Cooley deaths in Missouri

From: Michael Cooley <michael_at_newsummer.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 13:10:32 -0700

I was going through my paper files (remember those?) the other night and
found this. It's a page from "Death Records from Missouri Newspapers: The
Civil War Years, Jan 1861-Dec 1865" (March 1983).

I don't know if the blank space for the name of the man killed by Easely
is because it was absent or because it was unreadable by the transcriber.

The Edward Cooley death was likely in St Louis. Other than Dr Franklin
Cooley, I don't think I'm aware of any of our clan being in St Louis at
that early a date.

Could M. C. Cooley be Cornelius's son Michael? I think we did establish
that he likely died young. Why, I wonder, did so many of our Cooleys have
the middle initial C? We have Perrin C., Milo C., Erwin C., William C and
possibly others.

And why so much violence? I haven't seen this pattern in any other family
I'm researching. (Interestingly, though, I have found record of mental
illness through six generations of another line.)

Warrensburg Standard, 15 Dec 1865:
Cooley, ___, a young man, killed in Macon Co., by Judge Easley. The young
man and his mother had been to consult Easley some time before; Cooley
took exception to the Judge's advice and shot horse horse. The judge
thought he was going to shoot a second time, as he was a holding a
revolver, so shot him. (Apparently this took place at the Cooley home.)

Missouri Republican, 2 Oct 1865:
Cooley, Edward "one of the oldest and most respected police" at his home
on Chestnut betw 14-15, of consumption.

Missouri Republican, 28 Dec 1864:
Cooley, M.C., citizen of Chariton Co., 22 Dec of pneumonia. (Undertaker's
list.)
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