Brief Life History of Martha Ann
When Martha Ann Cook was born in December 1859, in Texas, United States, her father, Wesley Collinsworth Cook, was 22 and her mother, Julia Francis Griffin, was 22. She married Abraham Lane on 8 February 1885, in Hays, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Coleman, Coleman, Texas, United States in 1910 and San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, United States in 1920.
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Sources (8)
- Martha Roselea in household of Wesley Cook, "United States Census, 1880"
- Mattie Rezzelle, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"
- Mattie Cook in entry for Joe Abb Rozelle, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1876
Historical Boundaries: 1876: Coleman, Texas, United States
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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