Andrew Sutherland Cooley

Notes:

Andrew S Cooley, Samuel T Cooley, and probably Caleb C Cooley were signers of an 1833 petition to the U.S. Government to re-route the Detroit-Grand River plank road to a more northerly bearing of higher elevation (roughly, present highway 24). It never happened and the former plank road is now US Interstate 96. - Carter, Clarence Edwin, "The Territorial Papers of the United States: Vol. XII, The Territory of Michigan 1829-1837"
Died at the home of Fred Cook, Garnavillo, on Tuesday, October 28, 1890, Andrew S. Cooley, at the advanced age of [86] years, 3 months and 17 days. Thus another of the pioneers of Clayton county has been called from the scene of his labors, to mingle with the silent majority beyond the tomb. Their labors here are ended, but their memories will be cherished. The best monument that can be erected to them, is this beautiful county, inhabited by the happiest people on earth. With its organization, A.S. Cooley was intimately connected. He was one of the earliest inhabitants and for nearly 60 years, his home was on its soil. Few of us are destined to witness the changes of life that he has witnessed during his long career. This sacred soil which he helped to wrest from the savages has become the home of thousands. He has witnessed the gradual advancement from the rude slow pioneer life, with its manifold trials and dangers, to the rush and rant of our modern civilization, and with the realization of a well spent life, he finds eternal rest among the scenes of his labors. Andrew Sutherland Cooley was born in the Pittsford, Rutland county, Vermont July 11, 1804. When eight years old his parents removed to Niagara county, New York, where he was raised on a farm. March 10, 1825, he married Miss Salome Warren, of Cambria, N.Y., a descendant of Jos. Warren of Revolutionary fame. In 1830 they emigrated west, and located in Franklin, Oakland county, Mich., where they resided until 1834. But that spirit of the typical New Englander, which compels him to seek new scenes, drove him further west. He left his wife and five children in Michigan and sought a new home in Iowa. He landed at Dubuque where he found employment with Dr. McCraney, on a farm. In the spring of 1835 he returned to Michigan by team, intending to bring his family to Dubuque. In the meantime his wife and family, not hearing from him had returned to New York, as they supposed him to have been killed by Indians. He at once started on this tedious journey, found his family and brought them to Dubuque, where they arrived November 20th, 1835. After remaining in Dubuque two years they came in company with Dr. Andros to Clayton county. There was at that time not a town, church or school house in this county. They broke up some prairie and raised a small crop about one mile south of Garnavillo, what is now called the old Beckman farm. In the fall of 1837 they located on the banks of the Turkey river in Millville township. They remained here until 1839 when they again returned to the prairie near Garnavillo and in 1840 took up and improved some government land three miles south of the town. There they made their home until 1872, when the old homestead was sold and another farm purchased in Mendon township near McGregor, which was their home until 1883, since which time they have resided with their daughter, Mrs. Fred Cook.
Of the 17 children born to them 11 survive. His remains were buried at the old cemetery on Thursday. Rev. R. W. Wilcox of Clayton officiated.

(Research):David Coomer-AS Cooley land description comparison, Oakland County, Michigan

David Coomer 3 Dec 1830 W

Andrew married Salome Warren on 10 Mar 1825 in Lockport Township, Niagara Co, New York. Salome was born about Aug 1809 in Massachusetts; died on 2 Nov 1895 in Elkader, Clayton Co, Iowa; was buried about Nov 1895 in Old Garnavillo Cemetery, Clayton Co, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth: 1830 Michigan Census; Two female children ages under 5 listed, not found in Iowa 1840 census ages 10-15; They would have had to have been born in New York since Andrew S. Jr. was born in New York (ref 1850 census)

Notes:

Birth: 1830 Michigan Census; Two female children ages under 5 listed, not found in Iowa 1840 census ages 10-15; They would have had to have been born in New York since Andrew S. Jr. was born in New York (ref 1850 census)

Andrew married Ida Patience Wadsworth about 1860 in Probably Sierra County California. Ida was born on 16 Oct 1841 in Illinois; died on 15 Oct 1926 in Alameda County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Warren Cooley

Notes:

He was known exclusively as Warren Cooley, including official records
From the 1900 US Census, Nebraska, Madison County, Battle Creek Village, Stephen Warren and wife Maria are found in the Remus Wilcox household, husband of daughter Luella Cooley.
From Stephen's obituary the Remus Wilcox familly, including father-in-law Stephen Cooley, moved to Alexandria, Douglas County in the month of October 1905.

Alexandria Citizen
Alexandria, Douglas County, Minnesota
Thursday, December 20, 1906
p 1, col. 5.
S. W. Cooley, aged 75 years, 1 month and 13 days, died in this village at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. R. Wilcox, Thursday evening, Dec. 13th, at eleven o'clock. The immediate cause of death was cancer of the mouth, from which malady he had been a sufferer for some time past. The funeral was held at the Methodist parsonage Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, the services being conducted by Rev. Davies, presiding elder of the M. E. church in this district. The remains were taken to Madison County, Nebraska for burial. Rev. Wilcox accompanied the remains, which went forward from here Sunday evening. Stephen Warren Cooley was born in the state of New York in 1831. When but three years of age he removed with his parents to Dubuque, Iowa, where they resided for a brief time, and then removed to Clayton county, Iowa, where deceased lived during the greater portion of his lifetime. About fifteen years ago Mr. Cooley went to live with his children in the state of Nebraska, and came to Alexandria when his daughter, Mrs. W. R. Wilcox, moved here with her husband one year ago last October. Mr. Cooley was married in 1851 to Mrs. Marie Freeman. Seven children were born to them, three of whom survive. They are Mrs. C. A. Wilcox and Mrs. W. R. Wilcox of this village, and Mrs. R. C. Miles of Madison county, Nebraska, to which place the remains were taken for burial. He is also survived by a brother, who resides upon a farm near West Union, Iowa. Mr. Cooley was a life-long member of the M.E. church. He was a man of firm and unswerving integrity, and one whose Christian faith and character was reflected in every step of his daily life. Although a resident of this county but a short time, those who made his acquaintance appreciated his true worth and all regret the departure of this fine Christian gentleman.

Emerick Cemetery, Madison County, Nebraska At one time at this site there was a post office, a store or two, a church, and a cemetery. All that is left is the cemetery. Emerick Cemetery still has an association and is well maintained. From Meadow Grove NE. 9 miles south west side of Road. 833 RD & 539 Ave. This cemetery was walked & recorded in Sept 2005 and is current as of Jan. 2007. Ralph K Larson - menrk@yahoo.com

Stephen married Maria Wentworth on 1 Mar 1854 in Clayton County, Iowa. Maria (daughter of John Wentworth and Ann Dennis) was born on 5 Dec 1823 in New York; died on 18 Dec 1900 in Norfolk, Madison Co, Nebraska; was buried about Dec 1900 in Emerick Cemetery, Madison Co, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In 1860, according to the US Census, Thomas M Cooly was residing with his brother, Andrew S Cooly, in La Porte, Sierra County, California. His occupation was 'miner', and, strangely, the answer to the question "Married Within Year" was "Yes". However, only to two Cooley brothers are living in dwelling #231 in La Porte. See next paragraph. Could Thomas have been married to Ana Chavez in California?
In some Ancestry Family Trees, Tom

Notes:

This entry because of the 1840 US Iowa census entry Female Age 5-10. She could have been older than Stephen W. or Andrew L. (both 5-10) but I put her in 1834 because of the gap between Stephen W. (b. 1832) & Thomas W. (b. 1836).

