, 28, brother-in-law, carpenter, IL, NY, NY
Woolsey, Thomas J, head, w, m, Jan 1838, 62, widowed, NC, NC, NC1910 May 10, Two Rivers, Walla Walla, WA - Dist 243, 90/90
Needles, Edward G, head, m, w, 40, mrd 10 yrs, IA, OH, OH, farmer, wheat farm
Needles, Ellen C, wife, f, w, 31, mrd 10 yrs, no children, WA, NC, IL
Woolsey, Thomas J, father-in-law, m, w, 71, widowed, NC, TN, TNCORR:
2004 Oct 19 from Wilford WhitakerDear Carolyn:
When I was a young boy, before the age of ten, when we lived in Wapato, Washington, about 13 miles south of Yakima, we made frequent trips to Yakima, because that was where our Church center was.In travelling from Wapato to Yakima, we would pass through Union Gap, which was an actual gap in the mountains through which the Yakima River passed, and about a mile or two north of the "Gap" was the small town of Union Gap, which is now a suburb of Yakima, but I remember it because it had a large grain and feed store alongside the road and a drug store that had the best ice cream around. It was a great treat when we got to stop for ice cream!
From the 1888 Polk Directory, S. H. Woolsey is Silas H. Woolsey, s/o Hezekiah Woolsey & Hannah Cutler, s/o William Benjamin Woolsey & Hannah Wright, s/o Benjamin M. Woolsey & Margaret Teller, s/o Richard Woolsey and Sarah Fowler, all of New York.
T. J. Woolsey from that directory and also from the 1871 Yakima Territorial Census, is, as you thought, Thomas Jefferson Woolsey, b 1838, NC, d in Yakima after 1888, md Feb 1871 in Yakima, Yakima County, Washington Territory, to M. Ida Steadman, b 1851 in Illinois and died 29 Jul 1897, in Yakima.
Thomas Jefferson Woolsey was a Confederate Soldier and is the s/o Thomas Woolsey & Elizabeth Tucker, s/o William Woolsey & Sarah Woolsey, s/o Zephaniah Woolsey & Sarah Woolsey, all of Greene Co, TN. I'm sure you have the line from there.
Thomas Jefferson Woolsey and M. Ida Steadman had, according to my records, 6 children. Do you have those?
Here is an example of two Woolseys living within 20 miles of each other, in an out-of-the-way place in the extreme North West of the United States and not closely related at all!!
Sincerely, Wilford W. Whitaker
- SARAH JANE WOOLSEY, b. 1840, NC.
- HARRIET CATHERINE P WOOLSEY, b. 1845, MS; d. 1871, TX - Gainesville, Cooke; m. (1) HULET S CALHOUN; b. 1835, SC; m. (2) LAZARUS DOBKINS, June 19, 1866, TX - Cooke County; b. December 1842, TN.
