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Showing posts with label Cook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cook. Show all posts
Thursday, October 22, 2026

Generations and Lifespans: My Paternal Grandparents & Great Grandparents

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We lost the last of my Dad's siblings in September.  I thought it would be a good exercise to look at life spans and years lived by imme...
Thursday, September 17, 2026

In Memoriam: Minerva May Cook Lamb (1870-1913)

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  Minerva May Cook Lamb Born: December 12, 1870 Died:  February 18, 1913 Cause of Death:  Tuberculosis Buried at Simpson Cemetery Married T...
Monday, September 07, 2026

In Memoriam: Lou Ann Jackson Rogers (1865-1906)

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  Lou Ann Jackson Rogers Born:  January 3, 1865 Died:  February 22, 1906 Daughter of James Lytle Jackson and Mary Charlotte Pope Jackson Joi...
Saturday, September 05, 2026

In Memoriam: Sallie Maddox Looney (1864-1912)

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  Sallie Maddox Looney Born:  December 15, 1864 Died:  June 10, 1912 Joined the Union Ridge Baptist Church in 1906  Married to Noah W. Loone...
Friday, May 08, 2026

Mothers of my Direct Line--Out to the 2nd Great Level

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In celebration of Mother's Day I've gathered the information I have for the Mothers in my direct line out to my 2nd Great Grandmothe...
Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Minerva Cook Boyce(Jul 26th 1834 - Apr 23rd 1900) Bedford Co. TN

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Death Notice of Mrs. William Boyce(nee Cook) From Baptist and Reflector publication (9th Aug 1900) Placed by the Union Ridge Church Committe...
Monday, March 02, 2026

Thomas A Elliott vs. R D Williams(1867) Rutherford Co. TN

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Found a folder in the Rutherford County Tennessee Chancery Court Records which contains the documents for a case involving Thomas A Elliott ...
Wednesday, January 07, 2026

Wm C Cook's Receipt From Robert Mathews' Store

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Robert Mathews was a Merchant in Shelbyville.  He was enumerated in District 7  of Bedford County, Tennessee during the 1850 & the 1860 ...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

Tom & Clarence Cook's WWI Draft Registration & Numbers

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Both my paternal grandfather, Thomas D Cooke(age 29), and his brother William Clarence Cook(age 26), registered for the World War 1 Draft on...
Friday, November 07, 2025

Identifying the Parents of William Clifford Cook

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The following is an outline of my research and logic used in identifying the couple I believe is the parents of Wm Clifford Cook. I've b...
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Sunday, September 28, 2025

Petition for Settlement: Estate of William Cook

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Newspaper notice 27th Dec 1845 of the Greensborough Patriot(NC) State of North Carolina, Moore County. Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions ...
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

More on the Bedford Co TN and Franklin Co NC connections

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The Fall 2025 edition of the Bedford County Tennessee Quarterly is out and has an article about Revolutionary Veterans who were in Bedford C...
Wednesday, August 06, 2025

The Civil War Around My Cook & King Families

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Long, E. B., Barbara Long, and Bruce Catton. 1971. The Civil War Day by Day : An Almanac, 1861-1865. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. I wanted ...
Friday, July 25, 2025

Newspaper notes mention the Lytle family--NC & TN

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While looking at information about the Lytle family, I found mention of a James Cook-- an associate of Obediah Pinson.  The Lytle family and...
Friday, June 27, 2025

Deed: William Cook to Robert Taylor--Franklin Co. NC(Aug 1817)

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In May, I blogged about finding Pope Cook mentioned in the Franklin County, NC, Court Minutes. Those minutes were from March of 1811. The ...
Monday, May 19, 2025

Cooks Mentioned in Franklin Co. NC Court Minutes(March 1811)

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Found mention of William Cook and Pope Cook in the Franklin County, North Carolina Court Minutes of March 1811.   Minutes of March Court 181...
Monday, April 07, 2025

How I am using Ancestry's Network Tool

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I have access to the Beta of Ancestry's Network Tool .  At this point, it's only available to those with the ProTools add-on.  Since...
Sunday, February 16, 2025

Robert & Anna Cook Analysis with a little help from ChatGPT

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I've been gathering source documents of Robert Lee Cook, son of Jefferson Gideon Cook.  A few of Gideon's sons moved to the bigger c...