Notes:

The 1840 Iowa census lists a male child under 5 whereas he does not appear in the 1850 census. I placed him older than Noah because of the gap between Thomas (17 in 1850) and Noah (12 in 1850).

Notes:

Noah's younger sister Emily Cooley married a brother of Ruth Gladden, William Gladden
From 1900 US census: Age, 61; birth date, Sept 1838; birthplace, Iowa; home in 1900, Leavenworth Ward 3, Leavenworth Kansas; 2nd precinct; (lives on) Delaware St; house nr, 1101; dwelling number, 62; family number, 65; head of household; spouse Ruth Cooley; marriage year, 1869; father's birthplace, Vermont; mother's birthplace, New York; occupation, stone mason; home, mortgaged; household members, 4.
In the 1910 census a curious assemblage has taken place in the Daniel Byron Cooley household. The Noah Cooley household comprising Noah (Norah), 72 (father); Ruth, 63 (mother); William W, 45 (brother), and Hersey, 39, (brother) has reunited with Daniel, his wife Minnie and their five children. William W. and Hersey (Husse) obviously have no children. Otherwise, the enumerator got just about everything wrong. The birth place of Noah is listed as Ohio (was Iowa), Ruth Gladden's birth place is listed as Kentucky (was Wisconsin) and both of their parents also in Ohio and Kentucky respectvely.

Noah married Ruth Gladden before 1856 in Leavenworth, Leavenworth Co, Kansas. Ruth (daughter of Robert Gladden and Elizabeth E. Carlin) was born about Aug 1840 in Wisconsin Territory; died about Mar 1916 in Leavenworth, Leavenworth Co, Kansas; was buried about Mar 1916 in Mt Muncie Cemetery, Lansing, Leavenworth Co, Kansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Emily's elder brother, Noah, was married to Ruth Gladden, a sister of William Gladden

Emily married William R. Gladden on 9 Dec 1858 in Clayton County, Iowa. William (son of Robert Gladden and Elizabeth E. Carlin) was born about 1838 in Wisconsin Territory; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

After comparing all available censuses from 1850 thru 1900 a middle initial of "T" rises to the top. The 1850 census was especially wrong with his name "Louis F". Also, in Garnavillo: Gem of the Prairie it is spelled "Lewis" with a "T".

Census locations of Lewis T CooleyIn 1850 in Andrew S Cooley household in Garnavillo, Clayton Co, Iowa; 1856, same; 1860, same; 1870, separate household; 1880 own houshold in Mendon Co Iowa; on June 1st 1885 in Charles Mix, Dakota Territory; on June 10th 1900 in Dry Creek, Pierce, Nebraska
Lewis' death information is unknown. He appeared in the 1900 US Census, NE Dry Creek aged 57 along with his wife Etta A aged 37 and Warren (21), Elsie (13), and Alta (6). He does not appear in any 1920 census while his wife Etta as head of household and son Warren are found in the Port Angeles Washington 1920 census.

(Research): There are two Lewis Cooleys listed in the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War website (SUVCW website: http://www.suvcwdb.org) (1) Lewis Newman Cooley buried Bloomington WI and a (2) Lewis F Cooley, served in the 14th Iowa Inf, GAR Post 615 bur Oakridge Cem, Cook Co, IL. Neither of these Lewises are our Lewis so it can be concluded that, although he was registered in the Civil War draft, he was not a Civil War Veteran as was his brother Peter S. Cooley.

Lewis married Etta A Wife of Lewis T Cooley before 1876 in Probably Clayton County, Iowa. Etta was born about Jul 1852 in Howard, Fulton Co, Illinois; died about 1935 in Port Angeles, Clallam Co, Washington; was buried about 1935 in Mount Angeles Memorial Park, Clallam Co, Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Peter S Cooley enlisted in the Union Army as a private on 22 Aug 1862 at the age of 19. He was mustered in to Co E, 27th Infantry Regiment Iowa on 29 Aug 1862. He was promoted to full 8th corporal on 20 Nov 1864 and to full 5th corporal on 1 Jul 1865. He mustered out of the same company on 8 Aug 1865 at Clinton, Iowa.
Since Peter was living as an invalid in Garnavillo, Clayton County, Iowa according to the US Census of 1860 and 1870, his brother, Robert Reed, who was caring for him, moved from Garnavillo to McGregor, Clayton County, Iowa between June of 1870 and August of 1873 when Peter died in McGregor.
The following note copied by Viola Kyffin Cooley that accompanied a handstamp now possessed by Daniel Berton Cooley: "Peter S. Cooley 1843-1873; This printing press belonged to Peter S. Cooley, a Civil War veteran, Co. E 27th Iowa Infantry. He died Aug. 15, 1873 from wounds received in action at Murfreesboro, Tennessee". On the underside of the handstamp there is an engraving as follows "Pat'd Nov.14,1871".
From the Flagler (Colorado) News Vol 5, #50 (3 Jan 1918): "For three years (Robert Reed Cooley) took care of a helpless brother who was wounded in the Civil War".
A Civil War pension was applied for by his mother Salome Cooley 8 Feb 1871, Invalid, application nr 163060; certificate nr 114926 21 July 1884, Mother, " 312265; " 211617 in Iowa

Notes:

Many official documents wrongly listed Hersey Churchill Cooley's given name as "Hershey" as well as his son, Hersey Blake Cooley whose gravestone in Rose Hill Cemtery, Spearfish, SD reads "Hershey B".
The name Hersey is very likely a Hebrew variant of the name Hershel which is a is a given name and a surname of German and Jewish origins. The meaning of Herschel is deer or stag deriving from the Yiddish form of the Hebrew Zvi/Tzvi. The stag is the symbol of the Israelite Tribe of Naphtali.

(Medical):Sudden death, fell dead on street

Hersey married Cristina A. Thompson before 1880 in Fayette County, Iowa. Cristina was born about Dec 1848 in Pennsylvania; died about 1928 in Fayette County, Iowa; was buried about 1928 in West Union Cem, West Union, Fayette Co, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

ROBERT REED COOLEY ANSWERS LAST CALLThe Flagler (Colorado) News Vol. V, No. 50, 3 Jan 1918, p. 4., col. 3 Will A. Borland, ed This community was grieved last Friday when the word was spread about town that Robert Cooley had passed away on 28 Dec 1917. Mr. Cooley was a man who was held in the highest esteem by all who knew him, and while the writer had known him but two years, still I had learned to love and respect him. His genial disposition and hearty greeting had endeared him to our people and he will be greatly missed in the community. Robert Reed Cooley was born to Andrew Sutherland Cooley and Salome Warren Cooley in Garnavillo, Iowa 14 May 1847 and died at his home near Flagler, Colo., December 28, 1917, at the age of 70 years, 7 months and 14 days, death being due to apoplexy [a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain]. Funeral services were held at the Congregational church in Flagler on Monday morning, December 31st [1918], at 11 o'clock, conducted by the pastor, Rev. A. W. Moore. His text was found in Phil. 1-21: "To me, to live is Christ, to die is gain." Businesses of Flagler were closed during services. He lived with his parents in Garnavillo [Clayton County, Iowa] until young manhood, when he and his father, A. S. Cooley, disposed of his [?] property near that place and purchased a farm near McGregor, Iowa, where he was in the lumber business several years. He was united in marriage with Stella A. Owen on December 10, 1874 in McGregor, Clayton County, Iowa. To this union were born four children: Twins Herbert Merton (Mert) and Robert Berton (Bert) on 20 Oct 1875 in McGregor, Clayton County, Iowa; Verne Alton on 8 May 1880 in McGregor, and Glenn Syren on 14 Jul 1894 in Plainview, Pierce County, Nebraska. Herbert Merton was drowned in the Missouri River near Yankton, S.D., 4 Nov 1914 and Verne Alton died at McGregor Iowa, 5 Aug 1881, at the age of 15 months. In the spring of 1886 Robert Reed and his family consisting of himself, wife Stella, and twin sons Mert and Bert moved to Plainview, Nebr., where he resided until the spring of 1910 when he migrated to Kit Carson County Colorado where he bought a relinquishment northwest of Flagler. Robert Cooley was a true man; a man who gave almost his entire life to the service of others. For three years he took care of a helpless brother who was wounded in the Civil War [Peter S. Cooley]. This ordeal practically undermined his health, but he never complained. Mr. Cooley is survived by his wife, Stella, and two sons, Robert Berton of Otis, Colo., and Glenn Syren of Flagler. He is also survived by six grand-children, one of whom, Ronald Cooley, has lived with his grandparents since the death of his mother, Elizabeth Holliday Cooley, in December of 1907. A large number of sympathizing friends and associates assembled to pay their last respects to one whom they loved, and the business houses of Flagler were closed during the services. The floral offerings were abundant and beautiful. The last remains were laid to their final rest in the Flagler cemetery. The News joins with the large circle of friend and acquaintances in extending sympathy to the bereaved wife and children in their time of sorrow.

