Chester Cooley

1817 - 1889  (72 years)

• Name	Chester Cooley
  Birth	19 Jun 1817	Cambria Twp, Niagara Co, New York   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Burial	Abt Sep 1889	McCafferty Cem, Bruce Twp, Macomb Co, Michigan   [2]
  Death	27 Sep 1889	Bruce, Macomb Co, Michigan   [3]
  Person ID	I2276	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	25 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   [4, 5]
  Family ID	F115	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jane Keizer,   b. Abt Dec 1816, New York d. 11 Mar 1889, Bruce, Macomb Co, Michigan (Age ~ 72 years)
  Marriage	23 Aug 1838	Macomb County, Michigan   [6]
  Family ID	F892	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Mar 2021

  
  

• Photos

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• Notes

  CHESTER COOLEY was born June 19, 1817, in Cambria, Niagara Co, New York. He is the son of Samuel and Polly (Dyke) Cooley. At the age of eighteen, in the fall of 1835, he settled with his parents in the town of Bruce. Hs was married, August 24, 1838, to Jane, daughter of Jacob Kisoe, of Ontario County, NY. They have seven children - Noah, Polly, Anna, Chester Dike, Sarah Jane, Eunice Beach and Manley Benjamin. By request of his father, it was arranged that the patrimonial estate should revert to him, consequently it was his home, and he cared for his father and mother through their declining years. In 1868, he left his homestead and bought his residence on Main street, north, where he has since resided. He still owns 200 acres \emdash the old farm in Bruce, a part inherited from his father and the rest purchased from the several heirs; also owns two farms in Ray, including 227 acres; also cedar and pine lands and village property in Romeo. He was an inherent Democrat, to which party he adhered until the rise of the Free-Soil party, and afterward became a Republican. Chester was a Justice of the Peace in 1868. [7]

  
  

• Sources

  [S478] Gravestone, Birth date calculated from death date insciption: 27 Sep 1889 minus 72y3m8d (Reliability: 3). [S566] Find A Grave website founder Jim Tipton, Findagrave, Memorial ID 12142106, exact death date inscribed on gravestone Sept 27 1889 (Reliability: 3). [S481] State of Michigan, Mich Deaths, ("Michigan Deaths and Burials, 1800), FHL Bilm Nr 979575; birth date abt 1817; widowed (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). [S495] Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, Michigan Marriages, Film Nr 000979570; Chester Cooley and Jane Keizer (Reliability: 3). [S345] Michael A Leeson, Macomb Co hist, (Chicago, IL: M.A. Leeson & Co., 1882; Culver, Hage, & Hoyne Printers, 118 & 120 Monroe St, Chicago ), p652 (Reliability: 3).