The 1840 census shows John and Elizabeth Cooley living in Randolph County
where John died(murdered) in 1844. They were living in Howard County in
1830.
Jane
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Subject: Re: William Cooley, living next door to John Cooley, Randolph
> Several more points here...We know from the 1850 census that Dorothy did
> not die in 1838, as stated here. Her son, Arthur Kiergan, was born in
> 1848. He stated he was three when his mother died. That would place her
> death in about 1851. 1838 is clearly wrong.
>
> I have that James's son William married Frances Elizabeth Andrews. That
> would make the William who married Sarah Ann Ballinger the son of Perrin.
> (Here's my thinking:
> http://ancestraldata.com/listarchive/johncooleylist/current/0654.html .)
> We know from the probate records of Perrin's son James that William was
> still living (in Oregon) at James's death in 1858. Here are my notes for
> that man:
>
> http://ancestraldata.com/Notes/index.cgi?1167836018+/ahnentafel/256/lineages/johncooley-desc.html
>
> And here are my readings for the 1840 census (still not finished!) For
> Randolph county, I have that "Derrin" (clearly Perrin), John, William, and
> James were sons of Perrin Sr. John and Elizabeth White Cooley were living
> in Howard County.
>
> Determining who lived next to whom can provide valuable clues, but it is
> not proof of the degree of relatedness.
>
> -Michael
>
>> After seeing the map done by Cecy Rice from the Randolph County, Mo
>> Historical Society showing William Cooley living next door to John
>> Cooley,
>> I
>> have been very curious as I knew this could not be John's son. John is
>> my
>> GGG gf and Wm., born 1818 my GG gf. My William Cooley had no children
>> until
>> 1841 and the William Cooley during the 1840 census in Randolph County
>> shows
>> 2 males under 5 and one male age 5 to 9; one male 30 to 39 and one female
>> 20
>> to 29.
>>
>> According to Jan Martinet's Cooley history, William the son of James
>> (John,
>> Sr.) was born about 1804 in Ky. He was married about 1825 to Dorothy
>> Cooley, daughter of John Cooley and Elizabeth White Cooley. She died in
>> 1838. There is a marriage in Randolph County in 1839 for a William
>> Cooley
>> and Sarah Ballenger. The 1850 census in Macon County for William and
>> Sarah
>> shows teen agers and younger children. They are living near a Ballenger
>> family. In 1834 when William Cooley purchased the land next door to John
>> and Elizabeth White Cooley, this would mean this is John and Elizabeth
>> Cooley's daughter, Dorothy living next to them, married to William
>> Cooley,
>> son of James according to Jan Martinet and others on Ancestry.
>>
>> It is confusing when we have Cooley's married to Cooley's and four of the
>> White children married to four of the Cooley children. Very near the
>> John
>> Cooley property and the Wm. Cooley property is Timothy Cooley(James),
>> Thomas
>> K. White and Jemima Cooley (James) White. Thomas K. White and Elizabeth
>> White married to John Cooley are siblings. Nicholas Tuttle also has
>> property connecting to Thomas K. White and Timothy Cooley. After Jane
>> White's husband, James Cooley died in 1829 she married the son of
>> Nicholas
>> Tuttle. We still are not certain if that James Cooley is the son of
>> Joseph
>> or James Cooley. Thomas K. White was the administrator of that estate.
>> Since Jane White was his sister, no clue in that about the paternity for
>> her
>> husband, James Cooley, although Jemima Cooley White was the daughter of
>> James. I am not certain where Jane White and James Cooley lived but
>> later
>> census show Jane White Cooley Tuttle just inside of Macon County, not far
>> from College Mound.
>> If anyone on our list is from the Wm. Cooley, son of James Cooley(John,
>> Sr.)
>> they may have more info about Dorothy Cooley's death and the second
>> marriage
>> to Sarah Ballenger.
>> Jane Wisdom
>>
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