Jane Sutherland

1787 - Bef 1850  (62 years)

• Name	Jane Sutherland  [1]
  Birth	24 Aug 1787	Nine Partners, Dutchess Co, New York   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Bef 1850  [3]
  Person ID	I75	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	19 Jul 2021

  
  

  Father	Peter Sutherland,   b. 20 Feb 1756, Dutchess County, New York d. Abt May 1828, Sutherland Falls, Rutland Co, Vermont (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Carol Bush,   b. Bef 1754, Probably Rutland Co, Vermont d. Sutherland Falls, Rutland Co, Vermont
  Marriage	Vermont   [4]
  Family ID	F61	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Noah Cooley,   b. 2 Jul 1782, Pittsford, Republic of Vermont d. Aft 1850 (Age 68 years)
  Marriage	24 Jan 1804	Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont   [5]
  	Noted that Jane was age 16 when married (Noah was 21)
  Children	1. Andrew Sutherland Cooley,   b. 11 Jul 1804, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont d. 28 Oct 1890, Garnavillo Twp, Clayton Co, Iowa (Age 86 years)   2. Samuel Thurman Cooley,   b. 30 Mar 1806, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont d. 4 Jan 1892, Jonesville, Hillsdale Co, Michigan (Age 85 years)   3. Caleb Carroll Cooley,   b. 25 Mar 1808, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont d. 25 Jun 1878, Hudson, Lenawee County, Michigan (Age 70 years)   4. Jane Eliza Cooley,   b. 11 Oct 1811, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont d. 10 Oct 1871, Seneca, Lenawee Co, Michigan (Age 59 years)   5. Milton Potter Cooley,   b. 6 Apr 1818, Niagara County, New York d. 21 Aug 1894, Burr Oak, Saint Joseph Co, Michigan (Age 76 years)   6. Noah Beach Cooley,   b. 14 Nov 1819, Cambria Twp, Niagara Co, New York d. 7 Sep 1820, Cambria Twp, Niagara Co, New York (Age 0 years)   7. Mary Isabel Cooley,   b. 21 Feb 1823, Lockport Township, Niagara Co, New York d. Abt 1851, Farmington Twp, Oakland Co, Michigan (Age 27 years)   8. Benjamin F Cooley,   b. Abt 1825, New York d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F19	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Jul 2007

  
  

• Notes

  (Research):Jane's death is even more mysterious than Noah's because the last record about her I have been able to find is the 1840 U.S. Census, Michigan, Lenawee, Seneca. There is an 1845 Michigan state census but the summary on Ancestry.com lists only head of household, namely, Noah Cooley, MI, Lenawee, Seneca. On p46 of John William Sutherland and Allied Families by Millie A. Owings we have "Jane [Sutherland](3) (Peter(2), John William(1)] was the first daughter of Peter and Amy [Sutherland] and was born 24 Aug 1787 at Nine Partners, Dutchess county, New York and died 4 July 1854. A footnote in the JW Sutherland genealogy states that "One source says that Jane died in Lockport, Niagara county, New York. Another surce says she died in Seneca township, Lenawee County, Michigan where her children lived. We were unable to find a cemetery record for her either place. This paragraph is reproduced from Noah Cooley's research notes.: Noah Cooley, son of Col Benjamin, married Jane daughter of Peter Sutherland, January 24, 1804, and located on the west side of Otter Creek, upon land now owned by Ransom Burdett. The house he occupied, built by him, stood on the east side of the old road leading from the residence of Tilly Walker to that of Peter Rice--now R. Burdett's. The cellar of the house can still be seen in the pasture about thirty rods west of the railroad. Mr. Cooley resided there a few years, and then removed to the western country where he died, Jan 11, 1856. Mrs. Cooley died July 4, 1854. [These death dates are wrong; they come from p320 in Caverly's The History of Pittsford which was also wrong about Noah and Jane's children. Mortimer Cooley just copied these erroneous data to his Cooley Genealogy p492 and p547-8]. Amazingly, in the 1850 U.S. Census Noah (aged 68) turns up back in Pittsford VT living with his brother Azariah (70) and his wife Lydia. Alas, Jane is not with him. In 2008 I went to Michigna to investigate a conjecture that she died in Lenawee or Hillsdale counties but turned up nothing in the south-central area (see Owings' footnote above).

  
  

• Sources

  [S289] Mortimer Elwyn Cooley, Cooley Genealogy main, (The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland, Vermont, 1941), p548 (Reliability: 3). [S465] Millie A. Owings, Sutherland, JW, (Unpublished, 1988. Repository: Proctor Free Library, 4 Main St, Proctor Vermont 05765 (802-459-3539) ), p46 (Reliability: 3). [S777] Daniel Berton Cooley, Estimated, She was not with Noah in Vermont in 1850 and there are no cemetery records in Lenawee County Michigan. (Reliability: 3). [S783] William Edward Sutherland, Suth Clan membership, (Marilyn Long (granddaughter of William Skillman Sutherland)). [S300] Caverly, A.M. (Pittsford Historical Society, 1976), Pittsford Hist, (Tuttle & Co. Printers, Rutland, Vt, 1872).