I am looking for the family of Richard Donaldson COOKE (b.1749) who married Priscilla _____? in 1768. I know the family lived in and around Franklin County, NC and may have come from VA. Richard and Priscilla had a son (and perhaps other children, but I have no knowledge), Richard, who married Mary BLACKNALL. In the early 1800's they had a son (and perhaps other children), Thomas Blacknall Cooke who married Virginia FOSTER and they produced 7 children: Lutie, Virginia, Mary Elizabeth, Eugene, Walter, Augustus and Richard Peter Cook (my g-grandfather) who married Margaret Mary (or Mary Margaret) HAYES in 1875. They had 5 children, 3 of whom died of influenza while young. The other 2 were girls, Mary Keeble and Elba Lura (my grandmother) who married James Claude TUCKER, who himself was one of 7 children of John Buxton TUCKER, of Franklin or perhaps Granville County, NC. Can anyone help with any of this? Grace T. ("Gee") Fruit 4021 Ivy Lane Kitty Hawk, NC 27949

Hi Jean, If you are looking for Cook's in New Jersey and Long Island New York, I have lots and lots..... Isaac M. Cook, b. Hannover, Morris Co. NJ 3 Oct 1813, d. Alabama 15 Jun 1841 was the son of John Cook, b.28 Sep 1786, d 12 Feb 1863 in Hannover, NJ and Sarah Munn, John was the son of Zebulon Cook b. 22 Mar 1755 Hannover, NJ, d. 12 Dec 1810 m. Mary Jones Zebulon was the son of Ellis Cook, Col. (lots of info on this individual) b. 1732 Long Island NY, d. 7 APR 1797 Hannover, NJ m. (1st) Margaret Griswold, m. 2nd Lucy (Ely) Perkins Ellis was the son of Ellis Cook b. 1703 Southampton Long Island, NY, d. 31 Aug 1756 at Fort Oswego, NY m 1st Temperance __________, m. 2nd Mary Williams Ellis was the son of Abiel Cook b. Southampton, LI,NY 1683 d. 1740 Southampton, married Sarah Moore Abiel was the son of Abiel Cook, b. Southampton 1663 d. after 1698 probably Watermill, NY m. Ffrances Cooke Abiel was the son of Ellis Cook, b. England 1618 came to Lynn MA, then to Long Island NY one of the original settlers of Southampton. M. Martha Cooper , who came with her father John Cooper and mother Wibroe_______ on the ship "Hopewell" Apr 1635......... Hope this is help to you...... Jesse Thayre Barnes Burtskid@aol.com Surnames, Cook, Cooke, Thayer, Brooks, Daniels, Curtis, Halsey, Cooper, Rice

Does anyone have this marriage in their research? Edward Cook m. Martha Phillips around the turn of the century in Scioto co., Ohio. Probably in the First Presbyterian Church there. Thanks, Pam

Hello! I am seeking any information that you might have regarding my gggrandmother, Sarah J. Cook Allison. From the 1870 Census of White County, Illinois, I found that she was born about 1840 in Alabama. Sarah Cook married William H. Allison on March 29, 1859 in Phillips County, Arkansas. They moved to Illinois in the early 1860s, and three of the children, Mary, Martha and Ulysses Grant Allison, were born in White County, Illinois. Between 1870 and 1873 the family moved back to Phillips County, Arkansas, where the twins, Ed and Robert, were born. By 1880, both Sarah and William had died, and the children were living with families in Wayne and White counties in Illinois. I would appreciate any help with Sarah's parents and other relatives. Thanks! Valerie Keener

Hi gang! I am looking for information on the Koch's that would have settled in South Dakota. My gg grandfather was Joseph Koch he had brothers Heinrick, Jacob, and Wilhelm. I have no info on their parents, but know that they came in to the country thru New York abt 1843. Thanks, David Koch, New Orleans dlk@bellsouth.net

I have an Isaac Cook b. 3 Oct 1813 in Hanover, NJ and died in Alabama 15 Jun 1841.....I have his ancestors.....am in need of his descendents.... Jesse Thayre Barnes Burtskid@aol.com Surnames, Cook, Cooke, Thayer, Brooks, Daniels, Curtis, Halsey, Cooper, Rice

Hi Everyone, I wrote to this lady and here is her family line. I hope she has a name you have been looking for. Contact her at the address below. Ellie << Subj: Re: Cook Date: 4/18/99 9:12:48 AM Central Daylight Time From: deana@hbeark.com (Dora Smith) To: Stephens61@aol.com Sorry about not ansering sooner I have some cousins helping with this and every one of us came up with new material on most all our lines.I have a lot of proving on some to do but it's looking good,however Cook's are one line that's moving slow.My grandmother was Ruth Cook,about the middle child of 13.The only boy's were James b.Sep.8,1861,Alfred b.Oct.5,1871,George Washington b.Feb.22,1873,Charles H b.Jun.15,1877,Ephreim A b.Sep.20,1879,Jesse b.Dec.13,1881 All their children were born in Lima,Allen Co.,OH.

