Eleanor Cole

Notes:

\"For many years it has been said that Cole County was named for [Stephen] Cole although a newspaper published in Franklin, across the river from Boonville, twice identifies [William] Temple [Cole] as the one whose name was given to the county.\" -- Email from Robert \"Bob\" Priddy

Stephen Cole and William Temple Cole Fight With Indians -
Stephen Cole and William Temple Cole were born in New River, Wythe Co., Virginia. There they married sisters named Allison, and emigrated to the southern part of the Cumberland, Wayne Co., Kentucky. In 1807, they came to Upper Louisiana, and settled on or near Loutre Island, about the same time that the Coopers settled on that island. In 1810, a roving band of about eighteen Pottowattomies, led by a war chief named Nessotingineg, stole a number of horses from the settlers of Loutre Island on the Missouri. A volunteer company consisting of Stephen Cole, William Temple Cole, Sarshall Brown, Nicholas Gooch, Abraham Potts, and James Mordock, was formed with Stephen Cole, then captain of the militia of Loutre Island, as leader. The company proposed to follow the Indians and recapture the stolen property. The volunteer company followed the Indians up the Loutre Creek, about 20 miles, and came to a place where the Indians had peeled bark, evidently to make halters, there the white men stopped for the night. The next morning they followed the Indian trail about thirty miles across Grand Prairie, just as they emerged from a small patch of timber, suddenly discovered the Indians with the horses. William Temple Cole and Sarshall Brown, on the fastest horses, started in pursuit, the others following them. So hard did they press their pursuit upon the Indians, who did not know the number of whites chasing them, and who were apprehensive that they might be captured in their wild flight, that they threw their packs into a plum thicket near a pool of water, and they scattered in the woods. These packs, consisting of buffalo robes, deer skins and partly tanned leather, they had stolen from Sarshall Brown. Night overtaking the party, they went into camp on the Waters of Salt River at a place known as Bonelick, 65 miles from the Loutre settlement, and about a mile or two northwest of the present city of Mexico, in Audrain County. Here contrary to the advice of their leader Stephen Cole, they without posting any sentinels, tied their horses in the thicket. After broiling some meat for supper, they went to sleep, with the exception of Stephen Cole, who with the sagacity of the experienced frontiersman was apprehensive of an attack. They had not been asleep long, when Cole thought he heard the cracking of a bush. He told his brother to get up, for he believed the Indians were near. However everything remained still, and solemn quietude prevailed. Stephen Cole pulled his saddle against his back and shoulders, and sought again his repose after the hard day\'s chase, but still impressed with impending danger. The Indians, who had crawled up so near that, by the light of the
little camp fire, they could see the faces of their unsuspecting victims, waited but a short time till all was quiet then they opened a volley upon the party, instantly killing Gooch and Brown, wounding William Temple Cole and mother of one of the men. A hand-to-hand struggle between the Indians and Stephen Cole then took place in which Cole killed four Indians and wounded a fifth; the remaining members of the Indian band disappeared. Stephen Cole then went into a nearby pool and squatted in the water to wash the blood from the many wounds which he had received. After a little while the Indians returned, found Temple Cole and killed him. Patton, who had managed to get off some distance, also was found dead near a little sapling. Stephen Cole, after stanching the flow of blood from his wounds left the scene of the bloody encounter.
The next morning, after he had gone about two or three miles, he sat down on a small gopher hill to rest, when he discovered two mounted Indians same distance away. They eyed him for a few minutes, then wheeled their horses and disappeared. He reached the settlement on the third day nearly famished, having had not a morsel to eat during all this time. James Moredock escaped unhurt, and it is said that if he had acted with one-half the bravery of Stephen Cole, the Indians would have been defeated. Samuel Cole, a son of William Temple Cole, says that the Indians did not scalp the whites in this encounter. Peace was supposed to prevail between the Indians and settlers. This skirmish proved to be the beginning of the Indian troubles on the Missouri River. It is possible that this band of Pottowattomies had been on the war path against the Osages, and since the war trail from the Pottowattomies\' led to the mouth of the Gasconade, near which Loutre Island is situated in the Missouri River, the temptation to steal some of the horses of the settlers had been too great for the Indians to forego. At any rate, so far as we know they did no personal injury to the settlers, except yielding to their penchant for stealing. If they had been bent upon more
serious mischief, they undoubtedly could and would have perpetrated it. James Cole, a son of Stephen Cole, says that in this fight Stephen Cole received 26 wounds, and that on his way home he chewed some elm bark and placed it on his wounds. Stephen Cole was killed by the Indians on the banks of the Rio Grande near El Paso in 1824. Cole was a strong, virile, robust, uneducated, but sagacious frontiersman. On one occasion he was present at a session of the legislature, says Houck, when two members who had been opponents in a spirited debate during the session, engaged in a fight, after adjournment for the day and clinched. This was a common occurrence in those days when physical strength and prowess were so greatly esteemed. Governor McNair, who happened to be present, tried to separate them, but Cole seized the governor and pulled him away, saying, \"In such a scrimmage a governor is no more than any other man.\"