CENSUS:
1870 Oct 18, Gainesville, Cooke, TX - 168/169
Calhoun, Hulet S, 35, m, w, farmer, $948/$800, SC
Calhoun, Catherine M, 28, f, w, keeping house, MS
Saunders, Laura, 16, f, w, without occupation, LA
Woolsey, Jonathan R, 35, m, w, farm laborer, /$500, NC
Woolsey, Sarah E, 27, f, w, without occupation, AL
Woolsey, Ivy M, 1, m, w, at home, TX
Woolsey, Jonathan H, 3/12, m, w, TX, Feb
Quinn, Daniel, 9, m, b, nurse, MS1910 May 2, Gainesville Ward 4, Cooke, TX - Dist 51, 330/338, Calhoun Street
Calhoun, Judge H, head, m, w, 49, 1st mrg, 29 yrs, GA, SC, GA, agent - oil company
Calhoun, Cynthia, wife, f, w, 50, 1st mrg, 29 yrs, 2 children 1 living, TX, Al, TX
Calhoun, Hulet C, son, m, w, 17, s, TX, GA, TX, clerk - insurance office
Calhoun, Hulet S, uncle, m, w. 75, widowed, SC, SC, SC,1900 June 21, Saint Jo, Montaque, TX - Dist 48, 298/298
Calhoun, Judge H, head, w, m, Nov 1859, 40, mrd 17 yrs, GA, SC, GA, supt of road grader
Calhoun, Cyntha, wife, w, f, Mar 1860, 40, mrd 17 yrs, 3 children 3 living, TX, AL, TX
May, Joseph G, step-son, w, m, Aug 1880, 19, s, TX, TX, TX
Calhoun, Hulet, son, w, m, Nov 1878, 6, s, TX, GA, TXCENSUS:
1850 September 26, Claiborne, TN - Subdivision 7, 558
Jacob Dobkins, 38, m, farmer, TN
Rachael Dobkins, 41, f, VA
Mary E Dobkins, 17, f, TN
Anna Dobkins, 15, f, TN
James Dobkins, 13, m, TN
John Dobkins, 11, m, TN
Lazarus Dobkins, 3, f, TN
Rachael Dobkins, 3, f, TN1860 July 13, Gainesville, Cooke, TX - 431/443
Jacob Dobkins, 49, m, farmer, $1200/$1012, TN
John Dobkins, 22, m, farmer, TN
Lazarus Dobkins, 18, m, TN
James Latham, 19, m, farmer, TN1870 October 25, Gainesville, Cooke, TX - Precinct 1, 258/258
Dobkins, Lazarus, 26, m, w, farmes, $88/$200, TN
Dobkins, Catherine, 29, f, w, keeping house, TX
Dobkins, Hester A, 4, f, w, at home, TX (named after Catherine's sister and Lazarus' 1st wife)
Dobkins, James, 1, m, w, at home, TX1870 October 18, Gainesville, Cooke, TX - 166/167
Woolsey, Elizabeth, 66, f, w, keeping house, $1800/$1000, TN
Woolsey, Robert, 32, m, w, darmer, pp $400, NC
Woolsey, Hester A, 22, f, w, without occupation, NC
Woolsey, Jospehine L, 6, f, w, at home, TX1880 June 22, Precinct 1, Cooke, TX - Dist 111, 297/301
living next door to Elizabeth Tucker Woolsey widowed wife of Thomas Woolsey b:1803, TN
Dobkin, L or S, w, m, 37 farmer, TN, TN, VA
H A, w, f, 29, wife, NC, TN, TN (Hester Ann dau of Thomas Woolsey & Elizabeth Tucker)
H A, w, f, 13, dau, TX, TN, NC
James, w, m, 11, son, TX, TN, NC
R E, w, f, 6, dau, TX, TN, NC
Elgin, w, m, 4, son, TX, TN, NC
A L, w, f, 1, dau, TX, TN, NC1900 June 5, Bowie, Montaque, TX - Dist 54, 105/106
Dobkins, Lazarus, head, w, m, Dec 1842, 58, m, 28 yrs, TN, TN, VA, (ginner?)
Dobkins, Hester A, wife, w, f, Mar 1848, 52, mrd 28 yrs, 6 children 6 living, TN, TN, TN
Dobkins, Elgin, son, w, m, July 1876 23, s, TX, TN, TN
Dobkins, Annie L, dau w, f, Dec 1878, 21, s, TX, TN, TN
Dobkins, Mary B, dau, w, f, Feb 1881, 19, s, TX, TN, TN
Dobkins, Pearl, dau, w, f, Sept 1883, 15, s, TX, TN, TN
Dobkins, Edwin J, son w, m, Apr 1887, 13, s, TX, TN, TN1910 May 5, Mountain Park, Kiowa, OK - Dist 176, 119/119
Dobkins, Hester, head, f, w, 62, widowed, 6 children 5 living, NC, TN, TN, farmer/owner
Dobkins, Bill, dau, f, w, 29, s, TX, TN, NC
Dobkins, Edwin, son, m, w, 22, s, TX, TN, NC1920 January 29, Mountain Park, Kiowa, OK - Dist 138, FM 88/98
Dobkins, Jacob E (Edwin), head, own farm, m, w, 32, s, TX, TN, NC, farmer/general farm
Dobkins, Hester R, mother, f, w, 71, widowed, NC< TN, NC - ELIZABETH E WOOLSEY, b. 1844, NC; m. (1) JESSE M ROWLINGS; m. (2) J W VARLEY.
