Exactly!!!
Here is John W & Shella in 1918:
This is what Ancestry listed:
U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989 (Beta)
Name: John W Cooley
Gender: M (Male)
Residence Year: 1918
Street Address: Same
Residence Place: Terre Haute, Indiana
Occupation: Photo
Spouse: Sheila Cooley
---but this is what I typed from the original page:
U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989
Indiana, Terre Haute, 1918
Terre Haute, Indiana, City Directory, 1918
Cooley Herbert (Gladys)
Occupation: lab (laborer)
Home: 324 S 6th
Cooley, John W (Shella)
Business: Photo, 515 W National Avenue
Home: Same
John W's wife is listed as "Shella" not Sheila.
Mary C.
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Cooley
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 1:36 PM
To: John Cooley Mailing List
Subject: Re: Rufus M Cooley (1784-)
I saw that, too, but wondered if it was the same man. If it is, there's
one point of interest: the birthplace of parents in IL is consistent with
the 1910 census and makes it more likely to be true. This contradicts the
birthplace of PA for John's presumed father, John D Cooley.
I've created a page for John W at
http://ancestraldata.com/ahnentafel/256/lineages/ernest-desc.html and I'm
starting to explore the possibility that he may have been a grandson of
the James of Jack County TX:
http://ancestraldata.com/ahnentafel/256/lineages/james1808-desc.html
-Michael
> One more, one more thing! Here is John Cooley in 1920:
>
> 05 Jan 1920, page 245 B
> District 186, Terre Haute, Vigo Co., Indiana
> Paris Avenue
> family 62:
> Cooley, John, head, Rent, m/w, 51, married, IL/IL/IL, Photographer, Own
> shop
> Cooley, Shella, wife, f/w, 28, married, IL/IL/IL
> Cooley, Nettie, daughter, f/w, 12, S, IL/IL/IL
> Cooley, James, son, m/w, 10, S, IN/IL/IL
> Cooley, Vivian, daughter, f/w, 8, S, IN/IL/IL
>
> Don't know what became of wife Margaret.
>
> Mary C.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Cooley
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 11:00 AM
> To: John Cooley Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Rufus M Cooley (1784-)
>
> There's something very wrong with the traditional genealogy on this
> family. I believe I mentioned in the first post on this topic that the
> line is said to have been descended from Ensign Benjamin, but the testers
> DNA is a closer match to ours than his.
>
> The lineage looks good going back to John W, but there may be another
> explanation from that point. There was a another Cooley family in Ogle
> county, the patriarch having come from Ireland. He had a son John W
> Cooley, although he was considerably older than Ernest's father. There was
> also another Cooley family in Bradford county PA, one that appears to have
> descended from Daniell Cooley of Maryland, which also does not match ours.
>
> Ernest had several brothers. I think the tester should try to find some
> DNA back-up to make sure things are good to that point.
>
> You've done good, Mary. But I think there's a hornet's nest there. Chances
> are good that Ernest was related to the James of Jack county, but the
> genealogy is going elsewhere--and we already know the genealogy to be bad!
>
> I've created a page for this line at
> http://ancestraldata.com/ahnentafel/256/lineages/ernest-desc.html
>
> -Michael
>
>> I don't know if this is significant or not - but I found Rufus M Cooley
>> on
>> the 1850 & 1860 census in Ogle Co., IL living next door to John & Eliza
>> Cooley. But I found another Rufus Cooley in 1860 in New Hudson,
>> Allegany
>> Co., NY enumerated with Daniel & Roxanna Cooley family. These are the
>> census information:
>>
>> 1860 United States Federal Census
>> Name: Rufus Cooley Cooley
>> Age in 1860: 75
>> Birth Year: abt 1785
>> Birthplace: Massachusetts
>> Home in 1860: New Hudson, Allegany, New York
>> Gender: Male
>> Post Office: New Hudson
>> Value of real estate: View image
>> Household Members: Name Age
>> Daniel Cooley 38
>> Roxanna Cooley 38
>> Melville D Cooley 16
>> Adelia O Cooley 14
>> Ruel A Cooley 7
>> Oscar E Cooley 3
>> Rufus Cooley Cooley 75
>>
>> This is strange - found in the same book as the other births in
>> Sunderland,
>> Mass but on a different page:
>> Massachusetts, Town Vital Collections, 1620-1988
>> Sunderland > Births, Marriages and Death
>> Page (Unreadable), C names:
>> ---Rufus Son to Rufus Montague Cooley Son to Martin and Irena Cooley was
>> born June 29th A D 1784 [this is the birthdate given for Rufus Montague
>> Cooley in the previous lists that I sent]
>>
>> This is the Rufus M Cooley who is listed next door to John & Eliza
>> Cooley
>> in
>> both 1850 & 1860 in Ogle Co., IL:
>>
>> 1850 United States Federal Census
>> Name: Rufus M Cooley
>> Age: 66
>> Birth Year: abt 1784
>> Birthplace: Massachusetts
>> Home in 1850: Eagle, Ogle, Illinois
>> Gender: Male
>> Family Number: 6
>> Household Members: Name Age
>> Rufus M Cooley 66
>> Mary Cooley 40
>> Joseph Cooley 7
>>
>> 1860 United States Federal Census
>> Name: R M Cooly
>> [R M Cooley]
>> Age in 1860: 76
>> Birth Year: abt 1784
>> Birthplace: Massachusetts
>> Home in 1860: Flagg, Ogle, Illinois
>> Gender: Male
>> Post Office: Lane
>> Value of real estate: View image
>> Household Members: Name Age
>> R M Cooly 76
>> Mary Cooly 66
>> Joseph Cooly 16
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Mary Cooley
>>
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>>
>
>
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Administrator, the Eldridge Family DNA Project
Administrator, the Ashenhurst Family DNA Project (in the works)
Administrator, the alt-McDowell DNA Project
Co-Administrator, the Cooley Family DNA Project
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the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), through HSU
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