I'm happy to chip in for a test if needed.
Jim
On 12/15/2012 1:49 PM, Michael Cooley wrote:
> School's out for the semester and I'm ready to go off on another tangent
> on this list. :)
>
> I had a phone message from the descendant of Reuben Ransom Cooley. We just
> might have to play phone tag for awhile. As a reminder, here's my
> interest:
>
> RR Cooley lived in the same area of Indiana that my Edward (son of John
> Cooley) did. Edward had a brother and a son named Reuben, but RR is
> neither one. He is said to have born in Washington County OH--where
> William Henry Cooley was living. It's said that his family had come from
> Birmingham England and lived in North Carolina before going to Ohio. The
> clincher is that he was supposed to have had a brother who died at New
> Orleans during the War of 1812. This could hardly be other than Cornelius
> Cooley, who we *believe* was John's son.
>
> There were at least three distinct Cooley groups in the
> Bartholomew/Jackson/Washington counties area of Indiana during this time.
> If RR belonged to either of them, test results will reveal that. I haven't
> gotten a firm word yet from him, but we just might see some results in a
> couple of months.
>
> -Michael
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