George Woolsey 1796 - 1830













Descendants of George Woolsey 1796 - 1830





GEORGE WOOLSEY (RICHARD7 , THOMAS6 , RICHARD5 , THOMAS4 , GEORGE "JORIS"3 , GEORGE SR2 , WILLIAM WOLSEY1) was born Abt. 1796 in KY - Boyle County, and died July 10, 1830 in KY - Montgomery County. He married JANE HALL September 03, 1816 in KY - Pulaski County, daughter of HEZEKIAH HALL and KEZIAH SMITH. She was born 1799 in SC, and died Aft. 1860 in KY - Pulaski County.


CORR:
2010 March 2 from Wilford Whitaker

These are the great grandparents of Hester Woolsey Brewer, author of Family of George Wood Woolsey & Sarah Nelson Woolsey Copyright 1940; published by the Tittle Publishing Company of rutland, Vermont.

In 1860 Jane Hall Woolsey was living with daugher Elizabeth in Pulaskti, County, Ky.

(SUPPOSITION AS TO FATHER BY Wilford W Whitaker.)


GENE:
Woolsey, Robert M. THE WOOLSEY FAMILY --- A Genealogy in the form of annotated Family Charts. 1939-1969 The NYG&B Society. 2.206.

MARR: Pulaski County, Kentucky MARRIAGES. 976.963 V2p. I:44.


GENE:
File sent by Ronald L. Gilliland. "Descendants of John Wolsey". p.63.
MARR: Pulaski County, Kentucky, Marriages. Revised Marriages in Pulaski Co., Kentucky ed by Mrs.
L. N. Taylor, Somerset Chapter DAR book 1. p. 85. Harrison Lay md 20 Aug 1829 Susan Woosley. Sure: Berrel Lay. mother Jame (Jane) Woosley. Wit: Zachariah Loveless.

LAND:
Pulaski County, Kentucky DEEDS, 1799-1901.
6:361 George Woolsey & wife Jane sold TO John Hall 1827.
9:80 Jonathan Woolsey TO Wesley Woolsey 1837.
10:394 Wesley Woolsey TO Theo. Pennington 1839.
10:460 Wesley Woolsey TO Richard Woolsey 1840.
11:304 Richard & Polly Woolsey TO Theo. Pennington 1840.
13:450 Jane Woolsey TO Richard Woolsey 1848.
14:118 James & Barbary Woolsey TO Israel Marfield 1848.

LAND:
Pulaski County, Kentucky DEEDS, 1799-1891, FHL# 804601, 13:450.
Indenture of Bargains & Sales 2 Sep 1848 Jane Woolsey TO Richard Woolsey, $50 waters of Clefty
Creek, a branch of Fishing Creek. 17 acres Jane X Woolsey

CENSUS:
1820 Census Somerset Twp, Pulaski Co., KY. FHL# 186187.
p. 62. George Wolsey 100010//00100 - 01
p. 64. Richard Woolsey 310010//21110 - 02
p. 64. Jonathan Loveall 100010//31110 - 01
p. 68. Nathaniel Woolsy 200010//51010 - 01

1830 Pulaski Co., KY. FHL# 007820. p. 30.
Jane Woolsey. 010000//001001

1840 Pulaski Co., KY. FHL# 007831.
p. 291. William Woolsey 210001//11001
p. 297. Sarah Woolsey 01002//0000101
p. 329. Jane Woolsey 00010(1?)//000001

1850 Census Div. # 2, Pulaski Co, KY. FHL# 442985. 21 Sep. p. 138.
913-913. Jane Woolsey 51 f VA
914-914. Samuel Hendricks, 52, m, Farmer, $35, KY
Mary Hendricks, 54, f
Sarah H. Hendricks, 18, f

1860 Census Pulaski Co, KY 976.963 X2p #237.
Jane Woolsey, 62, f, SC, living with
Andrew J. Vaught, 40, m, farmer, $700, VA
Elizabeth Vaught, 42, f, KY


GENE: Woolsey, Raymond. THE WOOLSEY WEAVE. from his book A STEP IN TIME.
Raymond Woolsey corresponded with Alice Woolsey, of Greene Co, TN. & Raymond Woolsey is corresponding with www 1998.


