Brief Life History of Hattie
When Hattie Cook was born on 25 January 1887, in Stokes, North Carolina, United States, her father, Henry Martin Cook, was 27 and her mother, Martha Elizabeth Brinkley, was 27. She married Oscar Owen Palmer on 31 January 1915, in Surry, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Surry, North Carolina, United States in 1935 and Stewarts Creek Township, Surry, North Carolina, United States in 1940. She died on 21 July 1958, in Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Mount Airy, Surry, North Carolina, United States.
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- Hattie Palmer in household of Owen Palmer, "United States Census, 1920"
- Hattie Cook, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- Hattie Cook Palmer, "North Carolina Deaths, 1931-1994"
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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.
1897 · First Bill for Women Suffrage
In 1897, Senator J.L. Hyatt introduced the woman suffrage bill in North Carolina. The bill did not make it past the committee.
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
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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