Hi Cook Cousins - I have many many e-mails to answer and will try to post many pages this week. I have to leave town over the weekend for a family matter - just got back to town - Laundry and e-mail are the first on the to do list.. Pat

I received this from the Cyndislist just now. Ellie Subj: LDS Church Starts Test of Genealogy Web Site Date: 4/4/99 12:28:22 AM Central Daylight Time From: cyndihow@oz.net (Cyndi Howells) To: CyndisList-L@rootsweb.com From the Salt Lake Tribune http://www.sltrib.com/1999/apr/04021999/utah/94889.htm LDS Church Starts Test of Genealogy Web Site The LDS Church has opened its new genealogical Internet Web site to the public as part of a beta test over the next few weeks. No special password or clearance is needed to access the site, located at the URL address http://www.familysearch.org As the site is tested, it will occasionally be offline. At other times access will be slow, church officials warned. A date for formal opening of the site has not been released.

( ) .-.,--^--. _ 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. :) We have more good news this morning. Our chat room has been set up and next Sunday afternoon will be the 1st chat. I will have the instructions to show you how to get in on it. 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 up up. I will get back with you on this. as soon as I get the instructions. Three non members found their way to our Cook homepage and they plan on joining our group. One of them found Cook bible records that matched theirs so they were quite excited. Getting our name circulated on the web is paying off. If any of you know of a new place to add our name do let me know about it. 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. Today is the day to spring forward. Not only with our clocks but to spring into action and help each other find our families. What a way to share!! Happy Easter! 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 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 (' `._.' `) `-..___..-'

Hi Mark LDS Members believe that Jesus died on the Cross for us, i.e., by proxy, so therefore if you belive that you believe in proxys. They believe that they may act as proxy for anyone who died without having been baptized either before the time of Christ, or by just not having the ordinance done. Sealing is another ordinance whereby you are "sealed" to your parents and/or spouse for time and all eternity. This can also be done by proxy. Their belief is that when you are sealed, you will be sealed as a family unit in Heaven. When a marriage is performed in a "Mormon" temple there is no "until death do you part". their marriages are forever. While I'm not a member, my parents were and I volunteer at a local Family History Center, so I know a wee bit about the religion. Hope this answers some of your questions. If you would like more information just let me know and I'll put you in touch with someone who can answer all your questions. Regards Bonnie in Idaho At 06:18 PM 4/2/99 -0800, you wrote: >COOK-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 100 > >Today's Topics: > #1 [COOK-L] Re: COOK, Bess or Bynum F [Cmcamidge@aol.com] > #2 [COOK-L] LDS genealogy web site-Of [Cherri White <clw2@yahoo.com>] > #3 Re: [COOK-L] LDS genealogy web sit ["Mark Cook" <cookm@psph.providence] > #4 [COOK-L] CHAT-LDS Church member (w [Cherri White <clw2@yahoo.com>] > >Administrivia: >To unsubscribe from COOK-D, send a message to > > COOK-D-request@rootsweb.com > >that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > >______________________________X-Message: #1 >Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 01:22:48 EST >From: Cmcamidge@aol.com >To: COOK-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <e6a3d2a1.2435bc38@aol.com> >Subject: [COOK-L] Re: COOK, Bess or Bynum FROM BESSEMER CITY, NC >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Hello all, > Please be patient with me - I really need to talk with any COOK >family member who is either related to Bess or Bynum Cook from Bessemer City, >NC - - OR - - who KNOWS OF Bess or Bynum Cook. Please e-mail me privately >at Cmcamidge@aol.com if you can help me. It is very, very urgent to our >family and I keep hoping someone will see this e-mail who has not yet seen >it. Thank you all for your patience. > >______________________________X-Message: #2 >Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 08:16:03 -0800 (PST) >From: Cherri White <clw2@yahoo.com> >To: COOK-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <19990402161603.12523.rocketmail@web119.yahoomail.com> >Subject: [COOK-L] LDS genealogy web site-Official Word >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >The following is the official word from those in charge of the LDS >genealogy web site. Hope we all find someone we are looking for! > >Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 07:11:10 -0700 >--------------------------------------------------------- >LDS Church Starts Test of Genealogy Web Site > > >The LDS Church has opened its new genealogical Internet Web site to >the public as part of a beta test over the next few weeks. No special >password or clearance is needed to access the site, located at the URL >address http://www.familysearch.org. As the site is tested, it will >occasionally be offline. At other times access will be slow, church >officials warned. > >A date for formal opening of the site has not been released. >------------------------------------------------ > >Cherri White >_________________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > >______________________________X-Message: #3 >Date: Fri, 02 Apr 99 09:45:52 PST >From: "Mark Cook" <cookm@psph.providence.org> >To: COOK-L@rootsweb.com >Message-Id: <9903029230.AA923075970@PSPH.PROVIDENCE.ORG> >Subject: Re: [COOK-L] LDS genealogy web site-Official Word > > Hello, > > Would anyone, preferably an LDS churcmember, like to tell me about LDS > beliefs regarding ancestors; especially whether the purpose of the > research has to do with being baptized in proxy of them, or what > "sealing" is? > > Thank you, > Mark Cook > cookm@psph.providence.org > > P.S. I also would like feedback on whether I should have changed the > subject to "chat". This e-mail truly was in response to the LDS Web > Site message. >______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ >Subject: [COOK-L] LDS genealogy web site-Official Word >Author: COOK-L@rootsweb.com at INTERNET >Date: 4/2/99 8:21 AM > > > >The following is the official word from those in charge of the LDS >genealogy web site. Hope we all find someone we are looking for! > >Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 07:11:10 -0700 >--------------------------------------------------------- >LDS Church Starts Test of Genealogy Web Site > > >The LDS Church has opened its new genealogical Internet Web site to >the public as part of a beta test over the next few weeks. No special >password or clearance is needed to access the site, located at the URL >address http://www.familysearch.org. As the site is tested, it will >occasionally be offline. At other times access will be slow, church >officials warned. > >A date for formal opening of the site has not been released. >------------------------------------------------ > >Cherri White >_________________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > >______________________________X-Message: #4 >Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 14:39:22 -0800 (PST) >From: Cherri White <clw2@yahoo.com> >To: COOK-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <19990402223922.25003.rocketmail@web124.yahoomail.com> >Subject: [COOK-L] CHAT-LDS Church member (was LDS genealogy web site-Official Word) >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >For those interested I am a member of the LDS (Church of Jesus Christ >of Latter-Day Saints - aka Mormons) church. This is in response to >Mark's request for information. I have emailed him privately, but for >any others who may also have questions, but didn't know who to ask, I >am willing to answer them to the best of my ability. To do so and >keep the list members from wading through them please contact me >directly, unless otherwise told by our listmistress. > > >Happy Easter, or Passover depending on what you celebrate. > > > >_________________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com >

