Earl Cooley (1824 - 1872)

Born 25 Aug 1824 in Connecticut, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Frances Elizabeth Tillman — married 27 Jun 1855 in Wadesboro, Anson, North Carolina, United States

Died 3 Sep 1872 at age 48 in Kansas, USA

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Biography

Earl Cooley was born August 21, 1824 in Connecticut, the son of Earl Cooley and Rhoda Graves.^[1] He was an active partner in the Arnold & Cooley business, including the Arnold & Cooley Sword Factory of Wadesboro, and lived for some time in Anson, North Carolina,^[2] where he met his wife, Frances Elizabeth Tillman. He had a dry goods store on West Wade Street in Wadesboro, North Carolina. He married Frances June 27, 1855 in Wadesboro and had two children. ^[3]

He left North Carolina when his business suffered a reversal and moved to Kansas where he died and was buried in 1872 in Oak Ridge Cemetery Perry, Jefferson County, Kansas. ^[4]

His obituary appeared in the Wadesboro, Pee Dee Herald,^[5]

DIED At Perryville, Kansas, on the 3rd inst., Mr. Earle Cooley, late of Anson, and for a number of years an active partner in the house of Arnold & Cooley, and subsequent, Arnold, Cooley & Co. Mr. C. was a native of Connecticut, and came to this place about 1848, and married a daughter of Mr. David Tillman, and by perseverance and close attention to business had gathered together a snug little fortune, which he lost in a measure by the fortunes of war, and subsequently by a fire on the 2d April 1868, which swept away his store house and all its contents. He removed to Kansas, and was recuperating from his losses, and had he lived would no doubt have acquired a fortune. He was a man of great energy. He leaves a widow and several children to mourn their heavy loss -- though not without hope, as we are informed he died in the full assurance of a better home in the skies.

Sources

1. ↑ Cooley, Mortimer E. The Cooley Genealogy: the descendants of Ensign Benjamin Cooley, an early settler of Springfield and Longmeadow, Massachusetts, pp. 219-220. Son of Earl Cooley and Rhoda Graves.
2. ↑ 1850 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009), Ancestry.com, Year: 1850; Census Place: Wadesboro, Anson, North Carolina; Roll: M432_619; Page: 159A; Image: 321. Name: Earl Cooley residence date: 1850 residence place: Wadesboro, Anson, North Carolina birth date: 21 Aug 1824 birth place: Connecticut. [Link]
3. ↑ 1860 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009), Ancestry.com, Database online. Year 1860. Meltonsville, Anson, North Carolina, post office White Store, roll M653_887, page 253, image 65. Record for Earl Cooley.
4. ↑ Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, digital images, Record for Earl Colley [Earl Cooley] unknown birth - died 1872. Find A Grave Memorial# 103059026. Created by: Raymond Riley. Record added: Jan 03, 2013. [Link]
5. ↑ Pee Dee Herald, September 23, 1872, page 4