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
>
>
Received on Tue Jul 10 2012 - 11:57:29 MDT