hi david...as soon as i find the picture i will email it to you. i have it packed away. ok? ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Dillow Thomas" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 11:53 AM Subject: Re: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia Hi There Dibbie & Stan, May I have a copy of the picture of the Cooke/Cook Reunion please are you going sent it E-Mail please let me know ok? and thank you all very much. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >From David Dillow Thomas. My G: Grandma was Mary Ann Cook married to Thomas G. Walker d/o (Rev) Mitchell Cooke and Mary ? Please let me have a copy and thank you very much. >From D.D.T. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "debbie stringer" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 11:34 AM Subject: Re: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia > Hi Stan...... > Thankyou very much for the info you sent me. i have been trying to do > the Cook family tree. Sooo many Cooks. I have a photo of a Cook family > reunion that my late father, Ernest Cook, gave me. It kind of reminded me > of > a political meeting of some kind! LOL! > So you muxt be related to Nancy Browning? Do you still live in West Va.? > debbie > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stanley Browning" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 11:54 PM > Subject: Re: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia > > > Hi Deborah, > > Its pretty hard to be from Wyoming County and not be related to the > Cooks. Consider the following: > > (1) John Cooke begat William Cook Sr., who begat Mitchell Cooke, > who begat Ballard Preston Cooke, who begat Irvin Jacob Cook, who > begat Joda othaneal Cooke, who married Lula Mae Cooper. > (2) John Cooke begat William Cook Sr., who begat William Newton > Cooke, who begat Burl Matison Cooke, who begat Burl Hamilton Cook, > who begat Ira Winfred Cook, who begat Ira Cook,Jr. > (3) John Cooke begat William Cook Sr., who begat William Newton > Cooke, who begat Burl Matison Cooke, who begat Martha Cook, who > married Green Browning and begat Mormie Browning, who begat Stanley > Browning. (Wow!! Thats me) > > And how about this? > (4) Austin Cooper begat Isaac Bee Cooper, who begat Lula Mae Cooper > (5) Austin Cooper begat John Cooper who begat Bee Cooper, who begat > Erna Cooper, who married Mormie Browning and begat Stanley Browning. > > STAN > > > > > On Jul 31, 2008, at 11:44 AM, debbie stringer wrote: > >> hi stan..... my name is deborah cook stringer. i think i am related >> to ira >> cook jr. maybe? i was born in pineville hospital in 1953. my >> grandparents >> were Jode & Lula Mae Cook from rockview. there are several of my >> family >> members still there. i live in tampa, fl. now. >> debbie >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Stanley Browning" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; >> <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 6:21 PM >> Subject: [WVWYOMIN] Growin' Up in Appalachia >> >> >> Our mailing lists have been unusually quite of late, and it isn't >> even dog days yet! So I will throw out a little tidbit for you to >> use as fodder to exercise your memories of how it was "back then." >> How many of you helped make hominy? Sour kraut? Pickle beans? Other >> old time staples? >> >> STAN >> >> Making Hominy >> When Ira Cook, Jr. and I were discussing my notes for my new >> book,"Matheny and Me," the subject of making hominy came up. I >> remembered that my mother and granny made hominy several times, but I >> could not remember the details. For that reason, I chose to ignore >> the subject in my book and hope that no one would notice. Now Ira is >> no ordinary reviewer, but I finally concluded that there might be >> others who are just as picky and would feel that hominy should get >> equal coverage with some of the other staple foods we made ourselves, >> which most folks now pick from a grocery store shelf and could not >> care less how they are made. >> >> I think I know the hominy preparation steps my granny May and mother >> followed pretty well, but it's the relative measurements of >> ingredients that evade me. I know that a unique and necessary >> ingredient was lye.[1] They used lye water to make hominy that was >> just like they used to make homemade soap. They soaked dried shelled >> “field corn” for two or three days in the lye water until the grains >> swelled and the skin came off. The mixture was stirred occasionally >> throughout the soaking period. The corn was then washed repeatedly >> to remove all the lye. The last step was simply to cook the corn >> until it was tender. >> >> Our friends further south than West Virginia use cracked corn, thus >> they get hominy grits. >> >> What happens beyond this point in the process is left to the >> imagination of the cook. Most people just heat the hominy, add >> butter and salt and eat it that way. Some make paddies and fry >> them. I don't know how my wife, Connie, prepares that sissy- made >> store-bought hominy she buys, but it turns out just as good as the >> real stuff and it is a lot less trouble. >> >> >> [1] One of my friends says that a couple of boxes of soda dissolved >> in enough water to cover a gallon and a half of beans works just as >> well as lye. I think I like that idea better. >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WVWYOMIN- >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message