I didn't get my copy so I'm resending...
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Subject: I recieved the packet!
From: "Michael Cooley" <michael_at_newsummer.com>
Date: Fri, March 15, 2013 9:50 pm
To: "John Cooley Mailing List" <list_at_johncooley.net>
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I don't have a scanner but will have it scanned next week. Then I'll
repackage the whole thing and snail mail it to Jim--who may be able to
read some of it better than I can.
It's big. It includes IOUs that James had signed and it's evident he owed
quite a bit of money and that his property was liquidated to cover the
debt. There are also some pages for a John W Coley who, I think, was no
relationship.
Much of it is hard to read. I'd gone through 3/4 of it before I saw
anything of real genealogical value. It's a list, with no real
explanation, but the cleanest, clearest document in the whole packet:
William Cooley Oregon Territory
Paren Cooley Missouri
Nelly & William Green Illinois
Hannah & William Beardin Mo.
Elizabeth and Edward Stinson "
John Cooley dead his heirs
Angeline Cooley married Daniel Morgan in Texas
Edward Cooley Illinois
Elizabeth & John Bailey Dickson Co. Ten.
E. C. Coley " " " "
Milo Cooley " " Minor
Mary Cooley " " do.
It's spelled out better in a later document, but I don't see a date. It
references the land that James bought from John B Walker, which is
registered in Book J, page 245. Here is the good stuff. (Congrats Jim and
Gloria!)
--quote--
Your petitioner states that the following are the only Heirs at Law of the
said James Cooley, as he is informed and believes, to wit. William Cooley,
Paren Cooley, William Green & wife Nelly formerly Cooley, William Bearden
and wife Hannah formerly Cooley, Edward Stinson and wife Elizabeth,
formerly Cooley, Daniel Morgan and wife Angeline, formerly Cooley, Edward
Cooley, John Bailey and wife Elizabeth, formerly Cooley, E.C. Cooley, Milo
Cooley, & Mary Cooley, the last six of whom are children of a decd Brother
of sd James Cooley, the last two of which are minors under the age of 21
years.
--endquote--
And I rest my case. :) Thoughts in a moment.
-Michael
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