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New Boonville School to be Named after Hannah Cole

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Boonville is going to build a new school, and they voted to name it Hannah Cole Primary School! We are so thrilled to have another outstanding honor to our ancestor.

Gene and Sandy Painter led the way for the name by writing letters and submitting the video of our 2004 reunion and dedication of the statue, to the naming committee.

The Hannah Cole Chapter of the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) in Boonville also jumped on the bandwagon and offered support and help in making the committee aware of the important contributions that our Hannah made. A special thanks to Laura Mauzey, representing the DAR on the committee to select the name for the school, for her efforts in naming the school Hannah Cole. Also thanks to Maryellen McVicker for contributing historical information to help convince the Board the school should be named in honor of Hannah Cole.

The vote of the naming committee was directed to the School Board and they voted, in late December, unanimously, for Hannah Cole Primary.

The school will be built – in fact work has already begun – out on Highway 5, near the high school. It will be K-2 (therefore the “Primary” designation) and will be finished in 2009.

Suzanne Lyon’s New Book, A Heart for Any Fate, Is On Sale Now

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It’s here! A Heart for Any Fate (Five Star Publishing, 0-59414-329-3), by Suzanne Lyon, Hannah’s great-great-great-great-great granddaughter, is now available. From Hannah’s wedding to William Temple Cole in southwest Virginia to her death in 1843, this book chronicles the triumphs and tragedies on her road to becoming Missouri’s most famous female pioneer.

President Pat Painter Todd says, “A Heart for Any Fate is a must read: A Heart for Any Fate sheds new light on the Hannah Cole story. Suzanne Lyon has brought Hannah to life like no history book ever could. I couldn’t stop turning pages!”

You can get a copy of A Heart for Any Fate one of three ways:

    • Ask for it at your local book store. Hint: Hastings Book Stores are a good place to start.
    • Order it online from Amazon or other online booksellers.
    • Order your personal signed copy from the author. Simply send a check made out to Suzanne Lyon, in the amount of $25 (a discount off the retail price good only for Cole descendants) and send it to 1182 Clubhouse Dr., Broomfield, CO 80020.

Y-DNA Test Matches Proving Common Ancestor Eight Generations Back

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article written by William H. Coles, Jr.

In 1954 a Genealogist prepared a paper on the Family of William Temple Cole/Coles. This research was used by a client to join the DAR under the Revolutionary War Service of Captain William Temple Coles of Rowan County, North Carolina. The problem is this researcher tied your William Temple Cole and my William Temple Coles together. For instance, she showed him [them] in Wilson County, Tennessee in 1816, because that was what the records showed for William Temple Coles. William Temple Cole was killed by Indians in Missouri in 1810 so they really could not be one and the same.

In 1971 I began research on my ancestor William Temple Coles of Dublin, Ireland and Rowan County. I developed great documentation and prepared an application to the Sons of the American Revolution. As fate would have it, Mrs Whitley [the Genealogist of the above mentioned paper] was the acting Registrar for the Tennessee Society of the SAR. She called me and said she would not approve the application as it did not match her lineage of William Temple Coles.

I bided my time and did further research. I visited with Mrs Ira A. [Fay Cole] Leiter at her home in Sedalia, Missouri. She and I agreed that the lines of my William Temple Coles and her William Temple Cole had been mixed together.

I continued with my research and eventually, with the help of a family member who was a member of the DAR, got the Corrections General of DAR to alter the false information of Mrs. Whitley and straighten out the Captain William Temple Coles Line.

The Line I have put together has been accepted by the SAR, the Sons of the Revolution and the Society of the Cincinnati. So my paper trail has been upheld.

But with the advent of Y-DNA testing, I wanted scientific affirmation.

Y-DNA Testing is a relative new tool being used by genealogists to prove a Common Ancestor exists between the people whose Y-DNA is being tested. The test looks at the DNA in the Y-chromosome within males. This is one of the sex chromosome and is responsible for maleness. All males have one in each cell and copies are passed down (virtually) unchanged from father to son every generation. For further information see the following web sites and follow the links on each home page.

www.familytreedna.com
This is the company that did Charles Cole’s DNA. Please follow all links for great information.

www.dnaheritage.com/tutorial1.asp
This is the best explanation I have seen on what it is and how it works.

The actual test is a very simple procedure. The testing company sends a kit containing two vials and a plastic swab to gently scrape the inside of your cheek. You deposit the swab into one of the vials. You repeat the procedure in eight hours. Seal the provided envelope and put on $0.49 postage. In about eight weeks you will get a report. The 25 marker test is the one with the best results.

