John Cooke Family Group Sheet
Family Group Report - 7 Apr
1999
Husband: JOHN COOKE
--------------------------------------------------
Birth: 16 Apr 1807/1808 Place: KY
Death: 11 Jan 1876 Place: CLAY CO, IL
--------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------
Wife: SARAH MIDGETT
--------------------------------------------------
Birth: 16 Jan 1809 Place: KY
Death: 10 Aug 1963 Place: CLAY CO, IL
--------------------------------------------------
Children...
--------------------------------------------------
1. F Child: MARY CAROLINE COOK
Birth: 1829 Place: KY
Death: 1850 Place: CLAY CO, IL
Burial: Place: IL
--------------------------------------------------
2. F Child: ELIZA JANE COOK
Birth: 15 Jan 1831 Place: TRIGG CO, KY
Death: 18 Mar 1902 Place: WELD CO, COLO
Burial: Place: COLO
Spouse: JOHN ELLIOTT
Marriage: 8 Feb 1849 Place: CLAY CO, IL
--------------------------------------------------
3. F Child: MELISSA A COOK
Birth: 10 Jun 1834 Place: KY
Death: 11 Sep 1845 Place: CLAY CO, IL
Burial: Place: OLD CAMPGRND CEM, CLAY CO, IL
--------------------------------------------------
4. M Child: WILLIAM WILSHIRE
COOK
Birth: 1835 Place: KY
Death: 10 Jan 1888 Place: FLORA, CLAY CO, IL
Burial: Place: FLORA, CLAY CO, IL
Spouse: MARY ANN NANTZ
Marriage: 1854 Place: IL
Spouse: MARY J
Marriage: About 1878
--------------------------------------------------
5. F Child: MALINDA A COOK
Birth: 1836 Place: KY
Death: Before 1850 Place: CLAY CO, IL
--------------------------------------------------
6. M Child: JOHN HOLLAND COOK
Birth: 28 Jan 1838 Place: TRIGG CO, KY
Death: 23 Apr 1922 Place: LONGMONT, BOULDER CO, COLO
Burial: 26 Apr 1922 Place: MT VIEW CEM, BOULDER CO, COLO
Spouse: LAURA WINTERS
Marriage: 1 Sep 1860 Place: CLAY CO, IL
--------------------------------------------------
7. F Child: PERNECIA ELLEN COOK
Birth: Nov 1841 Place: CLAY CO, IL
Death: 7 Sep 1903
Burial: Place: SHREWSBURY CEM, WHITE CO, IL
Spouse: WILLIAM GEORGE BAITY
Marriage: 21 Jul 1859 Place: IL
--------------------------------------------------
8. F Child: SARAH EVELYN COOK
Birth: 18 Jul 1845 Place: CLAY CO, IL
Death: 29 Jun 1909 Place: IL
Burial: Place: SHREWSBURY CEM, WHITE CO, IL
Spouse: GEORGE WASHINGTON HORNICK
Marriage: 21 Mar 1861
--------------------------------------------------
9. F Child: MILLEY CATHERINE COOK
Birth: 8 Oct 1847 Place: XENIA, CLAY CO, IL
Death: 3 Dec 1936 Place: LONGMONT, BOULDER CO, COLO
Burial: 7 Dec 1936 Place: MT VIEW CEM, BOULDER CO, COLO
Spouse: THOMAS G MAYFIELD
--------------------------------------------------
10. F Child: DELILA E. COOKE
Birth: 20 Jan 1851 Place: CLAY CO, IL
Death: 3 Dec 1915 Place: MILL SHOALS, WHITE CO, IL
Burial: 1915 Place: SHREWSBURY CEM, WHITE CO, IL
Spouse: ISAAC NEWTON BAKER
Marriage: 24 Nov 1868 Place: MARION CO, IL
--------------------------------------------------
11. F Child: MINERVA W COOK
Birth: 20 Jan 1851 Place: XENIA, CLAY CO, IL
Death: 26 Jan 1928 Place: SPRINGERTON, WHITE CO, IL
Spouse: ISAAC PERRY NICHOLSON
Marriage: 24 Nov 1868 Place: MARION CO, IL
Husband’s Notes...
--------------------------------------------------
Notes:
We are not sure where our Cooke's originated from or where they
first lived in America. There were many families from
Bertie County, North Carolina, who went to Trigg County, Kentucky
and perhaps our Cooke's were among them. There was a William
Cooke, Sr. born 1690 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia and died
in Bertie County, N. C. It's possible that this William is
of our family. It is believed that a William Cooke was the father
of our John Cooke and that some other children were a Joseph Payne and a James. The following is an excerpt from
a letter written by Carla D. Wolcoff dated
9 Nov 1996.
"First of all, your John and my Joseph are brothers. There was also a brother named James. I haven't found sisters as yet. I mentioned to you before that I think that William Cooke was their father. I have his pension papers in 1832 where he filed in Graves Co., Ky. and states he was born in Pittsylvania, Va. in 1763. Pittsylvania wasn't a county until 1767. Pittsylvania came out of part of Halifax or Lunenberg. I found on the Va. service some Cooke's that had Cookes in Pittsylvania who went to Bertie Co., NC. They haven't replied again yet but said they would. Reubin Cooke came from Bertie with his family and settled in Caldwell Co., Ky. and later in Graves Co. Ky. His descendants remained there and some intermarried with my Morse line there. I believe Reuben might be a cousin of William. Another reason I think we are in the right area is my Joseph's middle name was Payne. He named his son Lorenzo Payne Cooke and later there was a Lorenzo Payne McDaniel. So I think that John and Joseph's mother was a Payne. There was a John Payne in Pittsylvania Co. at the same time as William Cooke."
In another letter received from John K. Elliott (son of Eliza Jane Cook and John Elliott) dated 22 June 1968 he gives the following information: "My mother had a Bible that she said was over a hundred years old when she got it. It contained a record of the Cooke family that covered many years. When Mother died, an older brother took the Bible, with other books of Father's. When my brother died, the books were stored in a neighbor's basement which got flooded, and ruined all the books. If we had that Bible, we would be ok. I could have got it, but I was busy and neglected it until it was to late. John Cooke was not a farmer--he was a wagon maker. He built and equipped a shop of his own a short distance west of Flora, Ill. He built the prairie schooner that my father used to bring his family to Colorado. My mother said that they lived in Trigg County while in Kentucky. She told about her romps and plays, as a little girl, on the banks of the Cumberland River."
Source: Donna Smith, 407
E. Graham, Bloomington, ILL 61701