I am forwarding this from another list. -----Original Message----- From: Bette Butcher Topp [mailto:toppline@home.com] Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 6:09 PM To: CARPENTER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [CARPENTER] Tie a Purple Ribbon Subject: purple ribbon I think this is a fabulous idea -------- And certainly does make sense to me. A movement has been started like that from Desert Storm. During Desert Storm we tied yellow ribbons anywhere we could. Well, now the movement is to tie purple ribbons the same way. This is for two reasons. 1. In remembrance of not only the firefighters, police officers, paramedics who have died, but also for all who have died in this terrible tragedy. 2. Just as in the military, when a serviceman get injured, he is given the Purple Heart. Well, our country has been injured to its core. Please pass this on to everyone you know, and let's see purple ribbons everywhere. Along with the flag of the United States of America. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp --------------------------------------------------------------- NetZero Platinum Only $9.95 per month! Sign up in September to win one of 30 Hawaiian Vacations for 2! http://my.netzero.net/s/signup?r=platinum&refcd=PT97

Subject: Red, White & Blue /Wear it on Thursday For the men and women who died and those who risk their lives to save lives...let's wear red, white and blue on Thursday to work and drive with your lights on...God Bless America and all of you who care. Please send this to as many people as possible. An American

Looking for Susan COOLEY who married James PRICE born about 1810 in VA and moved to KY. Their daughter Mary Elizabeth Price born 1840/1842 in Boyd County and married Charles Pierce about 1860 in KY. Susan PRICE was living with above daughter in the 1880 Greenup County, KY census along with Mary Elizabeth's second husband Isaac Wm. PENIX and the PIERCE children from former marriage. Does anyone have the children of Susan and James Price? okchris@earthlink.net Thanks

Can anyone help me with this family? COOLEY, Jesse & Martha. They had these children: Dorthie Ida COOLEY, John Robert COOLEY, Mary Elizabeth COOLEY, James William COOLEY born 1883 (my grandfather, married Lucinda Annie Jane SMITH in Jackson Co., Al.) and Jesse George COOLEY. Jesse and Martha COOLEY may have married in Roan Co., Tn. I know there is two or three Jesse and Martha COOLEY'S that married in Tn. and I want to find the correct ones. I am hoping that someone has census records of East Tennessee with this family on it that will give me a time and place of where this family was. I know some of the family ended up in Bledsoe Co., Tn. Thanks for your help. Regina GRIDER Pipes regina.pipes@prodigy.net

Hello List, I am looking for the burial site and/or death dates of Nathaniel Cooley and his wife Sarah Carpenter. Sarah Carpenter was born in 1745 in or around Goshen, NY. I'm fairly certain they died in Orange Co., NY. Any information on this couple would be greatly appreciated. I am more than willing to share any info I have. Thank you, Lyn Magill-Hoch

Sorry, but I have spent years in detailed study of two Pennsylvania regiments and do not find those statistics to be valid. First, you have to specify when the enlistments took place. In the early stages of the war, they tended to be younger. But you should know that the amount of lying about ages was enormous, both older - as you might believe of those under age - AND older, the latter of which happened much more than I would have thought. 40 - 50% lying is not an exaggeration, not to mention the fact that many men did not know when they were born. Two regiments do not a broad study make, but I see no reason why they were atypical. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sunkist" <sunkist@home.com> To: <COOLEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 8:49 PM Subject: [Cooley] Geneology Tidbit > I found this on another list. Check your ancestors and see if you think it > is true. In checking my ancestors it is not true. Is it is true or not true > for your ancestors? > > From: http://www.genealogybulletin.com/archives/HTML/etc70.html > > According to a tidbit from genealogical society bulletins, 78 percent of the > Union Army in the Civil War was comprised of lads 15 to 18 years old. Data > gleaned from government records reveals figures that may surprise you. Here > are the statistics from the total enlistment of Northern soldiers during the > Civil War: > > Age Number of Personnel > > 10 ............ 25 > 11 ............ 34 > 12 ............225 > 13 ............380 > 14 ...........1602 > 15 ........104,987 (3.5%) > 16 ........231,051 (8.0%) > 17 ........884,981 (28.0%) > 18 ......1,158,434 (38.5%) > 19-22 .....617,511 (20.5%) > 22-44 ......52,696 > 45+ .....Not given > > -- > Warning! - Sunkist will no longer accept attachments of any kind without prior > notification. Thank you for your understanding! Please visit me at: > www.teleport.com/~sunkist > > ______________________________

