Ida Eliza Cook

Brief Life History of Ida Eliza

When Ida Eliza Cook was born in 1873, in Holt, Missouri, United States, her father, Jacob J. Cook, was 36 and her mother, Caroline Catherine Ahrens, was 29. She married John Elsworth Eckard on 3 October 1893, in Craig, Holt, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Washington Township, Buchanan, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Union Township, Holt, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. She died on 5 October 1925, in Webster, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Craig, Holt, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Elsworth Eckard
1868–1955
Ida Eliza Cook
1873–1925
Marriage: 3 October 1893
Ernest Cecil Eckard
1894–1929
Ethel R Eckard
1896–
Grace E. Eckard
1898–
Wayne Elsworth Eckard
1901–1987
Bertha Edith Eckard
1903–1946
Glen Vernon Eckard
1906–1977

Sources (8)

  • Ida Cook in household of Jacob Cook, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Ida Cook - Government record: birth-name: Ida Cook
  • Ida E Cook, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"

World Events (8)

1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.

1875 · A New Civil Rights Act

During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

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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