Winslow Dispatch, April 16, 1909, pg 1, Winslow, IN, from newspaperarchive.com
William Harrison Woolsey is my 2nd cousin 3x removed.
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
On This Day - January 16
WILLIAM HARRISON WOOLSEY was born on January 16, 1832. He was the oldest child of Temple Woolsey (1811-1898) and Mariah Jane Johnson (1813-1859) and the only one of their eight children born in Edmondson County, Kentucky. Shortly after his birth they moved to Pike County, Indiana where Temple acquired a 1000 acre farm. Three brothers and then four sisters followed. William married Sarah Frances Huffman in 1853. By the 1860 census William in farming and has real estate that is valued at $1200 and his family includes three children. In 1870 his family has grown to seven children. They will have two more children but Sarah dies just five months after the birth of their last child. William remarries Matilda Wallace nine months later. In 1880 there are six children in the household, three from his first wife and three from Matilda's first marriage. By 1900 Matilda and William have had three sons of their own. In 1901 William is appointed the postmaster for Augusta, Pike, Indiana. William died on 11 April 1909 in Pike County and is buried in the Barrett Cemetery there.
My interest in genealogy began when I was only 10 years old. I was lucky that there were family members who had done research and shared it with the cousins. Then my parents, after they retired, also sought out relatives and handed down piles of paper. I was the one that put all the names and dates into a genealogy program - back in the old days when floppy discs were still popular. Now I'm retired and attempting to add the stories to all the dates.
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