Children of GEORGE WOOLSEY and JANE HALL are:
  1. ENOCH B WOOLSEY, b. 1816, KY; m. MARY W "POLLY" (BRYAN) BRYANT, February 24, 1841, KY - Pulaski County; b. 1806, KY.
    There was an enouch Woolsey that married Mary Bryant, 2/24/1841 @ Pulaski County, KY.

    CORR: 1999 April 15 Wilford W. Whitaker
    Subject: Woolseys in Pulaski County, Kentucky

    Pulaski County Tax Records Books 1799 - 1875 FHL film #008210.
    1839 Enoch Wosley 1 m +21
    1840 Enoch Woolsey 1 m +21
    1841 Enoch Woolsey 1 m +21 1 horse value $50

    1839 is the first time he appears, so I figure he wasn't 21 until about that time.

    Pulaski County Marriages FHL # 976.963 V2p. I:171.
    24 Feb 1841 Enoch Woolsey = Polly Bryant (Samuel Bryan, sure:).

    Pulaski County, 1850 Census FHL # 976.9 X28s p. 12.
    Enoch Woolsey 34 m KY
    Polly Woolsey 44 f Ky
    Samuel T. Woolsey 5 m Ky

    Pulaski County, 1860 Census FHL # (didn't get) #85
    Enoch Woosley jailor 44 m $250 KY
    Mary 54 f KY
    Samuel 16 m Ky
    James 15 m KY
    (Is James another son here?)

    Pulaski County, 1870 Census FHL# (didn't get) p. 303 #135
    Enoch Woolsey 54 m Farmer $250 KY
    Sally Woolsey 64 f KY
    Samuel T. Woolsey 25 m KY

    Pulaski County, 1880 Census FHL# 976.963 X2p p. 104 #50. Somerset, KY.
    Enoch Woolsey 84 m KY KY KY
    Mary 75 f KY NC NC
    Samuel T. 35 m KY KY KY
    Catherine d.i.l. 28 f KY KY KY
    Lilly J. gr. dau. 2 f KY KY KY
    George Stone head 32 m KY KY KY

    When it comes to census ages, one has to be very careful. But notice the consistency of Enoch's age in the 1850 (34), 1860 (44), 1870 (54), census records. His wife is consistently 10 years older than he, a little unusual, but probably explains why they did not have a very large family.

    The 1880 census probably should read age 64 rather than age 84, especially if the ages are to remain consistent. Enoch, at age 64, would still have his wife consistently ten years (eleven) older.

    Enoch is definitely NOT a son of Richard Woolsey and Nancy Plumstead, and I am more inclined to believe he is a brother of Aaron T. Woolsey, sons of George Woolsey and Jane Hall.
  2. ELIZABETH WOOLSEY, b. 1817, KY - Pulaski County; m. ANDREW JACKSON VAUGHT, October 23, 1839, KY - Pulaski County; b. November 29, 1816, VA - Wythe County.
    Elizabeth was in the Pulaski County Kentucky 1860 cenus.

    GENE: Woolsey, Robert M. THE WOOLSEY FAMILY --- A Genealogy in the form of annotated Family Charts. 1939-1969 The NYG&B Society. 2.206.

    MARR: Pulaski County Historical Society.
    PULASKI COUNTY, KENTUCKY, MARRIAGE RECORDS. Somerset, KY. 1974. Bk 1 - 4. Elizabeth Woolsey md Andrew J. Vaught 23 Oct 1839 by Harrison Lay. "Mother Jane Wolsy"

    GENE: File sent by Ronald L. Gilliland. "Descendants of John Wolsey". p.63.