My ancestor was 25 at the start of the war. Wondering if there is any one out there that can help solve a mystery of many, many years standing on the parents of a grandmother of mine. Her name was Sophronia Cooley born 1787 in Somers or Enfield, CT and died 26 February1834 in Springfield, MA. There are no answers as proof as to her parents. Some believe it could have been a John Cooley/Colley and Eleanor Warner. Haven't been able to track any of this down. Looking forward to hearing from someone else that can help me out on this or is having this same problems. Sharon ----- Original Message ----- From: Sunkist <sunkist@home.com> To: <COOLEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 7:49 PM Subject: [Cooley] Geneology Tidbit > I found this on another list. Check your ancestors and see if you think it > is true. In checking my ancestors it is not true. Is it is true or not true > for your ancestors? > > From: http://www.genealogybulletin.com/archives/HTML/etc70.html > > According to a tidbit from genealogical society bulletins, 78 percent of the > Union Army in the Civil War was comprised of lads 15 to 18 years old. Data > gleaned from government records reveals figures that may surprise you. Here > are the statistics from the total enlistment of Northern soldiers during the > Civil War: > > Age Number of Personnel > > 10 ............ 25 > 11 ............ 34 > 12 ............225 > 13 ............380 > 14 ...........1602 > 15 ........104,987 (3.5%) > 16 ........231,051 (8.0%) > 17 ........884,981 (28.0%) > 18 ......1,158,434 (38.5%) > 19-22 .....617,511 (20.5%) > 22-44 ......52,696 > 45+ .....Not given > > -- > Warning! - Sunkist will no longer accept attachments of any kind without prior > notification. Thank you for your understanding! Please visit me at: > www.teleport.com/~sunkist > > > > ==== COOLEY Mailing List ==== > Please send replies to the list, not just to the original poster. Other members may benefit from the data that you provide. > > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com >

One thing that has changed is the life span of our ancestors was greatly different than ours. The "Children" were needed and expected to participate fully in the responsibilities of the family at a much earlier age than today, and people did not on the average live as long lives as we do now. And that seems to be reflected in those figures you sited. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sunkist" <sunkist@home.com> To: <COOLEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 5:49 PM Subject: [Cooley] Geneology Tidbit > I found this on another list. Check your ancestors and see if you think it > is true. In checking my ancestors it is not true. Is it is true or not true > for your ancestors? > > From: http://www.genealogybulletin.com/archives/HTML/etc70.html > > According to a tidbit from genealogical society bulletins, 78 percent of the > Union Army in the Civil War was comprised of lads 15 to 18 years old. Data > gleaned from government records reveals figures that may surprise you. Here > are the statistics from the total enlistment of Northern soldiers during the > Civil War: > > Age Number of Personnel > > 10 ............ 25 > 11 ............ 34 > 12 ............225 > 13 ............380 > 14 ...........1602 > 15 ........104,987 (3.5%) > 16 ........231,051 (8.0%) > 17 ........884,981 (28.0%) > 18 ......1,158,434 (38.5%) > 19-22 .....617,511 (20.5%) > 22-44 ......52,696 > 45+ .....Not given > > -- > Warning! - Sunkist will no longer accept attachments of any kind without prior > notification. Thank you for your understanding! Please visit me at: > www.teleport.com/~sunkist > > > > ==== COOLEY Mailing List ==== > Please send replies to the list, not just to the original poster. Other members may benefit from the data that you provide. > > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com > >