Card of Thanks, col 3, same edition "We desire to extend our sincere thanks to the neighbors and friends who so kindly gave of their assistance and sympathy during the late illness, death and burial of our loved one, Robert Cooley. We especially wish to thank the business men of Flagler and other, for the beautiful floral offerings." /s/ Mrs. Robert Cooley, Glenn Cooley, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Cooley, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Owen, Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Groves, Mrs. L. A. Shaffer, Mrs. Mary I. Hicks

(Medical):I hereby certify that I attended deceased from Dec 22, 1917 to Dec 28, 1917, (signed) H.L. Williams MD, 12/28/1917, Flagler Colorado

Robert married Stella Alfresine Owen on 10 Dec 1874 in McGregor, Clayton Co, Iowa. Stella (daughter of Ambrose Owen and Miranda L. Diggins) was born on 21 May 1850 in Alden Twp, McHenry Co, Illinois; died on 10 Jun 1920 in Flagler, Kit Carson Co, Colorado; was buried on 11 Jun 1920 in Flagler Cemetery, Kit Carson Co, Colorado. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A small newspaper cllipping from the Oelwein Daily Register, Oelwein, Fayette Co, Iowa dated 27 Jul 1946 states that during its Centennial a cane at least 100 years old owned by Andrew S. Cooley father of Mrs. Lee Cook (Clara S. Cooley) was on display in Ritchie's window.
Clara S Cook, wid Fred appears in the Dubuque City Directory of 1911 on page 159. She is a clerk at J.F. Stampfer Co. and resides at 2729 Pine St with her son Lee F Cook (also an entry on p159) and his wife Malinda M. Lee was a conductor on the C.G.W. Line (Chicago, Great Western Railroad) most of his working life.
The Order of Eastern Star of Elkader, Iowa, was organized on the 27th day of February, 1894, and on October 4th, 1894, their charter was granted, with 23 charter members. Among the first officers was Clara Cook.

(Medical):See attached sources.

Clara married Frederick Cook about 1869 in Probably Iowa. Frederick was born on 21 Mar 1846 in Chillicothe, Ross Co, Ohio; died on 17 Dec 1902 in Elkader, Clayton Co, Iowa; was buried about Dec 1902 in Garnavillo Community Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Middle initial could be C, E, S, or J. The 1870 US Census "J" is the clearest.
From four census Ella ? Cooley is found in the Andrew S Cooley household. Her census-estimated birth year is 1850. In the 1870 US census she is still in the same household aged 20 and her occupation is "seamstress". After 1870 she disappears from all online records. There are slight possibilities for her existence all the way to 1900 but nothing definitive can be drawn from any of the Ella Cooleys since 1870. One thing is certain: She is NOT Ella Isadore Cooley who died in 1869 as shown in several Ancestry family trees (Dec 2020).

Notes:

The only source for Isabel is the 1860 United States census. There is a middle initial there but it is undecipherable. It may be an "S".

Notes:

From Warren Cooley's obituary of his father, Andrew Sutherland Cooley: "Son Willard K. died in 1855". Since no further information is forthcoming I have placed Willard as the last child of Andrew and Salome. I will not attempt a birthdate.

Herbert married Harriet J. "Hattie" Dobson on 12 Sep 1912 in Oakland, Alameda Co, California. Harriet was born on 5 Apr 1871 in San Francisco, San Francisco Co, California; died on 15 Sep 1966 in Oakland, Alameda Co, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married Carie (wife of Charles Malcolm Cooley) [?] about 1907 in California. Carie was born about 1873 in Missouri; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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]

Notes:

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]

William married Nettie J. Atkinson on 10 Aug 1898 in Leavenworth, Leavenworth Co, Kansas. Nettie was born about 1870 in Kansas; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Daniel married Minnie Spain on 11 Jun 1900 in Leavenworth, Leavenworth Co, Kansas. Minnie was born est 1883 in Missouri; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1910 census a curious assemblage has taken place in the Daniel Byron Cooley household. The Noah Cooley household comprising Noah (Norah), 72 (father); Ruth, 63 (mother); William W, 45 (brother), and Hersey, 39, (brother) has reunited with Daniel, his wife Minnie and their five children. William W. and Hersey (Husse) obviously have no children. Otherwise, the enumerator got just about everything wrong. The birth place of Noah is Ohio (was Iowa), Ruth Gladden is Kentucky (was Wisconsin) and both of their parents also in Ohio and Kentuch respectvely.

Notes:

She was listed in the family of Andrew Sutherland Cooley in 1870 but her father (William) and mother (Emily C. Cooley) are not there. She "att school".

Anna married Justus Warren Thorp on 31 Jul 1882 in McGregor, Clayton Co, Iowa. Justus was born about 1850 in Probably Iowa; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In a Social Security Application, Verna Mildred Fosdick applied, SSN 538-62-8083; father Wiley C Fosdick, mother, Elsie I Cooley (sic); Verna was born in Pierce County, Nebraska on 15 Dec 1899 and she d. Nov 1980.

Family/Spouse: Wiley Centennial Fosdick. Wiley was born on 5 Jul 1876 in Oneida Co, New York; died on 25 Mar 1952 in Seattle, King Co, Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Worked for Washington Pulp & Paper Corp, Port Angeles in 1929.

Warren married Hazel May Brronner on 25 Dec 1935 in Port Angeles, Clallam Co, Washington. Hazel was born about 1893; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Death Cause: 9 Apr 1966, Spearfish, Lawrence Co, South Dakota; Emphysema, severe Cor-pulmonic

Notes:

Many official documents wrongly listed Hersey Churchill Cooley's given name as "Hershey" as well as his son, Hersey Blake Cooley whose gravestone in Rose Hill Cemtery, Spearfish, SD reads "Hershey B".
Note: Hersey Blake Cooley not in 1905 South Dakota state census