    CENSUS: 1860 Census Somerset Dist. # 7, Somerset PO, Pulaski Co, KY. FHL# 803393. p. 334. 1242-1197.
    Andrew J. Vaught, 45, m, Farmer, $300/$800, VA
    Elizabeth Vaught, 42, f, KY
    Jane Wolsey, 62, f, SC
  3. AARON T WOOLSEY, b. 1818, KY; d. Aft. 1880, KY - Pulaski County; m. (1) CATHERINE ELIZABETH COPENHAVER, January 15, 1845, KY - Wayne County; b. Abt. 1829, KY - Wayne County; d. September 22, 1857, KY - Wayne County; m. (2) ERSULAH JANE GILLILAND, September 14, 1859, KY - Wayne County; b. 1833, KY - Pulaski County; d. 1898, KY - Pulaski County.
    CORR:
    1999 Feb 01 from John Parsons
    My Woolseys go back from Pulaski County, Kentucky.
    The information I have shows that Aaron T is the son of George and Jane Hall Woolsey. This info came from several sources including Eric James and Thelma Herrin who lives in Somerset, KY and is also a Woolsey descendent. My maternal grandmother was Lillie Jane Woolsey, married to John Colyer, Jr.....John Parsons, Tullahoma, TN.

    CENSUS:
    1860 July 30, Wayne County, KY - 998/982
    Aaron Woolsey, 40, m, farmer $1200/$150, KY
    Jane Woolsey, 27, f, house wife, KY
    Mary C Woolsey, 11, f, KY
    Thomas Woolsey, 9, m, KY
    Enouch W Woolsey, 5, m, KY

    1870 August 30, Mill Springs, Wayne, KY - Dist 6, 183/183
    Woolsey, Aaron, 52, m, w, farmer, $500/$225, KY
    Woolsey, Jane 37, f, w, keeping house, KY
    Woolsey, Mary C, 22, f, w, at home, KY
    Woolsey, Thomas 20, m, w, farm laborer, KY
    Woolsey, Enoch, 18, m, w, at home, KY
    Woolsey, Bellzora, 3, f, w, at home, KY
    Woolsey, Victoria, 2, f, w, at home, KY

    1880 June 10 & 11, Pulaski County, KY - Precinct 12, 123/128
    Wolsey, Aaron, head, 61, m, KY, NC, NC
    Wolsey, Jane E, wife, 48, f, keeping house, KY, AL, KY
    Wolsey, Victoria, dau, 13, f, KY, KY, KY
    Wolsey, Elizabeth, dau, 9, f, KY, KY, KY

    124/129
    Gilliland, George W, w, m, 32, farmer, TN, TN, TN

    CORR:
    1999 Feb 01 from Chuck Taylor <[email protected]>
    Aaron T. WOOLSEY b. ca 1819 KY, the one who married Catherine COPENHAVER and then married Ursula GILLILAND, is the son of George and Jane (HALL) WOOLSEY, of Pulaski County, KY.

    I had seen other researchers fix him to this family, but wanted either proof or a consensus. Family rumor has it that Aaron had a brother named Enoch, and that his mother was named Jane - that family fits the criteria both ways. The first time that I saw this was from Barbara Olivier, a COPENHAVER / TURPIN researcher.

    Notes for ERSULAH JANE GILLILAND:
    1859 Marriages - Pulaski County, Kentucky
    11 May William H. James, 25, S, Flatlick Cr., Flatlick Cr.
    Nancy R. Gilliland, 25, S, Flatlick Creek, Flatlick Cr.

