This website contains my Cooley-Miller-Sears-Barnhouse family tree (see illustration below to see how I named my tree). This site will also contain biographies of many of the people in my family tree and a series of essays of the Cooley line from Ensign Benjamin Cooley b. 1615 down to the present generation.
Cooley-Miller-Sears-Barnhouse (CMSB) Datebase
Click on above link for a surname search of the database
Persons of interest in the CMSB Database
| Ensign Benjamin1 Cooley (1615-1684) | Cooley Immigrant Springfield Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| Col. Benjamin5 Cooley (1747-1810) | Revolutionary War Patriot Co-founder of Pittsford Vermont |
| Andrew Sutherland Cooley (1804-1890) | Cooley pioneer first west of the Mississippi River in 1835 (Clayton County Iowa) |
| Benjamin Greene Miller (1809-1875) | Earliest known Miller ancestor Brick wall because of the common surname |
| Archibald Sears (1802-1893) | Illustrious pioneer of Kendall County Illinois |
| Ira Morgen Barnhouse (1848-1914) | Civil War, Sherman’s March to the Sea |
| Jehiel Sherwood Sr (1739-1807) | Revolutionary War Patriot |
| Grace Chetwood of Odell (1602-1669) | Link to English royalty and the House of Anjou |
| King John (1167-1216) | Second Plantagenet king of England Forced to sign Magna Carta later rescinded |
| Ingelger d’Angers Comte d’Anjou (845-888) | Frankish nobleman, founder of the House of Anjou Most distant ancestor in database (32nd gr grandfather) |
Biographies Section
Ensign Benjamin Cooley Line
Biographies of Other Ancestors of Interest
| Nelson E Sears (15 Aug 1876 – 17 May 1948) |
| Ira Morgan Barnhouse (18 Aug 1848 – 4 Apr 1914) |
| Herbert Merton Cooley (15 Oct 1875 – 4 Nov 1914) |
How my database was named
