Sarah Elizabeth Cook

Brief Life History of Sarah Elizabeth

When Sarah Elizabeth Cook was born on 27 August 1902, in Syracuse, Davis, Utah, United States, her father, Amos Cook, was 48 and her mother, Emma Adelaide Wood, was 39. She married Harold Ellison Bennett on 15 July 1922, in Farmington, Davis, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Layton Election Precinct, Davis, Utah, United States in 1940 and Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States in 1950. She died on 8 April 1960, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Kaysville City Cemetery, Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Harold Ellison Bennett
1902–1990
Sarah Elizabeth Cook
1902–1960
Marriage: 15 July 1922
Dale Cook Bennett
1923–2001
Dorothy Donetta Bennett
1925–1976
Beulah Bennett
1927–2009
La Ree Bennett
1929–1952

Sources (28)

  • Elizabeth C Bennett, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Elizabeth Cook Bennett, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages, 1980-2015"
  • Lizzie Cook, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"

World Events (8)

1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor

A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.

1909 · The Grand Opera House of Ogden Changes its name

Known as the Orpheum Theatre, the Opera House was built in 1890 because there was no play house located in the City. People came from all around to see the shows. When the name was changed to the Orpheum, different shows came about to please the viewers tastes and ideas.

1918 · Attempting to Stop the War

To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.

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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Elizabeth C Bennett Death and Funeral Notice in Newspaper

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