On 1/6/2012 12:17 PM, Jane Wisdom wrote:
Curt, what is your connection to Randolph White? We have a group of people
working together on this history. If interested, would you please email me
at jdwisdom_at_cox.net. We really appreciate the information you sent on John
Kirland. This may explain where Margaret Kirland was born and how Randolph
White knew the Kirland family. Or were they all neighbors of John Cooley,
Sr.??
Jane Wisdom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Cooley" <michael_at_newsummer.com>
To: "John Cooley Mailing List" <undisclosed.recipients_at_johncooley.net>
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: John KIRKLAND, Cooley Cemetery, Mercer County, Ky
Jane,
Hi, Jane. You and I have worked together before; been a long time.
The family connection is my wife:
Marlene Elaine NEWTON Mason (3Apr1948-9Apr2011) (Marland Franklin
NEWTON, Jr; Genevieve Irene HATFIELD; Amanda Elizabeth MOSLEY;
Frances Kirk COOLEY; Thomas Kirkland White COOLEY; John m. Eliz.
WHITE; Joseph m. 2nd Keziah CASEY; John COOLEY...)
This John is supposed to be the fellow you're looking at in
Dixville. We shall see...
I called the Harrodsburg Gen Soc & the lady I talked to says
she's passing this to the other shift who are much better at this
sort of thing. I expect this means I won't hear back til next week.
Randolph WHITE's
pension app
shows that he and John KIRKLAND were both under the command of Gen
George Rogers CLARK (one of
my relatives!) but were
in different regiments, one infantry, the other cavalry -- unlikely
they would have met in service. Even if they did, by the time they
applied for pensions Randolph & his family had moved on, mostly
to Missouri, gkids born there aft 1810. You think the post office
is slow now? This would explain why they didn't vouch for each
other on their applications.
The fact that John KIRKLAND is listed as buried in the
Cooley
Cem. is highly suggestive. I hope I can get a transcription, see if
there are KIRK or WHITE folk buried there as well. I've checked all
the graveyard sites I know of & found nothing worth looking at;
ggkids at best, buried in Harrodsburg. We may have to go on
findagrave & beg for a grave search if we can find anyone local
who'll do it.
--
Curt, in Phoenix, Arizona
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=curti_m
Received on Fri Jan 06 2012 - 14:03:26 MST