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1847–1868

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Birth Date
29 November 1811
Death Date
17 November 1898
Gender
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John William Cooley

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  • He came with 8 people. 

    His death date is confirmed by the inscription on his gravestone and his obituary.

     

     

Daniel A. Miller/John W. Cooley Company (1853)

  • Age at Departure: 41
  • Company Captain
  • Head of Household

Traveled with

  • Mary Cooley (Age: 68)
  • Susan Jane Cooley (Age: 24)
  • Gennette Cooley (Age: 16)
  • Mariette Cooley (Age: 2)

Sources

  • Daniel A. Miller/John A. Cooley Company reports and record, 1853, Brigham Young office emigrating companies reports, 1850-1862.
  • Daughters of Utah Pioneers. History of Utah's Tooele County: From the Edge of the Great Basin Frontier (Tooele, UT: Transcript Bulletin Publishing, Inc., 2012).
  • Early Missionary Database
  • Farnsworth, Moses Franklin, [Autobiography], in "Utah Pioneer Biographies," 44 vols., 43:44.
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • Frederick Piercy, Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley edited by James Linforth (1855), 81-107.
  • "John W. Cooley Dead," Tooele Transcript Bulletin, 16 December 1898, [p. 4].
  • Mayhew, Elijah, Diary, 1853 June-Sept.
  • Missionary Department Missionary Registers, 1860-1959, Volume 1.
  • Radmall, Henry Bullivant, Autobiography 1903; 1987, 26-28.