Cooley Families

Devoted to all Cooley Ancestors

Standing is Myron Cooley (left) and Adelia Cooley (right), son and daughter of Osborn Benjamin Cooley and Frances Isabelle Rodeback. Center front is Amelia Emily Harmon.

The oldest COOLEY ancestor of C005 is Gideon Reuben Cooley who was born between September 30, 1805 and September 30, 1846 according to his headstone which states that he died at age 40 and died 30 September 1846. The book by Mortimer E. Cooley states that he was born in 1805. Gideon died 30 September 1846 in Macomb, Mcdonough County, Illinois.

Osborn Benjamin Cooley born 10 October 1842, McDonough County, Illinois

1. Emily Francis Cooley 11 Dec 1865
2. Myron Osborn Cooley 3 September 1867
3. Malvina Cooley 6 April 1870
4. Martha Jane Cooley 17 March 1872
5. Adelia Cooley 11 March 1874
6. Rozel Cooley 23 August 1876
7. Mary Cooley 27 November 1878
8. Maria Cooley 27 January 1881
9. Geneva Cooley 8 October 1883
10. Joseph F. Cooley 24 July 1886
11. Freeman Cooley 23 November 1888
12. Charles Herman Cooley 24 February 1893

Osborn Benjamin Cooley born 10 October 1842

Maria Cooley born 27 January 1881

Some books on Cooley Genealogy

• Three excellent books on the Descendants of Benjamin Cooley (ca. 1617-1684)
  • The Cooley Genealogy: The Descendants of Benjamin Cooley, by Dean Mortiner Elwyn Cooley, Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc Rutland, Vermont. This is an excellent book (1200 pages) filled with accurate and documented information.
  • George Lanthrop Cooley and Clara Elizabeth Hall: Their Ancestors and Descendants in America, Harl Preslar Aldrich, Jr., Sc.D., Penobscot Press, Rockport, Maine, 0-89725-440-6.
  • Andrew Woods Cooley,
• Warren Cooley, Pioneer of Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, by Esther A. Savage
• Our Cooley Family 1617-1998, by Dorothy L. (Cooley) Theriault
• The Descendants of Dr. Asahel and Sally (Wilbur) Cooley: A Supplement to the Cooley Genealogy, by Arthur Stoddard Cooley
• history of Adelia Cooley from the Parker-Ross Memoirs.
• Utah Death Record for Adelia Cooley
  • Adelia C Parker
  • Death Date: 6 January, 1908
  • State file number: 1908000110
  • Gender: Female
  • Age: 33
  • County of Death: Sevier
• 1880 Census for Adelia Cooley
• 1900 Census for Adelia Cooley
• 1850 Census for Azariah Cooley (Azariah Cooley born 7 April 1780, Pittsford, Rutland County, Vermont. )