Cannon County, Tennessee

Cook Connections

Cannon County lies almost exactly in the center of Tennessee, approximately half way between Chattanooga and Nashville. It contains an area of some 270 square miles and was created on January 31, 1836, from parts of Rutherford, Smith, and Warren Counties. The USGENWEB site url is located at: http://www.cafes.net/jlewis/cannon.htm

Another Cannon County, TN site is at: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cannonco/ 

"Cook" Burials, in Cannon Co., TN - Kindly provided by: 

Jess Lewis jlewis@cafes.net   http://www.cafes.net/jlewis/

 

COOK, ALBERTA

DOB 03/28/1918 DOD

SP: MALCOM

FATHER: GEORGE SMITHSON

MOTHER: SAMANTHA

WOOD CEM. (TS)

 

COOK, BAXTER A.

DOB 02/21/1920 DOD 01/21/1921

FATHER: R. S. COOK

MOTHER: M.E.

RIVERSIDE CEM. (TS)

 

COOK, DILYS

DOB / /1908 DOD / /1973

SP: HOWARD B.

RIVERSIDE CEM. (TS)

 

COOK, ELZY E.

DOB 03/11/1874 DOD 11/16/1893

FATHER: JAMES S. COOK

MOTHER: SARAH F.

GUNTER-GRIZZLE CEM. (TS)

 

COOK, HOWARD BILL

DOB 03/05/1905 DOD 03/13/1955

SP: DILYS

FAMILY NAME: COOK

RIVERSIDE CEM. (TS)

NOTE: WW II

 

COOK, IRA

DOB 09/23/1916 DOD

SP:PALMER[DOM]12/16/1931

RIVERSIDE CEM. (TS)

 

COOK, JAMES S.

DOB 07/15/1833 DOD 04/07/1913

SP:SARAH F.

FATHER: STEPHEN COOK

MOTHER: MARGARET

GUNTER-GRIZZLE CEM. (TS)

 

COOK, JAMES WILLIAM

DOB 10/18/1918 DOD 06/20/1981

FAMILY NAME: COOK

RIVERSIDE GAR. CEM. (TS)

 

COOK, JAMES N.

DOB 09/15/1947 DOD

FAMILY NAME: COOK

RIVERSIDE CEM. (TS)

 

COOK, JENNIE

DOB / /1802 DOD 1883

GILLEY HILL CEM. (TS)

NOTE: FREED (Slave)SERVANT OF JESSE GILLEY

 

COOK, JOHN B.

DOB 11/30/1919 DOD 08/16/1974

SP: MABLE MARKUM

FATHER: STEVE COOK

MOTHER: NORA

GUNTER-GRIZZLE CEM. (TS)

 

COOK, LELAND A.

DOB / /1917 DOD / /1991

SP:LEVIE

FAMILY NAME: COOK

RIVERSIDE GAR. CEM. (TS)

 

COOK, LEVIE

DOB / /1910 DOD / /1975

SP: LELAND

RIVERSIDE GAR. CEM. (TS)

 

COOK, LILLY K.

DOB / /1873 DOD / /1952

SP:OSCAR

FAMILY NAME: VANCE

RIVERSIDE CEM. (TS)

 

COOK, MALCOM MEDFORD

DOB 04/29/1912 DOD 02/25/1980

SP:ALBERTA SMITHSON [DOM] 01/25/1936

FATHER: STEVE COOK

MOTHER: NORA

WOOD CEM. (TS)

 

COOK, MARY

DOB 03/11/1858 DOD 10/23/1899

SP: S.A.

DOOLITTLE CEM. (TS)

 

COOK, MARY

DOB 12/28/1871 DOD 04/01/1958

SP: S.A.

FAMILY NAME: CAMPBELL

RIVERSIDE CEM. (TS)

 

COOK, MARY T.

DOB 08/01/1891 DOD 08/14/1964

SP:ROY S.

RIVERSIDE CEM. (TS)

 

COOK, METTIE M.

DOB 11/23/1880 DOD 06/05/1905

STEPHENS CEM. (TS)

 

COOK, MYRTLE F.

DOB 11/04/1923 DOD

RIVERSIDE CEM. (TS)

 

COOK, NORA B.

DOB 07/28/1878 DOD 01/01/1965

SP:STEVE T.

GUNTER-GRIZZLE CEM. (TS)

 

COOK, OSCAR BELL

DOB / /1879 DOD / /1941

SP: LILLY VANCE

FAMILY NAME: COOK

RIVERSIDE CEM. (TS)

 

COOK, PALMER JONES

DOB 03/04/1907 DOD 07/11/1976

SP:IRA [DOM] 12/16/1931

FAMILY NAME: COOK

RIVERSIDE CEM. (TS)

 

COOK, ROY S.