I found this on another list. Check your ancestors and see if you think it is true. In checking my ancestors it is not true. Is it is true or not true for your ancestors? From: http://www.genealogybulletin.com/archives/HTML/etc70.html According to a tidbit from genealogical society bulletins, 78 percent of the Union Army in the Civil War was comprised of lads 15 to 18 years old. Data gleaned from government records reveals figures that may surprise you. Here are the statistics from the total enlistment of Northern soldiers during the Civil War: Age Number of Personnel 10 ............ 25 11 ............ 34 12 ............225 13 ............380 14 ...........1602 15 ........104,987 (3.5%) 16 ........231,051 (8.0%) 17 ........884,981 (28.0%) 18 ......1,158,434 (38.5%) 19-22 .....617,511 (20.5%) 22-44 ......52,696 45+ .....Not given -- Warning! - Sunkist will no longer accept attachments of any kind without prior notification. Thank you for your understanding! Please visit me at: www.teleport.com/~sunkist

I found a newspaper obit for Mrs. Almon Cooley (Augusta May Kimmel) dated in the 1920's among my grandmother's things. My grandparents were Cooley's but I don't know the relationship to Almon. Almon and his wife were from Lee Township, Calhoun County, MI where my grandfather was born. Will appreciate any and all help, and thanks. Laurie

I am looking for information on a Julie Touchstone. I spoke with my 94 year old greataunt recently, and she recalls that she was named (her middle name) for her grandmother Julie. She thinks her maiden name was Touchstone. She told a story of the Touchstone family being in Utah (they were Mormon, which was a complete surprise to me), and then after some sort of split with the church over polygamy - and I didn't quite understand which side of that disagreement they were on, they left Utah and went to Oklahoma. Julie supposedly fell in love with an Indian trader by the name of John Cooley. She married him against her family's wishes and was disowned. John was not a very good husband or father. He disappeared and no one knows what happened to him. Julie Touchstone and John Cooley had three children that Aunt Alice named: her mother, Emma Emeline, Lizzie (or Elizabeth), and Johnny. Emma somehow ended up in Bexar Co. Texas, as she married Fritz Bonn there in 1893. Any information on this Touchstone family would be greatly appreciated. At this point, I don't know where in OK to look - I've only been told that Emma was born in the Indian Territory. Lisa Luhrman Arkansas ---------------------------------------------------- NetZero Platinum Sign Up Today - Only $9.95 per month! http://my.netzero.net/s/signup?r=platinum&refcd=PT97

Please pardon the unsolicited posting, but I recently acquired the following, which I thought the Cooley family membership might like to know about: [COOLEY]. Cooley, Mortimer Elwyn and Vivien Bulloch Keatley. The Cooley Genealogy. Descendants of Ensign Benjamin Cooley, an Early Settler of Springfield and Longmeadow, Massachusetts; and Other Members of the Family in America. 2 vols. Rutland, Vermont, Tuttle, 1941. Thick 8vos. Pp. 1199. Profuse fullpage and folding plates - of portraits and family antiquities including domiciles. Orig. robin�s egg blue cloth, ex-library, spines printed in gilt, discreet library stamps inside, moderate wear to extremities, but overall a very good set of an exceedingly scarce set. Augmented with transcribed documents throughout, and a substantial index. $225.00 If this is of interest, please be advised I offer it subject to prior sale. Delivery is complimentary. This is an extroardinarily difficult set to find in its original printing and please advise if I can assist further. Thank you. Christopher Hartman Rare Genealogies Green House 391 Vernon Street Wakefield, Massachusetts 01880 Tel. 781-224-9808 email: raregenealogies@hotmail.com web: http://www.raregenealogies.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/

