Albert Wallace Cooley

1856 - 1886  (29 years)

• Name	Albert Wallace Cooley  [1, 2]
  Birth	14 Mar 1856	Garnavillo Twp, Clayton Co, Iowa   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	5 Feb 1886	Clayton County, Iowa   [3]
  Person ID	I1689	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	7 Oct 2019

  
  

  Father	Stephen Warren Cooley,   b. 31 Oct 1831, Oakland County, Michigan d. 31 Dec 1906, Alexandria, Douglas County, Minnesota (Age 75 years)
  Mother	Maria Wentworth,   b. 5 Dec 1823, New York d. 18 Dec 1900, Norfolk, Madison Co, Nebraska (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	1 Mar 1854	Clayton County, Iowa   [4]
  	Warren was Maria's second marriage. Her first was to John Freeman who died 30 Jun 1850. Their marriage date was 8 Jun 1848 and they had one child Nettie Freeman b. 1849 in Pittsford, Monroe Co, NY.
  Family ID	F222	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Nancy Wife of Albert Wallace Cooley,   b. Abt 1885   d. 5 Feb 1886, Clayton County, Iowa (Age ~ 1 years)
  Children	1. Albert Ray Cooley,   b. Abt 1882, Clayton County, Iowa d. 5 Feb 1886, Clayton County, Iowa (Age ~ 4 years)   2. Elmore Warner Cooley,   b. Abt 1884, Clayton County, Iowa d. 5 Feb 1886, Clayton County, Iowa (Age ~ 2 years)   3. Ross Harrison Cooley,   b. Abt Dec 1885, Clayton County, Iowa d. 5 Feb 1886, Clayton County, Iowa (Age ~ 0 years)
  Family ID	F785	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Oct 2019

  
  

• Notes

  A Terrible AffairOn Friday morning about six o'clock the log residence, a one story structure, situated three miles south of this city, and owned and occupied by Albert Cooley and family, was discovered on fire by neighbors in the near vicinity. When discovered the house was completely wrapped in flames. The building was constructed of [illegible] popular, facing to the north. On the south side was an addition or shed-like, in which Mr. Cooley labored during the winter months, making axe-helves and doing odd jobs. The living room was about square, containing two beds, the cook stove, chairs, table, etc. A garret over-head of the main building answered the purpose of a store-room. The evidence goes to show that Mr. and Mrs. Cooley were up most of the night previous attending a sick child, that Mrs. Cooley and the baby were in bed and that he renewed the fire in the stove, and probably took up the ashes which he placed in the corner of the shed, and when he had started the fire, retired again to bed. The facts lead to the conclusion that about six o'clock he awoke to find the house on fire and calling his wife ran up into the garret and pitched a trunk out of the window and then returned to help his family out. The front door had been barred and banked up to keep out the cold, and the windows, three in number, were closed in tight, so that there was but one way out, and that through the rear shed. While Mr. Cooley was up stairs his wife doubtless opened the door to the shed and was met with a dense smoke and forks of flames which prostrated her and the baby she carried in her arms. Mr. Cooley reached the bottom of the stairs and near a window where he was prostrated. Both Mr. and Mrs. Cooley were seen, the former leaning upon the window-sill and the latter apparently between the outer door and the stove, as the dense smoke and flame was lifted by the heavy south-wind from the burning building. The two elder boys were doubtless burned in the bed or near to it. ~North Iowa Times, Thursday, February 11, 1886

  
  

• Sources

  [S355] United States Government, Census - main, (Censuses conducted 1790-1930), 1870, Iowa, Clayton County, Clayton Township, Page No. 10, Enumeration date: 12 Aug 1870 (Reliability: 3). [S581] John Wentworth, LLD, Wentworth, (Little Brown & Company, Boston, 1878), Vol 2, Page 347 (Reliability: 3). [S510] Obituary, North Iowa Times, Thursday, February 11, 1886 (Reliability: 3). [S471] Clayton County, Iowa, Clayton County Marriages, Vol 1, Page 81; Robt. C. Drips, JP officiating (Reliability: 4).