From History of Cooper County Missouri by W. F. Johnson


William Temple Cole and his family went from Wythe County VA to St Charles County MO in 1807. William Temple Cole was killed by Indians on 20 July 1810. The court appointed his brother Stephen Cole (jr), administrator and in 1814 guardian of William Temple Cole\'s sons Stephen Cole & Samuel Cole both over age 14.

The following is hand written:

District of Saint Charles } Henry Hight Judge of probate
Territory of Louisiana } of the district aforesaid
To Hannah Cole relict & widow of William Temple Cole - deceased, James Cole, Holbert Cole, Stephen Cole, Samuel Cole, Jane Cole, Martha Cole, William T Cole, Ann D. Cole, Eleoner Cole and Phebe Cole ---- heirs and representatives of William Temple Cole ---- deceased.
You are hereby Summoned and required to Show cause if any you can why the sale of Lucy & Issac - slaves belonging to the estate of the aforesaid William Temple Cole -should not be directed and the amount of the sale distributed among you according to your respective rights on or before the first day of September next-

Given under my hand with the seal of office annexed the 24th day of July - in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & eleven.
H. Hight
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=day76149&id=I0590

---------
another webpage with extensive notes:
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/k/a/n/Ronald-P-Kanarr/GENE1-0010.html

Died:
Killed in an Indian attack.
Source: Robert \"Bob\" Priddy of Jefferson City, MO

William married Hannah Allison in 1789 in Wythe Co, Virginia. Hannah (daughter of Holbert McClure (Halbert) Allison and Mrs. Nancy Agnes (..) Allison) was born in 1762 in New River, Wythe Co, Virginia; died in 1843 in Booneville, Cooper Co, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Honored as the first settler of Boonville Cooper County MO.
The following is hand written:

District of Saint Charles } Henry Hight Judge of probate
Territory of Louisiana } of the district aforesaid
To Hannah Cole relict & widow of William Temple Cole - deceased, James Cole, Holbert Cole, Stephen Cole, Samuel Cole, Jane Cole, Martha Cole, William T Cole, Ann D. Cole, Eleoner Cole and Phebe Cole ---- heirs and representatives of William Temple Cole ---- deceased.
You are hereby Summoned and required to Show cause if any you can why the sale of Lucy & Issac - slaves belonging to the estate of the aforesaid William Temple Cole -should not be directed and the amount of the sale distributed among you according to your respective rights on or before the first day of September next-

Given under my hand with the seal of office annexed the 24th day of July - in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & eleven.

H. Hight

Notes for HANNAH ALLISON:
Hannah Cole, Boonville's first settler, was one of Missouri's first pioneer women. The year was 1810. Hannah Cole and her husband, William Temple Cole, left Kentucky with a group of pioneers to find a better place to raise their nine children. On their journey, William was shot and killed by Indians 100 miles down the Missouri River, near Loutre Island, which is now the area of Hermann, Missouri. Other members of the party tried to talk Hannah into staying there, but she was determined to settle her family elsewhere. She wanted her family to be high above the flooding river that so often washed away everything in its path. In the winter of 1810, Hannah and her family, along with her sister and brother-in-law, crossed the icy Missouri River to the south-side bluffs where they erected the first Boonville building, a fort to protect the family from warring Indians. In 1816, Hannah became the first businesswoman in the state when she obtained a license to operate a ferryboat at the Boonville and Franklin crossing.