For those interested I am a member of the LDS (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - aka Mormons) church. This is in response to Mark's request for information. I have emailed him privately, but for any others who may also have questions, but didn't know who to ask, I am willing to answer them to the best of my ability. To do so and keep the list members from wading through them please contact me directly, unless otherwise told by our listmistress. Happy Easter, or Passover depending on what you celebrate. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

The following is the official word from those in charge of the LDS genealogy web site. Hope we all find someone we are looking for! Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 07:11:10 -0700 --------------------------------------------------------- LDS Church Starts Test of Genealogy Web Site The LDS Church has opened its new genealogical Internet Web site to the public as part of a beta test over the next few weeks. No special password or clearance is needed to access the site, located at the URL address http://www.familysearch.org. As the site is tested, it will occasionally be offline. At other times access will be slow, church officials warned. A date for formal opening of the site has not been released. ------------------------------------------------ Cherri White _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Hello, Would anyone, preferably an LDS churcmember, like to tell me about LDS beliefs regarding ancestors; especially whether the purpose of the research has to do with being baptized in proxy of them, or what "sealing" is? Thank you, Mark Cook cookm@psph.providence.org P.S. I also would like feedback on whether I should have changed the subject to "chat". This e-mail truly was in response to the LDS Web Site message. ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: [COOK-L] LDS genealogy web site-Official Word Author: COOK-L@rootsweb.com at INTERNET Date: 4/2/99 8:21 AM The following is the official word from those in charge of the LDS genealogy web site. Hope we all find someone we are looking for! Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 07:11:10 -0700 --------------------------------------------------------- LDS Church Starts Test of Genealogy Web Site The LDS Church has opened its new genealogical Internet Web site to the public as part of a beta test over the next few weeks. No special password or clearance is needed to access the site, located at the URL address http://www.familysearch.org. As the site is tested, it will occasionally be offline. At other times access will be slow, church officials warned. A date for formal opening of the site has not been released. ------------------------------------------------ Cherri White _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Hello all, Please be patient with me - I really need to talk with any COOK family member who is either related to Bess or Bynum Cook from Bessemer City, NC - - OR - - who KNOWS OF Bess or Bynum Cook. Please e-mail me privately at Cmcamidge@aol.com if you can help me. It is very, very urgent to our family and I keep hoping someone will see this e-mail who has not yet seen it. Thank you all for your patience.

