The same thing happened to me. I finally decided it's an abbreviation for
Richard: Ricd, with the "d" written as superscript, as was the style.
BTW, I missed the fact that there's a second page the first time through.
There's an Elizabeth Cooley listed. Does anyone know who she was? Was
Richard known to have married twice?
-Michael
> My heart skipped a beat when I saw the 5th name from the bottom: Could
> that
> be Rice Cooley?
> I dismissed it as short for Richard, but then Richard is spelled out at
> the
> bottom of the list.
>
> If not Rice, who could it be?
>
> Jim
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ancestr2_at_host187.hostmonster.com
> Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2013 3:50 PM
> To: John Cooley Mailing List
> Subject: [Fwd: RE: Cooleys in early Stewart county]
>
> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: RE: Cooleys in early Stewart county
> From: "Jim Long"
> Date: Sat, December 14, 2013 3:22 pm
> To: "'Michael Cooley'"
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Michael,
>
> I have attached the will book pages of the estate sale of Cornelius
> Cooley,
> so that you can see who made purchases. Had you seen this yet? The
> microfilmed will book images for Stewart County (and most of Tennessee)
> are
> free online at familysearch.org. Unfortunately, since the will book for
> this time period is so heavily fragmented (I still haven't figured out
> why),
> there is unlikely to be any additional information forthcoming regarding
> the
> settlement of the estate. The estate settlement would only have been
> referenced in the County Court Minutes: the detail of the settlement, if
> any, would have been entered in the (fragmented) Settlements and Bonds
> book.
>
> The original County Court Minutes, which include that reference to the
> final
> estate settlement, were microfilmed by TSLA, probably in the 1960s (not
> online!), but the whereabouts of the original minute book is unknown.
>
> I have searched the inventory of the Circuit Court Loose Records for
> Stewart
> County, housed at the County Archives, and don't find any evidence that
> the
> estate was contested in Court, which would have been a good means by which
> to know the relatives and heirs. Based on the estate sale, I'd agree that
> Lucinda was most likely the widow.
>
> I am intrigued by the fact that, according to that 1814 deed, Cornelius
> Cooley lived on land that William Wallace (my ancestor) gave to his son
> Etheldred Wallace (also my ancestor). This same land, a few years
> earlier,
> had been owned by William W. Cherry (also my ancestor), who is NOT the
> William Cherry who died in 1826. My William died in 1849 and left a will,
> but it did not mention a daughter Lucinda or granddaughter Burnetta. From
> the available evidence, I think that it's unclear which William Cherry was
> the guardian of Burnetta. Was one of them the father of Lucinda? I can't
> find any evidence, but there are quite a few Circuit Court cases involving
> the William Cherrys. Fortunately, I have ready access to those original
> case files at the Archives!
>
> There's another deed, from 6 Dec 1813, in which one of the William Cherrys
> purchases 800 acres on Dyers Creek from James Gray, with Henry Gibson as
> one
> of the witnesses (the same Henry Gibson who was an administrator of
> Cornelius - thank goodness there was only one Henry Gibson running
> around).
> I'm not sure what became of that 800-acre parcel, as the land along Dyers
> Creek was tied up in court for years due to there having been two
> surveying
> parties and overlapping Rev. War grants. The tax records from 1813-1826
> don't survive, which would have been most handy.
>
> I do see what I believe to be a typo in your draft - you state that, based
> on the 1808 tax list, that Cornelius must have been born by 1789.
> Shouldn't
> it be that he was born by 1787, since he would have been at least 21 in
> 1808?
>
> Hope this helps,
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Cooley [mailto:michael_at_newsummer.com]
> Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2013 1:42 PM
> To: Jim Long
> Subject: RE: Cooleys in early Stewart county
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> We exchanged a couple of emails about the Cooleys of Stewart
> County--William
> Matthews Cooley from Stokes County, NC and Kentucky--more than a year ago.
>
> I've started writing a manuscript for the Cooleys of Stokes County. There
> will be at least two sections on Stewart Cooleys--William and his presumed
> brother Cornelius who appears to arrived in Stewart County from Casey
> County, KY in about 1812. He died at New Orleans in February, 1815.
>
> I have the first draft for the Cornelius section, which I'm attaching. The
> online records for Stewart County has an entry for the final settlement of
> Cornelius's estate. Have you see the original document? We're hoping, of
> course, that there will be some information relative to his wife and
> daughter as well as a stronger indication of the relationship to William
> and
> his heirs. ("Stewart County Court Minutes, Aug. 1821 - May 1824," page 10,
> 7
> August 1821, http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnstewar/minutes1821.htm.
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide.
>
> Best Regards,
> Michael Cooley
>
>> Michael,
>>
>>
>>
>> What a great study - my compliments go out to you. I wish I could
>> tell you that I've stumbled across a gold mine of new Cooley info
>> while processing the loose records of the Stewart County Archives, but
>> I haven't yet. We are a long ways from finishing the processing of
>> those records, though. I can tell you that the Cooleys were
>> 'regulars' in the courthouse at Dover, based on the sheer volume of
>> court cases involving them through the 1820s-1840s. Some of those
>> Cooley cases have many pages to them, so there's a chance that there
>> is new information in them. But when we process the loose records to
>> make them available for research, we don't comb through every page to
>> glean the info - we read enough of the case to determine the reason for
> the case, and when the case concluded in court.
