Brief Life History of Samuel Ernest
When Samuel Ernest Cook was born on 11 January 1884, in Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Elijah Cook, was 48 and his mother, Violet Phipps, was 38. He married Barbara Cleo Parsons on 18 April 1911, in Marion, Smyth, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Marion, Smyth, Virginia, United States in 1910 and Smyth, Virginia, United States in 1920. He died on 1 July 1927, in Alleghany, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 43.
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- Samuel E Cook, "United States Census, 1900"
- Samuel E. Cook, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
- Samuel E Cook, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, County Marriage Registers, 1853-1935"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1894 · Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument
On May 30, 18944 the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument was unveiled. It is 73 feet high and over looks Libby Hill Park. the statue represents the 13 Confederate States.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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