When Mary Margaret Cook was born on 29 March 1843, in Virginia, United States, her father, William Agra Cook, was 24 and her mother, Malinda Cooke, was 23. She married John Allen Workman on 18 November 1869, in Wyoming, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Oceana District, Wyoming, West Virginia, United States in 1900 and Oceana, Wyoming, West Virginia, United States in 1910. She died on 13 September 1910, in Wyoming, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in James Cook Cemetery, Jesse, Wyoming, West Virginia, United States.
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In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
English: occupational name for a cook, a seller of cooked meats, or a keeper of an eating house, from Middle English cok, coke, cook, couk, cuk(e) (Old English cōc) ‘cook’ or ‘seller of cooked foods’. See also Kew .
Irish and Scottish: usually identical in origin with the English name (see 1 above), but in some cases a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cúg ‘son of Hugo’ (see McCook ).
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘cook’, such as German and Jewish Koch , Dutch Kook , Polish Kucharz and Kucharczyk , Slovenian and Croatian Kuhar , North German Kuk .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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