Roxy Rena Cook

Brief Life History of Roxy Rena

When Roxy Rena Cook was born on 9 December 1898, in Butler, Kansas, United States, her father, William Melone Cook, was 36 and her mother, Amanda E Cooper, was 33. She lived in Chelsea Township, Butler, Kansas, United States in 1900. She died on 28 December 1910, at the age of 12.

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Family Time Line

William Melone Cook
1862–1933
Amanda E Cooper
1865–1935
James Thomas Franklin Cook
1886–1953
John William Theodore Cook
1888–1918
Nora Elizabeth Cook
1891–1928
Homer Edward Cook
1893–1962
Floyd Oscar Cook
1896–1977
Roxy Rena Cook
1898–1910
Dolly Cook
1900–1900
Clarence Albert Cook
1902–1951
Floey May Cook
1905–1905
Claude Alonzo Cook
1906–1984
Edna Lee Cook
1908–1908

Sources (3)

  • Roxia R Cook in household of Wm M Cook, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Roxy Rena Cook - Government record: birth-name: Roxian Retia Cook
  • 1900 United States Federal Census

World Events (8)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1900 · Giving Puerto Rico an American Welcome

A law that established government on the island of Puerto Rico and gave all Puerto Ricans citizenship. This law was replaced by the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917.

1902 · So Much Farm Land

A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.

Name Meaning

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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