- HESTER ANN WOOLSEY, b. March 1848, NC; m. LAZARUS DOBKINS, January 19, 1873, TX - Cooke County; b. December 1842, TN.
CENSUS:
1910 May 5, Mountain Park, Kiowa, OK - Dist 176, 119/119
Dobkins, Hester, head, f, w, 62, widowed, 6 children 5 living, NC, TN, TN, farmer/owner
Dobkins, Bill, dau, f, w, 29, s, TX, TN, NC
Dobkins, Edwin, son, m, w, 22, s, TX, TN, NC1850 September 26, Claiborne, TN - Subdivision 7, 558
Jacob Dobkins, 38, m, farmer, TN
Rachael Dobkins, 41, f, VA
Mary E Dobkins, 17, f, TN
Anna Dobkins, 15, f, TN
James Dobkins, 13, m, TN
John Dobkins, 11, m, TN
Lazarus Dobkins, 3, f, TN
Rachael Dobkins, 3, f, TN1860 July 13, Gainesville, Cooke, TX - 431/443
Jacob Dobkins, 49, m, farmer, $1200/$1012, TN
John Dobkins, 22, m, farmer, TN
Lazarus Dobkins, 18, m, TN
James Latham, 19, m, farmer, TN1870 October 25, Gainesville, Cooke, TX - Precinct 1, 258/258
Dobkins, Lazarus, 26, m, w, farmes, $88/$200, TN
Dobkins, Catherine, 29, f, w, keeping house, TX
Dobkins, Hester A, 4, f, w, at home, TX (named after Catherine's sister and Lazarus' 1st wife)
Dobkins, James, 1, m, w, at home, TX1870 October 18, Gainesville, Cooke, TX - 166/167
Woolsey, Elizabeth, 66, f, w, keeping house, $1800/$1000, TN
Woolsey, Robert, 32, m, w, darmer, pp $400, NC
Woolsey, Hester A, 22, f, w, without occupation, NC
Woolsey, Jospehine L, 6, f, w, at home, TX1880 June 22, Precinct 1, Cooke, TX - Dist 111, 297/301
living next door to Elizabeth Tucker Woolsey widowed wife of Thomas Woolsey b:1803, TN
Dobkin, L or S, w, m, 37 farmer, TN, TN, VA
H A, w, f, 29, wife, NC, TN, TN (Hester Ann dau of Thomas Woolsey & Elizabeth Tucker)
H A, w, f, 13, dau, TX, TN, NC
James, w, m, 11, son, TX, TN, NC
R E, w, f, 6, dau, TX, TN, NC
Elgin, w, m, 4, son, TX, TN, NC
A L, w, f, 1, dau, TX, TN, NC1900 June 5, Bowie, Montaque, TX - Dist 54, 105/106
Dobkins, Lazarus, head, w, m, Dec 1842, 58, m, 28 yrs, TN, TN, VA, (ginner?)