I was given the instructions below to follow to be able to get into our chat room or any other genealogy chat room on IRC. If you have any problems getting set up please contact me. IRC is Internet Relay Chat = It is a system of talking to people in "real time". You type to each other on a screen where everybody that is on the channel can see all the stuff typed.. mIRC is an IRC browser just like Netscape or Explorer, only it is for "chatting". IRC.ROOTSWEB.COM is the name of the server where the IIGS (International Internet Genealogy Society) chats. The port number is part of the server info. All channels start with a # sign.The channel you want is #cooksearchers. Here is total info: In order to get to chat you need to first have an IRC browser. You can obtain a good one from http://www.mirc.com (its shareware). After installing it, when you access it you will come up with a window showing irc servers. You need to add the server, irc.rootsweb.com, on port 6667. Then click on "CONNECT TO SERVER". A new window will open and you'll have to wait about a minute for the connection to take. After you get the welcome message (that you're connected), type "/list" (without the quotes) and hit enter. You will be presented with a new window showing all the open channels on that server. Double click on #cooksearchers and you'll be joining it. If you select #genealogy channel, you'll get some chat help from all the friendly people there. If no channels are showing, it means none are open - try again later. Or, if you're opening the channel, just type /open #cooksearchers and you'll have started the channel. For a schedule of all the different iigs irc meetings, check out: http://www.iigs.org/cgi/ircthemes/ircthemes You'll be suprised at the variety of chats available to you.

( ) .-.,--^--. _ Good Morning Cook Cousins \\| `---' |// Come on in the coffee pot's on \| / _\___/_ Good Morning Family, A big welcome to our new members. Before long you will know everyone and feel comfortable. We are a unique group of people. We cry together and we laugh together, as we are truly one big happy family. The best part about us is the way we help each other. If you are new to the Internet, or new to genealogy, please do ask questions. Someone in this group has an answer to help you. We are all eager to see who your Cook's were so when you are ready, do post them. Please put your names and STATE in the subject line. You want everyone to know what's inside. :) Something about spring and watching the flowers and trees come alive that makes us come alive. Guess we are like the bears...:) It's time for us to start looking forward to meeting new cousins. I bet half of us are related and don't know it! Lets watch our queries and make sure we are getting the important information other members need to know to make a connection with us. We get excited and sometimes leave out little things while we're typing. Members can't guess at what we meant to say but don't. "Just some food for thought" I hope everyone feels free to post queries and information here on our Cook list. The last thing I want is for anyone to be timid and afraid to post. We are here to find family and this is what the list was set up for. If you need help in any way, please e-mail me and I will try to help you. If I don't have the answers I bet I can find someone who does. :) Don't give up trying to find your family. We all get discouraged after a while of getting nowhere it seems, but along will come a clue and were on our way again. :) Our chat room is this afternoon at 2:00 Central Time. Anyone in the whole wide world who is searching for the surname Cook can come talk with us. I know this is the opportunity of a life time we needed to find more of our family. This is why I signed us up. I do hope to hear from you saying you want to host a state for our new state project. This is a very worth while project to help us find our lost family. I can't think of anything more important! I've really had a good time looking for information for the Oklahoma page. We have the world at our finger tips thru the Internet and it's so easy to find things. Do check out the pages for the states already up. I know these members would love to hear from you saying you will help volunteer to do look ups. We can only make this project work by pulling together. :) If you haven't been to our Cook Cooke Koch web page, do take a look. Check out the Attic for new records. This is our web homepage address ... <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/CookCooke">Cook Homepage</A> http://members.aol.com/CookCooke <A HREF="http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl">Archives </A> http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl Stay sweet and kind just like you are and not change, and I promise not to change also. BG I really enjoyed having coffee with you this morning, it was so nice! ( ) _.-~(~-. (@\`---'/. Ellie (' `._.' `) `-..___..-'

