Family/Spouse: Rice. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Ollie Mae Rice

Edwin married Ella Ann Harrison on 6 Sep 1883. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Andrew married Emily Cook on 26 Nov 1850 in Highland Co., Va. Emily (daughter of John Cook and Catherine Arbogast) was born on 22 Jun 1830 in Pendleton Co., Va/Wv; died on 29 Sep 1894 in Cambridge, Furnas Co., Ne. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Source is AAF FGR 17 in file. From copy of records compiled by Roy Bird Cook
and sent to Mary Elizabeth Bird of Omaha, NE, in Dec. 1930. Mary Elizabeth
Bird is the granddaughter of Andrew Jackson BIrd and wife Emily Cook and
daughter of George Johnson Bird and Laura Alice Crouch who lived in IL, later
Omaha, NE. Mary Elizabeth Bird was born on 27 Oct 1883 at Carthage, IL. Mary
Elizabeth loaned these records to Amanda Arbogast Forbes in May 1966. The John
Cook records continue......when Bell laid off the town of Monterey in 1847 it
was but a small cleared farm, on a road where another primitive road joined to

go down the valley to Franklin. It was the only opening in the woods between
the two Straight Creeks, branches of the South Branch of the Potomac. John Cook
and his wife Catherine Arbogast at the time of the formation of Highland
County, VA, (1847), lived in a large log hewn house of two stories and an "ell"
that stood by a never failing spring on a site just back of the law offices of
C. P. Jones in Monterey, on a corner opposite the present Court House. On 20
May 1847, the Justices of the new county met at his house and organized the
government of the new county. Court continued to meet until a court house was
constructed, and Cook was granted a tavern license at the first session. He
continued to run a hotel in this building until the summer of 1858.

John is the son of John and Mary Ann or Elizabeth (Varner) Cook

John married Catherine Arbogast about 1825 in Not Found. Catherine (daughter of George Arbogast and Catherine Yeager) was born about 1801 in Crabbottom, Highland Co., Va; died about 1852 in Monterey, Highland, Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Source is AAF FGR 17 in file. Two additional children, Emanuel and Benjamin,
died in infancy.