The Cookseys with Unknown Woman


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Joe & Mary Cooksey with an unknown woman, possibly in front of their home.

William Joseph "Joe" Cooksey (b.1852 - d. 1914) was born in 1852 (estimated) in Missouri.

He married Mary R. Venator (middle woman in photo) on May 27, 1875 in Grant County, Oregon. They had one daughter, Clare Cooksey, who was born on December 15,1880 in Oregon and died on August 11,1885 in Prescott, Arizona.

Joe Cooksey was one of the earliest pioneers in Oregon. He located to Harney, Oregon in 1866 and engaged in the cattle business. In 1882, he relocated to Arizona in  Camp Wood where he continued as a cattleman. He ranged in the Kymo area and also helped build the Camp Wood road.

Joe and Mary moved to Porterville, California in 1898.

Joe died on January 2, 1914 in Porterville, California.

Sources: US Census 1880; Lake County Examiner, Lake County, Oregon; Sharlot Hall Museum Days Past Article "Maps as History: Camp Wood as an Example by David Stephen; Yavapai County Cemetery Association Burial Index.

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