Re: Admin of James Cooley vs. E.C. Cooley

From: The Cooleys <lvcooley5_at_cox.net>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 21:52:03 -0800

Sorry to jump in so late. My wife and I were killing some time in a
spectacularly bland Irish pub here.

Goodness, Gloria, this is a HUGE find! How did you stumble across it?
I've searched high and low
for gold like this! I have to assume that this was only recently
scanned or released or surely one of us
would have bumped into it by now. This gives me much hope that more
clues are out there waiting!
It ties together so many previously untethered and unusual suspects.
But without a doubt it solidifies
the relationship between William Bearden who married Hannah Cooley and
is the presumed brother
of Martha Bearden Cooley, and possibly ties this branch (after long
last) to Perrin. I'm grasping at the
particulars of the lawsuit and assume that the folks named are next of
kin of James. It would be so
smoking to find the actual court documents, especially if they name
Martha, Elizabeth, Polly or Milo on the side of E.C.

It's also very interesting to note that the administrator for James,
William R. Von Schmittou, is E.C.'s wife's
uncle and brother of Obriant Lafayette Von Schmittou, who if I remember
correctly was the J.P. who
married them.

There are so many new questions and things to sort out but this is
really a major step forward for placing our Cooleys.
Thank you, Gloria! And thank you, Michael, for presenting the pieces of
the larger puzzle and trying to make sense of
it all !!!

Slainte,
Jim


On 2/24/2013 6:17 PM, Michael Cooley wrote:
> Yeah, that's what we were thinking. I did find that James sold some
> Randolph county land prior to 1850. I was thinking that happened in
> preparation for his move. But I would think it was more likely James took
> in Martha and her children. (Willow was almost certainly Milo, who we've
> proven to have been EC's brother.) The principle problem I had with that
> is that John H was probably born c1812 and probably married Eliza Lock.
> Your John may have been born before 1810. But those ages aren't so far
> apart that they can't be reconciled. Maybe that wild notion will turn out
> to be true after all.
>
>
>> We were thinking that James and Martha Cooley took in Elizabeth, E.C.,
>> Polly, and Willow after John hung himself. If in fact that John is whom we
>> are assuming.
>>
>> I wish I could get to Dickson and do some digging around.
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Michael Cooley <michael_at_newsummer.com>
>> To: John Cooley Mailing List <undisclosed.recipients_at_johncooley.net>
>> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 8:53 PM
>> Subject: Re: Admin of James Cooley vs. E.C. Cooley
>>
>> These are probably his siblings: William, Perrin, Nellie Green, Hannah
>> Bearden (!), Elizabeth Stinson, Angeline Morgan, and Edward Cooley.
>> Likely, they are listed by age--perhaps some of the younger ones might
>> have been nieces or nephews. An Edward Cooley, if fact, shows up on a
>> census with Perrin Cooley:
>>
>> 1850 > ILLINOIS > CALHOUN > ILLINOIS
>> Series: M432 Roll: 99 Page: 306
>>
>> Perrin Cooley 27 Farmer MO
>> Harriet Cooley 19 IL
>> Edward Cooley 18 MO
>>
>> The question, of course, is how is EC related? Perhaps a nephew he
>> ignored, a son of a deceased brother?
>>
>> Someone needs to look carefully at the court records for Dickson county.
>>
>> -Michael
>>
>>> Wow! This is great! It will prove to be a really big clue for Jim's John
>>> and deserves a lot of study. The thing is that if James Cooley is who I
>>> think he is, he probably didn't have any children. If true, these were
>>> probably his closest living relatives.
>>>
>>> The mention of William Bearden is going to be of great interest to Jim.
>>>
>>> Do you have any more of these gems?!
>>>
>>> -Michael
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone seen this before? It's from the Jan. 4, 1859 Nashville
>>>> Union
>>>> and American.
>>>>
>>>> I couldn't get it to paste directly into the email so I've made it a
>>>> Word
>>>> attachment.
>>>
>>
>
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