There's an article about Easley in the History of Randolph and Macon
Counties. He hadn't even been a judge for ten years, but I can see how
they would still call him Judge Easley. He had been captain of the local
militia (Union) during the war.
Thomas Marion Cooley, a son of Isaac N Cooley, lived in Macon. Apparently,
he died 16 Oct 1865, weeks before the article. But it could have been
referring to an earlier event.
I'll do more digging.
-Michael
> I know during the civil war Macon Missouri was an in between north and
> south=
> place. I know that my husbands uncle has found civil war ammunition and
> ot=
> her artifacts on my property in Macon. The man who had built my house had
> an=
> other home burned down by neighbors because they thought he was lying
> about w=
> hat side he wanted to fight on. Apparently during and around the war it
> was p=
> retty violent whether or not you were in battle.
>
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>
> On Jul 26, 2013, at 1:10 PM, ancestr2_at_host187.hostmonster.com wrote:
>
>> I was going through my paper files (remember those?) the other night and
>> found this. It's a page from "Death Records from Missouri Newspapers:
>> The=
>
>> Civil War Years, Jan 1861-Dec 1865" (March 1983).
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>> I don't know if the blank space for the name of the man killed by Easely
>> is because it was absent or because it was unreadable by the
>> transcriber.
>>=20
>> The Edward Cooley death was likely in St Louis. Other than Dr Franklin
>> Cooley, I don't think I'm aware of any of our clan being in St Louis at
>> that early a date.
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>> Could M. C. Cooley be Cornelius's son Michael? I think we did establish
>> that he likely died young. Why, I wonder, did so many of our Cooleys
>> have
>> the middle initial C? We have Perrin C., Milo C., Erwin C., William C
>> and
>> possibly others.
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>> And why so much violence? I haven't seen this pattern in any other
>> family
>> I'm researching. (Interestingly, though, I have found record of mental
>> illness through six generations of another line.)
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>> Warrensburg Standard, 15 Dec 1865:
>> Cooley, ___, a young man, killed in Macon Co., by Judge Easley. The
>> young
>> man and his mother had been to consult Easley some time before; Cooley
>> took exception to the Judge's advice and shot horse horse. The judge
>> thought he was going to shoot a second time, as he was a holding a
>> revolver, so shot him. (Apparently this took place at the Cooley home.)
>>=20
>> Missouri Republican, 2 Oct 1865:
>> Cooley, Edward "one of the oldest and most respected police" at his home
>> on Chestnut betw 14-15, of consumption.
>>=20
>> Missouri Republican, 28 Dec 1864:
>> Cooley, M.C., citizen of Chariton Co., 22 Dec of pneumonia.
>> (Undertaker's
>> list.)
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