Joseph G. Cooley

(1846-1930)

Biographical Data

Important Dates

Joseph G. Cooley was born on July 4, 1846. He died on September 11, 1930, and was buried in Hillsborough Memorial Cemetery in Hillsborough, NC.

Occupations

• Soldier. Joseph G. Cooley served in Company H of the 24th North Carolina Infantry in the Confederate States of America [1].

Relatives

• Parents: Charles Loveland Cooley (1794-1866) [1] and Ann Eliza Chapman (1806-1883) [1].
• Paternal grandparents: Elihu Cooley [1] and Rhoda Cooley [1].
• Siblings:
  • two brothers, Charles Sterling Cooley (1839-1900) and Thomas L. Cooley (d. 1878).
  • four sisters, Mary Cain Cooley , Caroline M. Cooley (1831-1853), Emily Eliza Cooley (1837-1869)  and Tarmesia M. Cooley (1827-1899).

References

1. Mary Claire Engstrom. The Book of Burwell Students: Lives of Educated Women in the Antebellum South. (Hillsborough: Hillsborough Historic Commission, 2007).