Obituary
H.B. Cooley Rites Conducted Tuesday (12 Apr 1966) Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at the Fidler Funeral Chapel for Hershey (sic) B. Cooley who died Saturday, April 9, at the Dorsett home where he had been a resident for the past two weeks. The Rev. L. Don Veglahn officiated at the services with burial in Rosehill cemetery. Music was furnished by Mrs. Ray Fidler, organist Mr Cooley was born at Clayton, Iowa, Oct 16, 1880, the son of the late N.C. and Elvira Cooley. On Dec. 22, 1905, he was married to Theresa M. Doleshaul at Clairmont, Iowa. The family homesteaded near Kadoka in 1919 and in 1932 moved to Custer. In 1933 they moved to Spearfish where, in later years, Mr. Cooley operated a nursery at 1430 N. Third St. Mrs. Cooley died on May 26, 1951. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Ann Cross of Pendleton, Ore, and Mrs. Oma Rothmeyer of Spearfish; four sons, Don Cooley of Belle Fourche, Clyde of Spearfish, Harry of Tillamook, Ore, and Robert of Roseburg, Ore; 13 grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and one sister, Mrs Clara Butler of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In addition to his wife and parents, he was preceded in death by one son, Joe, one brother, and one sister. - The Rapid City Daily Journal, April 13, 1966

Death Cause:
Emphysema, severe Cor-pulmonic; Interval between onset and death: 12 years

Hersey married Theressa Marie Doleschal on 21 Dec 1905 in Clermont, Fayette Co, Iowa. Theressa was born about 1883 in Iowa; died on 26 May 1951 in Lawrence County, South Dakota; was buried about May 1951 in Rosehill Cemetery, Spearfish, Lawrence Co, South Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Clyde married Edith Sara Cooke about 1925. Edith was born about Oct 1885 in Illinois; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Clara married Robert Delbert Butler on 1 Jun 1939 (Solemnized) in Oelwein, Fayette Co, Iowa. Robert was born after 1 Jun 1884 in Oelwein, Fayette Co, Iowa; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Bert

Notes:

Robert Berton Cooley (Bert) and his twin brother, Herbert Merton (Mert), were born 15 Oct 1875 to Robert Reed Cooley (1840-1917) and Stella Alfresine Owen (1850-1920) in McGregor, Iowa "right on the banks of the Mississippi River" as my Grandpa Bert Cooley told me.
The twins grew up in the McGregor area. Some time before 1894[i] the Robert Reed Cooley family consisting of Dad, Mom, Bert, and Mert came to Pierce County, Nebraska, where they settled in Plainview.
Some time before 1896[ii] Samuel Jasper Miller and his wife Mary Ellen Nickerson and his eight children moved from Iowa to Plainview. Amongst the children was Carrie Louella Miller b. 27 May 1883 in Beaman, Iowa, future wife of Robert Berton Cooley.
Bert and Carrie Louella (Lou) were wed 3 Jan 1903 in Plainview. Later in that same year, their first child, Orville Dale was born. Two other children, Carlyle Berton (b. 1905) and Leo (b. 1907), were born in Plainview but did not survive childhood.
At some point before 1906[iii] Mert acquired the Crofton Journal newspaper at Crofton, Knox County, Nebraska. Meanwhile, Bert and his wife, Carrie Louella Miller, had moved to McLean Nebraska where both taught school.
Ronald Delos Cooley was born to Herbert Merton and Elizabeth Holliday in Crofton 28 Jan 1906 and their second child, Merton Beth Cooley, was born 7 Dec 1907. Unfortunately, their mother, Elizabeth Holliday, died shortly after Beth was born. Because of the tragic loss of their mother, Ronald went to live with his grandparents, RR Cooley and Stella Owen in Plainview, Nebraska, and Beth went to live with his uncle RB Cooley in McLean, Nebraska.
In 1910 the Robert Reed Cooley family consisting of RR, Stella, Glenn, and grandchild Ronald Delos, and the Robert Berton Cooley family consisting of RB, wife CL Miller, first child Dale, and nephew Merton Beth, migrated to Kit Carson County Colorado. The RR Cooleys purchased a relinquishment just at the west edge of Flagler and the RB Cooleys purchased 158 acres about four miles west and five miles north of Flagler.
At the same time, the Samuel Jasper Miller family also migrated to Colorado but they landed in Washington County. All of the Miller children, with the exception of eldest son Odes Bert (Carrie Louella, wife of RB Cooley migrated with the Cooleys) came to Colorado and all filed on homesteads in the Anton area of Washington County.
The RB Cooley family "...was on a homestead nine miles northwest of Flagler and we had three years to prove up the claim," said his nephew, Beth Cooley. Bert began in Colorado as a teacher, earning $40 per month at the Huntley school about seven miles due north of Flagler while Lou taught at the Van Patten school at $35 per month. In the summer of 1910 when school was out he joined his Grandpa SJ Miller's threshing crew to run the engine. Since the crops near Flagler had failed in 1910, Grandpa Miller had decided to head north where the crops fared better that year. One day Bert was working about 30 miles north of Flagler near Otis Colo., when he observed the town didn't have a newspaper. That fall Bert began planning for a newspaper in Otis.
"The big reason [for starting a newspaper] was that almost all of the settlers were homesteading, and the law required that anyone who "proved up" on a homestead had to make a publication in a newspaper in the area. These publications were published for a period of six weeks and the homesteader had to pay a publication fee of $5.[iv]
Bert was fortunate enough to find an empty, one and a half story building on the main street (Washington Avenue). It was located on the east side of the street just south of the yard part of the Akron-Otis Lumber Company. The front part was used as a printing office with a rear part partitioned off as a bedroom. At the back of the building was a sort of lean-to about 15 feet square. This was the kitchen and dining area. In order to get to the two bedrooms upstairs, it was necessary to go outside, climb a flight of steps and then walk on two two-by-eight planks laid across the semi-flat roof of the lean-to to get into the upstairs apartment. [Our biggest] concern was water for domestic use. There was no municipal water system and those who lived in town had cisterns which were kept full by a man named Fred Bowen who owned a wooden tank on a wagon. It had a hand pump on it and he would deliver you a supply of water for 50 cents."
"Dad started in the newspaper business from scratch," remembered his son, Coyne Cooley. "He started the Independent on a $250 loan [from his brother-in-law, Odes Bert Miller of Iowa]...that was in 1911, and I was born the next year. We had quarters above the newspaper office, so that's what you call being born into the business." He bought some used equipment and "hired a bum printer to start the paper in Otis just to print legals", said Beth. The first edition (v1#1) of the Otis Independent was published on 5 Jan 1911.[v]
When the Independent was started there were less than 100 people living in Otis. The newspaper consisted of four pages, the front and back was "home print"; that is, the type was set in the shop and printed there. The two inside pages were called "patent" which were supplied by the Western Newspaper Union (out of business by 1982).
During the early years of the newspaper in Otis, the RB Cooley Flagler property was occupied by Lou, Dale, and Beth during the winter months, putting in the time necessary to prove up. Lou taught school, Dale went with her, and Beth was "farmed out" to a neighbor lady (in today's parlance, sent to childcare). Lou and Dale traveled in an open buggy drawn by a single mare who sometimes engaged in the capricious practice known as "balking". That is, a situation where the horse refuses to move when asked to do so. It is very exasperating."
They proved up the [Flagler] claim in March of 1913 and moved to Otis for good.
Tragically, a year later in 1914 Mert was drowned in an automobile accident on the Yankton (SD) pontoon bridge. With the untimely death of his twin brother Bert, sold the OI and he and the family left Otis and moved to Crofton, Nebraska where they continued the operation of Mert's newspaper, the Crofton Journal.
As time went on in that northeast corner of Nebraska near the Missouri River, Bert began to have problems with severe allergies (hay fever). With the climate adversely affecting him he disposed of the Crofton newspaper in 1916 and the family returned to Otis arriving on Election Day, Nov 14, 1916. Bert bought the Independent back and resumed operation of the paper he had founded. Those were the only two years the Cooleys were not involved in a Colorado paper.
"In 1917 we built our new house in Otis and we took the high school principal as a roomer. He was 22 year of age and just out of the University of Denver."[vi] Dale speculates that the principal probably influenced his choice of university as DU from which he graduated.
At some point after their return from Nebraska, the newspaper office was moved "to a make-shift shop adjoining William Whiterhurst's store [on the north]. This had been used as a place to grind and mix feed." At this new location Bert bought a typesetting machine that "was better than doing it by hand, but not much". But a clothing store located in the old grocery store adjoining the Independent office on the south caught fire and was destroyed (no date given). "The Independent was saved by the fact that the north wall of the store [and south wall of the office] was of solid concrete and the fire failed to penetrate."
Not long after that, the chance arose to get a building that had been built out as a drugstore for Justin Hay on the east side of the street across from "the hotel". Shortly, the shop was moved there, the third location for the Otis Independent since RB Cooley started the newspaper.
With the assistance of his wife and sons, he continued to operate the Otis newspaper until 1928 when they traded the paper to J.S. "Stat" Tohill for the Monte Vista Tribune. Tohill came to Otis to operate the Independent but shortly, he sold the newspaper to John W. Graves in 1929. Graves operated it until his death, Feb 22, 1982, and was closely associated with the Cooleys for over 50 years.
Meantime, in Monte Vista, Bert assumed operation of the Tribune but a few months later a better opportunity arose in Akron Colo., county seat of Washington County, whose economy was bustling in the prosperity of the pre-depression years. R.B. sold the Monte Vista Tribune and came to Akron in February of 1929 with his wife Lou, three sons, Dale, Coyne, and Bob, and two nephews, Ronald and Beth.
Akron was a little railroad town and farming community of only a few more than 1200 residents yet it boasted two newspapers, the Akron News and the Akron Reporter. Bert purchased both newspapers which were quickly consolidated resulting in the single newspaper, the Akron News-Reporter the first edition of which was published March 7, 1929. It reported details of a coroner's inquest into death of an Akron man and his son in a train accident, a fire at the Washington County Fairgrounds in Akron, and carried a front page picture of the inauguration of President Calvin Coolidge and Vice President Charles G. Dawes.
Since having five sons working on a small weekly newspaper was overkill, in 1937 Bert purchased the Eastern Colorado Leader in Limon and Dale and Ronald were sent down there to assume operation of the newspaper. Soon they acquired the Genoa Sentinel, the two papers were consolidated, and the Limon Leader was born.
Youngest son, Bob exited the Akron News-Reporter in 1943, went to his wife Eleanor Newcomb's hometown, Mountain Home Idaho, where he started the Mountain Home News. Soon Bob began to feel the ill-effects of arthritis so he moved down to the drier climate of Arizona where he eventually became a Professor of Journalism at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff in 1976.
R.B. and Lou owned the Akron News-Reporter until 1955 when they retired and turned the operation over to Coyne and Beth who formed a partnership shortly thereafter.
In 1972 the Limon Leader was sold and Dale and Ronald went into retirement. When the Akron News-Reporter was sold in 1979 it marked the end of the Cooley family newspaper dynasty "since none of the children was interested in getting into the business", Coyne said. That was mostly true until Jim, son of Ronald, took over the Oxford (Nebraska) News and is still publishing the newspaper in 2013.
After a brief illness, Robert Berton Cooley died in the Washington County Hospital in Akron, Colo. On 12 Dec 1962. He was buried in the Otis Cemetery.
His wife, Carrie Louella Miller died in the Nursing Wing on the south side of Washington County Hospital 10 Aug 1973 and she also was buried in the Otis Cemetery.
------------------------------------------------------i Their fourth child, Glenn Syren Cooley, was born in Plainview 14 Jul 1894. ii His youngest child, Letta May Miller was born in Plainview 18 Mar 1896. iii Mert's first child, Ronald Delos Cooley was born in Crofton 28 Jan 1906 when Mert had control of the Crofton Journal. iv "Otis, the People, the Places, and the Newspaper" by Dale Cooley, The Otis Independent, vol 70 no 14 v *From some later edition numbers (e.g. vol 30, no 51 dated 18 Dec 1941) I have determined that v1#1 of the OI lay in the range Dec 25, 1910 to Jan 5, 1911. Since most accounts say the OI began publication in 1911 I will summarily establish 5 Jan 1911 (a Thursday) as the date of the first edition, v1#1.
vi Dale

