Brief Life History of William
When William Cook was born on 19 October 1847, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, Henry Freeman Cook, was 32 and his mother, Sophronia Strobridge, was 34. He married Mary Almina Weeks on 4 March 1871, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Fairfield, Utah, Utah, United States in 1880. He died on 27 November 1934, in Cedar Fort, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Cedar Fort Cemetery, Cedar Fort, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Wm Cook, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: William Cook - Church record: Society membership: birth: 19 October 1847; Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States
- William Cook, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
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1852
Historical Boundaries: 1852: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1856: Cedar, Utah Territory, United States 1862: Utah, Utah Territory, United States* 1896: Utah, Utah, United States *Cedar became extinct 1862
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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Henry Freeman Cook (12 January 1815 - 14 April 1882)
HENRY FREEMAN COOK BORN:12 Jan 1815Homer, Cortland, New York DIED:14 Apr 1882Cedar Fort, Utah, Utah FATHER:William Cook6 Sep 1780 - 4 Nov 1840 MOTHER:Lucy Chapman5 May 1787 - 16 Oct 1857 …
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