DOB / /1891 DOD / /1941

SP:MARY T.

FAMILY NAME: COOK

RIVERSIDE CEM. (TS)

 

COOK, RUBYE HALL

DOB 04/18/1922 DOD 06/22/1992

SP: VERNON

FAMILY NAME: DAVENPORT

MOTHER: INA

REED CEM. (TS)

NOTE: OBIT

 

COOK, S. A.

DOB 11/10/1855 DOD 11/01/1945

SP:MARY CAMPBELL

FAMILY NAME: COOK

RIVERSIDE CEM. (TS)

 

COOK, SARAH F.

DOB 05/20/1849 DOD 01/19/1917

SP:J.S.

GUNTER-GRIZZLE CEM. (TS)

 

COOK, STEVE T.

DOB 10/15/1879 DOD 07/08/1948

SP:NORA B.

FATHER: JAMES COOK

MOTHER: SARAH

GUNTER-GRIZZLE CEM. (TS)

 

COOK, WILLIAM G.

DOB 12/07/1867 DOD 04/28/1899

FATHER: STEPHEN COOK

MOTHER: MARGARET

STEPHENS CEM. (TS)

adobe form for census records: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cannonco/censusrecordform.pdf 

1840 is available on line: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cannonco/1840census.html  didn't find any Cook Families

1850 Census 

Cook, James page 418 

1860 Census  Cannon County, Tennessee

J. W. Cook age 40 male #55

James age 9
Thomas age 5

Jas. Cook age 56 # 67

Jinny Cook (B) age 48 # 27

Stephen Cook age 49 # 7

Sarah age 45
Mary age 23
Virginia age 20
Susan age 17
Martha age 12
Hanah age 10
Eliza age 8
Stephen age 6
David Porterfield age 22

1870 Census Index only

Cook, John age 55 # 143

Cook, Stephen H. age 59 # 163

I found these references to Cook Family members as well - please check original source and original web pages. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cannonco/  

Cook Samuel Admr of James Warren Decd 414 Cannon County Court Clerk  Settlements, Administrators'  Exec. & Guardian Roll #12, Tennessee State Library and Archives May 1859 - March 1868  Index http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cannonco/roll12.html  

List of databases for Cannon County can be found at: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cannonco/databases.html#TC 

Cannon County Newspapers - http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cannonco/news.html "The county's first newspaper , the Woodbury Press was published from 1871 to 1874 by Bennett and Hight. From 1874 to 1876 the paper was published by W.C. Houston and John C. Cook." 

Another page notes: Thomas Snow BOGLE, born 17 Jan, 1878 in Yellville, Marion Co., AR; died 25 Mar, 1957 in Wagoner, OK.  He married May Belle COOK 31 Jan, 1901 in Savoy, AR. url: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cannonco/chronicles/mikewilson.html 
 
Another page has great links about the Civil War and these are listed from that page: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cannonco/cw.html 

Rosters of Combatants & Regimental Histories from Cannon County 

Confederate

Co. C, 22nd TN Cav.
Co. E, 8th TN Cav.
Co. G, 8th TN Cav.
Co. A, 18th TN Inf.
Co. D, 18th TN Inf.
Co. H, 18th TN Inf.
Co. H, 23rd TN Inf.
Co. G, 35th TN Inf.
 

Union

5th TN CAV (First Middle Tennessee)
Researcher Requests: 

From: jconnick jconnick@inet1.toledotel.com Please e-mail Joan directly about this family. 

Thomas Cook, Sr. and Elizabeth had a son Andrew W. Cook b. May 24, 1822 Tn. married 10-25-1846 Jane Morton d.5-12-1902. Thomas Sr. had 13 children according to census records put I only have partial list of names. Be glad to share what I have. 

Thomas A. Cook ,Jr. was in Pike Co.,Ky. I have census records for him. Augustus and Thomas Sr. and father William in Carter Co., Tn. They were Johnson Co.,Tn., and Ashe and Watauga Co.,N.C.and Thomas A. was in Wash. Co., Va. too. 

Thomas A. Cook, Jr. b.4-15-1819 Carter Co.,Tn. d.10-6-1914 Wash. Co., Va. buried Saltville R2 m. 9-29-1844 Johnson Co., Tn. Diadama South d/o Eli South and Mary S. Taylor d/o Stephen and Sarah (Roark) Taylor. They were in Grundy, Va. also. I have Thomas A. Cook, Jr., Jarritt Cook and William A. Cook civil war papers.

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http://hometown.aol.com/wcook14024/cooklinks.html Lots of Cook's listed on Bill's page. 

These are NOT my Cook Families but are offered as a resource to everyone looking for their Cook ancestors.  

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