A Genealogist had an individual tested using the COLE/COLES Project with Family Tree DNA. She was testing to connect him to a COLE Family in NC./SC. I paid for a test on Charles Cole, there was an exact match with your Vice President. These two individuals matched 25 of 25 markers.. They share a common ancestor about 8 generations back. The Cole gentleman in Kentucky can trace his genealogy to William Hunter Cole, d. 1844 in NC and thinks he is from Stephen Cole of PA.

I am so glad I did this Y-DNA Project. I did not find a common ancestor between my William Temple Coles and your William Temple Cole – BUT – Charles Cole and the Cole Family of Missouri has found another member of their family.

We have another perfect match between two testees on both 12 and 25 markers. The newest testee to receives results is Charles Cole of Sheldon MO. He matches Richard Harold Cole of Mableton, GA. Richard was sponsored by Ann Cole Barber, Richard’s Sister.

The ancestry of Charles Cole (per Bill Coles) is William Temple Cole who married Hannah Allison in Kentucky or Virginia. William Temple Cole was killed by Indians in Missouri. My [Bill’s] William Temple Coles was from Ireland and died in Salisbury, Rowan County, NC in 1776.

The earliest known ancestry of Richard as described by Ann is as follows:

James W. Cole [2GGFather]

    • born:     12/08/1865/1868, Paulding County, Georgia
    • died:      01/23/1929, Greenville, South Carolina
    • bd.:       Bethul Church Cem., Greenville, South Carolina
    • md.:      (1) Margaret Talley (Richard’s Great-Great Grandmother)
                    buried at Gann Family Cem.
    • md.:      (2) Mrs. Minnie Brookshire (maiden name UNK)
                    buried at Bethul Cem., Greenville, S.C. with James.

The above information, myself [Ann] and other family members can positively prove through first-hand account and documentation. The remainder is what we have been told.

Father of James W. Cole:
  Henry C. Cole:

    • born:      04/25/1844, Paulding County, Ga.
    • died:      After July 1890, Paulding County, Ga.
                    (was diagnosed with epilepsy during civil war)
    • bd.:        Cole Cemetery, Dallas Paulding County, Ga.
    • md.:       Mary Elizabeth Johnson

Father of Henry C. Cole:
  James C. Cole/Coal, Jr.:

    • born:      09/17/1811, South Carolina
    • died:      04/22/1883, Paulding County, Ga.
    • bd.:        Cole Family Cem., Dallas, Paulding Co., Ga.
    • md.:       Elizabeth Evans

Father of James C. Cole/Coal, Jr.:
  James C. Cole/Coal, Sr.:

    • born:      abt. 1780 Virginia
    • died:      1847 Paulding County, Ga.
    • md.:       (1) Unknown (Richard’s Ancestor)
    • md.:       (2) Patience Unknown

When I was a child (approx. 10) my father, Waitsel, told me that his Cole relatives, past and present, spelled their surname many different ways. When I asked what he thought it was originally he said that it “could” have been “McCool”.

2004 Missourian Award Presented to Hannah Cole

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The 2004 Missourian Award Plaque given on behalf of Hannah Cole

 

Proclamation, Medallion, and Booklet for the 2004 Missourian Award

 
 

RIVER WOMAN

written by Laura Beth Cooper

 
They say you have no face
We’ll have to look at photographs of your children
To discover who you are – yet I know your face
The shadow of your countenance river woman!

The strong outline of the chin – fixed in staunch solitude
As you stand on the banks of the Missouri.
The wind drives lines into your face, and you smile – The water reflects happiness back to you
And your eyes dance with excitement.

It is your river to build on; cross over and fish in – Until the natives come and you defend her banks
As your eyes fill with fear of the unknown river woman – And your face grows stronger and more clear!

See the wind blow your hair and fill your eyes with pride
About what is yet to come on her bluffs.
The farmers, the brick layer of the city’s streets
Old houses on shady lanes – The Missouri painter, the railroad worker,
The bread baker, the Kemper soldier, the writer,
The store clerk, the seamstress and Boonville blossoms.

We all know your face river woman!
I saw it in my grandmother’s determined look
My mother’s carrying ways
Each morning it is reflected back to me in a mirror
And behind me stands my son with his Cole ways.

Your face is ours – this city chiseled from the dreams of your countenance.
We are proud and fearless as the water runs past us and the blood through our veins.
And on this day, on her very banks
Show us that face river woman that we already know – Smile upon us pioneer woman, frontier settler, river woman – Hannah Cole!