This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cook Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5303 Message Board Post: Galveston Daily News – Tues., 3 Dec. 1878, p. 3, c. 3 Rockdale Messenger: Mr. Cook, who lives in the Ad Hall area, in this county, reports that while returning home from Rockdale, on Saturday last, he was stopped about 4-miles from here by a party of masked men, who compelled him to turnover his money amounting to $413.85, the proceeds of the sale of 12 bales of cotton which he had disposed of the day before. There were four of the highwaymen