Clara Salome Cooley^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]}

1848 - 1941  (92 years)

• Name	Clara Salome Cooley  [7, 8, 9]
  Birth	3 Sep 1848	Garnavillo Twp, Clayton Co, Iowa   [7, 8]
  Gender	Female
  Burial	Abt 1941	Garnavillo Community Cemetery   [9, 10]
  Death	7 Mar 1941	Strawberry Point, Clayton Co, Iowa   [7, 9]
  	Cause: Coronary heart disease due to arterio-sclerosis
  Person ID	I70	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	28 Jun 2021

  
  

  Father	Andrew Sutherland Cooley,   b. 11 Jul 1804, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont d. 28 Oct 1890, Garnavillo Twp, Clayton Co, Iowa (Age 86 years)
  Mother	Salome Warren,   b. Abt Aug 1809, Massachusetts d. 2 Nov 1895, Elkader, Clayton Co, Iowa (Age ~ 86 years)
  Marriage	10 Mar 1825	Lockport Township, Niagara Co, New York   [11, 12]
  Family ID	F18	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Frederick Cook,   b. 21 Mar 1846, Chillicothe, Ross Co, Ohio d. 17 Dec 1902, Elkader, Clayton Co, Iowa (Age 56 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1869	Probably Iowa   [13]
  	There is presently (Dec 2020) no marriage information on this couple. The Dubuque county history has 1849 as the marriage year.
  Children	1. Lee Fred Cook,   b. 13 Aug 1873, Garnavillo Twp, Clayton Co, Iowa d. 23 Jan 1963, Bettendorf, Scott Co, Iowa (Age 89 years)   2. George Wilbur Cook,   b. 6 Nov 1876, Garnavillo Twp, Clayton Co, Iowa d. Abt Jul 1962, Portland, Multnomah Co, Oregon (Age 85 years)
  Family ID	F215	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Jan 2021

  
  

• Notes

  A small newspaper cllipping from the Oelwein Daily Register, Oelwein, Fayette Co, Iowa dated 27 Jul 1946 states that during its Centennial a cane at least 100 years old owned by Andrew S. Cooley father of Mrs. Lee Cook (Clara S. Cooley) was on display in Ritchie's window. Clara S Cook, wid Fred appears in the Dubuque City Directory of 1911 on page 159. She is a clerk at J.F. Stampfer Co. and resides at 2729 Pine St with her son Lee F Cook (also an entry on p159) and his wife Malinda M. Lee was a conductor on the C.G.W. Line (Chicago, Great Western Railroad) most of his working life. The Order of Eastern Star of Elkader, Iowa, was organized on the 27th day of February, 1894, and on October 4th, 1894, their charter was granted, with 23 charter members. Among the first officers was Clara Cook. [14, 15] (Medical):See attached sources. [7]

  
  

• Sources

  [S355] United States Government, Census - main, (Censuses conducted 1790-1930), 1870 IA Clayton County, Guttenburg (Reliability: 3). [S355] United States Government, Census - main, (Censuses conducted 1790-1930), 1880 IA Clayton County, Garnavillo (Reliability: 3). [S355] United States Government, Census - main, (Censuses conducted 1790-1930), 1900 IA Clayton County, Boardman (Reliability: 3). [S355] United States Government, Census - main, (Censuses conducted 1790-1930), 1910 IA Dubuque Ward 5, Dubuque (Reliability: 3). [S355] United States Government, Census - main, (Censuses conducted 1790-1930), 1920 IA Oelwein Ward 3, Fayette (Reliability: 3). [S355] United States Government, Census - main, (Censuses conducted 1790-1930), 1930 IA Jefferson, Fayette (Reliability: 3). [S455] State of Iowa Dept of Health, Div of Vital Statistics, Iowa Death Cert, State Office 22-34. Informant L.F. Cook who wrote "Salome" as Clara's middle name. (Reliability: 3). [S355] United States Government, Census - main, (Censuses conducted 1790-1930), 1850, 1860 Iowa censuses (Reliability: 3). [S478] Gravestone, Blk 8, Lot 5; exact birth and death dates inscribed (Reliability: 3). Gravestone_Cook, Fred and Clara S Cooley.jpg [S566] Find A Grave website founder Jim Tipton, Findagrave, Blk 8, Lot 5; exact birth and death dates inscribed (Reliability: 3). [S510] Obituary, Obituary by son Stephen Warren Cooley published Elkader Register: November 6, 1890; Locals: Garnavillo (Reliability: 3). [S510] Obituary, The Register, D.G. Griffith & Son, Elkader, Iowa, Friday Morning, Nov. 8, 1895, p5. (Reliability: 3). [S537] County-appointed writers, Iowa counties history, pp550-51 (Reliability: 3). [S588] Clipping, Oelwein (Iowa) Daily Register, 27 Jul 1946 (Reliability: 3). AS Cooley father of Mrs Lee Cook-3.jpg [S534] Website, https://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/realto-e-price/history-of-clayton-county-iowa--from-the-earliest-historical-times-down-to-the-cir/page-43 (Reliability: 3).