EATON JONES COOLEY

Eaton Jones and Elizabeth Funk Cooley

EATON JONES COOLEY (JAMES) was born 1798 in Montgomery County, Tennessee, and died June 17, 1854 in Humphreys County, Tennessee. He married ELIZABETH FUNK December 17, 1817 in Montgomery County, Tennessee, daughter of HENRY FUNK and UNKNOWN. She was born 1798 in Tennessee, and died June 18, 1854 in Humphreys County, Tennessee.

According to The Goodspeed History, of Humphreys County, Tennessee, published in 1886, Eaton Jones Cooley "...followed the vocation of farming in his younger days, at which he was very successful. In 1832 he began preaching in the Methodist Episcopal Church and continued this up to the time of his death..."

Estate Settlement

Children of EATON COOLEY and ELIZABETH FUNK are:

Elizabeth Funk Cooley marker

REV. JAMES WASHINGTON COOLEY, b. Abt. 1816; d. October 4, 1892.

REV. WILLIAM JAMES COOLEY, b. October 18, 1818; d. December 11, 1859.

MARTHA CAROLINE COOLEY, b. July 25, 1819, Humphreys County, Tennessee; d. 1904, Grandview, Johnson County, Texas.

CHARLOTTE COOLEY, b. 1822, Humphreys County, Tennessee; d. Bef. January 14, 1864, Humphreys County, Tennessee.

HENRY C. COOLEY, b. Abt. 1824; d. 1853, Humphreys County, Tennessee.

MARY J. COOLEY, b. Abt. 1827; d. Unknown.

EATON MORROW COOLEY, b. November 28, 1830, Humphreys County, Tennessee; d. July 1, 1917, Plant, Humphreys County, Tennessee.

DANIEL W. COOLEY, b. 1833, Humphreys County, Tennessee; d. March 10, 1862, Humphreys County, Tennessee.

MARGARET C. COOLEY, b. 1835, Humphreys County, Tennessee; d. Unknown.