Please pardon the unsolicited posting, but I recently acquired the following, which I thought the Cooley family membership might like to know about: [COOLEY]. Cooley, Mortimer Elwyn and Vivien Bulloch Keatley. The Cooley Genealogy. Descendants of Ensign Benjamin Cooley, an Early Settler of Springfield and Longmeadow, Massachusetts; and Other Members of the Family in America. 2 vols. Rutland, Vermont, Tuttle, 1941. Thick 8vos. Pp. 1199. Profuse fullpage and folding plates - of portraits and family antiquities including domiciles. Orig. robin’s egg blue cloth, ex-library, spines printed in gilt, discreet library stamps inside, moderate wear to extremities, but overall a very good set of an exceedingly scarce set. Augmented with transcribed documents throughout, and a substantial index. $225.00 If this is of interest, please be advised I offer it subject to prior sale. Delivery is complimentary. This is an extroardinarily difficult set to find in its original printing and please advise if I can assist further. Thank you. Christopher Hartman Rare Genealogies Green House 391 Vernon Street Wakefield, Massachusetts 01880 Tel. 781-224-9808 email: raregenealogies@hotmail.com web: http://www.raregenealogies.com _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

Dear Sunkist - I'm dying to know what the answer is - tell us. DWK

This is the answer I received: And a good one I might add! Answer: > > She may actually have been a performer. As a professional actor, I'm > well aware of the poor reputation actors and entertainers had, and > perhaps still do :-) !! I realize the implication of your question, but > there WAS a theatrical profession thriving in the 19th century--after > all, there were no movies, TV, recorded music, etc. and live stage > entertainment was about the only game in town. > > Actors were often in financial difficulties back then, as stage actors > did not form a union until 1919, and then only after a hard fought > battle for recognition. Until that time, actors rehearsed without pay, > and rehearsals were unlimited, so you can understand how sometimes the > rent at the boarding house was overdue! > > If you'd like to learn more on the history of Actors Equity, go to: > > http://www.actorsequity.org/AboutEquity/history1.html > > As an actor (who's been active in his union), a genealogist, and a > Bankston descendant, just thought I stand up for the young lady in > Denver! > > Ken Parks DARYMCA@aol.com wrote: > Dear Sunkist - I'm dying to know what the answer is - tell us. DWK > -- Please visit my Web Site: http://www.teleport.com/~sunkist/

Question: If a 26 year old woman, listed as single with an occupation of 'performer' in a boarding house - what is she REALLY? --

Subject: : 8th grade education Remember when our grandparents, great-grandparents, and such stated that they only had an 8th grade education? Well, check this out. Could any of us have passed the 8th grade in 1895? This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina, KS. USA. It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, KS and reprinted by the Saline Journal. "8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, KS -1895" Grammar (Time, one hour) 1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters. 2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no modifications. 3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph. 4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of do, lie, lay and run. 5. Define Case, and illustrate each Case. 6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for! principal marks of Punctuation. 7 - 10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar. Arithmetic (Time, 1.25 hours) 1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic. 2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold? 3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50 cts. A bushel, deducting 1050 lbs. for tare? 4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals? 5. Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton. 6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent. 7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $20 per metre? 8. Find bank discount on $300 for ! 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent. 9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per are, the distance around which is 640 rods? 10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt. U.S. History (Time, 45 minutes) 1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided. 2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus. 3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War. 4. Show the territorial growth of the United States. 5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas. 6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion. 7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe? 8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, 1865. Orthography (Time, one hour) 1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymolo! gy, syllabication? 2. What are elementary sounds? How classified? 3. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals? 4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u'. 5. Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e'. Name two exceptions under each rule. 6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each. 7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: Bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, sup. 8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: Card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last. 9. Use the following correctly in sentences: cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays. 10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication. Geography (Time, one hour) 1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend? 2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas? 3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean? 4. Describe the mountains of North America. 5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco. 6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S. 7. Name all the republics of Europe and give capital of each. 8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude? 9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers. 10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give inclination of the earth. This gives the saying of an early 20th century person that "she/he only had an 8th grade education" a whole new meaning. --

