Sure would like to hear any answers to this as well - I too cannot seem to locate the Heiss' Quaker volumes - anne-ology laginnis@bigfoot.com http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Fields/8379/index.html > >This Posting contains the surnames: , COOK, >COOKE, . > >I had been looking for a Milton COOK with no luck. I found a >John Milton COOK, who I believe is my ancestor. I don't have >the Encylopedia of Quaker Genealogy Volumes 7 (by Heiss), which >I believe contain the White Lick, Indiana Quaker MM, so I can't >verify that I have this line correct. I'll post it here so >people can poke holes in it. Hopefully somebody will recognize >the family. > > >John COOKE d. bef 22 Feb 1837 m. Lydia BARTON, d. 30 May 1831 in >Frankford, PA. I have nothing on John's or Lydia's parentage. > >Children: > *Jesse COOK, b. 1793 > Thomas Wistar COOKE > Elisha COOKE > Mary Elizabeth COOKE > John COOKE, b. 1808 > Barton COOKE, b. 1809 > Lydia COOKE, b. 1812 > Catharine COOKE, b. 1814 > Charles COOKE, b. 1819 > > >For this family, I found a list of children in one MM, but the first >four children I have here were not listed. The monthly minutes in >Volume I clearly state though that Jesse COOK, son of John and Lydia >married Hannah MARSHALL, dau. of William and Elizabeth (two separate >entries were used to figure out the surnames). Perhaps the first >four kids were older so as to not be listed as minor children when John >and Lydia joined that MM? I sure hope there weren't two John & Lydia >Cooke's in the same monthly meeting. > > >Jesse COOK b. 15 Sep 1793, d. 19 Sep 1859, m. 18 Apr 1821 Hannah >MARSHILL, da. of William MARSHILL and Elizabeth BILLS. > >Children: > *John Milton COOK, b. 1829 > Probably others... (Abijah?, Juliann?) > > >I also have Jesse m. 1 Jul 1852 at White Lick MM, IN, Mary T. HADLEY, >b. 22 Feb 1808 in Chatham Co, NC, d. 12 Nov 1880. Jesse would have >been 58 at the time of that marriage, Mary would have been 44. Mary >was married to Joshua B. HADLEY 13 Oct 1825 and had four children >by him: Martha, Edith, Abner, and Albert. I assume Hannah died >before the 1852 marriage to Mary T. HADLEY. Joshua B. HADLEY died >21 Nov 1831. > >I followed Jesse and Hannah to White Lick MM, but I have no >visibility of their activities at White Lick MM. I pick up the >family later when Aaron MILLS marries Jessie Ann COOK. > > >John Milton COOK b. 10 Jun 1829 in Morgan Co, IN, m. 24 Mar 1852 >Martha HADLEY at White Lick MM, Morgan Co, IN, da. of Joshua B. >HADLEY and Mary T. HADLEY listed above. Could this be correct? >It would mean he married her only three months before she became >his stepsister (his dad married his mother-in-law).. > >Children: > Lydia Ellen COOK, b. 1853 m. John A. FOREST > Susannah Mariah COOK, b. 1854 > *Jessie Ann COOK, b. 1856, d. 1932 > Abner B. COOK, b. 1859 m. Lou ?? > Rebecca Jane COOK, b. 1861 > Rhoda Edith COOK, b. 1863 m. Mr. ALLEN > William H. COOK, b. 1866 > Mary Etta COOK, b. 1869 > > >Aaron Mills m. Jessie Ann COOK 21 Jul 1892. >I have info on this couple and their descendants. > >I am interested in anything further on these families or their >ancestors. There are several Quaker COOK/COOKE families, and >I'm not sure I have everybody tied into the correct families yet. > >Anybody have the indexes covering the White Lick MM in Indiana >(it should be in one book of the Volume 7 series by Heiss)? >