Jeremiah Woolsey was living in Dubois County on the 1850 census. Living with his was his wife Mary Ann Barnett / Burnett, John Roxely and Lucretia J. Woolsey.

By 1860 Jeremiah is gone and Mary Ann Woolsey is a widow living next to Eldridge Woolsey in Pike County. By 1861 she married John Woolsey of Pike County, son of Eldridge and living with them in 1870 are John Woolsey presumed to be John Roxely, Julia Woolsey, Sarah Woolsey. Jane Roxely and Lucretia J. are gone.

NOTES from my files:
Civil War package for John Woolsey arrived May 12, 2010.
Mary was married four times and drew John's widow's pension.
She married Jeremiah Woolsey, John Woolsey, John Helman and a man named Nelson.
Packet states Paradine was the only child born to John Woolsey and Mary A. Woolsey.
Whose children are those on the 1870 census besides Paradine?

1850 census living in Dubois County:
Jeremiah Wilsey age 30 laborer born in Kentucky
Mary Wilsey age 24 born in Kentucky
Jane Roxley age 18 born in Kentucky (who is this?)
John Roxley age 1 born in Kentucky

1860 census Lockhart Twp Pike County; John is not married.
Mary and children are living next door to John's father Eldridge Woolsey. No husband.
Mary Woolsey age 36 f farmer 800 200 Kentucky cannot read/write
John Woolsey age 11 m Indiana
Lucretia J. Woolsey age 5 f Indiana


1870 census Lockhart Twp Pike County:
Johnson Woolsey age 52, m w, farmer, value of real estate $100, value of personal property $300, born in Kentucky
Mary Woolsey, wife, age 46, f w, keeping house, born in Kentucky, cannot read or write,
Paradine Woolsey, age 4, f w, born in Indiana (1865)
July Woolsey, age 14, f, w, born in Indiana (1856)
Sarah Woolsey, age 12, f, w, born in Indiana (1858)
John Woolsey, age 21, m w, farmer, value of real estate $300, value of personal property $100, born in Indiana (living next door to his parents)(1849)

Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941
Name: Mary Ann Burnett (Barnett)
Spouse Name: Jeremiah Woolsey
Marriage Date: 4 Nov 1847
Marriage County: Dubois
Source Title 1: Dubois County, Indiana
Source Title 2: Marriages 1839 - 1872 [to 2 Jan 1873] Books A-1-2
Source Title 3: Compiled by Ruth M Slevin 1970
Book: A
OS Page: 69

Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941
Name: Mary A. Woolsey
[Mary Ann Burnett]
Spouse Name: John Woolsey
Marriage Date: 3 Nov 1861
Source Title 1: Pike County - Indiana
Source Title 2: MARRIAGE RECORD 1859 1905
Source Title 3: Grooms by Ruth M. Slevin Opal Phillips [Record Boo
Book: 4
OS Page: 102
November 3, 1861- John Woolsey to Mary A. Woolsey, married by Minister Bennett Phipps or Phelps (hard to read- microfilm is very dark) [ Source- Pike County Marriage Record Volume 4, page 102- covers Sept. 1855 - Sept. 1866 ]

Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941
Name: Mary Woolsey
Spouse Name: John Holman
Marriage Date: 20 Feb 1878
Source Title 1: Pike County - Indiana
Source Title 2: MARRIAGE RECORD 1859 1905
Source Title 3: Grooms by Ruth M. Slevin Opal Phillips [Record Boo
Book: 6
OS Page: 373
February 20, 1878- John Helman and Mary Woolsey- married by Minister of Gospel Jefferson W. Richardson [ Source- Pike County Marriage Record Volume 6, page 373- covers Nov. 1873 - August 1880 ]

June 20, 1888- Samuel K. Nelson and Mary Hellman- married by Minister Greene B. Campbell [ Source- Pike County Marriage Record Volume 8, page 159- covers Jan. 1887 - Sept. 1892 ]

Is anyone related to these families and tell me what happened to Jeremiah?

Julia Woolsey's death certificate states her father was John Wolsey (Woolsey) and Jane Moore. Julia married Daniel Chanley and then George W. Sinclair Jr., both in Dubois County.

Sarah married John Main in Dubois County.