Brief Life History of Sarah
Sarah Cook was born in 1849, in Boston, Boston, Erie, New York, United States as the daughter of Susan Cook. She had at least 3 sons and 2 daughters with Warren H. Brush. She lived in Rome, Oneida, New York, United States in 1870 and Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States for about 35 years. She died on 18 January 1929, in Alden, Alden, Erie, New York, United States, at the age of 80.
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Sources (9)
- Sarah Brush in household of Warren H Brush, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Sarah Cook - Published information: birth-name: Sarah Cook
- Sarah Cook in entry for Grant W Brush and Anna A White, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1869
Incorporated in 1869.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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