I've got links to various "Cooley Killings" stories here:
http://ancestraldata.com/ahnentafel/256/cooleykillings.html
It's quite a murderous clan we belong to!
-Michael
> Wow!! Never heard of this before...
>
> Mary C.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Cooley
> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2012 11:50 PM
> To: John Cooley Mailing List
> Subject: Re: John & Lavina (Willis) Cooley family questions
>
> Interesting. I hadn't noticed.
>
> The extended family went to Sangamon, the Willises too, I think. But it's
> been awhile since I last read about it. Did you read about the death of
> Thomas Hutchins Cooley? ....
>
> http://ancestraldata.com/Notes/index.cgi?1167835684+/ahnentafel/256/lineages/johncooley-desc.html
>
> -Michael
>
>> In the process of searching for William Blackburn ????? somehow, I ended
>> working
>> on John Cooley, III & Lavina (Willis) Cooley. These are the census that
>> I
>> have questions about:
>>
>> 08 Oct 1850, pg 178 B & 179
>> Sangamon Co., IL
>> family 740:
>> Calvin Cloyd, 27, m/w, farmer, KY
>> Sophia Cloyd, 25, f/w, IL
>> Dicy Cloyd, 3, f/w, IL
>> Charles Cloyd, 1, m/w, IL
>> James Davis, 21, m/w, Farmer, OH
>> Joseph Cooley, 8, m/w, IL
>> Louisa Cooley, 6, f/w, IL
>>
>> 15 Aug 1860, pg 388
>> District 16, Sangamon Co., IL
>> family 2779:
>> H Cooley, 23, m/w, farmer, $1600/600, KY
>> Maria Cooley, 24, f/w, IL
>> Isabel Cooley, 6, f/w, IL
>> Mary Cooley, 4, f/w, IL
>> Ellen Cooley, 3, f/w, IL
>> Anna Cooley, 1, f/w, IL
>> William Batterton, 31, m/w, F. laborer, $320/--, IN
>> David Clark, 17, m/w, IN
>> Phillip Clark, 15, m/w, PA
>> family 2780:
>> L. Cooley, 58, (listed as male - but this is Lavina), KY
>> Nancy Cooley, 26, f/w, IL, "Idiotic from birth"
>> Joseph Cooley, 17, m/w, IL
>> L J Cooley, 16, f/w, IL
>>
>> 12 July 1870, pg 478
>> Sarcoxie, Jefferson Co., KS
>> family 51:
>> Walker, Beverly, 45, m/w, Farmer, TN
>> Walker, Elizabeth, 40, f/w, keeping house, KY
>> Walker, Rebecca, 11, f/w, IL
>> Walker, Joseph, 7, m/w, IL
>> Walker, Martha L., 6, f/w, IL
>> Walker, Amanda, 2, f/w, IL
>> Cooley, Lavina, 66, f/w, KY
>> Cooley, Nancy, 36, f/w, IL
>>
>> Any idea why Joseph & Louisa (J) Cooley are enumerated with Calvin &
>> Sophia
>> Cloyd in 1850, then with Lavina (Willis) Cooley in 1860? OR were they
>> enumerated there because of James Davis?
>>
>> It looks like John Calvin Cloyd was married twice - in 1841 to America
>> Clement and in 1848 to Sophia Lanterman. Do either of his wives relate
>> to
>> the Cooley's?
>>
>> I saw on Michael's website that Willis & brother Joseph Cooley died of
>> disease in hospital - so I assume that both Joseph & Louisa J Cooley
>> were
>> children of John & Lavina (Willis) Cooley.
>>
>> Mary Cooley
>>
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