"My Grandparents"
In later years, Ed Cooley established a small "Mom and Pop" grocery on Harmons Creek Road. This was to become a well known landmark in Benton County. "Grandady" was a tall thin man of Irish ancestry. He had sandy hair and blue eyes. He was always kind to his fellow man. Every one who knew of Cooley's grocery could tell you how they enjoyed setting around the old wood stove on a cold winter day and swap a story or two. But time passes and so into history goes Cooley's grocery. As a young girl growing up in the Harmons Creek area, how I loved to go to grandady's grocery. There was alway a special treat waiting and a cold Coca Cola from the cooler. I wonder sometimes how he ever made a profit as all six of us grandkids always ate free.
Ed and Gather's children were:
Nora Morie, b. November 27 1913 - d. 1930
William Hershel, b. October 7, 1917 - d. 1992; m. Dorothy Melton
Frances Irene, b. December 10, 1919 - d. April 29, 1994; m. Robert Henry Cauthen
Ethelene, b. June 21 1923; m. Kenneth Wayne Holland.
William Edward Cooley and Lou Gather Melton Cooley are buried beside their daughter Morie, in the Farmer Cemetery in the Harmons Creek Community of Benton County, Tennessee.