October 31, 1932, from the Pilot Grove Record

Grave Formally Marked - Tablet at Hannah Cole Grave is Unveiled

With fitting ceremony, the grave of Hannah Cole, Cooper County's pioneer mother was formally marked last Sunday afternoon, October 30, 1932, but the unveiling of a bronze tablet, set in a large boulder of Missouri granite. This tablet bears the following inscription: "Cooper County's first white woman settler, whose unfailing courage in facing dangers of the wilderness and a cruel Indian War, entitles her to be called a Pioneer Mother of early Missouri Civilization - 1764 - 1843."
The burial place of Hannah Cole and many of her family, the Briscoe Cemetery on Highway #5 had long lain in waste. Revival of interest in local history and the restoration of historic spots in Cooper County has brought this spot to the attention of the public.
The principal speakers of the occasion were the Hon. W. L. Nelson, U. S. Representative, a native Cooper Countian and Col. J. B. Barnes. Other speakers were: Mrs. Robert Bagnell, National Chairman of the Sons and Daughters of the Republic Club, Mrs. Marshall Rust, State Historian of the D. A. R.;
and Mrs. C. A. Stites, Children of the Hannah Cole and Samuel Cole Sons and Daughters of the Republic.
Unveiling of the Boulder and Tablet was by Mrs. Mortimer Bunce of Nevada, Mi., a great-grand-daughter of Hannah Cole and Mrs. Gilla Roe, a grand-daughter. Several generations of the Cole family were represented, among them being a great-great-great-grandson, who represented the Kansas City Star, as reporter for the event. Chapters of the D. A. R. of Pilot Grove, Boonville, Nelson, Sedalia, California, and Columbia were represented in the crowd of three hundred who assembled from widely distant places.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=day76149&id=I0593

--------
from Cole Assoc website:
http://www.coleassociation.com/history.shtml

The widow Hannah Cole and her nine children settle in Indian territory along with her sister and brother-in-law Phoebe and Stephen Cole and their five children.
12 Apr 2010

Died:
monument:
Hannah Cole
1762-1843
First white woman settler
of Cooper County
whose unfailing courage
in facing the dangers of
a wilderness and a
cruel Indian war
entitles her to be called
a pioneer mother
of early Missouri Civilization

Erected by
Pilot Grove Chapter
D.A.R.
1932

nearby:
Hannah Cole Roadside Park

"This is the statue (not attached; see link) erected in honor of pioneer woman Hannah in Boonville, Missouri. She was the first white woman to settle among the Indians of what would become Cooper County, Missouri. Since Hannah lived before photography, I am using this picture of the statue of Hannah which was erected in her honor in Morgan Street Park in Boonville, Missouri. It was created from a combination of the faces of her female descendants being morphed together."
Ancestry tree: http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/6486025/person/-1230069543/mediax/1?pgnum=1&pg=0&pgpl=pid%7CpgNum

Notes:

Webpage with info on Stephen Cole and family;
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/k/a/n/Ronald-P-Kanarr/GENE1-0014.html

Stephen married Eleanor Bounds about 1754 in Bedford Co, Virginia. Eleanor (daughter of James Bounds and Ann (Dykes) Dicks) was born about 1733 in Dorcester, Maryland; died in 1783 in Bedford Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 14 Sep 1813, Wythe Co, Virginia

Notes:

Will:
written 1813 July 21
Will of Halbert Allison
Wythe County, Virginia
Will Book 2 page 106-107

I Halbert Allison of the County of Wythe and State of Virginia do make this my last will and Testament--that is to say
First it is my desire that as soon after my decease as possable all my just debts and funeral expenses shall be paid.
2ly I have already given my son James Allison a tract of land whereon he now lives, bounded by a line run by Mr Heazlerig and now do bequeath it unto him forever. I also give unto him one negroe man named Nedd, reserving two hundred dollars of his value to be paid by him to my daughter Mary Davis to be half in money the other in good property.
3ly I give unto my son John Allison one hundred dollars in good property sides what he has already received.
4thly I give unto my son Francis Allison my land lying in [the County of Lee].
5thly I give unto my four sons, Charles Allison, Stephen Allison, William & Robert Allison the lands where I now live also my lands lying in Grayson County to be equally divided between them, reserving my house and the part where I now live for my son Charles.
6thly I give unto my two daughters, Rhoda Allison and Martha Allison one Negroe girl name Jinney also one negroe boy named London to be equally divided between them when they come of age, allowing my daughter Rhoda to keep the girl if she wants.
7thly I leave unto my beloved wife Agnes Allison one negroe woman named Ann during her natural life and at her death to be equally divided between my two daughters Rhoda & Martha. I also leave unto my wife one meare saddle and bridel (her choice of all) it is also my desire that my wife shall have an equal part with my four sons in the land where I now live during her widowhood, I also leave unto my wife the best bed and furniture in my house.
8thly I leave also to my four sons Charles, Stephen, William & Robert Allison two negroe men Samuel & Williamto be equally divided between them.
9thly It is my desire that the heirs of my three daughters Hannah Coles, Jean Brown and Pheaby Coles have $3 divided amongst them.
10thly It is my desire that the remaining part of my estate be equally divided between my wife Agnes four sons Charles Stephen William & Robert and two daughter Rhodah & Martha.
Lastly I nominate constitute and appoint my wife Agnes Allison & my son Francis Allison Executrix & Executor of this my last will & testament making null and void all the wills & testaments by me heretofore made in Testamony in said County of Wythe this 21st day of July 1813.

