Oh, yes. I remember now.
On Tue, June 24, 2014 8:25 pm, Sandra Stanton wrote:
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> Actually I decided not to order the cw pension since they were charging
> an arm and leg for them and I thought why would we really want them. I
> did order and sent to the list of his death certificate which didn't have
> the information that I was hoping for ---- his parents' name.
>
>
> Sandy
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> On Tuesday, June 24, 2014 4:24 PM, Michael Cooley wrote:
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> All that makes a lot of sense, Mary Lou. Good thinking!
>
>
> If I recall correctly, I think Sandy ordered the pension record several
> years ago. We were mostly concerned at the time about his parentage. For
> me, at least, the subtleties of his life and marriages weren't not that
> interesting. :) Boy, has that changed!
>
> -Michael
>
>
>
> On Tue, June 24, 2014 7:02 pm, Mary Lou Cooley wrote:
>
>> I believe that Perrin C. & Margaret A. Cooley were in Missouri due
>> to
his application for Civil War pension in 1890 . He would need
>> letters and declarations of his service from those who knew him in order
>> to receive his pension certificate. Perhaps he & Margaret were
>> never legally married or they divorced or? But in order for Margaret to
>> be a beneficiary of his pension they would have to be married legally or
>> have affidavits from several persons to prove their marriage was legal
>> or common law. As far as the widow's pension application, Margaret
>> would need this proof also. I
>> would love to have his CW pension record! His service record is on
>> Fold3
>> but his pension is not there - yet!
>>
>> I appreciate your wordy responses. They keep me oriented and remind me
>> of the connections. Thank you!
>>
>> Mary Lou C.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original
Message-----
>> From: Michael Cooley
>> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 11:28 PM
>> To: John Cooley Mailing List
>> Subject: [Fwd: Re: 'Perien' Cooley obit]
>>
>>
>>
>> I've received a response from Lynn Voyles. Here it is, with my own
>> usually-wordy response to her. (Feel free to scroll down!) She offers an
>> explanation as to why Perrin's obit didn't show up in the books.
>>
>> ---------------------------- Original Message
>> ----------------------------
>> Subject: Re: 'Perien' Cooley obit
>> From: "Michael Cooley"
>> Date: Tue, June 24, 2014 12:24 am
>> To: lynnvoyles_at_aol.com
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Lynn,
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for responding.
>>
>>
>>
>> The various Perrins have been difficult to sort out. Perrin C Cooley
>> was born in 1820. He's one of the few Cooleys of our tribe for whom we
>> haven't found parentage. We know that Perrin C is related because his
>> descendants' Y chromosomes are a match to the other male Cooley in our
>> clan who have tested. I mention him because it has longed been presumed
>> that your Perrin (who we refer to as Perrin Cooley Jr) was the son of
>> Perrin Cooley Sr who
>> was probably born in Stokes County, North Carolina in 1769. Perrin was
>> the son of John Cooley (born before 1740, probably died in Casey County
>> KY,
>> 1811).
>>
>>
>>
>> I think it was about a year ago that much of Perrin Sr's family was
>> sorted
out (which largely confirmed the speculation) with a
>> descendant's discovery of the 1858 a Tennessee probate record for James
>> Cooley--long
>> believed to have been Perrin Sr's son. James was childless. For heirs,
>> it names his siblings and the children of his deceased brother John
>> Cooley
>> (who we'd been searching for for years). In addition to John, it names
>> brother Perrin. Still, our assumption is that that's Perrin (Perian) Jr.
>> But now we have the mystery of matching autosomes between descendants
>> of Perrin C Cooley and of the same John. The test estimates that these
>> living descendants are 4th cousins. If accurate, that would make a case
>> for Perrin C being Sr's son. (I know. It's confusing!)
>>
>>
>>
>> Perrin C and Perrin Jr were only nine years apart which makes them very
>> difficult to sort out.
>>
>> Anyway, Perrin C was married three or four
times. We know that most
>> of his identified children from the mid 1850s onward were by Margaret A
>> Reed.
>> We
>> believe she's the same woman he married in 1891 because it's undoubtedly
>> the same woman he was living with in 1900 and (I believe) in 1910.
>> (Perrin
>> C Cooley died in 1912.) It's a mystery as to why they would have gotten
>> married again (or for the first time in over 40 years). But it's also a
>> mystery as to why they returned to Missouri to do it.
>>
>> I think the Eliza Rudolph marriage was probably to your Perrin, but we
>> need more info.
>>
>> I found a bio today for William Perrin Murley--with that spelling.
>> (I'll
>> point a link to it below.) The spelling has been seen with every
>> conceivable variation, but Perrin is certainly the most common and is
>> certainly the most common spelling for the name overall--for the first
>> and last
name. I've become very interested him as he might have left
>> some hint about his maternal grandfather and namesake. I think we'll
>> probably find that the most commonly used spelling for William's middle
>> name is Perrin.