>> If we happen to see a lot of genealogical information in the case
>> file, we will put 'genealogy info' in the online description of the case
> file.
>>
>>
>>
>> I may be able to add a few more items to your timeline, however, that
>> get William into Stewart County a little earlier perhaps:
>>
>>
>>
>> Minutes of the Stewart County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions
>> (County
>> Court):
>>
>>
>>
>> 11 June 1805, Hezekiah Boyce vs. Isaac Brunson - "This day comes into
>> court, by their consent their suit is taken out of court, and let to
>> the award of William Cooley, Thomas French, William Haggard and Aaron
>> Fletcher as arbitrators, to settle and adjust all the accounts and
>> disputes between the said Boyce and Brunson now depending in said
>> court. And the said arbitrators come into court and are sworn as such
> proceeds."
>>
>>
>>
>> 10 March 1806 - "William Cooley records his ear mark, a crop and a
>> hole in each ear."
>>
>>
>>
>> William didn't buy his first Stewart Co. land until November 1806, so
>> he must have been living on Gray land until then. Since he purchased
>> that first land from his father-in-law Joseph Gray, one might assume
>> he was living on that land until he could afford to buy it out-right.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael Cooley [mailto:michael_at_newsummer.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 12:16 AM
>> To: scaevolatn_at_comcast.net
>> Subject: Cooleys in early Stewart county
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>>
>>
>> I've gleaned a number of things about Cooleys from the Stewart county
>> Genweb page over the last several years. Thank you.
>>
>>
>>
>> In 2006, I guessed that William M Cooley of Stewart county might be
>> the William Matthews Cooley of the 1780s in Stokes county NC. I slowly
>> found records that tracked him from NC to Lincoln and Washington
>> counties KY, and finally to Stewart county in about 1805/6. Last year,
>> a descendant of William's tested his YDNA, which was found to be a
>> match to several descendants of John Cooley of Stokes county NC. We
>> now believe that William was John's eldest son.
>>
>>
>>
>> Here's my timeline for William, as well a lot more data, much of it
>> taken from your pages:
>>
>>
>>
>> <http://ancestraldata.com/ahnentafel/256/StewartCoTN.html>
>> http://ancestraldata.com/ahnentafel/256/StewartCoTN.html
>>
>>
>>
>> William's father-in-law was Col Joseph Gray, also of Washington Co KY
>> and Stewart county. He recorded his will in 1812. We've lost track of
>> the Gray descendants.
>>
>>
>>
>> Cornelius Cooley also lived in Stewart county. He died at New Orleans
>> in 1815. It had long been assumed that he was a son of John's, but I
>> now believe it's just as likely that he was a son of William's. It's
>> probable that that question will remain open for a very long time.
>>
>>
>>
>> The John Cooley genealogy had been seriously mucked up for decades.
>> DNA and a fresh look at the genealogical record has straightened a lot
>> of it out. Although the middle part of John's life are well documented
>> in North Carolina, we still do not know the most basic information
>> genealogists
>>
>> want: his parents, his wife, his place and date of birth and death,
>> although it seems very likely that he died in Casey county KY in 1811.
>>
>>
>>
>> We have recently found one clue regarding John's wife. A book written
>> about the Matthews family states that William Matthews Cooley was a
>> son of a Sarah Matthews. It's more than reasonable considering
>> William's middle name, that the name Mathias and Mathis is found among
>> his descendants and that of his brother James, and that there was a
>> Matthews family in Surry and Stokes counties NC. Furthermore,
>> Cornelius had a daughter named Burnetta Mathews Cooley. But the author
>> of the Matthews book has no idea where she found that information. She
>> thought it came from a book called Maury County (TN) Cousins, but I
>> have looked at it and found no mention of this. So, I guess my request
>> is
> that you keep an open for a mention of it.
>>
>> :)
>>
>>
>>
>> In regards to William, we believe that he was the William Cooley who
>> served with Captain James Downing's Company of militia in Lincoln
>> County, Kentucky in 1782. We have found no corroborating information,
> however.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Michael Cooley
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Second VP, the Cooley Family Association of America President, the
>> Genealogy Club of Humboldt State University Administrator, the
>> Eldridge Family DNA Project Administrator, the Ashenhurst Family DNA
>> Project (in the works) Administrator, the alt-McDowell DNA Project
>> Co-Administrator, the Cooley Family DNA Project Instructor (upcoming
>> this fall), "Genealogy and Family History" at
>>
>> the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) through HSU
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Second VP, the Cooley Family Association of America Administrator, the
> Akins
> DNA Project Administrator, the Ashenhurst DNA Project Administrator, the
> Bishop DNA Project Administrator, the Eldridge DNA Project Administrator,
> the alt-McDowell DNA Project Co-Administrator, the Cooley DNA Project
> Co-Administrator, the McDougall DNA Project Instructor "Genealogy and
> Family
> History," the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) B.A. Humboldt State
> University, History
>
>
--
Second VP, the Cooley Family Association of America
Administrator, the Akins DNA Project
Administrator, the Ashenhurst DNA Project
Administrator, the Bishop DNA Project
Administrator, the Eldridge DNA Project
Administrator, the alt-McDowell DNA Project
Co-Administrator, the Cooley DNA Project
Co-Administrator, the McDougall DNA Project
Instructor "Genealogy and Family History," the Osher Lifelong Learning
Institute (OLLI)
B.A. Humboldt State University, History
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