Benjamin Cooley

1811 - 1881  (69 years)

• Name	Benjamin Cooley
  Birth	7 Aug 1811	Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	7 Jan 1881	Bruce, Macomb Co, Michigan   [1]
  Person ID	I2274	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Samuel Cooley,   b. 14 Nov 1775, Pittsford, Charlotte Co, New York d. Abt 1843-1846, Bruce, Macomb Co, Michigan (Age 70 years)
  Mother	Polly Dike,   b. 4 Aug 1781, Chittenden, Charlotte Co, New York d. 10 Sep 1838, Bruce, Macomb Co, Michigan (Age 57 years)
  Marriage	5 Oct 1797	Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont   [2, 3]
  Family ID	F115	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Clarissa Wood,   b. 16 Mar 1814, Oneida Co, New York d. 23 Feb 1867, Romeo, Macomb Co, Michigan (Age 52 years)
  Marriage	26 Feb 1832	Cambria Twp, Niagara Co, New York   [4]
  Children	1. Andrew Wood Cooley,   b. 24 May 1837, Bruce, Macomb Co, Michigan d. 7 Jan 1881, Utah Territorial Prison, Sugar House nbd, Salt Lake City (Age 43 years)
  Family ID	F886	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Benjamin Cooley, of Bruce, died on the 7th of January, 1881. He was born in Vermont August 7, 1811; moved to Michigan in 1832; cleared up a large farm, and died on the farm on which he located nearly half a century ago. - Macomb History An Old Resident Gone First paragraph same as that from the Macomb History quoted above. Mr. Cooley was one of the foremost and best of farmers for many years, but of late has been in poor health. He was 69 years of age and leaves a wife and two sons to mourn his loss. The younger son Andrew [Wood] is a full-fledged Mormon, having been connected with them for about seventeen years. This son had just returned for his first visit to the paternal roof, telling his dream or vision the he came home and his father died and he saw him duly buried and then returned. The elder son Samuel B. Cooley remains on the old farm and is one of the thrifty farmers of this section. - Obituary from clipping, newspaper and date unknown. Benjamin Cooley was issued land patent M101_461 on 9 Oct 1835 from the US Detroit Land Office. The document number was 8438. The land description was the SE [5, 6]

  
  

• Sources

  [S345] Michael A Leeson, Macomb Co hist, (Chicago, IL: M.A. Leeson & Co., 1882; Culver, Hage, & Hoyne Printers, 118 & 120 Monroe St, Chicago ), Leeson's History of Macomb County pp484-485 (Reliability: 3). [S597] New England Historic Genealogical Society, Vermont Vital Records, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., Provo, UT, USA, 2013.), Vt Vital records index card, Samuel Cooley m. Polly Dike Oct 5th 1797; recorded by Benj Cooley, Town Clerk (Reliability: 3). [S289] Mortimer Elwyn Cooley, Cooley Genealogy main, (The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland, Vermont, 1941), p547 (Reliability: 3). [S774] Collected papers, Andrew Wood papers, (RepositoryUniversity of Utah Libraries, Special Collections. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, 295 South 1500 East, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112-0860 ). [S531] Bureau of Land Management, BLM GLO records, Doc nr 8438, 9 Oct 1835 (Reliability: 3). [S510] Obituary, Single clipping with no other information. (Reliability: 3).