This should work:
Subject: Re: Children of Thomas Cooley
From: "Shirley Wilcox"
Date: Sun, September 16, 2012 4:05 pm
To: "John Cooley Mailing List"
I found Streepy confirmation at Family Search in the marriage of M L
Cooley to W L Powell.
name: W L Powell
titles & terms:
event: Marriage
event date: 24 Dec 1884
event place: Appanoose, Iowa
age: 24
estimated birth year:
father: William Powell
father's titles & terms:
mother: Paula Jane Lain
mother's titles & terms:
spouse: M L Cooley
spouse's titles & terms:
spouse's age: 33
spouse's estimated birth year:
spouse's father: Thomas Cooley
spouse's father's titles & terms:
spouse's mother: Martha Ann Strepy
spouse's mother's titles & terms:
reference number:
film number: 1007184
digital folder number: 004265516
image number: 00112
> I tried to a cut and paste and it didn't work.
>
> The Iowa County Marriages on Family Search give the maiden name of
> Thomas Cooley's wife as Martha Ann Strepy.
>
> This is an abstract from FHL film 1007184
> Married 24 Dec 1884, Appanoose Co., Iowa: W L Powell, age 24, parents
> William Powell & Paula Jane Lane to M L Cooley, age 33, parents Thomas
> Cooley & Martha Ann Strepy.
>
> Shirley Wilcox
>
> On 9/16/2012 6:15 PM, Shirley Wilcox wrote:
>> No, I don't think so. Mary Lewella Cooley appears to be the daughter
>> of Thomas and his second wife Martha Ann [Streepy, according to a tree
>> on ancestry].
>>
>> Mary Lewella Cooley, b. 27 Oct. 1852, Udell, Appanoose Co., IA, m. 24
>> Dec 1884 William L. Powell. Someone has posted an obit for Mary L.
>> Powell on Ancestry.com.
>>
>> Mariah Cooley who married James C. Hartley seems to be a child of
>> Thomas Cooley and his first wife Mary Evans. Using census records, I
>> suspect they had perhaps seven children and Lewis, whom you previously
>> identified, is likely the oldest as the 1860 census of Appanoose Co.,
>> IA has him born ca. 1814, IN and his parents were married 16 Aug.
>> 1813. Given that the supposed daughter Mariah Cooley was married in
>> 1847 in Washington Co., IN, this is where one would first look for her
>> father Thomas. This fits perfectly with the fact that Thomas' father
>> Edward Cooley died in Washington Co., IN in 1822.
>>
>> In 1820 Thomas Cooley was in Washington Co., IN with one male under 10
>> and two females under 10. He & his wife are 26-45
>> In 1830 Thomas Cooley was in Washington Co., IN with 2 males under 5,
>> 1 m 15-20, 1 m 40-50, 1 f under 5, 1 f 5-10, 2 f 10-15. He & his wife
>> are 40-50
>> In 1840 Thos Cooley was in Washington Co., IN with 1 male 10-15, 1 f
>> 10-15, 1 f 15-20. He is 50-60 & his wife is 40-50
>> In 1850 Thomas Cooly is in Union Twp., Davis Co., IA. He is 63, b. NC,
>> a farmer, with $1180 in real estate. Martha Ann is 25, b. IA.
>>
>> So if my hypothesis is correct, and we are not seeing a blended
>> family, you need to find two more sons and 3 more daughters. Using the
>> census records, I would guess that Lewis and Mariah are probably the
>> oldest and youngest of the siblings.
>>
>> Shirley Wilcox
>>
>>
>> On 9/16/2012 5:36 PM, Michael Cooley wrote:
>>> I have a Mary Lewella Cooley, no dates, as a duaghter. Could this be
>>> her?
>>>
>>> -Michael
>>>
>>>
>>>> The deeds imply that Mariah, wife of James C Hartley is probably a
>>>> daughter of Thomas Cooley & Mary Evans. She is a good fit as census
>>>> records show her father was born in North Carolina.
>>>>
>>>> Marriage Records posted by the Indiana State Library [my print out is
>>>> 28 Dec 1997; I assume they are still available] says that Mariah
>>>> Cooley
>>>> married James Heartly, 23 June 1847, Washington Co., Indiana. This
>>>> agrees with the 1900 census of Wapello Co., IA, Center, ED 124, p7A,
>>>> T623 roll 463, that shows James Hartley and wife Maria had been
>>>> married
>>>> 52 years. She was born Nov. 1827 in Indiana, her father was born in
>>>> North Carolina, and her mother in Virginia. On the 1880 census of the
>>>> same county her father was born North Carolina and her mother West
>>>> Virginia. If you go to FindAGrave you will see this couple was buried
>>>> in Ottumwa Cemetery, Ottumwa, Wapell Co., IA. Mariah Cooley Hartley
>>>> was
>>>> born 3 Nov., 1827 and died 28 March 1908.
>>>>
>>>> Shirley
>
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