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Lawrence A Cooley Jr 1940 - 2009

Lawrence A Cooley Jr of Sublette, Lee County, IL was born on February 9, 1940, and died at age 69 years old on June 8, 2009. Lawrence Cooley was buried at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery Section 8 Site 2331 20953 West Hoff Road, in Elwood.
Lawrence A Cooley Jr
Sublette, Lee County, IL 61367
February 9, 1940
June 8, 2009
Male
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  • 02/9
    1940

    Birthday

    February 9, 1940
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  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Navy Rank attained: SN Wars/Conflicts: Vietnam
  • 06/8
    2009

    Death

    June 8, 2009
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    Unknown
    Cause of death
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    Death location
  • Gravesite & Burial

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    Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery Section 8 Site 2331 20953 West Hoff Road, in Elwood, Il 60421
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In 1940, in the year that Lawrence A Cooley Jr was born, on September 16th, the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, was enacted - the first peacetime draft in U.S. history. Men between 21 and 36 were required to register with their draft boards. When World War II began, men between 18 and 45 were subject to service and men up to 65 were required to register.
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In 1964, at the age of 24 years old, Lawrence was alive when in June, three young civil rights workers - Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner from New York City, and James Chaney from Meridian, Mississippi - were kidnapped and murdered in Mississippi. Working with "Freedom Summer", they were registering African-Americans to vote in the Southern states. Their bodies were found two months later. Although it was discovered that the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County Sheriff's Office and the Philadelphia, Mississippi Police Department were involved, only 7 men were convicted and served less than six years.
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