Re: Perrin C's brood in Iowa

From: Julie <lulerianiel_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 20:59:28 -0700

I should do the same with my mother's tree, I know there are duplicate records and people and probably errors.

Thanks Nancy! I am surprised how close knit this family group is, I think after Pat Albert's parents and maybe brother died is when he went to live in St Joseph Mo. Before that he always lived with or near them. It makes me wonder why he lost touch with Mary Cooley, his daughter. I wonder if he knew when she died? As far as I knew he had never met my grandmother or her brother, or my mother though she was a little girl when he died.

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On Apr 3, 2013, at 7:40 PM, Joel/Nancy Cooley <cooleyjoel_at_aol.com> wrote:

> Julie and Michael,
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> I had set aside this 1905 Iowa census recently because it looked like our family but with a couple of omissions. Grandma Suphronia Lane Cooley, sometimes called Frona, lived until 1951. She babysat Joel and his brother when they all lived in Fairbanks, Alaska in the late 1940's.
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> She had been married then widowed before marrying Joseph C. Her two children from the first marriage, Hazel and Lyle Bates, didn't appear with the family on the Iowa census but Joel just checked in alphabetical order and sure enough there they are on lines 186 and 187 at the family address.
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> Joseph Custer 1904-1914 was born in Mankato, Minnesota. That adds another state this well-traveled family called home, however briefly. Joseph C. 1868-1922 worked for and traveled with othe Milwaukee Road railroad so that's why they traveled so much and probably why they were in Sioux City at the time. Joseph Custer doesn't seem to appear on the 1905 Iowa census even tho born in 1904.
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> I took our Ancestry trees off public view for awhile so I can clean them up. As I've delved more and more into our families I realized I copied some inaccurate stuff, some thanks to a lot learned thru this list and email correspondence. Thanks! Some familiar names from the Cooley list show up on Ancestry and I've grown to trust them.
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> Joseph C. And Suphronia had the following children:
> Albert Dustin 1902-1976, b. Montana. d. California
> Joseph Custer 1904-1914 died in a drowning accident in Idaho
> Jessie Fremont 1906-1968 b. Kansas. d. California
> Irene 1909-1977 b. Montana. d. Anchorage, Alaska
> John Melvin 1919-1982. Joel's Dad, born in Wyoming, died in a small plane crash in British Columbia; lived in Anchorage, AK
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> Perrin, Margaret and P. A. Lived with Joseph C and Suphronia in Maudlow, Gallatin Co., Montana in 1910 - railroad. PC by that time was 90.
> In 1911, the Helena MT city directory has Perrin, Margaret, PA and JC at the same address.
> In 1912, the directory has Margaret, widow of PC, living with PA at another Helena address with a note that JC Cooley had moved to Idaho. We checked the addresses out last summer when we drove back to Virginia from Anchorage. One home still there and not far from the railroad yard. PC's grave also in Helena.
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> THis is the last we can find on Margaret Reed Cooley born in MO 1846. PA shows up in St. Joseph MO in 1917 on his draft registration and can assume if still alive Margaret was with or near him...maybe. He seems to spend his remaining years in St. Joseph.
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> Thanks for letting me go on a bit here...helps my line of thought.
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> And Michael, every time I go to your pages I am in awe of all you have accomplished with regard to all of your family lines and thank you for sharing it with so many.
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> Nancy Cooley
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