(Medical):I attended the deceased from November 11, 1962 to December 12, 1962 and last saw him alive on December 12, 1962. Death occurred at 5:25 A.M. on the date stated above. Attendant: Park D. Keller, MD, Akron, Colo. Dec. 13, 1962

Robert married Carrie Louella Miller on 3 Jan 1903 in Plainview, Pierce Co, Nebraska. Carrie (daughter of Samuel Jasper Miller and Mary Ellen Nickerson) was born on 27 May 1883 in Beaman, Grundy Co, Iowa; died on 10 Aug 1973 in Akron, Washington Co, Colorado; was buried on 13 Aug 1973 in Otis Cemetery, Washington Co, Colorado. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Mert
• Occupation: Crofton, Knox Co, Nebraska; newspaperman

Notes:

From Yankton Press and Dakotan, 4 Nov 1914
TRAGEDY AT MISSOURI RIVER
Two Men from Crofton lose lives at river early this morning
THE CAR PLUNGED INTO STREAM
TWO IN CAR ESCAPE AND TELL THRILLING STORY OF ACCIDENT O.W. Cass, a druggist of Crotfton Neb, and H.M. Cooley, editor of the Crofton Journal were drowned in the Missouri River at 2 o'clock this morning when Mr. Cass' auto, a Ford, plunged over the side of the pontoon bridge into 12 to 14 feet of water. O.D. Salley, barber, and L.S. Ross, jeweler, also of Crofton, were members of the party but although both experienced the terrible plunge into the river and hit the sandbar at the bottom, both managed to rise clear of the car and get to shore but hardly able to relate how; Salley especially, who was nearly drowned, is in a state of collapse over the loss of his intimate friend, Mr. Cooley.
[The bodies of Cass and Cooley were never found]

(Medical):Car plunged from the Yankton Pontoon Bridge into the Missouri River, body never recovered.

Occupation:
until his death in 1914

Herbert married Jane Elizabeth Holliday on 26 Apr 1905 in Holliday Farm, Knox Co, Nebraska. Jane (daughter of Hugh Sutton Holliday and Jane Dufton) was born on 20 Mar 1884 in Castle Sowerby, Cumberland, England; died on 1 Jan 1908 in Crofton, Knox Co, Nebraska; was buried about Jan 1908 in Pleasant View Cemetery, Pierce Co, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Herbert married Edith Jones on 29 Jun 1910 in Crofton, Knox Co, Nebraska. Edith (daughter of Richard Thomas Jones, 1 and Josephine Hurley) was born on 15 Aug 1879 in Iowa; died after Aug 1911 in Possibly Colorado. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Note that his mother, Stella, wrote his given names "Alton Verne" but his gravestone is inscribed "Verne A".

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Syron G Cooley

Notes:

He may have been named after his uncle, Syren Owen b. 1846 to Ambrose Owen and Miranda Diggins.
April 1938 applied for marriage license in Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona under name S. Glenn Cooley to Ivy W. Howe.
He went by the name Glenn S Cooley until he was married to his second wife, Ivy W Howe, when he changed it to Syron G. Cooley. He died still using this name.