    15 September Aaron Woolsey, 40, S, 2, Wayne Co, KY, PC
    Ersulah J. Gilliland, 26, S, Flatlick Creek, Flatlick Cr.
  4. MAHALA WOOLSEY, b. Abt. 1820, KY - Pulaski County; m. JESSE T MORMORA, January 24, 1844, KY - Pulaski County.
    Per Wilford Whitaker:
    RESEARCH: FHL Automated Resources Center. Pulaski County, Kentucky.
    Jesse T. Mormors md Mahala Woolsey 24 Jan 1844.
  5. SUSAN WOOLSEY, b. August 29, 1822, KY - Pulaski County; m. HARRISON LAY, August 20, 1839, KY - Pulaski County; b. March 04, 1820, KY - Somerset, Pluaski; d. January 24, 1909.
    From: Jeanene Daniels February 13, 1999 4:49 AM
    Subject: Harrison Lay/ Susan Woolsey

    My ancestor, Harrison Lay, married Susan Woolsey in 1839 in Pulaski Co, KY. I have some information about this couple to add if you are interested. I see you have Susan's "Woolseys" all the way back to the 1300s! Unfortunately for me, I am descended from Harrison Lay by his second wife, Nancy Mack Weathers Donaldson. I see you do not have a death date for Susan. This is what I have been trying to find out for a long time. However, I do have other information (dates, places, names of children) that you would be interested in.
    Jeanene Daniels

    Harrison Lay was born March 4, 1823 or 25 in Somerset, Pulaski Co, KY, the son of Burrell Lay and Leannah Newell who had each been born in VA and had been married in 1804 in Rockingham County, North Carolina.

    Harrison married Susan Woolsey in Pulaski Co on Aug 20, 1839. She had been born in KY, also, probably Pulaski Co. Susan and Harrison were very young to be getting married.

    According to the 1850 Pulaski County census, Harrison was born ca 1825 and Susan was born ca 1827 which would make them 14 and 12 when they married. According to the 1860 Lincoln Co MO census, he was born ca 1820 and she was born ca 1822, which would make them 19 and 17 when they got married.
    Anyway, I find them in the 1850 Pulaski Co census 123/706/706
    Harrison Lay, 25, m, farmer, KY
    Susan Lay, 23, f, KY
    Perry Lay, 6, m, KY
    Libby Lay, 4, f, KY
    Richmond Lay, 2, m, KY
    Jane Lay, 1, f, KY

    Apparently, they moved to Lincoln Co MO with Harrison's brother, Cyrennius (or Cyrus) and his family about 1854 and they are found in the
    1860 Lincoln Co, MO - 362/464/464
    Harrison Lay, 40, m, Mail carrier KY
    Susan Lay, 38, f, KY
    Anna J. Lay, 19, f, KY
    Jefferson P. Lay, 18, farmer, KY
    Elizabeth S. Lay, 15, f, KY
    Richard H. Lay, 13, m, KY
    Andrew J. Lay, 11, m, KY
    Mary Lay, 5, f, MO
    Erasmus Lay, 6/12, m, MO
    Elizabeth (L?) Lay, 3, f, MO
    As you can see, the children's names do not exactly match. It is easy to see that:
    Perry, 6, and Jefferson P., 18, are probably the same person.
    Libby, 4, and Elizabeth S., 15, are probably the same person. Richmond,
    2, and Richard H., 13, are probably the same person.

    But what about Jane, 1, and Andrew J., 11? I thought perhaps the census taker heard the name wrong in 1850 and it was JAMES and he wrote down JANE and filled the sex in later.

    Also, there is this appearance of Anna J. as the oldest child in 1860 when she was not listed in 1850. And Elizabeth (L?), age 3, is older than Erasmus and Mary, although she is listed last.

    I think that Jefferson P. (Perry) might have married an Anna J. and this Elizabeth (L?) is their daughter. They would have had to have been 16 and 15 when their daughter was born, but marrying young seems to have run in the family. Also, you would think that Harrison and Susan would not name two daughters Elizabeth, although I have seen such in other families, and as a matter of fact, Harrison had another daughter named Mary - my ancestor, Mary Frances Lay - by his second wife, although she
    was called "Frank."