Need the parents of: DR. CHRISTIAN COOK who married LOUISE COOK. She was the daughter of: WILLIAM GILLISON COOK b. 14 Feb. 1860 Wayne Co., IL m. LILLIE H. HOLMES, Wayne Co., IL Grandaughter of: LORENZO PAYNE COOKE b. 14 May 1824 Graves Co., KY m. LOUISA PRICE 3 Apr. 1851 Wayne Co., IL Gt. Grandaughter of: JOSEPH PAYNE COOKE b. 8 Nov. 1794, NC? m. PERMELIA MORSE 21 Dec. 1816, Caldwell Co., KY Carla

Does anyone have a branch of their tree that reached into Scioto County, Ohio in the early 1900's? I am looking for a Cook who married a Martha Phillips sometime before 1900 in Portsmouth, Ohio. Thanks, Pam

Hi I found this site today and want to share it will those who are ssearching COOK's in CT and NY. There's even a few in Steuben Co NY but their not mine <darn>. http://www.my-ged.com/db/index/stephens/3132 Good Luck, Lisa Cleversey -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Co-List Owner COOK, List Owner BIRD & NYSTEUBE (Steuben Co NY) Heartland/Fields Community Leader -2500-2999 Heartland Genealogy Society & Web Ring Co-Chairman-http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/2416 cleversey's Home Page-http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/5421 cleversey@geocities.com -Icq #9492621

Hi Everyone, I found this at the usgenweb.com site for Monroe Co, New York. http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/MonroeBios?read=37 I hope it helps someone. Ellie COOK Posted by Dick Halsey <halsey@eznet.net> on Sat, 27 Jun 1998 Surnames: >From "Landmarks of Monroe County, NY" (1895) Part III, p. 11 Cook, Willis C.. M. D., was born in Bergen, Genesee county, June 25, 1832. Was educated in the common schools and in 1883 entered the medical department of the Niagara University of Buffalo; in 1884 he entered the Northwestern University of Ohio, medical department, and in 1885, graduating from the Toledo Medical College in the same year. He located in Brockport where he engaged in the practice of his profession, and is now enjoying a very large practice. In 1855 he married Adeline Hawks, who died in 1857; second he married Mary, daughter of Philip Williams of Paw Paw, Mich., and their children are Francis W., Karl R., Jay W., Curtis L. and Lenoir. Dr. Cook served during the late war as follows: First enlisted in November 16, 1861, as a sergeant in Co. K, 13th Mich. Vol. Inf., and was discharged at Detroit for disability November 3, 1862; enlisted again as veterinary surgeon 9th Mich. Cav., and served till the close of the war, being discharged at Lexington, N. C., July 21, 1865. His father, Curtis Cook, was a native of Pompey Hill, Onondaga county, and settled in Bergen in an early day, later moved to Clarendon, Orleans county, where he died December 1, 1883, aged eighty-one years; he married Betsey Snow Brown, daughter of Elijah Brown of Vermont, who was one of the first three white men to settle in Byron; took a farm where he died in 1852, at the age of eighty-six years. Lemuel Cook, grandfather of Willis Cook, was a native of Norwich, Conn., and served in the Revolutionary war under General Washington, who personally signed his discharge papers. After the war he settled at Pompey Hill, and later moved to Bergen, from there he went to Clarendon, where he died at the advanced age of one hundred and seven years, the only Revolutionary soldier known to be alive at that date, March 6, 1863. Betsey Snow, wife of Curtis Cook, still lives on the old homestead in Clarendon at the age of ninety-one years.

Yup the site is up and running but, while browsing, I got hung up in the catalog and could not get back to the main page to bkmark. I guess they wanted me to buy something. Also it is not complete because I submitted my mo and dad plus a couple more generations back approx. 10 yrs ago and they could not find it. So everything is not online as of yet, but it is not in the card file either. Martha THe LDS site is at the following URL http://32.96.111.13/default.asp Lisa

Hello everyone! Recently I sent the following request - I am asking - PLEASE!!! There has got to be someone out there who knows of a living relative of Bess or Bynum Cook - I can just "feel it!" Please, if you are being bashful because you don't want to give out information on a LIVING person, then please have the COOK relative contact me. If you know anything, it is very, very important to my family. And if you don't know anything.... well, guess my "vibes" were wrong! Thank you! A wishin' and a hopin'.....Carolyn Moses Camidge PREVIOUS MESSAGE I SENT OUT: Hello, My name is Carolyn Moses Camidge. My grandfather, Gaither A. Moses, (who would be deceased by now), was very, very good friends with Bess and Bynum Cook of Bessemer City, NC - from what I am told. If you are a relative of Bess or Bynum Cook - OR - KNOW OF any of their relatives, I need for them to contact me as soon as possible. It is very URGENT to my family - the MOSES family. Please e-mail me at Cmcamidge@aol.com If the relative of Bess or Bynum Cook does not have e-mail, they may call me COLLECT at 828 - 433-6374. I thank you for your time and effort. Kindest regards... Carolyn Moses Camidge