(Research):According to the 1920 U.S. census, Colorado, Kit Carson Co, Glenn Syren was a lumber yard laborer; In 1930, California, San Diego Co, he was in real estate

Known public data about Glenn1894, 14 Jul Glenn Syren Cooley was born in Plainview Nebraska 1917, 5 Jun Glenn S Cooley signed a WWI Draft Registration card, address Flagler Colo, occu farmer employed by Robt Cooley, single 1920 Census US, Colo, Kit Carson, Flagler, Glenn S Cooley, age 26, son; Ronald Cooley, age 14, grandson; Stella Cooley, head, age 70 1925 Riverside Calif Directory, Glenn S. Cooley, pntr; Elizabeth Cooley; 317 N Mulberry 1930 Census Calif, San Diego, San Diego, Glen S Cooley, head, age at last birthday, 34; Elizabeth, wife, age 30 1930 San Diego City and County Directory, Glenn S Cooley, slsmn Saml Rose; Eliz Cooley spouse; address 2106 'K' 1940 Census Calif, San Diego, San Diego, Syron G Cooley, head, 35 (error), Monroe St, painter-contractor; Ivy Cooley wife, age 45; Pauline Howe, age 25 1940 San Diego City and County Directory, Syron G. Cooley, carp; Ida W Cooley, 3685 Monroe Ave 1942 San Diego City and County Directory, Syron G. Cooley, pntr; Ivy W Cooley, 3685 Monroe Ave 1959 San Diego City and County Directory, Syren G Cooley, pntr contr; Ivy W Cooley, 3685 Monroe Ave "h do" 1962. 3 Jul Syron G Cooley died ae 67 in San Diego (California Death Index) 1969, 23 Nov Ivy W Cooley died ae 80 in San Diego (California Death Index)
Possibly named after his maternal granduncle Syren Ambrose Owen.

Glenn married Ivy Wood Stebbing-Howe on 24 Apr 1938 in Yuma, Yuma Co, Arizona. Ivy was born on 26 Jul 1889 in South Dakota; died on 23 Nov 1969 in San Diego, San Diego Co, California; was buried in California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Glenn married Elizabeth (wife of Glenn Syren Cooley) [?] about 1915 in Probably Kit Carson County Colorado. Elizabeth was born about 1890 in Iowa; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lee F Cook and his wife Malinda M. Lee appear in the Dubuque City Directory of 1911 on p159. He was a conductor on the C.G.W. Line (Chicago, Great Western Railroad) most of his working life. His mother Clara S. (Cooley) also resided with them at 2729 Pine St.


Obituary
Lee F. Cook, Retired Railroad Conductor, Dies Jan 24 1963 - Lee F. Cook, 89, a resident of the Masonic Sanitarium for, the last six months and formerly of Oelwein, died in the sanitarium Wednesday evening [23 Jan 1963]. Born in Garnavillo, Iowa, he married the former Malinda Musefeldt in 1900 and she preceded him in death in 1914. In 1920, he married Bessie Meehan, who preceded him in death in 1950. Mr. Cook was a retired railroad conductor. Among his survivors are a son Fred H. Cook, of Oelwein; and a grandson, Marlin Cook, of Davenport. The body will be sent from the McGinnis Funeral Home, Bettendorf, to the Brant Funeral Home, Oelwein, for funeral .services and burial there.
- The Daily Times, Davenport, Iowa; 24 Jan 1963, Thu; Page 8

Lee married Malilnda Musfeldt on 2 May 1900 in Volga Twp, Clayton Co, Iowa. Malilnda was born about 1879 in Volga Twp, Clayton Co, Iowa; died about 1914 in Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lee married Bessie Meehan on 4 Sep 1920 in Chicago, Cook Co, Illinois. Bessie was born about 1875; died about 1950. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

George lost one eye (WWI Draft Registration)

Obituary Service for George W. Cook, 85, ex-purchasing agent of Portland public schools, was Thursday, with entombment following at Riverview Mausoleum. The service was conducted by the Albert Pike Masonic Lodge, which Mr. Cook served as secretary for 35 years. He was born in Garnavillo, Iowa, and came to Oregon in 1907, where he was employed by the Union Pacific Railroad. Later he was a purchasing agent for the Portland public schools until his retirement. For the last 18 months he has lived at Mr. Tabor Convalescent Hospital, where he died Tuesday. He was a member of the Rose City Chapter, Order of Eastern Star. Survivors include his daughter, Mrs. Benjamin F. Schumacher, Corvallis, and a brother, Lee, Oelwein, Iowa. Three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren also survive.
- The Oregonian, 3 Aug 1962, p25

Family/Spouse: Violet Mae Hicks. Violet was born on 8 Jun 1902 in Missouri; died on 18 Mar 1960 in Leavenworth, Leavenworth Co, Kansas; was buried about Mar 1960 in Sunset Memory Gardens, Leavenworth Co, Kansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Colorado; University of Denver
• Name: Dale

Notes:

Orville Dale Cooley was born April 5, 1903 in a small house in Plainview, Nebraska. He started school at McLean, Nebraska primarily because his father, Robert Berton, had a job teaching there. It was the year Halley's Comet was visible (1910) and he went outside each evening to see it. He recalls his mother (Carrie Louella Miller) telling him he would see it again "...but I would be an old man when I did. I did see the comet return in 1986 but I didn't feel nearly as old as my mother said I would!" He went to Colorado with his parents March 1, 1910. They had taken a homestead nine miles northwest of Flagler. They had tried to farm but the weather was bad 1910-1911 so both parents were employed as rural teachers in schools north of Flagler. R.B. taught at the Huntley School and Lou taught at the Patten School. In 1911 Dale's father (R.B. or "Bert") started a newspaper in Otis, Colorado, "The Otis Independent". In 1914 with the untimely death of his father's twin brother, Herbert Merton ("Mert") who ran a newspaper in Crofton, Nebraska, Bert sold the Otis Independent and the family moved to Crofton to continue the running Mert's business. Bert eventually could not tolerate the climate in eastern Nebraska, having severe allergies, so in November 1916 the family repurchased the Otis Independent and once again took up residence in that tiny Washington County town. Dale was employed in his father's newspaper but business "was something less than sensational" so, as eldest child in the family, he worked other jobs around the town. He was a cream tester, a soda jerk in more than one drug store, a harvester (pitching wheat to a threshing machine), and a railroad extra on a gang consisting of two Native Americans, 71 Mexican nationals and an Italian boss. Later he got a job in a clothing store where he "something of the cleaning and pressing business, aside from waiting on trade." With the help of a Methodist minister Dale obtained a scholarship to the University of Denver and started school in the fall semester of 1923. While still attending DU he married Mildred Skinner whose father, L.E. Skinner, operated a general merchandise store in Otis. They had gone to school together but Dale says they were not childhood sweethearts. They were married for almost 68 years. Dale and Mildred had two children, Robert Leonard, born 25 Jan 1933 in Otis, Colorado, and Jill Irene, born 17 Jul 1935 in Akron, Colorado. Dale and his cousin Ronald D. Cooley owned and operated The Limon Leader from 15 Feb 1937 through 1 Jun 1972. Dale was very active in state press affairs. He was a member of the board of directors of the Colorado Press Association for several terms and then served as vice president in 1960 and president of the organization in 1961. Also, he was a life member of the Denver Press Club. He was active in Republican politics serving as county chairman for two terms and as a precinct committeeman and delegate to state conventions numerous times. He was one of the founders of the Lincoln County Colorado Historical Society serving as a co-editor of a county history, "Where the Wagons Rolled". Dale was a member of the AF and AM Masonic Lincoln Lodge #146 in Limon, Colo; a 50-year member of Kappa Sigma social fraternity; a member of Sigma Delta Chi professional journalist fraternity. He was a member of the Limon board of education for two terms during which time it was instrumental in acquiring 15 acres of land upon which school buildings and athletic facilities now stand. Dale was active in the organization of the Limon Chamber of Commerce in 1946 and he was a member of the Limon Town Board for two terms.
On August 5, 1989 Dale and Mildred moved to Riverside, California to be near their son and daughter and other family members who had preceded them to the area.
Dale died 12 May 1994 and his body was returned to Limon to be intered at the Pershing Memorial Cemetery with Masonic graveside services.

