Brief Life History of Anna
When Anna Cook was born in May 1835, in Greene, Indiana, United States, her father, Augustine James Cook, was 33 and her mother, Nancy Wilson, was 26. She married Willis T Slinker on 19 May 1853, in Jasper, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Zapato, Costilla, Colorado, United States in 1900 and Mosca, Costilla, Colorado, United States in 1900. She died on 13 October 1912, in Canyon, Idaho, United States, at the age of 77.
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- Ann Slinker in household of Willis T Slinker, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Anne Cook - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Anne Cook
- Anna Cook, "Missouri, Marriages, 1750-1920"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
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1854
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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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