from The Pettit Correspondent, Vol. 2, No. 3, page 99
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                                Cooley / Pettit
       
       The photograph  on page  82, believed  to have  been taken in the
       early 1920s,  was sent  to me  by Jessie  Snyder (315 North 19th,
       Unionville, MO  63565). Those  pictured are (from left to right):
       Joseph William  Cooley, Kletia  McKinley, Sherman  Cooley, Amelia
       Pettit Cooley,  Ervin Cooley  and Dora  Belle Snyder. Information
       for the  following  was  supplied  by  a  Wright  family  history
       entitled "J.P. Dick".
       
       HUSBAND'S NAME:  Greenbury Cooley;  born  31  October  1844  near
       Salem, Washington  Co., IN;  married near Lucerne, Putnam Co., MO
       26 April  1866 (Bk.  1 p.  354); died 12 September 1899, Lucerne,
       Putnam Co.,  MO.; parents:  David Cooley (1815-1865) and Laurinda
       Aiken (1821-1855).
       
       WIFE'S  NAME:  Amelia  Mohler  Pettit;  born  11  April  1846  in
       Taylorville, Muskingum  Co., OH;  died 19  June 1930  at Lucerne,
       Putnam Co.,  MO; buried  in the Busby Cemetery, Lucerne; parents:
       Joseph Pettit (b. ca. 1815) and Elizabeth Mohler (b. July 1816).
       
       CHILDREN: 1. JOSEPH WILLIAM, born 28 January 1867 at Terre Haute,
       MO, married  Araminta D.  Johnson 11 March 1886, died at Seymour,
       IA 24  January 1947;  2. HARVEY  ERVIN,  born  19  July  1870  at
       Lucerne, Putnam  Co., MO,  married 1 January 1893 to Lena Hickman
       (she died  21 April  1940 at Lucerne; 3. MILLARD (3 November 1875
       to 18  November 1899);  4. DAVID  (9 December 1877 to 11 November
       1878); 5.  CHARLES JUBAL,  born  24  December  1881  at  Lucerne;
       married 29  April 1908  to Grace  Scott; died 4 September 1942 at
       Excelsior Springs,  MO; 6.  SHERMAN, born  16  February  1884  at
       Lucerne, married 6 September 1911 to Edith Lowry; 7. KLETIA, born
       18 March 1872 at Lucerne, married 25 July 1892 to Degrafenreed P.
       McKinley (he  died 11  April 1935  at Kansas  City, MO.;  8. DORA
       BELL, born 22 November 1879 at Lucerne, married 26 September 1906
       to David Wilbur Snyder.