/signed/ Halbert Elson

Signed Sealed delivered in presence of us
James Calfee
John Calfee Jr.
Jno. T Sayers

At a Court held for Wythe County, the 14th day of September 1813.
This the last will and testament of Halbert Allison was part proved in Court by the oath of James Calfee a subscribing witness thereto and continues...and at a Court...continues...
and held for said County the 13th day of October 1813. This will was again presented to Court and fully proved by the oath of John Calfee Jr. a witness thereto and ordered to be Recorded.
Teste
Jacob Fishback

(findagrave)

Holbert married Mrs. Nancy Agnes (..) Allison about 1768. Nancy was born in 1753 in Augusta Co, Virginia; died on 2 Apr 1816 in Wythe Co, Virginia; was buried in Trigg Cem, Austinville, Wythe Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 14 May 1816, Wythe Co, Virginia

Notes:

Will:
Will: 14 May 1816, Published, Wythe County, VA

1816 April 2
Will of Nancy Allison
Wythe County, Virginia
Will Book 2 page 160-161

In the Name of God, Amen I Nancy Allison of the County of Wythe State of Virginia being indisposed in body but of sound & disposing mind & memory do make and publish this my last Will and Testament in the following manner and form to wit:
In the first place I will and desire that all my Just debts should be paid as soon as convience should admit after my decease. Again I leave and bequeath to my son Charles Allison a negro man slave named Ned in consideration he shall pay a debt I owe to my son Francis Allison of one hundred dollars and purchase Ann a negro woman slave the wife of the said Ned now in my possession the value of sd. Negro woman Slave Ann - My son Charles shall pay and account for with my two daughters Rhoda & Martha the reason I place my son Charles Allison under the aforesaid restrictions It is not my wish the aforesaid slaves be disunited, Again I leave unto my two daughters Rhoda & Martha four head of cattle and all my household furniture _____ ______ one bedstead and furniture to my Daughter Martha and my saddle to my daughter Rhoda Again I leave unto Nancy Allison the Daughter of John Allison one brown heifer - Again I leave unto my son Robert Allison daughters Rhoda & Martha 3 colts Robert to have first choice Rhoda second Martha third of aforesaid colts Finally I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint Charles & William Allison, Exec. to this my last will & Testament revoking all former wills, whereof I hereunto subscribed my name & affixed my seal the 2nd day of April 1816.

/signed/ Nancy Allison (seal)

In presence of
Thos. Boyd
James Simpson Junior
Wm. H. Green

At a Court held for Wythe County, the 14th day of May 1816
This the last will and Testament of Nancy Allison Deceased was presented in Court and duly proved by the Oaths of Thomas Boyd and James Simpson Senr two of the witnefses thereto and ordered to be recorded.

Teste Josh T. Fishback DC

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=draper1&id=I6827

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: Bef 1713, Chester, Pennsylvania
• Residence: Aft 1730, West Virginia
• Residence: Aft 1732, Frederick Co, and Orange Co, Virginia
• Residence: 1737, Orange Co, West Virginia

Notes:

1731 Yoist Hite, German from PA, first settler in Western VA, and Robert McKay, a Quaker from Cecil Co, MD, secured a 100,000 acre Grand from the Council of VA 21 Oct 7131. Terms required Hite and McKay to settle 100 families within 2 years. The Cole bros, Rentrfoes and Robinsons came to Western VA at that time.


