When we were doing the grave marking ceremony for Randolph White in 2010, this brief report was sent to me concerning some questions on the James Cooley family. Laurele White was the Macon County, Mo Cooley-White researcher that made huge contributions to this history. Mrs. White died in 2010. She also mentions the researcher from Seattle. As you can see, she was not certain who the James Cooley that married Jane White was so perhaps none of us should jumped too fast on this call. She had worked on this history for many, many years and her children are very involved in the Macon Historical Society so if there was any proof, one way or the other, they should have known. Plus her husband descended from James Cooley, through Jemima that married Thomas Kirkland White.

As far as John Cooley that married Elizabeth White, I think that question has been answered from the autobiography of Joseph Cooley, son of William C. Cooley(John, Joseph, John A.) He was not very old when his grandfather died, but his grandmother lived longer and his father, William also was alive so surely Joseph would have known who his great grandfather was with all those people still living.