My sister has a private tree on Ancestry that I have been helping with
the Cooley side, but a few years ago someone started a public tree that
linked Martha to Seaborn and eventually back to the Ensign Benjamin
line! I don't think the owner of the public tree is active anymore but
the damage has been done as many other trees have copied and pasted the
bogus connections.
Jim
On 2/24/2013 9:33 PM, Bonnie & Craig Lillywhite wrote:
> I keep seeing on Ancestry, etc, families posting Martha Beardon as the
> wife of James or Seaborn James Cooley. However, I see the marriage
> recorded in Monroe County, MO as John Cooly and Martha Bierden. Just FYI
>
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Michael Cooley <michael_at_newsummer.com
> <mailto:michael_at_newsummer.com>> wrote:
>
> From: Ann Turk <aturk_at_worldnet.att.net
> <mailto:aturk_at_worldnet.att.net>>
> Subject: Re: [MOCHARIT-L] Joseph Cooley Autobiography
> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 20:09:27 -0500
> References: <200009120249.e8C2nXX31853_at_cgi.rootsweb.com
> <mailto:200009120249.e8C2nXX31853_at_cgi.rootsweb.com>>
>
> Susie,
>
> Do you happen to have an Angelina Cooley in your line? Daniel
> Morgan was a
> brother to my g g grandfather Jefferson Morgan. Angelina evidently
> died
> before 1868 when Daniel married his second wife in Fannin County,
> Texas. I
> believe that Daniel and Angelina had at least two children.
>
> > And Jim noticed that E.C's 2nd marriage was performed by Schmittou,
> > apparently the same man who was the James's administrator in
> 1858/59--the
> > bride being his niece.
> >
> > http://johncooley.net/list/current/0208.html
> >
> > There was a John Cooley (1802-) living in Macon county in 1850
> and 1860.
> > In the latter census he was living next to Perrin. I've always
> assumed he
> > was Perrin Sr's son. If that's true, and he was James Cooley's
> (of Dickson
> > county) brother, why isn't he named in 1858/59? Could it be that
> we have
> > two Johns (son of Perrin and son of James) mixed up, just as I
> believe we
> > have for a couple of Jameses (son of Joseph and son of James)
> mixed up?
> > The John Cooley of 1850 and 1860 appears not to have had
> children. Was
> > *he* the son of James (1772-1821)? It would make sense that the
> John who
> > died in 1846 was James's (of Dickson) brother rather than a
> cousin. This
> > means he would have taken in his sister-in-law and her family.
> If that's
> > the case, we would have:
> >
> > John, father of
> > Perrin Sr, father of
> > John, father of
> > E.C. and Milo
> >
> > Why would he cut them out of his will?
> >
> > (I need to call it quits for tonight. I've written about 3 pages
> of a 6
> > page essay due tomorrow.)
> >
> > -Michael
> >
> >> Jim had found the William Bearden and Hannah Cooley marriage:
> >>
> >> http://johncooley.net/list/current/0775.html
> >>
> >> I think we can now be pretty sure that Hannah was a daughter of
> Perrin
> >> Sr.
> >> The 1810 census shows him with two young daughters and four sons.
> >>
> >> 1810 > KENTUCKY > WASHINGTON > NO TWP LISTED
> >> Series: M252 Roll: 8 Page: 323
> >>
> >> Perrin Cooley 40010 02100
> >>
> >>> Yeah, that's what we were thinking. I did find that James sold
> some
> >>> Randolph county land prior to 1850. I was thinking that
> happened in
> >>> preparation for his move. But I would think it was more likely
> James
> >>> took
> >>> in Martha and her children. (Willow was almost certainly Milo, who
> >>> we've
> >>> proven to have been EC's brother.) The principle problem I had
> with
> >>> that
> >>> is that John H was probably born c1812 and probably married
> Eliza Lock.
> >>> Your John may have been born before 1810. But those ages
> aren't so far
> >>> apart that they can't be reconciled. Maybe that wild notion
> will turn
> >>> out
> >>> to be true after all.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> We were thinking that James and Martha Cooley took in
> Elizabeth, E.C.,
> >>>> Polly, and Willow after John hung himself. If in fact that
> John is
> >>>> whom
> >>>> we
> >>>> are assuming.
> >>>>
> >>>> I wish I could get to Dickson and do some digging around.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> ________________________________
> >>>> From: Michael Cooley <michael_at_newsummer.com
> <mailto:michael_at_newsummer.com>>
> >>>> To: John Cooley Mailing List
> <undisclosed.recipients_at_johncooley.net
> <mailto:undisclosed.recipients_at_johncooley.net>>
> >>>> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 8:53 PM
> >>>> Subject: Re: Admin of James Cooley vs. E.C. Cooley
> >>>>
> >>>> These are probably his siblings: William, Perrin, Nellie
> Green, Hannah
> >>>> Bearden (!), Elizabeth Stinson, Angeline Morgan, and Edward
> Cooley.
> >>>> Likely, they are listed by age--perhaps some of the younger
> ones might
> >>>> have been nieces or nephews. An Edward Cooley, if fact, shows
> up on a
> >>>> census with Perrin Cooley:
> >>>>
> >>>> 1850 > ILLINOIS > CALHOUN > ILLINOIS
> >>>> Series: M432 Roll: 99 Page: 306
> >>>>
> >>>> Perrin Cooley 27 Farmer MO
> >>>> Harriet Cooley 19 IL
> >>>> Edward Cooley 18 MO
> >>>>
> >>>> The question, of course, is how is EC related? Perhaps a
> nephew he
> >>>> ignored, a son of a deceased brother?
> >>>>
> >>>> Someone needs to look carefully at the court records for Dickson
> >>>> county.
> >>>>
> >>>> -Michael
> >>>>
> >>>>> Wow! This is great! It will prove to be a really big clue
> for Jim's
> >>>>> John
> >>>>> and deserves a lot of study. The thing is that if James
> Cooley is who
> >>>>> I
> >>>>> think he is, he probably didn't have any children. If true,
> these
> >>>>> were
> >>>>> probably his closest living relatives.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The mention of William Bearden is going to be of great
> interest to
> >>>>> Jim.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Do you have any more of these gems?!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> -Michael
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Has anyone seen this before? It's from the Jan. 4, 1859
> Nashville
> >>>>>> Union
> >>>>>> and American.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I couldn't get it to paste directly into the email so I've
> made it a
> >>>>>> Word
> >>>>>> attachment.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
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