Dobkins, Hester A, wife, w, f, Mar 1848, 52, mrd 28 yrs, 6 children 6 living, TN, TN, TN
Dobkins, Elgin, son, w, m, July 1876 23, s, TX, TN, TN
Dobkins, Annie L, dau w, f, Dec 1878, 21, s, TX, TN, TN
Dobkins, Mary B, dau, w, f, Feb 1881, 19, s, TX, TN, TN
Dobkins, Pearl, dau, w, f, Sept 1883, 15, s, TX, TN, TN
Dobkins, Edwin J, son w, m, Apr 1887, 13, s, TX, TN, TN1910 May 5, Mountain Park, Kiowa, OK - Dist 176, 119/119
Dobkins, Hester, head, f, w, 62, widowed, 6 children 5 living, NC, TN, TN, farmer/owner
Dobkins, Bill, dau, f, w, 29, s, TX, TN, NC
Dobkins, Edwin, son, m, w, 22, s, TX, TN, NC1920 January 29, Mountain Park, Kiowa, OK - Dist 138, FM 88/98
Dobkins, Jacob E (Edwin), head, own farm, m, w, 32, s, TX, TN, NC, farmer/general farm
Dobkins, Hester R, mother, f, w, 71, widowed, NC< TN, NC - NAPOLEAN "NAPPY" BONEPARTE WOOLSEY, b. May 28, 1849, NC - Buncombe; d. December 16, 1927, OK - Duncan, Stephens; m. (1) UNKNOWN, Abt. 1867; m. (2) MARY E THURMAN, May 15, 1879, TX - Gainesville, Cooke; b. Abt. 1859, MO; m. (3) AROBELLA BELLE P, 1891, OK - Woolsey, Stephens; b. 1857, OK - Stephens County; m. (4) JANE TUSSEY, August 08, 1899, OK - Chickasaw Nation; m. (5) GENEVA E, January 27, 1912.
CORR:
2004 March 29 from Wilford Whitaker:Napolean Boneparte Woolsey, was born 28 May 1849, Buncombe, North Carolina, died 16 Dec 1927 at Duncan, Stephens Co, OK and md 8 Aug 1899 (Divorced) in the Chickasaw Nation, Oklahoma to a Chickasaw Indian Girl named Jane Tussey.
Napolean (known as "Nappy") Boneparte Woolsey and Jane Tussey had a son William Gilbert Woolsey, b 1900 at the town of Woolsey (named after "Nappy"), Stephens (Stevens ?) Co, OK. He may be your William G. Woolsey. "Nappy" and Jane Tussey had another son Thomas Woolsey b 1802 at Woolsey, Stephens Co, OK. There may have been other children. "Nappy" was married several times, and I don't have a complete list of his wives or children, but I have several. He was a most interesting character.
Napolean Bonepart Woolsey was the son of Thomas Woolsey (1803-aft 1850, of Greene Co, TN and Rusk Co, TX and Elizabeth Tucker (1804-aft 1880), of TN, and Cooke Co, TX. (This is not fully proved.)
Thomas Woolsey was the son of William Woolsey (1782-1846) and Sarah Woolsey (1782-bef 1857).
Thomas Woolsey was the son of Zephaniah Woolsey and Sarah Woolsey.
Sarah Woolsey, wife of William Woolsey was the daughter of William Woolsey and Sarah Lewis.
CENSUS:
1900 June 28, Township 3 SR6 West, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, Dist 171
Woolsey, Napoleon, head, Aug 184951, mrd 20 years, TX, don't know, don't know, farmer
Woolsey, Belle, wife, April 1857, 43, mrd 20 yrs, 7 children 7 living, AR, IL, TN
Woolsey, Arthur, son, April 1883, 17, s, Indian Territory, TX, MO, farm laborer
Woolsey, Mary An, dau, Feb 1885, 15, s, TX, TX, MO, at school
Woolsey, Ruthie B, dau, f, Aug 1893, 7, s, Indian Territory, TX, AR
Woolsey, Napoleon B, so, M, Dec 1895, 4, Indian Territory, TX, AR
Reneder, Greenup C, step-son, m, Jan 1883, 17, s, TX, TX, AR, farm laborer
Reneder, Kessie L, step-daughter, f, Nov 1887, 12, s, CA, TX, AR, at school1910 April 20, Brown, Stephens, OK - Dist 230, 34/34
