Brief Life History of Lillian Evelyn
When Lillian Evelyn Cook was born on 22 February 1880, in Bluegrove, Clay, Texas, United States, her father, Thomas Rueben Cook, was 38 and her mother, Alcina Antionette Copp, was 36. She married G H "Harry" Layton on 24 November 1894, in Noble, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Merty Cook in household of T R Cook, "United States Census, 1880"
- Lily Cook, "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995"
- Lily Cook in entry for G. H. Layton, "Oklahoma Marriages, 1870-1930"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882
Historical Boundaries: 1882: Clay, Texas, United States
1912 · The Girl Scouts
Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
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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