Hi Family... If any of you can help Daniel, please write to him at the address below. I'm just passing this along to you. Thanks...Ellie << Subj: Please help by announcing this message. Date: 99-02-21 17:06:08 EST From: danielddlf@hotmail.com (Daniel David Lewis Frommherz) To: Stephens61@aol.com List members, I have been looking high and low for the surname of the wife to Jonathan King of Salem and Sutton Massachusetts. He died in Sutton in 1717 leaving a wife named Sarah and seven minor children. Jonathan, William and John are the sons. Sarah, Abigail, Lydia and Ruth are the daughters. You folks have a Sarah Cooke daughter of Isaack and Elizabeth (Buxstone) Cooke. Isaack died in 1692 leaving a will naming his daughter Sarah as living which meant a minor but she got no money. Through discovery of property lines I found that the Isaack Cooke family had property lines that were registered as adjoining in Salem. Their neighbors were John and Elizabeth (Goldthwaite) King. William Jonathan's older brother married Hannah Cook the older sister to Sarah and they also had two Isaack's who died young a Henry and a Lydia. Further discovery tells me that Henry married in 1722 but was made the guardian of the King children and of Sarah. Custom says that he would have married Sarah had she not been his sister. The Kings named children after the Cook and the King relatives. Lydia was not a King name as it was in the Cook family. I cannot find any further records of a marriage or a death to Sarah Cook after the record probated in 1692. It is as if she crawled under a rock. Please lets all stick our ears to the pavement so to speak so that I can feel comfortable in claiming, as others have already done, the pride in being a Cook. Sarah would have been born around 1680. The Goldthwaite Genealogy published in 1895 says that our Sarah is probably Cooke but offers no source material as proof. Daniel David Lewis (myself)11, Arthur Francis (father)10, Lucy Adelia King (paternal grandmother)9, Abraham Lincoln (her father)8, Solomon (his father)7, Nahum Amos (his father)6, Amos Nahum (his father)5, William (his father and son of Sarah)4, Jonathan (his father and husband of Sarah)3, John (his father)2, William Kinge of Salem (1). Daniel Blue River in Lane County, Oregon