Woolsey, Nepoleon B, head, m, w, 61, 3rd mrg, 19, TX, TN, TN, farmer, general farm
Woolsey, Arobella, wife, f, w, 53, 2nd mrg, 19, 5 children 5 living, AR, IL, TN
Woolsey, Arthur, son, m, w, 27, 1st mrg, OK, TX, AR, laborer, home farm
Woolsey, Ruth B, dau, f, w, 17, s, OK, TX, AR
Woolsey, Nepoleon B, son, m, w, 14, s, OK, TX, AR
Woolsey, William G, son, m, w, 10, s, OK, TX, AR
Farris, Roy, hired hand, m, w, 20, s, TX, TX, US, laborer, farm1920 February 13, Brown, Stephens, OK - Dist 245, fm/115/118
Woolsey, Nephian B, m, w, 70, mrd, r/w, TX, US, US, farmer, own farm
Woolsey, Geneva, f, w, 42, mrd, r/w, AR, OH, AR
Wooley, Arthur, son, m, w, 36, divorced, OK, TX, AR, helps on farm
Woolsey, N B, son, m, w, 24, s, OK, TX, AR, helps on farm
Plato, TR, step-son, m, w, 14, s, OK, IL, ARCORR:
2004 May 12 from Wilford W Whitaker
Sometime ago I posted that I thought that Napolean Bonaparte Woolsey [1849-1927] was the son of Thomas Woolsey and Elizabeth Tucker. However, Napolean Bonaparte Woolsey has not been found in the 1850 census, and especially is not listed in the 1850 Census of Rusk Co, TX, where we find Thomas Woolsey and Elizabeth Tucker.Jonathan Sykes, Sr., from data supplied to him by Bill Scott, states that Napolean Bonaparte Woolsey "was born 28 May 1849 and lived in Oklahoma in a town named Woolsey. . . . The town was named after N. B. Woolsey . . . . It was from here in 1908 that William Walter Scott and his family moved to Imperial Valley, CA. He (Nap) was married many times, among them was Jane Tussey who had an Indian Land right that he assumed and lived as a wealthy man. Another was Aunt Belle, about whom nothing else is known."
"His first wife was Mary E. Thurman, who he md at Gainesville, TX on 15 May 1879. He was either the brother of Mary Woolsey or an illegitimate son [of Thomas??www] He was always referred to as "Uncle Bone" or "Little Boney". [or "Nap" www] He had many children and stepchildren, among them are Gilbert, b abt 1900 and a girl who md Tom Snow. The Snows lived in Woolsey, right behind Uncle Bone after 1907 or 1908. He died 16 Dec 1927 at Duncan, OK and is buried in Guthrie, OK."
www has the following marriages and children for Napolean Bonaparte Woolsey:
1. Unknown wife?? md abt 1867.
a. Cora Woolsey b 1868, Cooke Co, TX md abt 1889 to Tom Snow [SPECULATION by www as to this wife]2. Mary E. Thurman, b abt 1859, married 15 May 1879, Cooke Co, TX
a. Arthur Woolsey b 1883, Woolsey, Stephens Co, OK3. Arobella Belle P. ______ b 1857, Texas, d Stephens Co, OK. She was probably an Indian as she is listed on the Chickasaw roles as married 1891 Woolsey, Stephens Co, OK.
a. Daughter Woolsey, b 15 Aug 1891, Stephens Co, OK, died 15 Aug 1891, Stephens Co, OK, buried 15 Aug 1891 in Woolsey Cemetery, Stephens Co, OK.
b. Ruth B. Woolsey, b 1893, Woolsey, Stephens Co, OK. Married 11 Sep 1910 in Stephens Co, OK to John Prewitt, a stockman.
c. Napolean B. Woolsey, b 1 Dec 1895, Woolsey, Stephens Co, OK, died Mar 1966, California.
d. Amity Woolsey, no dates, buried in Woolsey Cemetery, Stephens Co, OK.4. Jane Tussey, Chickasaw Indian, no further info, md 8 Aug 1899 in Chickasaw Nation, OK [divorced].
a. William Gilbert Woolsey, b 1900, at Woolsey, Stephens Co, OK.
