John Smith Cook

Brief Life History of John Smith

When John Smith Cook was born on 11 September 1849, in Kittanning, Armstrong, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Lewis Cook, was 30 and his mother, Susanna Schrecengost, was 30. He married Anna Catherine Schaeffer on 21 July 1868. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Kittanning Township, Armstrong, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860. He died on 3 December 1932, in Sharpsburg, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Mount Royal Cemetery, Glenshaw, Shaler Township, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Smith Cook
1849–1932
Anna Catherine Schaeffer
1849–1910
Marriage: 21 July 1868
Minnie Cook
1870–
Ida May Cook
1871–1940
Philamena Cook
Guy Elmer Cook
1873–1937
Thomas Albert Cook
1874–1950
Dorotha Dora Cook
1876–1963
Harry Smith Cook
1877–1954
Ellis Edgar Cook
1882–1942
John Burnheim Cook
1882–1957
James Reed Cook
1884–1945
Lawrence Wilbert Cook
1892–1973
George Marvin Cook
1894–1942

Sources (18)

  • John S Cook in household of Susana Cook, "United States Census, 1860"
  • John Smith Cook, "Find A Grave Index"
  • J.S. Cook in entry for Ellis E. Cook and Nellie E. Lang, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"

World Events (8)

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1863 · Battle of Gettysburg

The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.

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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