Nancy (Robbins) Cooley

COOLEY, ROBBINS, TRACY, ALBERRY

Posted By: bj (email)
Date: 10/24/2008 at 13:28:18

Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa, Thursday, February 5, 1903
Died.
COOLEY:---Mrs. Nancy A. Robbins Cooley was born near Millersburg, Holmes county, Ohio, Feb. 21, 1833, and died at her home in this city, Jan. 30, 1903, of paralysis.
When about twelve years of age, she came with her parents to Iowa, where they settled on a farm near Emeline. In the year 1869, March 17, she was married to I. Cooley, and two children were the fruits of this union, one dying in infancy, the other Ada, now Mrs. John A. Tracy. Besides her husband and daughter, she leaves to mourn her death, a sister, Mrs. J. Alberry, of this city, and two brothers, one living in Rock Island and the other in Wisconsin. Mrs Cooley was a good Christian woman and a kind, loving wife and mother and will be greatly missed by her sorrowing relatives and large circle of friends. Funeral services were held at the home Sunday, Feb. 1, at 11 o’clock, Rev. Chandler officiating, with interment in Mt. Hope cemetery.