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
>
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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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