Education:
Bachelor of Arts in Journalism,

Orville married Alice Mildred Skinner on 11 Jul 1926 in Otis, Washington Co, Colorado. Alice (daughter of Leonard E Skinner and Ethel Campbell Powell) was born on 26 Mar 1905 in Clarence, Shelby Co, Missouri; died on 28 Oct 1996 in Riverside, Riverside Co, California; was buried on 1 Nov 1996 in Pershing Memorial Cemetery, Limon, Lincoln Co, Colorado. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Lyle

Notes:

There are no official documents for this child. Most of this data came from an interview the author had with his Grandma Lou Miller in 1968. She had a Miller-Cooley Bible with genealogical data but the present location of this Bible is unknown. I also had an interview with Orville Dale Cooley in 1993. Dale wrote extensively about the history of this Cooley family and said the greatest loss in his life was the death of his younger brother, Lyle.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

There are no official documents for Leo, same as Lyle. Most of this data came from an interview the author had with his Grandma Lou Miller in 1968. She had a Miller-Cooley Bible with genealogical data but the present location of this Bible is unknown. She was reluctant to talk about Leo as about Gwen. I also had an interview with Orville Dale Cooley in 1993. Dale wrote extensively about the history of this Cooley family but knew very little about Leo. Apparently he lived 14 days. There is no burial information about Leo but it stands to reason if both Lyle and Gwen (stillbirth) had gravestones there should be one for Leo somewhere in Antelope County.

(Research):Royal is a village in Antelope County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 63 at the 2010 census. Established in 1890, the history of Royal began at Hering's Mill, located four and one-half miles north of the present town site. In the beginning and for a number of years thereafter, the community was known as Savage. The community was renamed after Royal Thayer, who helped establish the post office.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Coyne

Notes:

Clifford Coyne Cooley was literally born into the newspaper business

(Medical):Other significant conditions: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and generalized arteriosclerosis. Physician: Richard H. Tedrick, D.O., 501 Main, Akron, Colorado 80720 Signed 7 Dec 1979

Buried:
Akron Cemetery, CO
Akron Cemetery is a Cemetery in Washington County, Colorado. It has an elevation of 1,430 meters, or 4,692 feet.

Degrees Minutes Seconds:
Latitude: 40-09'39'' N
Longitude: 103-13'48'' W

Decimal Degrees:
Latitude: 40.1608333
Longitude: -103.23

Clifford married Margaret May Sears on 21 Jun 1936 in Akron, Washington Co, Colorado. Margaret (daughter of Nelson Evans Sears and Edna Maude Barnhouse) was born on 23 May 1912 in Akron, Washington Co, Colorado; died on 18 Jan 1987 in Akron, Washington Co, Colorado; was buried on 21 Jan 1987 in Akron Cemetery, Washington Co, Colorado. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Bob

Notes:

Robert Miller Cooley was born 20 Sep 1914 in Otis, Washington County, Colorado to Robert Berton Cooley and Carrie Louella Miller. He attended Otis Grade School and Akron High School graduating in 1933.
He entered the University of Colorado (CU) in Boulder beginning in the fall of 1933 and received his baccalaureate degree in June 1937 in journalism.
He met Eleanor Newcomb at CU in 1935 and upon his graduation they were married 1 July 1937 in Melba, Idaho. Shortly after their marriage they returned to Colorado where he began work with the family-owned newspaper in Akron. They lived for one year in an apartment in his parent's home in Akron until mid 1938 whereupon they moved to a house on Railroad Avenue and present-day Date Street (one block east of state highway 63).
Later they bought the Crutchfield house on present-day Custer Street directly west of his brother, Coyne Cooley. In 1943 he joined the war effort but after a brief stint in the United States Army, he was discharged for health reasons and, upon his return home he was requested to take the position of Chief of the Rationing Board in Greeley, Colorado. They rented out the Custer Street home to Nelson and Maude Sears (the parents of Coyne's wife, Margaret Sears Cooley) and moved to Greeley, Colo.
After a short stay in Greeley they moved to Limon, Colo. to help his brother, Dale, publish the Limon Leader. They were there until June 1945 when they moved to Nampa, Idaho. In January 1946 they bought the Mountain Home News in Mountain Home, Idaho.
Because of his worsening arthritic condition (earlier mis-diagnosed as lead poisoning from being around hot-lead Linotype machines) he elected to move to the drier climate of Arizona in 1953. They resided in Tempe in rented quarters from November 1953 to September 1954 while they had a new home built in west Phoenix on Mulberry Drive. During this time he taught journalism and English at Glendale School District while attending Arizona State University where he obtained a Masters Degree in Journalism.
In July of 1963 the family moved to Reedley in the central valley of California where Robert became Director of Public Information at Reedley College. Just a year later in July of 1964 they moved to Flagstaff, Arizona, where he accepted the position of Chairman of the Journalism Department and Director of Public Information at Northern Arizona University.
He retired in 1976 and moved back to Idaho with his wife, Eleanor, where they settled in the relatively new Indian Lake subdivision just south of Boise.
He was a member of Sigma Delta Chi, a society of professional journalists; Phi Delta Kappa, an education fraternity; Kappa Delta Pi, an honorary education fraternity; Kappa Sigma, a social fraternity. While in Mountain Home, Idaho, he was a member of Masonic Lodge #30, A.F. & A.M.
Robert Miller died of a stroke 4 Nov 1992 in Rawlins Wyoming on his way to the funeral of his cousin Merton Beth Cooley (both raised as brothers) who had died on 3 Nov 1992 in Sterling Colorado. One's death close to the death of a sibling or close relative is called the bereavement effect. This effect had already occurred in this family in 1979-1980 when cousins-raised-as-brothers Clifford Coyne Cooley and Ronald Delos Cooley died just 37 days apart, Coyne 5 Dec 1979, Ron 11 Jan 1980.

Robert married Eleanor Newcomb on 28 Jun 1937 in Melba, Canyon Co, Idaho. Eleanor (daughter of Lewis Elmer Newcomb and Helen Alice Prisk) was born on 30 Nov 1915 in Melba, Canyon Co, Idaho; died on 13 Jul 2008 in Canon City, Fremont Co, Colorado; was buried on 18 Jul 2008 in Cloverdale Memorial Park, Boise, Ada Co, Idaho. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _STAT: Never Married

Notes:

The gravestone of this child reads as follows
Daughter of
R.B. & C.L Cooley
Jan 23, 1921
A baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. R.B. Cooley, Sunday, January 23, 1921. The little body was laid to rest in the Otis Cemetery the same afternoon, a prayer being offered by Rev. J.S. Dapp at the home and a short service at the cemetery.

