Eunice F. Cooley died at her home in Manning, December 31, 1911. She was one of the earliest settlers of Carroll County. Mr. and Mrs. Cooley came to this county from Pittsford, Vermont, in 1856. The old settlers will remember that year as the hardest; winter ever had in this country, the snow was so deep it was impossible to go anywhere and the only visiting they did that winter was to go afoot over the deep snow drifts and fences.

The fences in those days were made of rails. In coming to this country the railroads only came as far as Iowa City and from there they hired a man and team to bring them to Coon Rapids where they stopped at Ezra Smiths where they were comfortably located in a log house, the same place where Mrs. Smith still lives. That summer they built a log house three miles west of Coon Rapids on the Brushy, their cooking was all done on a fire place and some times when the wind blew from the west the old fireplace would smoke so they could not hardly stay in the house. They baked their bread mostly in what, they called a bake oven, it was an iron kettle with a large cover extending out over the top and turned up all around. The hot coals of fire were taken from the fireplace and put on top of the bake kettle. The meat they used was deer, elk and prairie chickens, and sometimes a buffalo would be killed and the neighbors would all help eat it. Their milling was done at Des Moines, Iowa. They had nothing to sell and no money to buy with.

In the death of Mrs. Cooley a woman passed away who will be remembered in the vicinity where she lived so many years. Many a time was she called on to help care for her sick neighbors. Too she often shared her home with foot sore pioneers on their way to the new lands. Her pantry was always open to her neighbors when scarcity of food was found in their homes. It can truly be said she earned a warm place in the affection of all those with whom she came in contact.

For the past few years she has lived in Manning where she made her home with her children. Here almost helpless she passed her declining years without a word of complaint. After a short illness her soul went back to Him who gave it and where it will reign with the elect through eternity.

Eunice Jenkins was born in Queensbury, New York, January 10, 1831. At the age of 19 years she was united in marriage to George Cooley of Pittsford, Vermont. She leaves 6 children to mourn her loss: Henry J. Cooley of Atlantic, Iowa; I.N. Cooley of Manning, Iowa; Emma Parish of Manning, Iowa; Liola Copeland of Elk Point, South Dakota; Nettie Christopher of Mallard, Iowa; and George Cooley of Council bluffs.

E.B. Scoggan conducted the services at the M.E. Church at Dedham, Iowa.