Trumpeter Ray Nance joined, replacing Cootie Williams who had defected to Benny Goodman. Ellington hired Nance to replace trumpeter Cootie Williams, who had joined Benny Goodman, in 1940. Prysock also played with Roy Milton and Cootie Williams. Schaper's game was not the first based upon the insect known as the "cootie". Schaper's game was the first to employ a fully three-dimensional, free-standing plastic cootie. The winner is the first player to completely assemble a cootie. Essex met with Cootie Tremble and the Marauders, the group he would eventually lead. He drew the "Kernel Cootie" comic strip. Cootie Brown held any job that fit the situation. Cootie Williams bought a home in Addisleigh Park in 1947.