Benjamin Goff Coomer^[1]

1822 - Abt 1896  (73 years)

• Name	Benjamin Goff Coomer  [2]
  Birth	27 Feb 1822	Middlesex, Ontario Co, New York   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1896	Farmington Twp, Oakland Co, Michigan   [3]
  Burial	Abt 1896	North Farmington Cemetery, Oakland Co, Michigan   [4]
  Person ID	I1723	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	5 Jan 2021

  
  

  Father	David Coomer,   b. 8 Apr 1787, Lanesboro, Berkshire Co, Massachusetts d. 3 Jun 1865, Farmington, Oakland Co, Michigan (Age 78 years)
  Mother	Betsey Cole,   b. Abt 1790, New York d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F655	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Mary Isabel Cooley,   b. 21 Feb 1823, Lockport Township, Niagara Co, New York d. Abt 1851, Farmington Twp, Oakland Co, Michigan (Age 27 years)
  Marriage	21 Feb 1847	Pittsford, Hillsdale Co, Michigan   [2]
  Family ID	F564	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2009

  
  

  Family 2	Harriet E. Stilson,   b. Abt 1823   d. Abt 1885 (Age ~ 62 years)
  Family ID	F592	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2009

  
  

  Family 3	Nancy D. Sabin,   b. Abt 1823   d. Abt 1892 (Age ~ 69 years)
  Family ID	F593	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2009

  
  

• Notes

  Yates County New York erected 1823 from Ontario County. Farmington Hills is the second largest city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan and a northwestern suburb of Detroit. The first white settler in what became Farmington Township was a Quaker from Farmington, New York, named Arthur Power. He purchased land in 1823, left, then returned in 1824 with a group of family and associates to clear the land. The settlement became known as Quakertown. A post office was established Quakertown in January 1826 with the name of Farmington. Shortly, the township of Farmington was organized in 1827. In 1839 a post office named East Farmington was established but it only lasted for three years. In 1847, a post office named North Farmington was established a mile south of the township line as Wolcott's Corners. After the death of postmaster Chauncey D. Walcott in 1865, the office moved to the township line in the northeast quarter of section 4 (near the intersection of 14 Mile Road and Farmington Road). The settlement incorporated as the village of Farmington in the winter of 1866-67. A fire on October 9, 1872, destroyed many buildings in the center of the village. Farmington incorporated as a city in 1926. Farmington Hills initially was part of the city of Farmington but it incorporated as a seoarate city in 1973. [5]

  
  

• Sources

  [S355] United States Government, Census - main, (Censuses conducted 1790-1930), 1850 US MI Oakland Farmington; Line 37, Mary Coomer aged 27 (Reliability: 3). [S490] Madeline Evelyn Lutz, Sam T Cooley line collected papers, (M.E. Lutz was dau of Justin Winthrop Cooley who was the son of James Watson Cooley who was the son of Samuel Thurman Cooley, son of Noah Cooley and Jane Sutherland. ). [S491] N Farmington, (The Association for Cemetery and Burial Purposes was begun on the 20th of September, 1838 , to deal with the business of the cemetery which was loacated on land donated by the Wm. L. Coonley family...in which a veteran from each United States war is buried [from the Revolutionary through the Vietnam War) ), Abt 1896 (Reliability: 3). [S491] N Farmington, (The Association for Cemetery and Burial Purposes was begun on the 20th of September, 1838 , to deal with the business of the cemetery which was loacated on land donated by the Wm. L. Coonley family...in which a veteran from each United States war is buried [from the Revolutionary through the Vietnam War) ), Abt 1896 (Reliability: 3). Benjamin G. Coomer/Mary I. Cooley [S535] Wikipedia.