William Asa McCool

Brief Life History of William Asa

When William Asa McCool was born on 14 March 1849, in Coffee, Tennessee, United States, his father, John Jacob McCool, was 33 and his mother, Sarah Minerva Jackson Toliver, was 30. He married Louisa Frances Andrew on 18 July 1868, in Benton, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in McDonald, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Mountain Township, McDonald, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. He died on 7 April 1923, in Pea Ridge, Benton, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Pea Ridge Cemetery, Pea Ridge, Benton, Arkansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Asa McCool
1849–1923
Louisa Frances Andrew
1852–1892
Marriage: 18 July 1868
Charles Edward McCool
1869–1961
Miss McCool
1877–1877
William Alexander McCool
1871–1934
McCool
1873–1873
John Lemon McCool
1875–1951
Benjamin Franklin McCool
1879–1938
Joseph Fredrick McCool
1881–1952
Mr McCool
1883–1883
Child Mc Cool
1884–1884
Rosetta Irene McCool
1884–1970
Sarah Minerva McCool
1887–1973
James Noah McCool
1890–1951
Elizabeth Mc Cool
1892–1892

Sources (21)

  • Willian A Mccool, "United States Census, 1910"
  • W A Mc Cool, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
  • William A Mccool, "Arkansas Death Index, 1914-1950"

World Events (8)

1861

Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

Irish (northern): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Comhghaill ‘son of the servant (i.e. devotee) of (Saint) Comhghall’, a personal name, possibly an intensive of gall ‘stranger’, borne by an early Irish saint.

Irish (northern) and Manx: possibly an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Dhubhghaill. See McDowell .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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