John Wentworth

John married Ann Dennis on 1 Jan 1820 in Iowa. Ann was born on 19 Sep 1802 in Olive, Ulster Co, New York; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Maria Wentworth can be found in the "The Wentworth Genealogy: English and American", Little Brown & Company, Boston, 1878. Her parents were John Wentworth (1795-1879) and Ann Dennis b. 1802.

ObituaryGrandma Cooley mother of Mrs R.C. Miles and Mrs Wilcox and Mrs Moody of Dakota City, died Tuesday morning at the Miles home in this city, of old age and general debility. She was 77 years of age. Funeral services Thursday morning at 9:30 at the house, the remains being taken to Emerick for burial. She leaves an aged husband and three daughters as her immediate family, besides son-in-law and grandchildren and one great grandchild. - Norfolk Weekly News-Journal, 21 Dec 1900, p2, Norfolk, Madison Co, Nebraska

Maria married Stephen Warren Cooley on 1 Mar 1854 in Clayton County, Iowa. Stephen (son of Andrew Sutherland Cooley and Salome Warren) was born on 31 Oct 1831 in Oakland County, Michigan; died on 31 Dec 1906 in Alexandria, Douglas County, Minnesota; was buried about Dec 1906 in Emerick Cemetery, Madison Co, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maria married John Freeman on 8 Jun 1848. John died on 30 Jul 1850. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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

Family/Spouse: Nancy Wife of Albert Wallace Cooley. Nancy was born about 1885; died on 5 Feb 1886 in Clayton County, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Note: Stephen Warren Cooley was living with his daughter Luella Cooley Wilcox in Douglas County Minnesota at the time of his death in 1906

Luella married Remus Wesley Wilcox about 1891 in Iowa. Remus was born about Jul 1862 in Illinois; died on 14 Sep 1928 in Bremer County, Iowa; was buried about Sep 1928 in Harlington Cem, Waverly, Bremer Co, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ida married Charles Litchfield on 23 Aug 1882 in Elkader, Clayton Co, Iowa. Charles (son of William Litchfield and Sarah McEwan) died on 4 Nov 1923 in Minneapolis, Hennepin Co, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]