Brief Life History of Mamie Ruth
When Mamie Ruth Cook was born on 5 August 1908, in West Virginia, United States, her father, Walter Griffin Cook, was 40 and her mother, Virginia Frances Zimmermann, was 35. She had at least 1 son with John William Jones. She lived in Amsterdam, Botetourt, Virginia, United States for about 40 years. She died on 4 October 1989, in Roanoke, Virginia, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Glade Creek Cemetery, Blue Ridge, Botetourt, Virginia, United States.
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- Mamie Ruth Janes, "United States Census, 1950"
- Mamie Ruth Jones, "Virginia, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
- Mamie Ruth Cook Jones, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
1917 · Camp Lee Training Facility
Camp Lee was the sight of where Europeans first came face to face with the Powhatan Confederation. Than during the Civil War the Union forces used it as a surprise attack and blocked Lee’s army from the supply base. When World War II started Fort Lee became Camp Lee and was used as a training facility.
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
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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