I am still looking at my solid brick wall. My story. William (Willie) COOK, Born: Topton, NC. Cherokee Co. around 1895. This man was my grandfather Memphis Ray. I know his mother was Catherine Elizabeth Rogers Cook. Born around 1860 in NC. Question about who she married. William Henry Cook or Henry Cook. He worked for the Railroad. They had two children. One son (My grandfather) William Cook, One daughter Dora Bell Cook Ray. Catherine Elizabeth Rogers mother was Eliza (Lizzie) Riche. She married a ? Rogers. Eliza (Lizzie) Jane Riche Rogers was part Cherokee and Dutch. Some of her family was from Holland. They had a lot of children but this is all the names I have. My great grandmother Catherine Elizabeth was their first child born ca 1860 . Their other children were Dempsy Rogers, Elvira Rogers, Ronnie Rogers, Eligar (Liga) Rogers, Amanda Rogers Fox Young. All from the East, TN, NC area. My grandfather William Cook was in the TN Nation Guard in 1916 in Polk Co. TN and served in the TX border uprising 1916-1917. He may have left a wife and two children. He and his mother and sister relocated to WV with the son taking a new identity of William Memphis Ray. This was around 1918 or 1919 because in 1920 he married my grandmother in WV with his new name. That is about all the information on my family that I have. I would love to find his family. If you had information it would be deeply appreciated by me as you can see my brick wall is solid. Thank you, Jerry Nan JRNan1@aol.com The family relocated to WV with the son taking a new identity of William Memphis Ray. I did not find out until after my grandfather was dead that he had another name of Cook. This was his given name. I know he was in TN in 1916 with his family so I am guessing about a lot.