BTW, Dave, you probably know that Scott's bother Pleasant died Feb. 5,
1922 in Comanche co OK. There is an unnamed Cooley buried in the same
cemetery plot section in 1899. I wonder if he was one of the brothers. I
think a DNA test is in order. I'll bring the shovel!
Birth: unknown
Death: Jun. 10, 1899
Inscription:
(no other info)
Burial:
Fairlawn Cemeteries
Comanche
Stephens County
Oklahoma, USA
Plot: Sec 2
Created by: Jean
Record added: Jan 19, 2007
Find A Grave Memorial# 17565068
> Ah, yes. Important distinction!
>
>> We were not invading. We were liberating the country.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Michael Cooley <michael_at_newsummer.com>
>> To: John Cooley Mailing List <undisclosed.recipients_at_johncooley.net>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 2, 2011 6:11 PM
>> Subject: Re: Another "English descent" reference
>>
>> Jane,
>>
>> That's what happened in the 1740s when Prince Charles invaded England
>> from
>> Scotland. The end came at Culloden Moor, after which Scots were locked
>> up
>> in droves. Many of them were sent to America, as was Alexander McDonald,
>> whose son John served with John Cooley in 1755. John Pedder, also on the
>> 1755 list, had also been an indentured servant. I suspect there were
>> others. Richard Goode was of the planter class, his family having been
>> in
>> Virginia for decades. I have often wondered if John had been bound out
>> to
>> the Goodes, but that's just mindless speculation. I've found nothing to
>> support it.
>>
>> John Cooleys appear on various ship lists for reason of transportation.
>> I
>> have them listed at http://ancestraldata.com/ahnentafel/256/#imm
>>
>> -Michael
>>
>>> I have a Calhoun ancestor that was captured in Scotland about 1650 in a
>>> war
>>> with England, taken back to England and sold as an indentured servant
>>> to
>>> some brick company in Mass. Anyone explored this possibility. That
>>> could
>>> cause confusion about English or Scotch.
>>> Jane
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Patrick Cooley" <dvrsyfyd7_at_yahoo.com>
>>> To: "John Cooley Mailing List" <undisclosed.recipients_at_johncooley.net>
>>> Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 3:33 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Another "English descent" reference
>>>
>>>
>>>> Something close to this has to fit. My grandfather was insistent that
>>>> his
>>>> father
>>>> Daniel Boon Cooley (great grandson to Edward out of Stokes county) had
>>>> passed
>>>> down to him that our immigrant ancestors to this country were
>>>> Scots-Irish
>>>> and
>>>> that one of them was a "hunchback" whatever that might mean.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There is a mountain range in Ireland known as the Cooley mountains.
>>>>
>>>> Patrick
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>>> From: Michael Cooley <michael_at_newsummer.com>
>>>> To: John Cooley Mailing List <undisclosed.recipients_at_johncooley.net>
>>>> Sent: Sun, October 2, 2011 3:33:30 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: Another "English descent" reference
>>>>
>>>> BTW, brothers Thomas and Edward (Edward, John) went to Appanoose
>>>> county
>>>> IA
>>>> by c1850, where Millard was born. Their nephew, David--from whom I
>>>> descend, showed up there also, moving across the border to Putnam co
>>>> MO.
>>>>
>>>> These Cooleys are well-documented in census records, etc. Millard's
>>>> death
>>>> certificate is a mess--and it says that his father was born in
>>>> England,
>>>> decidedly not true. But the strong tradition of English descent down
>>>> the
>>>> various lines is very telling and can't be ignored.
>>>>
>>>> A story passed down through a brother of Aaron's (James Armstrong
>>>> Cooley)
>>>> that the Cooleys were Jacobites, fighting for Bonny Prince Charlie,
>>>> perhaps at Culloden Moor. The older Cooley brothers were sent to
>>>> London
>>>> and hanged and the younger ones transported to America. Apparently,
>>>> Chuck's relatives in MO regularly went to kirkings. A piece of tartan
>>>> passed down through the family and was buried with his father. I've
>>>> studied Culloden Moor but could find no Cooleys. However, our DNA
>>>> reveals
>>>> a relationship to the Scottish Chieftain Somerled. His descendants,
>>>> the
>>>> McDonalds, were definitely there. The son of one of the McDonald
>>>> transportees, John McDonald, served with Richard Goode and John Cooley
>>>> in
>>>> the Virginia Regiment, 1755.
>>>>
>>>> Very interesting story but I can't make it fit!
>>>>
>>>> -Michael
>>>>
>>>>> Was his father A.W. or S.E.?
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/1/2011 9:35 PM, Michael Cooley wrote:
>>>>>> Regarding Millard F Cooley (Aaron, Edward, Edward, John)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> History of Fremont and Mills County, Iowa
>>>>>> Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1901.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've copied it here:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>http://ancestraldata.com/Notes/index.cgi?1171050809+/ahnentafel/256/lineages/johncooley-desc.html
>>>>>>l
>>>>>>
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