1737 living in old Orange Co, VA, signed a petition:
"The inhabitants of Opeckon and Shenanadore humbly beg, that your Court give permission that two meeting places might be erected. One on the land of Rev William Williams near his home and another near the home of Morgan Bryan. Rev William of Presbyterian faith has promised to supply us the ministry of his office. " (Bk 3. p 101, Orange Co, VA) Also signed by William Rentfroe.

(Opeckon River (just north of present day Winchester, Frederick, County. This location also mentioned in John Madden documents a little later in 1745)

__
James migrated to West Virginia after 1730. He was in Orange County, West Virginia in 1737.

In 1742, James was appointed Constable by the Augusta County Court that was formed from Orange County, West Virginia.

In July 1745, James received a 400 acre grant along Buffalo Creek. In December 1753, he buys 400 acres on Story Ceek in Lunenburg County, Virginia. In May of 1773, he sells 49 acres. He seems to have continued living in this area, even after his sons left in 1757/58, until his death.

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/c/o/l/Darlene-Cole-Fresno/GENE1-0002.html#CHILD3
___

http://www.ancestorstories.org/dad/cook/merlyn/index.cfm
Merlyn Joseph Cook Bio
1914 - 1995, Honorary Researcher
charlie -cookstuff@aol.com

, William Cook II (ca 1725-1785) and his wife Margaret, started their married life ca 1750, in what is now Franklin Co., VA., living first on Fox Run on the Blackwater River. In about 1767, they moved a few miles south of where Hatchet Creek enters the north side of Pigg River, a few miles west of Rocky Mount. In 1784 they moved on west to Franklin Co., KY, near Frankfort, where some of the older children had already migrated. But for approximately 34 years they lived in what is now Franklin Co., VA, although they left just before Franklin Co. was organized.

"As a young married man living on the Blackwater River, William had served as an Anglican Lay Reader (because of the shortage of clergymen). The meetings were held in the houses Joseph RENTFROE and Mark COLE, and William was paid a small stipend in tobacco. Later he served as a J.P., in early Henry Co. History.

"Their home was apparently quite close to the old Bedford Co., line before Franklin Co., was formed. Before the COOK family left for Ky., a letter was prepared by their neighbors and friends, some of whom lived in Bedford Co. The letter which is still preserved, reads as follows: Sept. 26, 1783 "HENRY CO., VA: This is to certify that William COOK has been a resident in this place for near thirty years; and has always behaved unblameable; and demeaned himself as a good citizen, Patriot, and friend, to his country and has faithfully Acted in the Civel department--and now being disposed to move to the Western Waters, we recommend him to the Inhabitants of that Country hoping he will meet with as warm a reception as the Merits of his Caracter Intitles him to. Test

Joseph Anthony Jno. Rentfro, J.P. Swinfield Hill, J.P.

A. Hughes, J.P. Robt. Jones, Sen'r James Calloway, Cty. Lt.

Peter Saunders, Col. Robt. Jones, Jun'r Campbell Co.

John Dillard, J. P. Thos. Jones, Jun'r Thos. Hale, Capt'n

Sam'l Hairston Henry Jones Acquilla Greer

Moses Greer, J. P. Jesse Heard, J. P. Jesse Rentfro

Thos Cooper John Hall Abraham Penn, Col."

William Hall

James* married Susannah* Rentfroe (or Renfro) about 1719 in Chester Co, Pennsylvania. Susannah* (daughter of Tailor John R.* Rentfrow (Rentfro), Jr. and Margaret* Robinette) was born between 1699 and 1705 in Chester Co, Pennsylvania; died after 1752. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
James Cole, Sr. (s/o Stephen b. ca. 1661, and Elizabeth "Temple" Cole b. 1662) made his intention to marry Susannah Rentfroe in Chester Co., PA. in 1719 at the New Garden Monthly Meeting (found at the Swathmore College in PA). We have no idea when they married, but know they did as she was on Land Records until 1752 in VA. The only other Renfro found in PA was a John Renfro and Elizabeth who could be Susannah's parents. (Not confirmed) They had witnessed some legal papers together there at the Meetings.

James married Ann (Dykes) Dicks about 1721 in Bedford Co, Virginia. Ann was born in 1700 in Dorchester, Maryland; died in 1740 in Bedford, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Hannah McClure in 1736 in Virginia. Hannah was born in 1719 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ireland; died after 1760 in of, Augusta Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]