Dear Kevin,

I am intrigued by your message (in which you say you have Wooster pictures) of 9 March in reply to Teri C.'s inquiry about Sarah Sallie Hart.

Apparently you are somehow a member of the West/Wooster/Hartt family, perhaps descended from Ellen Wooster.

Ellen Wooster was my grandaunt, a sister of my grandfather Verner Robert Wooster. If you have Wooster pictures they most likely are of Barclay Wooster and Elizabeth Tift, parents of Ellen and Verner. Other siblings who may have been photographed in or around O'Brien County, Iowa, would have included Ida, Thomas, Byron, and Lewis---there were ten children in all. Ellen was the fourth, and Verner was the tenth. She was twenty years older than he.

Last year I located pictures in Missouri (in the possession of a descendant of Byron) of Oren, who was the oldest of the ten children and who died of yellow fever in NC during the Civil War. I have a few of his letters (as well as his mother's last letter to him) posted on the web. You might be interested in looking at them. Go to either
<http://snycorva.cortland.edu/~woosterk>; or
<http://skaneateles.org>; and follow the (I hope) obvious links.

Please reply and tell me how you happen to have Wooster pictures...and, of course, of whom.

Kenneth Jennings Wooster
27 Abdallah Avenue
Cortland, NY 13045-3302
(607) 753-3558
<woosterk@cortland.edu>