>>
>>
>>
>> I'd all but given up on my Cooley research until 2006 when I was
>> persuaded by distant Cooley cousins to check my Y chromosome. In fact,
>> it revived my flagging interest in genealogy.
>>
>> I have a large rambling website for the Cooleys. You'll find what we've
>> learned about John Cooley's patrilineal descendants at
>>
>> http://ancestraldata.com/ahnentafel/256/lineages/johncooley-desc.html
>>
>>
>>
>> Do a page search for Perrin Cooley Jr. Earlier today I added entries
>> for his daughter and for her son William P. Click on William's
name
>> for a copy of the bio I mentioned above.
>>
>> I hope I've answered most of your questions--without confusing you! And
>> thanks so much for posting the information. Because Perrin is listed
>> in the 1840 census with no children we have always believed he had none.
>> This
>> opens a whole new line of inquiry for us.
>>
>> -Michael
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, June 23, 2014 10:18 pm, lynnvoyles_at_aol.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>
>>> Michael, I am related to Emily Cooley, Perian / Perrin's daughter.
>>> I
>>> just discovered there were several Perrin Cooleys.
>>>
>>> Emily Cooley (1834 - 1896) married William P. Murley Nov. 15, 1849
>>> and had a son named William Perian Murley. This family migrated to
>>> California about
1850.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I discovered that Emily 's father was Perian Cooley and have located
>>> him in the census. His name is spelled Perrin in the census but his
>>> obit spelled it as Perian. And, Emily did name her son William
>>> Perian.
>>> I will
>>> use his name as Perian to distinguish him from the others. Was his
>>> father Perrin also ?
>>>
>>> The obit is from the La Plata Home Press. It was a snippet so it
>>> might not have made it into the volume of obits for that paper. This
>>> is what appeared.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> LA PLATA HOME PRESS, La Plata, Missouri, Thursday, Mar. 16, 1899
>>> DROPPED DEAD
>>> Uncle Perian Cooley, one of the oldest residents of Macon County,
>>> dropped dead this morning at eight o'clock. He was in apparently good
>>> health up to the time of his death, and had walked out to the wood
>>> pile when death came. He was 87 years old last Christmas. The
>>> remains will be interred in the La Plata Cemetery, the funeral being
>>> held in this city tomorrow.
>>>
>>> For the Census I have this recorded:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 1850 CENSUS MISSOURI, Macon County, District No. 52 Being, family
>>> 397:
>>> Perrin Cooly 39 MO farmer, Lucinda 35 IL.
>>> 1860 CENSUS MISSOURI, Macon County, West Richland Township, p.o.
>>> Newburg, family 640:
>>> Perrin Cooley 47 MO farmer $880/$500, Lucy 42 KY.
>>> 1870 CENSUS MISSOURI, Macon County, Richland Township, p.o. La
>>> Plata,
>>> family 80: Perrin Cooly 56 MO farmer /$200, Lucinda 51 KY
>>> housekeeper. 1880
CENSUS MISSOURI, Macon County, La Plata
>>> Township,
>>> family 123: Geo. Sikes 26 IL farmer, Mary 22 IL housekeeper, Perrin
>>> Cooley 68 KY NC NC boarder
>>> farming.
>>>
>>> All census list him born in MO except the 1880 census list KY. He
>>> married Lucinda "Lucy" Carter Jan. 31, 1833 in Randolph Co. MO. It
>>> appears the Cooley's were in MO before statehood (1821) and was in
>>> Howard
>>> Co as that county comprised the whole part of the state back then.
>>> Macon
>>> County did not become a county until 1837 (from Randolph).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I have no other children for Perian and Lucy other than Emily.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The dates I have for Perian and Lucy are:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Perrin Dec. 25, 1811 - Mar. 16, 1899
>>> Lucy Nov. 7, 1813 - Jan. 18 1878
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Lucy does have a stone, but Perian does not. Guess nobody was left
>>> to put up a stone as Emily moved out to CA.
>>>
>>> Do you think Perian remarried after Lucy died in 1878 ? Can you
>>> account for these Perrin Cooley marriages ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Perrice Cooley
>>> Eliza Rudolph
>>> 13 Mar 1889
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Adair
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Perrin C Cooley
>>> Margret A Cooley
>>> 27 Mar 1891
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Adair
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Michael
Cooley
>>> To: lynnvoyles
>>> Sent: Sun, Jun 22, 2014 11:57 pm
>>> Subject: "Perien" Cooley obit
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello Lynn,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The John Cooley Mailing list just discovered you entry for Perrin
>>> Cooley
>>> Jr from a year ago. We've been trying to get good dates on him for
>>> quite awhile. We are excited to see his obit. One of our
>>> correspondents has the four volumes of that newspaper but find no
>>> mention of him or his wife. Can you tell us more about it?
>>>
>>> I see from your profile that you're related to most of your entries.
>>> Would
>>> that be true of the Cooleys too?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Michael
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
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Received on Tue Jun 24 2014 - 22:17:42 CDT