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------B03927794728386597371239 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, I recently sent Ellie a Bingo email that I had on reaching a distant cousin of mine and she suggested I write to the group to keep their hopes up. I had been looking for the siblings/parents of my great grandfather, Hiram Michael Cook of Newton County, Mississippi. Lo and behold, I found a long lost cousin through a brother of his, Raleigh Hiram Cook. We exchanged trees and soon became email pen pals. Soon after, I found ANOTHER cousin of mine, through the same line of Raleigh that had their parents information and also more on Raleigh and his descendants. Just the other day, I found a third cousin (although she is not from my COOK side but my WILLIAMS side), we quickly exchanged trees and now my "family" has grown and grown. I just wanted to let you all nice people know that it IS possible to locate information and people on the Internet. So good hunting to all of you and Good Luck, Linda --------------B03927794728386597371239 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <Stephens61@aol.com> Received: from mail-gw1adm.rcsntx.swbell.net (mail-gw1adm.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.60.101]) by mail1.rcsntx.swbell.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA21753 for <monster2@mail1.rcsntx.swbell.net>; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 19:20:02 -0600 (CST) From: Stephens61@aol.com Received: from imo17.mx.aol.com (imo17.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.7]) by mail-gw1adm.rcsntx.swbell.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA00107 for <monster2@swbell.net>; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 19:20:01 -0600 (CST) Received: from Stephens61@aol.com by imo17.mx.aol.com (IMOv19.3) id 5ATDa21840 for <monster2@swbell.net>; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 20:12:05 +1900 (EST) Message-ID: <650170e4.370024e5@aol.com> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 20:12:05 EST To: monster2@swbell.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: A BINGO[Fwd: [COOK-L] Raleigh Cook, 1818, MS] Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 9 Congrats!!! Gollly you are really doing good girlfriend. My day will come... sigh :) Thank you for sharing...I'll put it with the rest of the bingo's. Be sure to tell the members as this will lift their hopes!!! Love Ellie --------------B03927794728386597371239--

THe LDS site is at the following URL http://32.96.111.13/default.asp Lisa -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Co-List Owner COOK, List Owner BIRD & NYSTEUBE (Steuben Co NY) Heartland/Fields Community Leader -2500-2999 Heartland Genealogy Society & Web Ring Co-Chairman-http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/2416 cleversey's Home Page-http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/5421 cleversey@geocities.com -Icq #9492621

Hi: The address: http://32.96.111.13/default.asp is not supposed to be open to the general public. Obviously, this is NOT a site set up for much traffic. I would suspect that people distributed the address, without permission, and it was hit so often that it was shutdown. The LDS folks have publicly said that they were going to do a "Beta Trial". By its very nature, a "Beta Trial" is NOT for everyone. So, why are people distributing the address of that trial all over the place? Do you want to make them shut it down? 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]

The site worked just fine for me. I looked up several surnames and either was given IGI info for the surnames or webpages to look at. Lisa -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Co-List Owner COOK, List Owner BIRD & NYSTEUBE (Steuben Co NY) Heartland/Fields Community Leader -2500-2999 Heartland Genealogy Society & Web Ring Co-Chairman-http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/2416 cleversey's Home Page-http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/5421 cleversey@geocities.com -Icq #9492621