    I think the ages are more likely to be accurate in the earlier census, so it is my recommendation that you list their children as:
    Jefferson Perry Lay, born ca 1844 in Pulaski Co KY
    Elizabeth S. "Libby" Lay born ca 1846 in Pulaski Co KY
    Richmond or Richard H. Lay born ca 1848 in Pulaski Co KY
    Andrew J.? or Jane? Lay, born ca 1849 in Pulaski Co KY
    Mary Lay, born ca 1855 in Lincoln Co MO
    Erasmus, born ca 1859 in Lincoln Co MO

    Then you should put a note that two other children were listed in their household in 1860 Lincoln Co MO, Anna J., b ca 1841 in KY and Elizabeth (L?) b ca 1857 in MO, but the relationship to the family has not been established.

    Harrison joined the Confederate army in 1862. It's about this time that I lose track of Susan and her children and have not been able to find anything else on them after the 1860 census. I am wondering if Harrison deserted them, or if they were killed in the war or something.

    Harrison was wounded in Arkansas, was discharged in April 1865 in Whitburg, Ark (I can't figure out where this is) and married Nancy Mack Weathers Donaldson in Conway Co, Ark in June 1865. She had been married to Napoleon Bonaparte Donaldson and had quite a few children by him, and they were divorced. Napoleon retained custody of all of the children but one. Harrison and Nancy Mack moved back to Lauderdale County, ALabama where Nancy had been born and they are found in the 1880
    Lauderdale County AL census. (I have not been able to find them in the 1870 census). They had three daughters:
    1) Lenoria A. Lay b ca 1866 in Arkansas (untraced)
    2) Mary Frances Lay b Jan 28, 1868 in Lauderdale County AL d April 3, 1950 in Lauderdale County AL md Dec 15, 1885 in Lauderdale Co AL Andrew Elvis Grisham b Dec 12, 1859 Lauderdale County, AL d Dec 27, 1948 Lauderdale County, AL. Both are buried in Harvey Cemetery. I have a list of all of their descendants as of 1989.
    3) Sarah B. Lay b ca 1873 in Lauderdale County, AL md Dec 5, 1885 Lauderdale County, AL to R.E.Scoggins. Thought to be one and the same as a Bettie Scoggins listed in the letters of administration of the estate of Bettie Lay, who died in 1917, (Harrison Lay's third wife and widow). This Bettie Scoggins was living in Elkmont, AL in 1917. The above three girls are not Woolsey descendants, but are half-sisters to the children of Susan Woolsey, so it would be interesting to include.

    Harrison married Elizabeth "Bettie" McCartney in 1882 and Mary Frances Lay was reared by her aunt, Nancy Mack's sister. Since Nancy was in the 1880 census, this leads me to believe that she died between 1880 and 1882 although I have not found her grave or her date of death.

    Harrison died Jan 24, 1909. I have not found his grave, either, although I know that he died at the home of his daughter, Mary Frances, (Mrs. Andrew Grisham) in Lauderdale County, AL.

    Anyway, that's about all that I have. I wish that I knew what happened to the children of Susan Woolsey. I am going to keep searching. There was a Perry Lay in pioneer Fresno County, Calif. that I am going to try to find something out about, and there is a family in northeast Alabama that might be connected. I'll have to work on that.
    Jeanene Daniels
  6. ELIZA WOOLSEY, b. 1824, KY - Pulaski County.
    GENE: Ronald L. Gilliland.

    CENSUS:
    1850 Washington Co., Missouri.
    Prather, Elizabeth Ellsberry, Chillicothe, MO. 977.864 x2p
    p. 50 #719.
    Woolsey, Elizah, 26, M, (sic), MO - Should this be ELIJAH WOOLSEY, male?? Notice Eliza born in Kentucky - probably not this one??????
  7. RICHARD FRANKLIN WOOLSEY, b. 1826, KY - Pulaski County; d. December 09, 1858, KY - Pulaski County; m. ARITA "RETTIE" OSBORN, May 03, 1849, KY - Pulaski County; b. Abt. 1831; d. Bef. 1870.
    BIRTH: Census 1850, Pulaski Co., KY. Also according to "The Family of George Wood Woolsey and Wife, Sarah Nelson Woolsey" by Hester (Woolsey) Brewer.

