Many descendents on Ancestry have added John Cooley, Sr.'s name as John
Constable Cooley. I think they misread the history in NC because it refers
to him serving as a Constable and they took that as a name and not a local
position. Others have just repeated it.
Jane
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Cooley" <michael_at_newsummer.com>
To: "John Cooley Mailing List" <undisclosed.recipients_at_johncooley.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Fw: James Cooley, son of John A. Cooley]
> Well, I have a few comments about this.
>
> First, there is nothing to suggest that John used the middle initial A.
> Some give him a C. The A is almost certainly an artifact left over from
> the confusion with the Fayette county PA Cooleys.
>
> I don't think anyone disagrees that the John who married Elizabeth White
> was Joseph's son.
>
> Here's what I've put together so far on the Goodes:
>
> http://ancestraldata.com/ahnentafel/256/alliedfamilies/richardgoode-desc.html
>
> There's nothing to suggest that James's Jane was a Goode. It's just as
> likely that Timothy Goode Cooley was named for a friend of the family as
> was Thomas Hutchins Cooley, son of John Jr.
>
> Everyone knows my take on the James who married Jane White. I believe that
> James's James was simply too young. Kiergen believed that he may have been
> Joseph's and that's where Mildred Tallant placed him. I think Dale Walker
> simply misinterpreted the data, as he did with so much else.--Not to take
> anything away from him. He did good work, but he frequently changed his
> mind to suit any new data that came in, as should be the case. This isn't
> so much a question about who was right, but what the data tells us. The
> data tells me that James Cooley's son James was probably born in 1808 and
> too young to have four kids by the mid-1820s.
>
> -Michael
>
>> ---------------------------- Original
>> Message ----------------------------
>> Subject: Fw: James Cooley, son of John A. Cooley
>> From: "Jane Wisdom" <jdwisdom_at_cox.net>
>> Date: Tue, July 10, 2012 10:07 am
>> To: michael_at_newsummer.com
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> I have trouble sending scans to the Cooley list. If possible, could you
>> send this to the list.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>> Jane
>>
>>
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