updated: 02/16/00

USGENWEB: http://home.mpinet.net/bcaudill/kygenweb/letcher.htm GREAT site! Harlan County and Perry County were used to create Letcher County in 1842.  from that site I found: 
1848 Tax List http://home.mpinet.net/bcaudill/kygenweb/1848_tax.htm 

Cook, Solomon Cumberland River
Marriages: (there are several marriage pages - I only looked at a couple - visit the site) 

Feb 1, 1892   George W. Cook to Anna Hannon Wright

Aug 28, 1893  Ance Cook to Catherine Justice

Aug 23, 1895  Elihue Cook to Dora Bell Breeding
Cemetery Lists: http://home.mpinet.net/bcaudill/kygenweb/CR_INDX.HTM 

COOK, Annie B., (1896 - 1946) COOK, Aster, (1916 - 1917)COOK, Celia, (1882 - 1969)COOK, Ewins, (1888 - 1920)COOK, Frances, (1858 - 1928)COOK, George, (1905 - 1906)COOK, George W., (1893 - 1967)COOK, Harlan, (1886 - 1951)COOK, Has, (1886 - 1958)COOK, Howard, (1902 - 1920)COOK, Jacomb, (1833 - 1918)COOK, John A., (1880 - 1945)COOK, John James, (1918 - 1918)COOK, Joseph, (1889 - 1920)COOK, Louis, (1861 - 1951)COOK, Mabel, (1932 - no date)COOK, Martha, (1886 - 1920)COOK, Mary M., (1865 - 1928)COOK, Nancy [COLLINS], (6/24/1902 - 1/14/1951)COOK, Nannie, (1888 - 1958)COOK, Paul, (no date - 1929)COOK, Rosa M. COOK, Ruby, (1922 - 1937)COOK, Stephen Travis, (1969 - 1965)COOK, Susan, (1901 - no date)COOK, Wilber E., (1935 - 1935)COOK, William M., (1942 - 1942)

Census Information

1850 http://home.mpinet.net/bcaudill/kygenweb/census/censindx.htm 

1860 Index Letcher County
ANDERSON COOK page 692 
JACOB COOK page 693 

1870
COOK ANDERSON Letcher County KY 378 Whitesburg Pct. 3
COOK JACOB 378 Whitesburg Pct. 3
COOK LEWIS 378 Whitesburg Pct. 3
COOK LIDDY 374 Whitesburg Pct. 3
COOK MARY 378 Whitesburg Pct. 3
COOK OWEN 378 Whitesburg Pct. 3
COOK SAMUEL 378 Whitesburg Pct. 3

1880 Index http://home.mpinet.net/bcaudill/kygenweb/1880ndx.htm; this page is under construction and there are 7 COOK households in the 1880 Letcher County, Kentucky Census. 

Researcher Requests:

From: Carolyn Adkins  gadkins@neo.rr.com

Subject: JOHN HENRY-MARY ELLEN-MINTY FRANCIS COOK NC>KY

GENERATION I

SAMUEL ISAAC & MALINDA SLONE

GENERATION II

Children of Samuel and Malinda Slone Isaac

  1. Samuel H. Isaac; born about 1852 in KY. married Mary Ellen Cook, d/o  John Henry Cook b. 1839 Stokes Co., NC.and wife Fannie Johnson born about 1842 in NC.
  2. Benjamin Martin Isaac born 1848 in KY. married #1 Rutha unknown. #2 Minty Francis Cook Sept. 26, 1883 in Letcher Co.,KY. Minty Francis Cook is the d/o John Henry and Fannie Johnson Cook. Minty was born, about 1868 in VA.  and died about 1944 in Mansfield, Ohio Richland County. She remarried David Thornhill and is buried under the name Thornhill at The Isaac Family Cemetery at Flatbranch in Fort Gay WV.

According to family folklore; Mr. Benjamin Martin Isaac was supposedly a family doctor.

GENERATION III

Children of Benjamin Martin and Minty Francis Cook Isaac

  1. Samuel Isaac
  2. Joseph Isaac
  3. William Alexander Isaac."Bill" was born; March 27, 1890 in Magoffin Co., KY.married Hattie Music about 1910 in KY.. She is the d/o Alanzo and Mary Elizabeth Blankenship Music.b. March 30,1893 died; May 10, 1957 in Mansfield, Ohio. Richland County. and is buried at The Isaac Family Cemetery at Flatbranch, FortGay WV. William died Feb. 20, 1965 in Mansfield Ohio, Richland County. and is also buried at The Isaac Family Cemetery at Flatbranch.

 

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