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William Cook
22 May 1835 – 13 Jan 1915
| Birth | 22 May 1835 |
| Death | 13 Jan 1915 |
| Cemetery | Bluff View Cemetery Vermillion , Clay County , South Dakota , USA |
| Added by | River on 01 Nov 2017 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53000202 |
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Co. D 74 Illinois Volunteer Infantry also named on a monument in Grace Hill Cemetery, Hawarden IA # 99631189 Iowa Select Deaths & Burials from Ancestry Name: William Cook Marital Status: Married Age: 79 Birth Date: 22 May 1835 Birth Place: Ill. Death Date: 13 Jan 1915 Death Place: Logan Township, Hawarden, Sioux County, Iowa Burial Date: 15 Jan 1915 Burial Place: Vermillion, S. Dak. Father: Samuel Cook Mother: Mary Wagner *************************** OBITUARY: 21 January 1915 - Vermillion Plain Talk, Vermillion, Clay County, South Dakota WILLIAM COOK The death of William Cook at Hawarden, Iowa, on Wednesday of last week marked the passing of another pioneer of Clay county, and is well remembered by the early residents here. Coming here with his young wife and children while the country was yet new and untried he soon occupied a prominent place in the social and civic life of the community. His old homestead lay a few miles northeast of Vermillion and here the sterling worth of the man showed itself in the manner in which he met the hardships and discouragements of that early life. During recent years he has not often visited in Vermillion and so it is not as the aged man bowed with years and waiting patiently for the reward of rest, that those who knew him remember him, but rather as the sturdy, cheery, kind-hearted neighbor and friend of former days. Wm Cook was born May 22, 1835, at Rockford, Ill. He was married at that place on December 14, 1855, to Jane A. Washburn, who sixteen years ago preceded him to the better land. On August 9, 1862, he enlisted for service in the civil war and remained in the army until he was mustered out at the end of the war. In 1867 he came with his family to South Dakota and after more than a quarter of a century of residence here moved to Hawarden, Iowa, where he resided until his death on January 13, having at that place been united in marriage with Mrs. A. Wallace, who survives him. Mr. Cook was the father of five children, Ella, J., and Burton H. Cook, who died many years ago, and Chas. H. Cook, Mrs. Emma A. Lawson, and Mrs. Hattie Weeman who remain to mourn a kind and loving father. Funeral services in Hawarden on Thursday were conducted by the members of the G.A.R. assisted by the pastors of the Baptist and Methodist Episcopal churches. Rev. Erb of the Baptist church, with a group of close friends who acted as pallbearers, accompanied the body to Vermillion and assisted in the final service at the cemetery. Mrs. Lawson went over on Wednesday and made the sorrowful journey back with the body on Friday. To her and to her brother who reside in our midst the sympathy of the community is extended. ***************************** 1880 US census for Clay County, (South) Dakota Territory William Cook 45 Jane Cook 40 Charles Cook 22 Emma Cook 19 Hattie Cook 17 Burton Cook 12
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Family
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Siblings
- Hanna Clayton Cook Hill 1839–1932
- Isaac Cook 1841–1919
- Henry Cook 1842–1863
- Peter Cook 1845–1927
- Mary Jane Cook Washburn 1850–1931
- Elizabeth "Lizzie" Cook Washburn 1854–1894
Children
- Charles Henry Cook 1857–1937 FaG
- Emma Adelaide Cook Lawson 1862–1933 FaG
- Hattie A. Cook Weeman 1863–1915 FaG
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