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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Sources (35)
- Wm Cook in entry for Phebe Rebecca Wofford, "Nevada County Birth and Death Records, 1871-1992"
- Wm Cook, "United States Census, 1880"
- William Cooke in entry for William W. Cooke, "New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936"
Spouse and Children
1847–1934 Male
1846–1910 Female
Children (6)
1877–1923 Male
1879–1948 Female
1881–1955 Male
1884–1892 Male
1885–1917 Female
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Parents and Siblings
1815–1882 Male
1813–1909 Female
Siblings (10)
1838–1904 Male
1840–1906 Male
1842–1926 Female
1844–1895 Female
1846–1846 Male
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World Events (8)
1852
Age 5
1863
Age 16
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Age 23
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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