Here is some information that a friend, Barbara, sent my way. She did a look-up for me and added these for extra measure. Hope that it helps someone out there! Elbert Co., GA marriages: Benjamin Cook to Elizabeth Hudson: 8 nov 1810 Benjamin Cook to Jane England: 30 Apr 1810 Beverly C. Cook to Martha Tate: 3 May 1827 Fenton Cook to Emily Schofield: 10 Jan 1819 Francis Cook, Jr. to Ann Swett: 12 Nov 1809 Franklin Cook to Sarah Anderson: 21 Sep 1823 Isaachar? Cook to Nancy Wood: 28 Jan 1827 James Cook to Rhoda Faulkner: 15 Aug 1807 John Cook to Gilly Colber: 16 Jan 1816 John Cook to Polly Alexander: 25 Feb 18180 Joseph Cook to Adeline Threlkeld: 2 Aug 1830 Lewis Cook to Nancy Cook: 16 Jan 1824 Samuel Cook to Ann Williams: 18 Jan 1817 Theodocius Cook to Nancy Wood: 15 Jan 1824 Thomas S. Cook to Nancy Patterson: 22 Dec 1818 William J. Cook to Martha A. T. Campbell: 17 Aug 1848 William T.O. Cook to Nancy T. Ridgeway: 16 Sep 1828

Too bad you are leaving. I have had two major hits from mailing lists within the past six months. One list took me from the 1850's back to England and the 1500's. Now my work on documentation is cut out for me, but if it hadn't been for mailing lists I would still be searching just for a lead. While I am at it, my elusive Cooks are my ggrandfather: Richard Cook (b. Corydon, IN) m. Barbara Denton 5/22/1876 in Harrison Co., IN. Children: Benjamin Ray Cook (my gfather) b. 9/4/1886 in Bruceville, Know Co., IN. d. 4/28/1950 Bloomington, IN. Other sibs were listed in Benjamin's 1950 obit as still living: Ola Cook-Pickle (Bicknell, IN) Cora Cook-Smith (Washington, IN., and William Cook (Lafayette, IN.) Now family stories indicate this Cook family may have migrated from AL. ---------- > From: DuteClay@aol.com > To: COOK-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [COOK-L] Mississippi / Alabama/ North Carolina/Virginia > Date: Thursday, April 15, 1999 8:18 PM > > Is anyone on this list searching for COOKs in these locations (MS - AL - NC - > VA)? I am like the other person who is unsubscribing............no one > looking for Cooks in the areas that I am searching. So I will give this list > a few more days and bid good-bye if there is no response. I have not > encountered this problem with other lists....too bad. >

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Still seeking info on family of S. Matilda "Tilda" COOK, b. 8/12/1861; died 5/7/1928 in Floyd County, GA. Per 1910 census, her father was from NC and her mother was from SC, but unfortunately, I do not have their names. Tilda was married to S. R. "Pete" BROOM. Children: Henry T., Joseph M., Robert, William A., Warren Frank, and Alma. Many thanks, Linda

Of course, much of the data on the sites in Heartland is useless, as there is no documentation to verify any of it. This is a problem with almost all Internet sites, there is simply no way to know if there is any accuracy at all in the data posted. I have yet to find ANY site, including the LDS Family Search site, that is totally accurate And many that I have found are so inaccurate, that I suspect that the misrepresentation is deliberate. So, use any information that you receive from your computer with a VERY large grain of salt. And always check the accuracy yourself (NOT by checking another site, as much of the data is just repeated from one site to another). The Internet is both a boon and a bane to Genealogists. A boon, in that there is a LOT of data available that previously was not. A bane, because it is difficult, especially for beginners and those that want to play around with genealogy, to tell the difference between valid information, and barnyard material! Lynton (Bill) Stewart lcstewart@juno.com or lstewart@pacbell.net Searching: Brown(e), Burrows, Cook(e), Johnston, Stewart. Wright and many others. ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

from another list. Sender was Karen Alton akalton@cici.mb.ca << In the Wentworth Bygones of 1967 #7 there is an acticle on pg 76 called He Died with Custer. You might like to read it after the following. lst basis info. He was the grandson of Mr & Mrs John Winer of Hamilton , son of their daughter Augusta wife of Dr.Alexander H. Cooke of Mount Pleasant, Brant County and attended classes in Central School Hamilton. Excerpts from newspaper article The Western Producer Apr 15/1999 Custer weapon sells for $60,000 by Brenda Kossowan I will not quote the article but give you a precise. The weapon was put up for auction in Red Deer Alberta on the day after easter. A phone in bid paid $60,000 for a pistol, holster and pocketknife recovered from the historic Battle of Little Big Horn. The bidding was opened at$40,000. They were the property of Lt. William winer Cooke, an Ontario born cavalry officer who died with Lt.-Col. George Armstrong Custer at the 1876 army-Indian battle known as Custer's last stand. Legend says the barrel on the muzzle-loaded Remington percussion revolver split as Cooke tried to fire at an attacking warrior. The deceased officer's great nephew of Watrous, sask said that the barrel is split. Apparently the warrkor that killed Cook removed the gun, holster and pocketknife from the body, later, fearing retaliation, he turned it over to an officer of the Northwest Mounted Police who sent them on to the U.S. army and they sent them to Lt. Cook's mother's family. Cook apparently as a last act at the battle wrote a note asking Capt. Benteen to send help. P.S. Anyone interested in the RCMP March West go to this website: www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca click on The March West. Our little town is hosting them the evening of May 12 with a dinner and they are camping here and then moving on after breakfast on May 13 on their trek. K.A. >> For more info please send new email to Karen Alton akalton@cici.mb.ca

