I don't recall if you found this yet but it appears to be Rufus
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=105231&GRid=31671863&
Rufus M Cooley
Died Sep 1 1873
89 yrs 2 m
Cooley Cemetery
Chana
Ogle Co. IL
His wife Mary and about 10 other Cooleys are also buried there.
Jim
On 8/9/2012 3:10 PM, Mary Lou Cooley wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>> --
>>> <a href="http://newsummer.com/distlist">distlist 0.9</a>
>>> See http://ancestraldata.com/listarchive/johncooleylist/ for list
>>> information.
>>>
>>
>> --
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>> President, the Genealogy Club of Humboldt State University
>> 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
>> Instructor (upcoming this fall), "Genealogy and Family History" at
>> the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), through HSU
>>
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>> information.
>>
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>> information.
>>
>
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