Birth:
Stillborn

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ronald Delos Cooley was born in Crofton, Knox County, Nebraska 28 Jan 1906, son of Herbert Merton (Mert) Cooley and Elizabeth Holliday. Late the next year a second child, Merton Beth Cooley, was born (7 Dec 1907) shortly after which Elizabeth died of complications. Ronald went to live with his grandparents Robert Reed Cooley and Beth was taken in and raised by his uncle Robert Berton Cooley and his wife, Carrie Louella Miller. Ronald attended grade school in Crofton, Nebr, and high schools in Flagler, Colo and Otis, Colo. While in Crofton he helped his father, Mert, in his newspaper business then continued to help at his uncle Bert's newspaper, the Otis Independent, in Otis, Colo in 1911. He learned to operate the Linotype at the Independent and with his early immersion in newspapering, Ronald decided to continue in the business. He first attended the University of Denver then the University of Colorado in Boulder Colo where he attained a bachelor's degree in journalism. While at the University, Ronald was a member of Kappa Sigma social fraternity and of Sigma Delta Chi journalistic fraternity where he served as president in his senior year. After graduation he took a newspaper job with Smith-Brooks Printing Company in Denver. In succeeding years he also worked at the Record Stockman, the Denver Post, and one summer, at the Steamboat Springs Pilot. Eventually he returned to Akron, Colo., to work at his Uncle Bert's newspaper, the Akron News-Reporter. In Denver he was married to his high school sweetheart, Irene Skinner, on July 20, 1935. They had two children, Luanne b. 22 May 1940, and a son, James Ronald b. 16 Dec 1943. Luanne was married to Larry Winkelman of Dodge City, Kan., and James married Maria Morrison of Holdrege, Nebr. On February 15, 1937, Ronald and his cousin Dale moved to Limon, Colo., to operate the Eastern Colorado Leader as a partnership set up by Bert. About two years later the paper was combined with the Genoa Sentinal and renamed the Limon Leader. The partnership continued until June 1, 1972, when the newspaper was sold to Norman R. Sunderland and Associates. "During the Eisenhower administration, Ron [was offered] the job of Postmaster at Limon. Before accepting the position Ron lost a lot of sleep while pondering the multitude of details and irritations that would be a part of a postmaster's daily life. 'I got as far as the swearing-in part of it, then decided not to take it', Ron recalled". Ronald served as Mayor of Limon for two terms and as a city councilman for several terms. In 1955, Ronald and Dale, were honored as "Editors of the Year" by the University of Colorado Department of journalism. He was a member of the Colorado Press Association while active in the newspaper business and served on the board of directors, as well as in many different committees. He was a member of the Limon Lions Club of which he was a charter member, a member of the First United Methodist Church of Limon, and an honorary member of the Limon High School "L" Club. Ronald Delos Cooley died January 11, 1980 ae 73. He is buried at Pershing Memorial Cemetery (Limon Cemetery), Limon, Lincoln County, Colorado. Note that Ronald Delos died just 37 days after the death of his cousin Clifford Coyne Cooley (both raised as brothers) who had died on 5 Dec 1979 in Akron Colorado. One's death close to the death of a sibling or close relative is called the bereavement effect. This effect came into play in this family again in 1994 when cousins-raised-as-brothers Robert Miller Cooley and Merton Beth Cooley died just one day apart, Beth 3 Nov 1992, Bob 4 Nov 1992.

(Research):Delos - As a given name for boys it is of Greek derivation, and the name Delos means "from Delos" where Delos is a tiny Greek island that was sacred to the ancient Greeks who believed that Apollo and Artemis had been born there. Its usage peaked modestly in 1904 with 0.007% of baby boys being named Delos. - http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Delos

Ronald married Irene Elva Skinner on 19 Jul 1935 in Denver, Denver Co, Colorado. Irene (daughter of Leonard E Skinner and Ethel Campbell Powell) was born on 29 Jul 1907 in Anabel, Macon Co, Missouri; died on 6 Dec 1990 in Hugo, Lincoln Co, Colorado; was buried on 10 Dec 1990 in Pershing Memorial Cemetery, Limon, Lincoln Co, Colorado. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Merton Beth Cooley was born to Herbert Merton (Mert) and Elizabeth Holliday Cooley on Dec 7, 1907, in Crofton, Neb. His mother died in 1908 from complications of childbirth. His father was editor and publisher of the Crofton Journal so Beth and his elder brother, Ronald literally grew up in the newspaper business. On 14 Nov 1914, a car in which Herbert Merton was a passenger plunged off the Yankton pontoon bridge over the Missouri River drowning him and another passenger in the car. His body was never recovered. Robert Berton Cooley (a twin brother of Herbert Merton) and his wife Carrie Louella Miller had homesteaded to a farm near Flagler Colorado in 1910 and in 1912 Bert had started the Otis Independent in Otis, Colo., 59 miles north of Flagler. Upon learning of his brother's death, Bert sold the Independent and he and his wife and two sons moved back to Crofton to take over the newspaper. They immediately took in and raised Beth and his elder brother Ronald as members of the family. Beth was still just a small boy at this time but he was already working in the family business. "I could read upside down when I was about four or five, and I was hand-setting type before I went to school. To get the paper out, we were hand-setting type day and night. Us kids never knew anything else." In 1916, because of a worsening allergy condition, Bert sold the Crofton Journal and the family returned to Colorado to resume operation of the Otis Independent, this time with two more "sons" in tow. Beth attended school in Otis, graduating from Otis High School in 1927. He also proved to be a fine football player. In his younger years, Beth played trumpet in a local dance band called "The Night Hawks" and became an excellent performer. After graduation, Beth attended the University of Colorado for a short time, later moving back to Otis to help Bert with the newspaper. Beth married Viola Myfanwy Kyffin on May 25, 1929, in Otis and they had one son, Herbert Merton. His Uncle Bert continued to operate the Independent until the fall of 1928 when, in a trade, he swapped the Otis Independent for ownership in the Monte Vista Tribune, Monte Vista, Colorado. Within a few months, Bert disposed of the Tribune and the family moved to Akron, Colo., where he bought the Akron Semi-Weekly News and the Akron Reporter combining the two papers on February 28, 1929 into the Akron News-Reporter. Its first edition was published on 7 Mar 1929. Beth was an adept Linotype operator and he had a natural bent for mechanics of all kinds. Through the years he became known as one of the best repairmen on all printing machinery and was sought after by other newspapers in northeastern Colorado for repair work. On the retirement of the original owners of the Akron News-Reporter, his Uncle Bert and Aunt Lou, Beth and his cousin, Coyne Cooley, became the sole owners of the Akron News-Reporter, which they continued to operate until 1979. All in all, Beth had worked in the weekly newspaper business almost 68 years: from a four-year-old kid folding newspapers at the Crofton Journal to the sale of the Akron News-Reporter in 1979. In keeping with his interest in mechanics, he had a life-long love affair with the automobile (his favorite, Buick). Beth was a member of the First Presbyterian Church and a charter member of the Akron Rotary Club. He was honored as a Paul Harris Fellow. Merton Beth Cooley died at Sterling Regional MedCenter on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 1992 ae 84. Funeral services were held Friday, Nov. 6 at 10 a.m. from the First Presbyterian Church in Akron with Rev. Kyle Weir officiating. Interment followed in the Akron Cemetery with Yeamans & Gordon Memorial Chapel in charge of arrangements.

Merton married Viola Myfanwy Kyffin on 25 May 1929 in Golden, Jefferson Co, Colorado. Viola (daughter of Seth James Kyffin and Julia S. Oram) was born on 20 Jan 1908 in Denver, Denver Co, Colorado; died on 1 May 1995 in Brush (Sunset Manor), Ft Morgan Co, Colorado; was buried on 4 May 1995 in Akron Cemetery, Washington Co, Colorado. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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(Medical):Related conditions: Pulmonary edema, pericarditis

Edith married Daniel Thomas Desmond on 4 Apr 1942 in Papillion, Sarpy Co, Nebraska. Daniel was born on 10 Aug 1907 in Sioux City, Woodbury Co, Iowa; died on 4 Aug 1975 in Chicago, Cook Co, Illinois; was buried on 7 Aug 1975 in Calvary Cemetery, Evanston, Cook Co, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]