Everyone, I am looking for information on my Cooks in NC and VA. I know this is alot of information, I am just hoping that any of you can maybe find something in your records. Bear with me, I have a LARGE family. Please feel free to reply if you have any info to help me or if you see anything that looks like part of your family. *My Grandfather is Columbus Walter Cook, b. 4/15/1873. He was married three times. He had 25 children. First wife was Mary Carpenter, b. 10-12-1878. Their children were: Jennie Agnes Cook b. 6-18-1896 Sadie Ann Cook b. 9-25-1898 Grace Ella Cook b. 11-30-1900 Essie Lee Cook b. 1-16-1903 Mary Ellen Cook b. 5-12-1907 Troy Hosten Cook b. 2-6-1909 Roy Laymon Cook b. 11-1-1911 Foye Belle Cook b 6-18-1918 Second wife was Matilda Frances Callahan b. 6-6-1899, they had one child: Walter Columbus Cook b. 3-19-1923 Third wife was Laura Ethel Johnson b. 11-6-1912 (my grandmother), they had 16 children: Callie Mozelle Cook b. 1-21-1933 Allen Zaro Cook b. 5-31-1934 James Monroe Cook b. 2-5-1936 Clarence Woodrow Cook b. 9-12-1937 Ellis Randolph Cook b. 12-25-1938 Roger O'Neil Cook b. 4-9-1940 John Ousley Hatcher Cook b. 6-20-1941 Erma Lorene Cook b. 10-20-1942 Elmore Odell Cook b. 11-1-1943 Lewis Jessup Cook b. 11-6-1944 Douglas Parker Cook b. 2-15-1947 Willie Mae Cook b. 4-17-1948 Ada Pauline Cook b. 8-19-1949 Cassie Arlene Cook b. 11-19-1952 Watson Ray Cook b. 3-20-1954 Laura Fay Cook b. 3-20-1954 *Columbus Walter Cook's parents were: Isham Terry Cook b. 1-30-1845 and Lucretia Elizabeth Lowe b. 4-30-1847. They had 10 children. Jesse Cassler Cook b. 7-4-1869 Bealey Ezekiel Cook b. 1872 Columbus Walter Cook b. 4-15-1873 Cyrus Terry Cook b. 7-22-1876 Sallie Arminta Cook b. 11-9-1877 Baby, b. 11-1880 Sadie Agnes Cook b. 1881 Ada Lucretia Cook b. 11-1882 Mary Ellen Cook b. 4-4-1886 Zebedee Cook b. 1887 *Isham Terry Cook's parents were: Abel Zacharias Cook Sr. b. 1808 and Agnes Clay Hill b 5-9-1812 (or 1817). They had 10 children Edward Franklin Cook b. 9-12-1838 Martha Elizabeth Cook b. 12-17-1840 James Mastin Cook b. 2-2-1843 Isham Terry Cook b. 1-30-1845 John Matthew Cook b. 7-26-1847 Joseph Columbus Cook b. 1-18-1850 Gideon Shepherd Cook b. 4-25-1852 Mary Katherine Cook b. 9-26-1855 John Matthew Cook b. 3-24-1858 Abel Zacharias Cook Jr. b. 4-15-1864 *Abel Zacharias Cook's parent's were: James Cook born in 1771 and Elizabeth Johnson b. 1814. They had 13 Children: Nancy Cook b. abt. 1793 Sally Cook b. abt. 1801 Jemimah Cook b. abt 1805 Mary Polly Cook b. abt 1808 Abel Zacharias Cook Sr. b. 1808 Isham Cook b. abt. 1810 Joel James Cook b. abt. 1815 Bethania Cook b. abt. 1817 John M. Cook b. abt. 1820 Elizabeth Anna Bettie Cook b. abt. 1823 Dicy Cook b. unk Sybil Cook b. abt. 1830 Ursula Cook b. abt. 1835 *James Cook's parent's were: Shem Cooke Sr. who was born in 1722 and Ann Rucker b. 1726. (Shem Cooke and his wife Ann Rucker are the two that I find references to most often. However no one usually has any more info than I do). They had 11 Children: Elizabeth Cook b. abt. 1744 Felicia Cook b. unk Delphia Cook b. unk William Cook b. abt. 1764 Claiborne H Cook b. abt. 1767 Shem Cook Jr. b. abt. 1767 James Cook b. abt. 1771 John D. Cook b. abt. 1773 Richard S. Cook b. abt. 1781 Clanton Cook b. abt. 1789 Roland Cook b. abt. 1790 Thanks for any help possible. Troy