John Cook
1803 - 1866 (63 years)-
Name John Cook Born 1803 Pendleton Co., Va/Wv 
Gender Male Died 28 Feb 1866 Jacksonville, Lewis Co., Wv Person ID P16846 Arbogast Last Modified 13 Aug 2013
Family Catherine Arbogast, b. Abt 1801, Crabbottom, Highland Co., Va , d. Abt 1852, Monterey, Highland, Virginia, United States (Age 51 years) Married Abt 1825 Not Found Children 1. George Cook, b. 2 Jan 1826, Pendleton Co., Va/Wv , d. 23 Aug 1900 (Age 74 years) [Natural]2. Catherine Cook, b. 2 Jan 1826, Pendleton Co., Va/Wv , d. Yes, date unknown [Natural]3. Elizabeth Cook, b. 1828, Pendleton Co., Va/Wv , d. Yes, date unknown [Natural]4. Emily Cook, b. 22 Jun 1830, Pendleton Co., Va/Wv , d. 29 Sep 1894, Cambridge, Furnas Co., Ne (Age 64 years) [Natural]5. Mary Cook, b. 1831, Pendleton Co., Va/Wv , d. Yes, date unknown [Natural]6. Belinda Cook, b. 1834, Pendleton Co., Va/Wv , d. Yes, date unknown [Natural]7. John Wesley Cook, b. 1836, Pendleton Co., Va/Wv , d. 5 Nov 1908, Kuttawa, Lyon Co., Ky (Age 72 years) [Natural]8. Christopher Columbus Cook, b. 1845, Pendleton Co., Va/Wv , d. Yes, date unknown [Natural]Family ID F3246 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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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
- Source is AAF FGR 17 in file. From copy of records compiled by Roy Bird Cook