Jessie Knox Cook

Brief Life History of Jessie Knox

When Jessie Knox Cook was born on 6 November 1923, in Coryell, Texas, United States, his father, Jesse Milton Cook, was 28 and his mother, Ruby Amanda Blankenship, was 23. He lived in Coryell City, Coryell, Texas, United States in 1950 and Sherman, Texas, United States in 2009. He died on 13 July 2009, at the age of 85, and was buried in Holloway Cemetery, Luella, Grayson, Texas, United States.

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Jessie Knox Cook
1923–2009
Nellie Mae Mcguffee

Sources (11)

  • Jessie K Cooke, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Jessie Knox Cook, "Texas Births and Christenings, 1840-1981"
  • Jessie Knox Cook, "Texas, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1947"

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1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

1929 · The Great Depression Arrives

Like most of the country, the economy of Texas suffered greatly after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Thousands of city workers were suddenly unemployed and relied on a variety of government relief programs; unemployed Mexican citizens were required to take one-way bus tickets to Mexico.

1947 · The Presidential Succession Act

The Presidential Succession Act is an act establishing the presidential line of succession. This was a precursor for the Twenty-fifth Amendment which outlines what is to happen when a President is killed, dies, or is unable to fulfill the responsibilities of President.

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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