Selected Cook Family Pictures Many people have helped me collect this information. They include Janet Bird, Carolyn Bender, Jamie Owens-Overbeck,
my aunt Ada Brown and my mother Ethel Margaret Brown Parmerter. The papers of T. Harold Cook were
also a major help with new information and confirmation of other data. Also James Chapin Downey,
a descendant of Thomas Cook, assisted this research. I am grateful to all. You can see additional photos and information at The Cook and Johnston Family. |
Margaret Johnston Cook
1840-1915
Wife of John Cook
Matriarch of the Cook Family in America
Family of Margaret Johnston Cook
Back: Elizabeth Strang (Cook) Brown and Caroline Henrietta (Cook) Peacock
Front: Kate (Cook) Schaad
and May Margaret (Cook) Driscoll
Front and center: Margaret Johnston Cook
Approximately 1910
Location in Either Bradford or Sullivan County, PA
Children of John and Margaret Johnston Cook
Back: Kate (Cook) Schaad and William John Cook
Center: Elizabeth Strang (Cook) Brown and Charles Cook
Front:
David Cook and May Margaret (Cook) Driscoll
Probably Early 1890s
Taken at Ott & Hay Studio
Towanda, Bradford County, PA
David Cook Line
David Cook (1879-1928)
Son of John Cook and Margaret Johnston
David Cook was born January 21, 1879 and died January 6, 1928. He married Margaret McHenry (1880-1959) on February 25, 1902.
Margaret McHenry (1880-1959)
Wife of David Cook
Children of Margaret McHenry and David Cook:
- Douglas B. Cook 1902-1972
- Alice Cook 1903-1970
- Karl Cook 1906-1954
- Josephine Cook 1907-1969
- Gerald Cook 1909-1990
- Curtis M. Cook 1911-1915
- Bernice Cook 1912-1966
- Kathryn Cook 1914-1981
- Pearl Cook 1916-?
- Martha Cook 1918-1961
- Thomas Clair Cook 1921-1921
- Doris Cook 1924-2000
William Cook Line
William J. "Bill" Cook (1872-1942)
Son of John Cook and Margaret Johnston
William (Bill) J. Cook was born Aug 24, 1872 at Mildred, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania. He married Margaret Spence in 1896 at Bernice, Pa. Bill died January 22, 1942 at Dushore, PA and is buried at the Old Bernice Cemetery next to his wife. The grave marker says she was born in 1874 and died in 1946. Their four children were:
1. John W. Cook, b Dec 22, 1895, d 1949 in Sayre Pa. and buried near his
parents at Old Bernice cemetery
2. James A. Cook, b Sep 2 1898. d. Feb 1976 in Penfield, New York
3. Ethel I. Cook, b 1907
4. Margaret L. Cook, b 1915
John Cook (1870-1951)
Son of John Cook and Margaret Johnston
John Cook was born in Mildred, Sullivan County, PA on Sept. 6, 1870. His wife was Sarah J. ______, born about 1874. John died in Sept 1951 in Reynoldsville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. He was a coal miner all his life, working in the mines in Sullivan County PA, and in Moingona, Iowa, as well as Reynoldsville, PA. He was the first of his siblings to be born in the United States.
Charles W. Cook (1875-1929)
Son of John Cook and Margaret Johnston
Charles W. Cook was born Feb 7, 1875 in Mildred, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania and died Aug 15, 1929 in Sayre, PA. He was the eighth child of John and Margaret (Johnston) Cook. He married Janet Ramsey b 1880 in Scotland. She died in Endicott, New York. Their childre were:
1. Frances E. Cook b 1899
2. Margaret J. Cook b 1901 in Mildred
3. Thomas Harold Cook b Jun 12 1903 in Mildred; d Sept 1979 in Sayre
4. Laura Janet Cook b Dec 1909 in Mildred
5. Christine Cook
Kathryn "Kate" Cook (1877-1929)
Daughter of John Cook and Margaret Johnston
Kate was born Feb 5 1877 In Moingona, Marcy Twp. Boone County, Iowa. She married Henry J. Shaad of Mildred after the family returned to Sullivan County. He was born in 1872 in Pennsylvania; his parents were John Schaad, born Mar 11 1834 in Canton, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, and Elizabeth C. Mosier, born in Pennsylvania. Kate died Dec 25, 1929 in Dushore, PA. Kate and Henry had five children, all born in Mildred per the various census indexes:
1. Franklin J. Schaad b 1898
2. Walter H. Schaad b 1899
3. Clifford W. Schaad b 1905
4. Alfred G. Schaad b 1907
5. Margaret E. Schaad b May 1909; married Dr. John A. Kale
Henry Schaad
Husband of Kate Cook
Franklin Schaad
Son of John Schaad and Kate Cook
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