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Mary Elizabeth Wren was born August 18, 1877, possibly at Muncie, in Delaware County, Indiana. Mary was the daughter of James Alfred Wren and Mary Jane Martin.
Mary married Ulysses Grant Cooley about 1896. Grant Cooley was born about 1869, in Indiana according to census.
The 1910 Muscatine County, Iowa census shows the family living in Bloomington Township next door to Mary's half-uncle, John Hagens and his family. The census shows Grant, 41, married one time, a farm laborer, born in Indiana; Mary, 32, married one time, married for 15 years, had given birth to 4 children and all 4 were still living; son Arthur, 11, born in Missouri; daughter Carrol, 8, born in Illinois; daughter Mary, 6, born in Iowa; and son Edward, 3, born in Illinois.
Mary died January 31, 1944, at Aledo, Illinois.
Children of Grant Cooley and Mary Wren
1. Chester Arthur Cooley, b. abt 1899, MO
2. Carrie Opal Cooley, b. IL
3. Mary Emily Cooley, b. IA
4. James Edward Cooley, b. New Boston, IL
5. Addie Cooley
6. Delma Cooley