John Cook

Male 1803 - 1866  (63 years)


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  • Name John Cook 
    Born 1803  Pendleton Co., Va/Wv Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 28 Feb 1866  Jacksonville, Lewis Co., Wv Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID P16846  Arbogast
    Last Modified 13 Aug 2013 

    Family Catherine Arbogast,   b. Abt 1801, Crabbottom, Highland Co., Va Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1852, Monterey, Highland, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 51 years) 
    Married Abt 1825  Not Found Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. George Cook,   b. 2 Jan 1826, Pendleton Co., Va/Wv Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Aug 1900  (Age 74 years)  [Natural]
     2. Catherine Cook,   b. 2 Jan 1826, Pendleton Co., Va/Wv Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown  [Natural]
     3. Elizabeth Cook,   b. 1828, Pendleton Co., Va/Wv Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown  [Natural]
     4. Emily Cook,   b. 22 Jun 1830, Pendleton Co., Va/Wv Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Sep 1894, Cambridge, Furnas Co., Ne Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 64 years)  [Natural]
     5. Mary Cook,   b. 1831, Pendleton Co., Va/Wv Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown  [Natural]
     6. Belinda Cook,   b. 1834, Pendleton Co., Va/Wv Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown  [Natural]
     7. John Wesley Cook,   b. 1836, Pendleton Co., Va/Wv Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Nov 1908, Kuttawa, Lyon Co., Ky Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 72 years)  [Natural]
     8. Christopher Columbus Cook,   b. 1845, Pendleton Co., Va/Wv Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown  [Natural]
    Family ID F3246  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