there are Cooks in Copiah county also At 11:51 AM 03/03/2001 -0800, John & Elnora Wyrick wrote: >Hello Mary, >Thanks for all of the good History on SW Hinds Co., MS. >The only one that we know for sure went to Texas was my GGGrandparents >Henry & Mary Polly (Goodson) Cook, do not know where the rest of them >went. >Thanks again, >Elnora Frances Cook-Wyrick > and were James, John, and Jarad. None of the descendents I know of know if > they were brothers or cousins. I have John's line because the family still > lives in Utica, MS, after 7 generations. Jarad or James had a child or > children that married into the Mordecai Baldwin family, and in the next > generation into the Newman family that lived between Vicksburg and Utica. > Baldwin Ferry on the Big Black River was owned by Mr. Baldwin, and was > located at the site of a Choctaw Indian village and several still-older > Indian mounds. It is now MS Hwy 27. I am not sure that any of these Cooks > God Bless Lynda