Willie Cook

Brief Life History of Willie

When Willie Cook was born on 22 October 1868, in Columbus, Colorado, Texas, United States, his father, Richard V Cook, was 37 and his mother, Eliza Frances Moore, was 31. He died on 24 December 1879, in his hometown, at the age of 11.

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Family Time Line

Richard V Cook
1831–1877
Eliza Frances Moore
1837–1873
John Henry Cook
1861–1867
Jessie Cook
1873–
Willie Cook
1868–1879

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    World Events (6)

    1870 · Texas Is Restored to the Union

    Congress restored Texas to the Union on March 30, 1870, despite not yet meeting all of the requirements established for re-admittance.

    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.

    1872 · The First National Park

    Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.

    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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