LOOKING FOR MORE DESCENDANTS OF THE GRAND PATRIARCH OF SHELBY CO., KY COOKS: Rev. Abraham Cook, aks �Abram� Father: William Cook II Mother: Margaret Jones b. July 6, 1774, Pittsylvania Co., VA d. Feb. 10, 1854, McFall, Daviess Co., MO m. Sept. 7, 1795, Franklin Co., KY Spouse: Sarah Jones Children: Eunice Nica Cook, b. 1798, Shelby Co., KY; d. Abt. 1816; m. Hosea Dunn, July 19, 1814, Shelby Co., KY Elizabeth Cook, b. Sept. 9, 1799, Shelby Co., KY, d. Apr. 11, 1877, Gentry Co., MO; m. Israel Christie, Sr., Dec. 19, 1815, Shelby Co., KY Abraham Cook, Jr. b. Aug. 24, 1801, Shelby Co., KY; d. July 11, 1884, Shelby Co., KY; m. Hannah Miles Sept. 5, 1822, Shelby Co., KY William F. Cook, b. Abt. 1802, Shelby Co., KY; d. Abt. 1853, Shelby Co., KY; m. Mary Flood, Mar. 25, 1833, Shelby Co., KY Prudence Cook, b. 1802, Shelby Co., KY; d. Nov. 1887, Shelby Co., KY; m. Jesse Johnson, Dec. 23, 1823, Shelby Co., KY (Infant) Cook b. Abt. 1805, Shelby Co., KY (Infant) Cook b. Abt. 1807, Shelby Co., KY Wesley B. Cook, b. 1809, Shelby Co., KY; d. Feb. 8, 1864, Shelby Co., KY; m. Sarah E. King, July 26, 1834, Shelby Co., KY Sarah Catherine Cook, b. Dec. 1, 1810, Shelby Co., KY; d. June 10, 1890, Shelby Co., KY; m. Abraham C. Cook, Jan. 28, 1832, Shelby Co., KY Ursula Cook, b. Jan. 15, 1813, Shelby Co., KY; d. Sept. 18, 1895, Payson, UT; m. William Miles, Jan. 31, 1829, Shelby Co., KY Eleanor Cook. b. 1815, Shelby Co., KY; d, Willows, CA; m. Daniel Boone Duncan, Oct. 10, 1833, Shelby Co., KY Hannah Cook, b. Aug. 2, 1818, Shelby Co., KY, d. Oct. 15, 1851, McFall, Daviess Co., MO Biographical Sketch from: �A History of Kentucky Baptists�, Vol. 1, 1886 by J. H. Spencer, p. 432. Abraham was born of pious Baptist parents, in Franklin County (Pittsylvania Co), Virginia, July 6th 1774. In 1780, (1784) his parents moved to the wilderness of Kentucky, and joined some half dozen families in forming a settlement at the Forks of Elkhorn, in what is now Franklin county. In June 1788, Forks of Elkhorn church was constituted and Abraham Cook was baptized shortly afterwards and remained a member till 1796, when he married Sarah Jones and moved to the head of Six-Mile creek, in Shelby county. Here he entered into the constitution of Six-Mile (now Christianburg church), in1799. For a period of twelve years, he divided his time between laboring on his farm and studying the Bible. During this period, he suffered many conflicts and sore temptations. He felt strongly impressed with the duty of preaching the gospel. But being poorly educated, and having a very humble opinion of his natural gifts, he strove against the impression till his anguish became almost intolerable and, at last, he was compelled to yield. In 1806, a church called Indian Fork was constituted near where he lived, and he became a member of it. Here he was licensed to exercise his gift, on the fourth Saturday in December 1808, and, on the fourth Sunday in September, 1809, was ordained to the work of the ministry. He was now thirty-five years of age. He was over six feet high, very straight, rather spare, dark, swarth complexion, large dark brown eyes, and black hair. He possessed a strong constitution, and was very energetic. His bearing was dignified and commanding, and his manners, gentle, affectionate, and persuasive. His voice was clear, strong, and musical, and could he heard at a great distance. His piety was of that sincere, frank and earnest type, that wins the respect of all, and the love of the godly. His preaching talent was above the mediocrity of his times, and he soon became very popular and influential. He was chosen pastor of Indian Fork, Six-Mile, and Buffalo Lick churches, in Shelby county, and Mt. Carmel in Franklin. Like most preachers of his times he did, in addition to his pastoral labors, much preaching among the destitute, and very great success attended his labors. He supported his family by his labors on a farm, persistently refusing to receive any pay for preaching. He continued to labor as pastor, with the churches that first called him, until the feebleness of old age admonished him to retire; and then left them all strong and prosperous. In 1851, he sold his possessions in Kentucky, and, with his wife and youngest daughter, moved to Missouri. His daughter took sick on the way, and died, a few days after they reached their new home. Nor did he, himself, have to wait long for the Master�s summons. On the 10th day of February, 1854, he passed out of the �mud-wall cottage� and went to join the saints and their Redeemer in the new Jerusalem. Chas. L. Cook, 2nd great-grandson and 2nd great-grand nephew Cookstuff@aol.com

Hi there, I just used the sight about a few minutes ago, it was up and running, albeit very slowly. I didn't find much useful there, I was hoping the rumors would be true about census records being online, but it only seems to have links to other family web pages on the web. And also it is a way for them to sell their genealogy products. Boy, was I sure disappointed! Roberta