Catherine -Colley CAULEY

Abt 1816 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Catherine -Colley CAULEY
  Birth	Abt 1816	Wilkinson County, Georgia
  Gender	Female
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I2204	Jennifer's Family Tree-All Lines 10-25-2016
  Last Modified	19 May 2014

  
  

  Father	William COLLEY,   b. 1773, Old Dobbs, Georgia, USA d. 22 Feb 1857, Leary, Calhoun, Georgia, USA (Age 84 years)
  Mother	MARY,   b. 1778, South Carolina, USA d. 11 Apr 1854, Calhoun County, Georgia, USA (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1820
  Family ID	F805	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	UNKNOWN
  Children	1. David CAULEY,   b. 1832   d. Bef 1864 (Age 32 years)   2. William Harvey CAULEY, Sr.,   b. 1835, Georgia, USA d. 11 Sep 1909 (Age 74 years)   3. Elias CAULEY,   b. 1836   d. 5 Jun 1904 (Age 68 years)   4. Jane F. CAULEY,   b. 1842   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F804	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 May 2014

  
  

• Notes

  From George Colley (gwcolley@earthlink.net): Catharine Colley (a.k.a. Catherine Cauley or Cally) was born about 1816. She is assumed to be a daughter of William Colley. I believed she is one of the females listed in the 1820 Census for Wilkinson County Georgia. The Wilkinson Co. Georgia Historical Collections list Catherine Cauley as sister of Ransom Payne's wife (Elsie Cauley). Ransom Payne wife is with little question William Colley's daughter Ailcy Colley (a.k.a. Elsie Cauley). Catherine Cauley is reported to have been unmarried with children and living with a man named Eli Worthing born 1851, relationship unknown. The names of the children are: ? David Cauley, b.1832; d. before 1864. ? Elias Cauley, b. 1836; d. 6/5/1904 (Tombstone says 1900). ? William Harvey Cauley, b. 1835, d. 9/11/1909 (74 years old). ? Jane F. Cauley, b. 1842; d. ?. Catharine Colley is named in William Colley's Will without reference to relationship. She was left the small sum of $5.00 (less then the worth of one head of cattle). Catharine contested the Will of William Colley but after extensive litigation lost her case in the Georgia Calhoun Co. Superior Court. Catharine and her father must have been very strong willed people and this may have been the source of their conflict. Catharine?s three sons were in the Civil War. David Cauley was reported killed in Spotsylvania VA. Other sources say he was wounded there and died later at home. David had legal papers fixed in 1854 to become his mother?s guardian, stating that Catherine was a "lunatic". Elias Cauley enlisted as private in Company H, 2nd Regiment, 1st Brigade, Georgia State Troops October 11, 1861. Mustered out 1862. Enlisted as a private in Company I, 57th Regiment Georgia Infantry May 3, 1862. Captured at Whitemarsh Island, Savannah, Georgia, on February 22, 1864. Released at Fort Delaware, Delaware June 16, 1865. Born in Wilkinson County Georgia in 1836. Died in Wilkinson County, Georgia on 6.5/1904. Gravesite: Griffin District (Joins Laerens Co.) of Wilkinson Co. GA, Walnut Creek Baptist Church Cemetery. William Harvey Cauley ? 1st Corporal ? May 3,1882. Captured at Vicksburg Mississippi July 4, 1863. Exchanged September 1863. Surrendered at Greensboro, North Carolina April 26, 1865. Born in Wilkinson County, Georgia in 1835. Died there 9 November at the age of 74. Gravesite: Griffin District (Joins Laerens Co.) of Wilkinson Co. GA, Walnut Creek Baptist Church Cemetery."