b. Thomas Woolsey, b abt 1902, Woolsey, Stephens, OK. [SPECULATION by www as to parentage?]CORR:
2004 May 14 from K. Woolsey Osborne
I found this N.B. Woolsey in marriage index 1900 I believe thru 1907, Stephens co. Napoleon age 62 and bride aqe 33 Geneva E.Plato I believe date was 27jan1912 - k.Woolsey OsborneCORR:
2007 February 20 from Bette Minnick Sweet
While searching for a record concerning Napoleon Bonarte Woolsey {the brother of my great grandfather Marion Francis Woolsey} I found another N B W. This is interesting in that, in the "Woolsey Guest Book", a descendant of a Napoleon thought there to be only one. Maybe that is the reason the signer didn't answer my e-mails, we are not related ! (:The Naploeon Bonaparte Woolsey {1849-1905} in my line is the son of Nehemiah Cardinal and Elizabeth Goodman Woolsey. He married Gertrude "Gertie" Isabell Minton, (Minton not Bell.) I noticed that several have her maiden name as "Bell ". I located the source of the Woolsey-Bell information on the Chickasaw Nation, under "Marriages in the Chickasaw Nation" Listed as:
Woolsey, Bell, Mrs [Belle P.]......Woolsey, Napoleon B. [Bonaparte].....08/15/1899
J.D.Rogers, minister.......Pickens Co. Records
Note [ ] are added info by the transcriber.
This family in the 1900 census, recorded as:
Name: Napoleon B. Woolsey
Home in 1900: twp 3, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory - The town of Duncan, is situated approximately 30 miles East of Lawton, Oklahoma and 90 miles Southwest of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma along US Highway 81.
Age: 51
Birth: abt 1849 - place Texas
Spouse's name : Belle ....... Race,.Indian, born Arkansas, age 49
Race: Indian (Native American)
Note, they have children, one, a son age 7 is also named Napoleon B.
This family is in Oklahoma in 1920 - Brown, Stephens, OK (source 1920 census)
Hope this may be of help to someone in this line of Woolseys.CORR:
2007 February 22 from Wilford Whitaker:
Napoleon B. Woolsey, of Oklahoma, known as "Uncle Bone or Boney" was quite a character. He was indicted a couple of times for larceny, and had children by four of at least five women he lived with, married two or three of them, divorced from "Belle", tried to claim Indian lands, but was rejected. He has been extremely hard to follow and find much concrete evidence for. So I was glad to hear that you had found the 1900 census. Some claim that the town of Woolsey, Oklahoma, was named after him.ON-LINE:
Noble County - Lucien http://www.cherokee-strip-museum.org/NobleCounty/Lucien.htm
In the northwest corner of section 29 in the Warren Valley township of Noble county on the homestead of John K. Mateer a post office called Mateer was started soon after the strip opened. The mail was delivered to this post office by star route and the carrier was Cal Hamblin. The Rock Spring school was located just northeast and it was thought a town would be located here. A family by the name of Emerson built a store here and their son was the first doctor. The Frisco railroad was being built which was then called the Arkansas Valley and Western. They decided to build a depot where the town of Lucien is now.The steel was laid on the railroad through Lucien in the fall of 1903 and the town was called Woolsey. The first bank in Lucien was called the Bank of Woolsey. When the post office department put in a post office they found there was another Woolsey in Oklahoma so the name was changed to Lucien, for Lucien Emerson.
GENEVA E:
1920 February 13, Brown, Stephens, OK - Dist 245, fm/115/118
Woolsey, Nephian B, m, w, 70, mrd, r/w, TX, US, US, farmer, own farm
Woolsey, Geneva, f, w, 42, mrd, r/w, AR, OH, AR
Wooley, Arthur, son, m, w, 36, divorced, OK, TX, AR, helps on farm
Woolsey, N B, son, m, w, 24, s, OK, TX, AR, helps on farm
Plato, TR, step-son, m, w, 14, s, OK, IL, AR
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