No, his name is not listed on this - but his birthdate is on his WWI Draft
Registration Card:
U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Name: Ernest Leroy Cooley
Address: 130 N. 9th Street
City: Terre Haute
County: Vigo
State: Indiana
Birthplace: Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
Birth Date: 27 Aug 1889
Race: White
FHL Roll Number: 1653197
Draft Board: 2
Age: 27
Occupation: Tinner, works for self
Nearest Relative: wife & 1 child
Height/Build: Medium/Slender
Color of Eyes/Hair: Blue/Light
Signature: Ernest Leroy Cooley
Mary Cooley
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Cooley
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 1:03 PM
To: John Cooley Mailing List
Subject: Re: Ernest Cooley
Thanks! His is name on this? :) Did you find this in public online
archive? If so, what's the URL?
Good work!
> Here is his birth info:
>
> Indiana Births, 1880-1920
> Name: Cooley
> Father: John
> Mother: Maggie Haines
> County: Vigo
> Gender: Male
> Birth Date: 27 Aug 1889
> Reference: Vigo County, Indiana
> Index to Birth Records
> 1882 - 1920
> Volume I
> Letters A - C Inclusive
> Book: H-2
> Page: 22
>
> Mary Cooley
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Cooley
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 11:54 AM
> To: John Cooley Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Ernest Cooley
>
> BTW, here are the particulars for Ernest:
>
> Birth 27 Aug 1889 in Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, United States
> Death 10-26-1942 in Indiana, United States
>
> -Michael
>
>> The Ernest descendant invited me to his Ancestry Tree. He had connected
>> to
>> a bogus descent from Ensign Benjamin Cooley. We know it's not true
>> because
>> the DNA doesn't match to the many Benjamin descendants. I wonder at what
>> point in "boguses out."
>>
>> Benjamin Cooley (1617-1664) m Sarah Colton
>> Daniel Cooley (1651-1727) m Elizabeth Wolcott
>> Simon Cooley (1685-1746) m Elizabeth Gunn
>> Simon Cooley (1720-1805) m Bethia Ashley
>> Martin Cooley (1754-1797) m Irena Montague
>> Rufus Montague Cooley (1784-1873) m1 Betsey m2 Mary Horton
>> John D Cooley (1829-1887) m Eliza Austin
>> John W Cooley (1864-) m Margaret E Hanes
>> Ernest Leroy Cooley (1889-1942) m Goldie Dorothy Wallace
>> Vernon John Cooley (1914-1983)
>>
>> Apparently, no proof has been found that that John W Cooley was Ernest's
>> father. (I've not yet looked at it at all.) John D Cooley was born in
>> Bradford PA in 1829, which may dovetail with the PA birth of the Jack
>> county TX James Cooley (c1808), but James is not mentioned among the
>> sons
>> of Rufus.
>>
>> Again, this is of interest to us because the tester matches so closely
>> to
>> the Jack county James, who matches closely to us. It's as though James
>> might have been a bridge, so to speak, between the two lines.
>>
>> -Michael
>>
>> --
>> 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
>>
>> --
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>> See http://ancestraldata.com/listarchive/johncooleylist/ for list
>> information.
>>
>
>
> --
> 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
>
> --
> <a href="http://newsummer.com/distlist">distlist 0.9</a>
> See http://ancestraldata.com/listarchive/johncooleylist/ for list
> information.
>
> --
> <a href="http://newsummer.com/distlist">distlist 0.9</a>
> See http://ancestraldata.com/listarchive/johncooleylist/ for list
> information.
>
--
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
--
<a href="http://newsummer.com/distlist">distlist 0.9</a>
See http://ancestraldata.com/listarchive/johncooleylist/ for list
information.
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