[List] Cooley Documents

Sun May 13 21:15:40 PDT 2007

Hi Shirley,

I'm sure you've told us who your most distant proved Cooley ancestor was but
could you remind me?

Thanks,
Michael 

On Sun, 13 May 2007 22:45:27 -0400, Shirley Wilcox wrote
> These letters are marvelous. I just wish she had written to some of 
> my family. But because my family came from Adair Co., KY there are 
> people in the letters that are probably "kin". I just can't connect 
> the dots at this time.
> 
> >From what I have gathered, and from reading her letters, I do think
> Mildred  had errors for some early generations. Like all of us, she was
> setting forth a hypothesis, and then testing it as she found information.
> She apparently was not aware of the 2 June 1814 marriage record in Adair
> Co., KY of James Cooley & Frances Miller that says he was a son of Daniel
> Cooley and she was a daughter of Henry Miller. I believe he was the son
> James found in the 1826 Ray Co., MO estate records of Daniel Cooley (m.
> Milly Ball). Some of Daniel's children went to MO and others stayed 
> in KY.
> 
> Shirley
> 
> On Thu, 10 May 2007 23:17:04 -0700 "Dennis A. Young" <day at eskimo.com>
> writes:
> > I don't believe so.  This is Daniel B. Cooley, b. in Lincoln Co., KY, 
> > 
> > served in the War of 1812, and d. in 1864.  In the part of the 
> > letter where 
> > Moses says that "... Daniel Cooley left Virginia to come to Kentucky 
> > on 
> > account of one of his boys shooting a man in an argument," Mildred 
> > added a 
> > note that said:  "Not my direct line.  Daniel _may_ have been a 
> > cousin to 
> > my James."
> > 
> > A few pages later where Moses goes on to describe his ggf being 
> > scalped by 
> > indians, Mildred added a note that said:  "This story was known to 
> > my 
> > grandfather.  So Dan'l Sr. must have been a bro. of my James - 
> > rather an 
> > uncle."
> > 
> > There are also two entries in The Cooley Genealogy that relate, both 
> > 
> > submitted by Mildred:
> > 
> > p. 952 (Unplaced Cooleys)
> > WILLIAM AARON [COOLEY] of Adair, Ky., b. 1807; d. 1845; m. Susan 
> > Hovious; 
> > may have been a brother of James, b. 1795, and of John of 
> > Carrollton, Mo., 
> > b. 1789.  (Mrs. Mildred Cooley Tallant, Glendale, Calif.)
> > 
> > p. 953 (Unplaced Cooleys)
> > WILLIAM AARON [COOLEY] of Adair Co., Ky.; may have had sons Daniel 
> > and 
> > James, the ancestors of M. E. Cooley of Macon, Ga., and Mrs. Mildred 
> > Cooley 
> > Tallant, Glendale, Calif., respectively.
> > 
> > There are two other Hovious women that married into the family.  
> > Nancy 
> > Hovins married Elisha Fisher, gs of William Aaron.  And Savannah 
> > Hovins 
> > married Aaron Adair Cooley, brother to James of 1795, and both sons 
> > of 
> > William Aaron.
> > 
> > Take a look at the Stephen Fisher letter.  William Aaron Cooley was 
> > his 
> > gggf, and he talks more about the family and their migrations.
> > 
> > Dennis
> > 
> > At 07:37 PM 5/10/2007 -0700, you wrote:
> > >Hi Dennis,
> > >
> > >First, a very -big- thank you for making these documents 
> > available!
> > >
> > >I've looked at 4 or 5 so far, including the Moses Cooley docs. Do 
> > you think
> > >that he and Mildred were on to something by considering that his 
> > Daniel Cooley
> > >and her James (Alvin) Cooley were closely related? Have you seen 
> > anything to
> > >indicate whether Daniel was Daniel Jr Cooley(1786-1832)? That man 
> > is said to
> > >have married Elizabeth Hardwick. Moses says his great grandfather 
> > married
> > >Betsy Spurlock.
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >Michaely
> > >
> > >
> > >On Wed, 09 May 2007 23:04:52 -0700, Dennis A. Young wrote
> > > > I have custody of some of Mildred Cooley Tallant's original
> > > > correspondence and notes.  A couple of those letters have been
> > > > transcribed and discussed here.  About a year ago, I scanned 
> > them as
> > > > .pdf files and saved them on a hard drive for my own use.  I 
> > used a
> > > > rather high resolution for better legibility, and long 
> > descriptive
> > > > file names so I could easily find what I was looking for.  I 
> > hadn't
> > > > planned on generally distributing them, but that was also 
> > before
> > > > this mailing list.
> > > >
> > > > I have put the documents on a web site that I just created, with 
> > a
> > > > rather rudimentary contents page, at
> > > > http://www.eskimo.com/~day/cooley/docs/index.htm.  There's some
> > > > rather good info there, and you are all free to use the 
> > documents as
> > > > you wish.  Be aware, though, that some of the file sizes are 
> > kinda
> > > > large, ranging from about 200 kb to over 4 mb per file.  If any 
> > of
> > > > you are using dialup, download times may be lengthy.  Because 
> > of
> > > > this, you may want to save copies of documents you are 
> > interested in
> > > > locally to save on download times, and for your own 
> > documentation.
> > > >
> > > > I've not really used much of this info previously, since my 
> > descent
> > > > is from Joseph T. Cooley and Mildred's research focus was on 
> > William
> > > > Aaron Cooley.  But she was a prolific writer, and some of the 
> > folks
> > > > she wrote to had info on my line.  I've read on this board that
> > > > there is a theory that these lines and others may in fact stem 
> > from
> > > > the same source.  That makes these documents more relevant, and 
> > its
> > > > time to post them for general discussion.
> > > >
> > > > Dennis
> > > >
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