It was pointed out that I didn't well distinguish between the two Johns.
Daniel is said to have been the son of John Cooley of Stokes County. This
is now thrown into serious doubt. And the John Cooley who married Annis
Hardin is now shown to have been closely related to Daniel--or at least to
his recorded descendants.
We now have the prospect of John W Cooley (1790-1857) m Mahala Hardwick
AND/OR John Cooley (1797-1880+) and Annis Hardin being sons of Daniel.
This needs straightened out. Was Hardin's John a nephew of Daniel? Was
Hardwick's John misidentified? The Y for the latter line appears not to be
extant. But we can probably find descendants of some of Daniel's other
sons to confirm the results of the descendant of James Alvin Cooley. These
are possible leads (look at the Y-page for details):
Leo Rae Cooley (1922-1984) m Erma Margaret Heal
Theron M Cooley (1906-1972)
Joe H Cooley (1918-2003) m Frankie Mae Bell
Howard Cooley (1912-1966) m1 Ann Quall m2 Hazel Blue
William E Cooley (1932-2006) Eva Doris Green
Earl M Cooley (1937-2008)
Charles William Cooley (1884-1949) m Eula Mae Upton
-Michael
On Wed, July 23, 2014 2:08 pm, Michael Cooley wrote:
> I think that we now have convincing evidence that Daniel Cooley was not
> the son of John! The Cooley/Hardin tester matches 33/37 to the Daniel
> tester. And the second tester now in CF13--who was from the same area of
> Oregon as Daniel's tester--*looks* to be an exact match! (I haven't yet
> done a *close* one-to-one connection.)
>
> More work certainly needs to be done, but I feel confident that Daniel
> should be removed from the Stokes County tree.
>
> Congrats to the Cooley/Hardin crowd! If Daniel was not John's father, he
> was probably an uncle. It's time to cast the DNA net wide to see who else
> might be snared!
>
> -Michael
>
>
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Received on Wed Jul 23 2014 - 13:57:56 CDT