Shannon, I think that we are searching for the same family. I believe that your James COOLEY is my gg grandmother's brother. They were all from Clay Co. Alabama. If this is a match, I have info on the maternal side also. Deanie

Sorry, for my intrusion on your discussion. I was flipping through my email, and this caught my eye. I'm researching the Cooley Surname, it is a maiden search of my grandfather's, mother I am doing. My grandfather's, mother's parents, were James Cooley & Sarah (not sure of the maiden name). So, here I am, if you don't mind I would like to ask a few things. To start with: 1. In what area would you be doing this research in? (FACT) I do know that James & Sarah's daughter (Cora Ann Cooley), went to Etowah Co., Alabama, from Clay Co., Alabama. At the age of 13 (taken from her original obituary). 2. (NOT SURE) I do not know why she went to Etowah Co., Alabama. (FACT) It was not to marry my gr-grandfather, Alexander Hamby, in 1917 when they married in Etowah Co., Alabama, she was 23 years old, a good 10 years after moving to Etowah. 3. (NOT SURE) Did she go there with her parents to live? (FACT) If she went there to live with her parents, I, myself have not (YET) found any records there for her parents with or without including her on them, and I can't seem to find any records with her on her own or by herself. 4. I forgot to ask what years your search included. (FACTS) 1. She was born in 1894. 2. She died in 1994. 3. She lived to be, 100 years & some odd days young. 4. At the age of 13, around 1907 she went to Etowah Co., Al. 5. But in 1917 she married Alex Hamby she was 23 years old a good 10 years later. 6. I do not know who her grandparents were or anything about her side before this time period. 7. Can't forget to include the death of her husband Alexander Hamby in 1974. I do believe that this is the extent of my knowledge on this line. SORRY! BACK TO: The email I received from the Surname Mailing List from Rootsweb with the information exchange between you two. ***I was wondering: Could this Nathaniel Cooley & James Cooley be ONE-IN-THE-SAME? Maybe, with the name Nathaniel as the First or Middle Name of James Cooley? That would make it: *EITHER* James Nathaniel Cooley m. Sarah ? *OR* Nathaniel James Cooley marring, Sarah Carpenter (NOTE) I know this is a long shot, but I have found, in Genealogy you can't take chances like that. It just may be what you need, & you passed it up! IF I AM SEARCHING IN THE WRONG PLACE, JUST MAYBE THERE IS SOMEONE OUT THERE THAT CAN HELP ME, DOWN THE RIGHT PATH. COOLEY/ ? (unknown surname) I OFFER MANY THANKS TO YOU OR ANYONE THAT CAN HELP ME! :-) SHANNON! @~}~

Hello, how may I help you...I've got a few different names and I need you to refresh my memory on this one. I am researching Cooleys and yet I can't place the Carpenter....getting old I guess...Please contact me and lets get this mystery straighten out (smile ) Linda Cowdery West lsandahl@accn.org ----- Original Message ----- From: <LynMhere@aol.com> To: <COOLEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 12:36 AM Subject: [Cooley] For Elizabeth Middleton > Elizabeth Middleton: > Saw your listing on Genforum that you are looking for children of > Nathaniel Cooley and Sarah Carpenter. Tried to send you email, but it is > returned. Please contact me. > > Thanks, > Lyn > LynMhere@aol.com > > > ==== COOLEY Mailing List ==== > _______ COOLEY Resource Center at RootsWeb _______ > To search the list archives, transcription projects, > links, queries and more, visit the COOLEY Resource Center at > http://resources.rootsweb.com/~clusters/surnames/c/o/COOLEY/ > > > ============================== > Add as many as 10 Good Years To Your Life > If you know how to reduce these risks. > http://www.thirdage.com/health/wecare/hearthealth/index.html >