Another researcher and I were just discussing this and what you have to remind yourself is that what you find is just a jumping off place to look for the documentation. And remember that just because you got it out of a book of the history of the location you are searching, don't make it so! An ancestor of mine has been perpetuated as being the daughter of a John Hicks of Bradford Co, PA. But it was confused with another Hicks daughter of the same name who married a nephew of my ancestor and they had the same name. It's found in Heverly's History of Bradford Co, and it's in error, but just try to fix it! On another page of the history it gives this John Hicks age and he's about the same age as my ancestor, so couldn't be her father, more likely a brother. Needless to say, I'm still searching. Linda Garrett

Yes, I have a whole slew of COOK's who were born in Newton & Pike Counties, Mississippi in early 1800's. These are the names I'm looking for: Thomas, Green, Drew, David William, William, Ethel, Elizabeth & Isaac. They had 2 brothers, Raleigh Horton & Hiram Michael, who I have alot of their info, especially Hiram Michael All are children of David Cook and Lucy Miller. If any of this fits into what you've got, please email me. TIA, Linda DuteClay@aol.com wrote: > Is anyone on this list searching for COOKs in these locations (MS - AL - NC - > VA)? I am like the other person who is unsubscribing............no one > looking for Cooks in the areas that I am searching. So I will give this list > a few more days and bid good-bye if there is no response. I have not > encountered this problem with other lists....too bad.

Hope this is helpful to someone on the list. Here is some more census from Madison Co., Ar. 1880 Whorton Creek TWP Household # 190 William Cook m 33 Farmer TN TN TN Jane f 32 KH KY KY KY Martha f 8 Dau AR TN TN Ann f 6 " " " " John m 3 Son " " " Joseph m 1 " " " " 1860 Madison Co., Ar. Census Cedar Creek TWP house #61 Elias Cook farmer 50 m Ky Sarah 42 f Ky Jacob 20 m Ky Lucinda 19 f In Eleanor 17 f In Jesse 15 m In Rebecca 12 f In !860 Bowen TWP #706 John Martin Farmer 52 m VA Susannah 52 f Tn Agnes A. 19 f Ar Susan E. 2 f Ar Isham Cook farm laborer 15 m Ar William Cook 13 m Ar Hugh Cook (farm laborer 17 m Ar 1860 Kings River TWP #822 Thomas Cook farmer 47 m Tn Rosanah 50 f SC William T. 13 m Al John D. 9 m Al 1860 Kings River TWP #867 David Cook (farmer) 39 m Tn Fanny 35 f Al Paralee 16 f Ar Eliza A. 14 f Ar Wilson 12 m Ar Emiline 8 f Ar Thomas 6 m Ar Amos 5 m Ar Frances 3 m Ar 1860 War Eagle TWP #1202 Isham Cook farmer 58 m NC Sarah 21 f Tn Nancy 18 f Tn Thersey 16 f " Haywood 12 m " Orry 10 f " Orsis 6 f "

> > > > Hello Cook researchers . > > I have Cook's in my line and can't seem to pick them out of the census > > where they were suppose to be living in 1850. > > Here are the Cook"s in the 1850 Census of Madison Co., Ar. > > Bowen TWP house hold #582 > > John Cook ( farmer) 43 m NC > > Jane 35 f TN > > Ruthy 15 f TN > > Caroline 14 f TN > > Mary 12 f TN > > Meredith 11 f TN > > Catherine 9 f TN > > Hugh 8 m AR > > Isam 6 m AR > > James 3 m AR > > William 1 m AR > > Now this William is suppose to be my gg-grandfather but, there is one > > problem, his head stone says he was born in 1844 and died in 1898 in > > Madison Co., Ar. Can anyone help me with this. Joy Sue > >

Here are my recommendations: 1. Sign up for AOL--the best platform for family research. 2. On AOL go to Keyword "Roots." 3. Then "The Genealogy Form." Then follow your nose. I'm sorry I cant be of more help. Watch the "Cook" list for references to various Cook web sites. My advice stay out of GeoCities--just a personal opinion. Richard Cooke