TX Family Group Sheet for the James P COOK Family *********************************************** Copyright © Gina Heffernan. All rights reserved. http://www.fgs-project.com/copyright.html *********************************************** Submitted by: Gina Heffernan Email address:================================================================================ Husband: James P COOK (1) ================================================================================ Birthdate: 1826 Place: - South Carolina (2) Death date: Bef 1871 Place: - Texas, USA Buried: Father: Thomas K Cook (1801-Abt 1879) (3) Mother: Nancy P ??? (1804- ) (2) Marriage: 1 March 1849 Place: Benton, Alabama, USA (4) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Events -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. He appeared on the census in 1850 in Calhoun, Alabama, USA. 2. Fact: 25 October 1866. (3) Started to Texas with Sarah 3. Fact: 25 December 1866. (3) Landed at Little River between Temple and Rogers, Bell Co, Texas 4. He owned property on 26 October 1870. Bell Co, Texas ================================================================================ Wife: Eliza JOHNSTON (5) ================================================================================ Birthdate: 21 February 1827 Place: - Laurens, South Carolina, USA (6) Death date: 20 January 1855 Place: - Calhoun, Alabama, USA (7) Buried: January 1855 - Bristow Springs Cemetery, Etowah, Alabama, USA Father: Daniel Johnston (1784-1835) (8) Mother: Margaret ??? (1785-1852) ================================================================================ Children ================================================================================ 1 F Sarah Elizabeth Cook (9) Born: 9 March 1850 - Georgia, USA (3) Died: 6 March 1937 - Thorndale, Milam Co, Texas (10) Cause of Death: Angina Pictoris Buried: 7 March 1937 - Friendship Cemetery, Davilla, Milam, Texas, USA Spouse: George Alexander Wills (1841-1922) (11) Marr. Date: 11 June 1868 - Rogers, Bell Co, Texas (12) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 M Daniel T Cook Born: Cir 1851 - Alabama, USA Died: Bef October 1866 - Alabama, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================================ General Notes: Husband - ================================================================================ 1850 Benton/Calhoun Co AL census. James P. Cook 23 SC wife Eliza 22 SC County: Bell Abstract Number: 161 District/Class: Milam 1st File Number: 1665 Original Grantee: James Cook Patentee: James Cook Title Date: Patent Date: 26 Oct 1870 Patent No: 262 Patent Vol: 18 Certificate: 1 Part Section: Survey/Blk/Tsp: Adj County: Acres: 1,280.00 Adj Acres: Remarks: "Early Waco Obits", Cook, James, CSA, 1st ST Cemetery "Index to Early McLennan Co, Texas Deaths", p110 Are the Jones children his stepchildren? Is Nancy his sister? Are they her children? ================================================================================ General Notes: Wife - ================================================================================ The 1850 Autauga Co, AL Census has Sarah E Cook born 1850 in Alabama to James Cook and Emily Hall. ================================================================================ Notes: Marriage ================================================================================ Benton County, was renamed Calhoun County in 1858. Last Modified: 25 May 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sources 1. Estate Records, Calhoun Co, AL. 2. was Benton County at that time, 1850 Calhoun Co, AL, Census. 3. Anonymous, Biography of Sarah E Wills. This is 4 pages, typewritten, discribing the life of Sarah. It was found in my grandmother's (Ima Jean Senn Holder) things when she died. 4. Calhoun Co, AL Marriage Book. 5. Estate Records, Calhoun Co, AL. .... Tucker, Michael, http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mtucker&id=I4176. 6. was Benton County at that time, 1850 Calhoun Co, AL, Census. .... Cemetery, Bristow, Etowah Co, AL. 7. Anonymous, Biography of Sarah E Wills. This is 4 pages, typewritten, discribing the life of Sarah. It was found in my grandmother's (Ima Jean Senn Holder) things when she died. .... Cemetery, Bristow, Etowah Co, AL. 8. Tucker, Michael. 9. Senn, Ima Holder. .... Estate Records, Calhoun Co, AL. 10. Pension File, 38120. okay .... Milam Co, Texas Death Register, Book 5 Pge 405. .... Death Certificate, Sarah E Cook. 11. Senn, Ima Holder. .... 1850 Washington Co, Texas Census (http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/washington/census/1850/), 288b-289a. .... 1900 Bell Co, Texas Census (http://search.labs.familysearch.org/), 111a. 12. Bell Co, Texas Marriage Book, D/279. ================================================================================ My Notes ================================================================================ If there is no SOURCE, I have no PROOF! If the source is an INDIVIDUAL, the information is HEARSAY!