This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cook Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/UiB.2ACI/1272.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you both for being so interested in the Cook family. Unfortunately, my information on them is still next to nothing. On one funeral record, that of my grandfather, John Roland Cook, his father is listed as " John F. Cook ". There is a very vague family story that this John F. Cook had been a skinner of buffalo, and, in 1899, abandoned his family, and, soon after, died in Deadwood, South Dakota. I do know that he actually did die between February, 1899, and June, 1900, but that is flat all; not even the place, or circumstances, are known. His wife's maiden name was Margaret Pirtle, from Henderson Co., Tennessee, and I know quite a bit about her family; but, even though she lived until the late 1940's, she seems to have spoken very little about greatgrandpa John F. Cook. I have an uncle, who does have papers which very possibly can reveal much, and I hope to soon be able to go through them with him. Besides my grandpa, John Roland Cook, greatgrandpa's children were Otto Paul Cook, killed in WWI; Charles James Cook, who died in the early 1950's, very soon followed by his wife, and eventually their only child. Harry Gerome Cook was the youngest of the brothers, and he died in Missouri, without any family. It appears that my greatgrandparents married around 1890. One son was then born in Garland Co., Arkansas, one in Tennessee, then, my grandpa was born in Paducah, Kentucky, on December 3, 1896, and the last, Harry Gerome, was born in Tennessee, in October, 1899.