Henry Cooley
Walnut Leader, Friday, April 3, 1914, page 4, column 1

BUREAU COUNTY PIONEER DEAD

Henry Cooley, another of the few remaining early settlers near Yorktown, passed from this life Monday, March 30, at his home near where he located nearly sixty years ago. He was eighty-five years old and for the past year or two had been in poor health.

Mr. Cooley was a man of high intelligence and a good business ability and was prominently identified with the affairs of Bureau county during a long period. For thirty years he was town treasurer and for a long time conducted a general store at Yorktown. He was successful and at one time owned a number of farms.

There are many surviving relatives, mostly grandchildren, who will revere his memory.

THE STERLING EVENING GAZETTE, Sterling, IL

April 1, 1914, Pg 3;3, Roll #116

OBITUARY OF THE LATE HENRY COOLEY

Henry Cooley was born Feb. 19, 1830, in Pittsford, Rutland County, Vermont, and died in his home in Yorktown, Ill., March 30, 1914.

Mr. Cooley was one of the sturdy pioneers of the earlier days and was a resident of Illinois for fifty-four.

THE STERLING EVENING GAZETTE, Sterling, IL

April 4, 1914, Pg 3;2, Roll #116

LAID AT REST IN YORKTOWN CEMETERY

The funeral services of the late Henry Cooley were held Wednesday afternoon at the Christian Church at Yorktown, and interment made in the family lot in the Yorktown Cemetery. Rev. Kern of the New Bedford Christian Church officiated, and several beautiful hymns were rendered by Mrs. Fred Bollman and Mr. Merne Booth of New Bedford.

Messrs, W. E. Shere, Ambrose Shere, Theodore Berge. M. LaDue, Jacob Mathis and Ed Winchell, old friends of the deceased acted as pall bearers.

The services were attended by a large number of friends, from the vicinity and nearby towns, a large number attending, from Tampico by a special train of the Hooppole railroad, and the esteem to which the deceased was held was expressed by many beautiful floral offerings.

STERLING EVENING GAZETTE, Sterling, IL
April 4, 1914

TAMPICO

April 4, 1914 – Mr. & Mrs Henry Rowe and Mrs. Lydia Rowe of  Harvey, Ill, were here Wednesday to attend the funeral of the late Henry Cooley.