One more point before going to bed, this in respect to the birth year of
James's son William....
James Cooley Sr's estate records list the following heirs and (male)
children:
--quote--
Demarquis D. Cooley. Isaac N. Cooley, James M. Cooley, Timothy G.
Cooley, John H. Cooley, Cornelius Cooley, Benjamin R. Cooley, Matthias M.
Cooley and William Cooley
--endquote
Children are generally ordered in these documents by age. If I've seen an
exception to that, it's been rare. We know with a large degree of
certainty
that Tink was born in 1810 and Matthias in 1818. We can roughly
extrapolate approximate births from that. That William was born c1819 is
supported by the census records for him. I think we see the same kind of
evidence for Benjamin R's birth year. The traditionally-given birth year
of 1805 for Isaac also easily fits into what we know about him. William
was certainly not born c1804.
With all due respect to Jan, there are a lot of errors. Without
nitpicking, I would suggest that if we were to look at those items that
are contrary to more recently-found evidence, we'd discover that those
dates, etc., lack citations and documentation. We need to go by what we
find in the record, not from undocumented family group sheets.
-Michael
> Several more points here...We know from the 1850 census that Dorothy did
> not die in 1838, as stated here. Her son, Arthur Kiergan, was born in
> 1848. He stated he was three when his mother died. That would place her
> death in about 1851. 1838 is clearly wrong.
>
> I have that James's son William married Frances Elizabeth Andrews. That
> would make the William who married Sarah Ann Ballinger the son of Perrin.
> (Here's my thinking:
> http://ancestraldata.com/listarchive/johncooleylist/current/0654.html .)
> We know from the probate records of Perrin's son James that William was
> still living (in Oregon) at James's death in 1858. Here are my notes for
> that man:
>
> http://ancestraldata.com/Notes/index.cgi?1167836018+/ahnentafel/256/lineages/johncooley-desc.html
>
> And here are my readings for the 1840 census (still not finished!) For
> Randolph county, I have that "Derrin" (clearly Perrin), John, William, and
> James were sons of Perrin Sr. John and Elizabeth White Cooley were living
> in Howard County.
>
> Determining who lived next to whom can provide valuable clues, but it is
> not proof of the degree of relatedness.
>
> -Michael
>
>> After seeing the map done by Cecy Rice from the Randolph County, Mo
>> Historical Society showing William Cooley living next door to John
>> Cooley,
>> I
>> have been very curious as I knew this could not be John's son. John is
>> my
>> GGG gf and Wm., born 1818 my GG gf. My William Cooley had no children
>> until
>> 1841 and the William Cooley during the 1840 census in Randolph County
>> shows
>> 2 males under 5 and one male age 5 to 9; one male 30 to 39 and one
>> female
>> 20
>> to 29.
>>
>> According to Jan Martinet's Cooley history, William the son of James
>> (John,
>> Sr.) was born about 1804 in Ky. He was married about 1825 to Dorothy
>> Cooley, daughter of John Cooley and Elizabeth White Cooley. She died
>> in
>> 1838. There is a marriage in Randolph County in 1839 for a William
>> Cooley
>> and Sarah Ballenger. The 1850 census in Macon County for William and
>> Sarah
>> shows teen agers and younger children. They are living near a
>> Ballenger
>> family. In 1834 when William Cooley purchased the land next door to
>> John
>> and Elizabeth White Cooley, this would mean this is John and Elizabeth
>> Cooley's daughter, Dorothy living next to them, married to William
>> Cooley,
>> son of James according to Jan Martinet and others on Ancestry.
>>
>> It is confusing when we have Cooley's married to Cooley's and four of
>> the
>> White children married to four of the Cooley children. Very near the
>> John
>> Cooley property and the Wm. Cooley property is Timothy Cooley(James),
>> Thomas
>> K. White and Jemima Cooley (James) White. Thomas K. White and Elizabeth
>> White married to John Cooley are siblings. Nicholas Tuttle also has
>> property connecting to Thomas K. White and Timothy Cooley. After Jane
>> White's husband, James Cooley died in 1829 she married the son of
>> Nicholas
>> Tuttle. We still are not certain if that James Cooley is the son of
>> Joseph
>> or James Cooley. Thomas K. White was the administrator of that estate.
>> Since Jane White was his sister, no clue in that about the paternity for
>> her
>> husband, James Cooley, although Jemima Cooley White was the daughter of
>> James. I am not certain where Jane White and James Cooley lived but
>> later
>> census show Jane White Cooley Tuttle just inside of Macon County, not
>> far
>> from College Mound.
>> If anyone on our list is from the Wm. Cooley, son of James Cooley(John,
>> Sr.)
>> they may have more info about Dorothy Cooley's death and the second
>> marriage
>> to Sarah Ballenger.
>> Jane Wisdom
>>
>> --
>> <a href="http://newsummer.com/distlist">distlist 0.9</a>
>> See http://ancestraldata.com/listarchive/johncooleylist/ for list
>> information.
>>
>
>
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Administrator, the Akins DNA Project
Administrator, the Ashenhurst DNA Project
Administrator, the Bishop DNA Project
Administrator, the Eldridge DNA Project
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Institute (OLLI)
B.A. Humboldt State University, History
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