    MARRIAGE: in a county record per "The Family of George Wood Woolsey and Wife, Sarah Nelson Woolsey" by Hester (Woolsey) Brewer.also Marriage bonds, Pulaski Co. KY. Book 1 pg 223.

    DEATH: Based on tax records. Tax roll name changed to Aritty from Richard from 1858 to 1859.

    BIOGRAPHY: Richard served in the Mexican War as a private in the 4th Kentucky Infantry at age 21. Record is in the Adj. General's office, Wash.,DC per the book "The Family of George Wood Woolsey and Wife, Sarah Nelson Woolsey" by Hester (Woolsey) Brewer. No bounty land claim or DAR record found.

    CENSUS:
    1850 Census Pulaski, KY Richard 24, Ritty 18, Nancy 1 all born in KY.
    Richard was a Private in the 4Th Kentucky Infantry in the Mexican War.

    He was found dead ?, 9, 1858, in Pulaski County, Kentucky, he had died of Typhoid fever.

    After Richard's death his wife, Arita, and children Nancy, George, Richard, John, and Samuel left Pulaski County and joined Arita's brother, Solomon Osborn in Indiana near Cloverdale.

    This family was in the 1850 Pulaski County, Kentucky, census.


    ARITA "RETTIE" OSBORN:
    BIOGRAPHY: 1880 census listing of her daughter,Nancy, in Woodland Twp, Decatur Co., IA says born in Va. Mormon records (don't know which ones) say born in Ky in 1831. 1910 census of Wa, Thurston Co., Tumwater Pct. for Joseph and Nancy Hannah says Aritta born in Va. Her parents are from Scott Co.,VA.

    After the death of her husband, Richard, in 1863 Aritta took Nancy and four of her sons, George, Richard, John and Sam and went to join her brother Solomon Osborn in Indiana., near Cloverdale.

    BOOK: Family of George Wood Woolsey & Sarah Nelson by Hester Woolsey Brewer 1939
    My father's father, Richard F. Woolsey, died about 1863

    "Family of George Wood Woolsey Woolsey Brewer 1939
    & Sarah Nelson by Hester
    Ayres, came to Scott County, and that the whole top of his head was bare to the bone from the scalping.
    No doubt my father heard these thrilling adventures related often while he was a small boy on his father's land in Pulaski County, Ky., but they apparently made no morbid impression on his mind for throughout his life he retained a very happy disposition. While a small boy, during the sleepy days of school vacation he assisted in the fields, as much as a lad could. In the winter months the children attended classes in the schoolhouse near their home grounds, which was made from logs, and the desks and seats used inside were roughly hewn from trees available in the surrounding woods.
    These must have been the days that fostered the happy disposition that remained with my father throughout his life. Though later he #ssumed the responsibility of rearing a large family while combating the hardships of readjustment in other fields, after his ancestors had been of the land -for centuries, it never forsook him.
    My father's father, Richard F. Woolsey, died about 1863 at the age of thirty-six. I have found for him no enlistment in the Civil War and have no knowledge of the circumstances that terminated his life while still a young man. After his death the old home in Kentucky was not the same to his widow Arita Osborn, and while Kentucky was suffering from the effects of the war between the North and the South, she with her daughter Nancy and four sons, George, Richard, John and Samuel, left Pulaski County and followed her brother Solomon Osborn to a new home in Indiana. They made this pilgrimage in the year 1863, at the time the big bridge was built across the Ohio at Cincinnati, connecting that city with Covington, Ky.
    It seems that many Kentucky families left the state at this time and located in the newer localities of Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. Families depending upon slave labor for the production of crops saw in the future no ray of light when the outcome of the struggle was predicted.-My grandmother, Arita (Osborn) Woolsey, after entering Indiana made her home on land near Cloverdale, and it was here that she with her small children planted the roots for a new home.
  8. SARAH WOOLSEY, b. 1828.



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