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Reuben Cooley

Male 1752 - 1835  (82 years)


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  • Name Reuben Cooley 
    Birth 25 Apr 1752  Quabbin Parish, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Male 
    Burial Abt 1835  Genesee Praire Cem, Oshtemo, Kalamazoo Co, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Death 13 Apr 1835  Portage, Kalamazoo Co, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Person ID I492  Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
    Last Modified 29 Oct 2020 

    Father Benjamin4 Cooley,   b. 5 Nov 1701, Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Apr 1790, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Republic of Vermont Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years) 
    Mother Mary Needham,   b. 21 Jun 1725, Brimfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Jun 1799, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years) 
    Marriage 14 Feb 1744/45  Brimfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6, 7, 8, 9] 
    Family ID F186  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Living 
    Children 
     1. Benjamin Cooley,   b. Abt 1786, Greenwich, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     2. Susanna Cooley,   b. 12 Mar 1788, Greenwich, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     3. Aradenas "Arad" Cooley,   b. 8 Nov 1790, Greenwich, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Mar 1851, Kalamazoo County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years)
     4. Elias J. Cooley,   b. 11 Sep 1791, Greenwich, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Apr 1879, Ross Twp, Kalamazoo, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 87 years)
     5. Anthony W. Cooley,   b. 27 Oct 1793, Greenwich, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1860, Paw Paw, Van Buren Co, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years)
     6. Caleb Cooley,   b. 10 Apr 1796, Greenwich, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Nov 1880, Comstock, Kalamazoo Co, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years)
     7. Thomas Cooley,   b. 25 Mar 1799, Greenwich, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     8. Elizabeth Cooley,   b. 4 Jun 1806, Greenwich, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F787  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 9 Sep 2020 

    Family 2 Sarah Train,   b. Abt 1755, Greenwich, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Jun 1784, Greenwich, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 29 years) 
    Marriage Bef 1778  Greenwich, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Children 
     1. Sarah Cooley,   b. 29 Jun 1778, Greenwich, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     2. Reuben Cooley,   b. 24 Mar 1780, Greenwich, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     3. Lidia Cooley,   b. 22 Feb 1783, Greenwich, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F788  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 3 Sep 2020 

  • Notes 
    • From Cooley Genealogy: "Lived in Pittsford Vt for a time; moved to Genessee Co, NY in 1811, and d. (prob Le Roy NY) in 1823".
      From the History of Pittsford: "Pittsford July ye 4th 1774. [The proprietors] then voted that Reuben Cooley should be one of the committee...to lay out land." Then again "Pittsford June ye 3rd 1776 9th Voted that the lot laid out on the south side of Reuben Cooley's, be for a ministerial Lot".
      From the Cooley Genealogy Reuben and Sarah's children all were born in Greenwich as follows: Sarah 29 Jun 1778, Reuben II b. 24 Mar 1780, and Lydia 22 Feb 1783.
      From the History of Kalamazoo County Michigan: JAMES N. COOLEY was born in Le Roy, Genesee Co., N. Y., Sept. 10, 1817. His grandfather, Reuben Cooley, came from Massachusetts and settled in Le Roy in 1811. [11]

  • Sources 
    1. [S687] FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 18 March 2020, Mass births, (Index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City. ), Vol 1, 1747-1777; birth 25 Apr 1752 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S566] Find A Grave website founder Jim Tipton, Findagrave, Gravestone in Michigan showing wrong birth date of 6 May 1752 in Greenwich, Mass; in was 25 Apr 1752 according to MVR. (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S566] Find A Grave website founder Jim Tipton, Findagrave, Gravestone in Michigan showing death 13 Apr 1835 aged 83 (Reliability: 3).
      Reuben Cooley Sr buried in Genesee Cem Kalamazoo-gravestone.jpg      		 Reuben Cooley Sr buried in Genesee Cem Kalamazoo-gravestone.jpg


    4. [S566] Find A Grave website founder Jim Tipton, Findagrave, Gravestone in Michigan showing death 13 Apr 1835 aged 83 (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S650] New England Historic and Genealogical Society, NEHGR-1, (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Compiled from articles originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register.) ), Needhams of Wales, Mass, and Stafford Conn (Reliability: 3).

    6. [S592] Holbrook, Jay Mack, MVR, (Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook). ), Brimfield, Marriages, Book 1, p 22 (Reliability: 3).

    7. [S289] Mortimer Elwyn Cooley, Cooley Genealogy main, (The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland, Vermont, 1941), p467 14 Feb 1744/5 (Reliability: 3).

    8. [S458] Edmund West, comp, Family Data Coll, (Ancestry.com, Provo, UT, 2000), 19 Feb 1744 (Reliability: 3).

    9. [S459] Bill Yates, Yates Marriage Records, (Yates Publishing, P.O. Box 67, Stevensville, MT, 59870), 1744 (Reliability: 3).

    10. [S289] Mortimer Elwyn Cooley, Cooley Genealogy main, (The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland, Vermont, 1941), p497 (Reliability: 3).

    11. [S289] Mortimer Elwyn Cooley, Cooley Genealogy main, (The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland, Vermont, 1941), pp 496-97. "Birth dates taken from letter from Village Clerk of Greenwich, 1927" (Reliability: 4).


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