When Mary Ellar Cook was born on 24 April 1864, in Hart, Kentucky, United States, her father, Benjamin Franklin Cook Sr., was 16 and her mother, Amanda B. Walsh, was 16. She married William Robert Giddeon on 18 September 1884, in Bentonville, Benton, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Magisterial District 5 Upton's, LaRue, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years and Pawnee Township, Lincoln, Oklahoma, United States in 1900. She died on 18 February 1937, in Drumright, Creek, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Lincoln, Oklahoma, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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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