March 2019 – The Cook Family Website

Luella Cook in The Winthrop News

Posted on March 31, 2019
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Luella E. Cook The Winthrop News 17 Feb 1983 LUELLA COOK, WELL- LOVED TEACHER BY MANY FORMER STUDENTS Feb. 16, 1983, Miss Luella Cook will be 90. She was a well-loved teacher at Winthrop High, consolidated as East Buchanan…for, I guess, 20 years. She was known as a teacher whose…continue reading →

Cecil Templeton DeLancey

Posted on March 28, 2019
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Cecil Templeton DeLancey1907-2001Seen here standing in front of his parents Thomas Wesley & Nellie Ann (Peters) house. Hey everyone! It's Cecil Templeton DeLancey's 112th birthday today! Anyone remember this guy?! I do. He was quite a character, always full of fun. According to our records, Cecil was born in Woonsocket,…continue reading →

Charles Henry Haynes

Posted on March 21, 2019
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Charles Henry Haynes - 1873-1934 Charles Henry Haynes Today my Great Grandfather Charles Haynes would have turned 146. He was born in 1873 and was married by the time he was 22. Charles married Wanda Voelker on September 16, 1895, and the two of them raised 5 children on the…continue reading →

Cook Stories – 4

Posted on March 16, 2019
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Luella Ellis Cook EDWARD COOK MAKES A CHOICE This whole story came to me and its entirety in the first week of September 1930. To be sure I had heard bits and pieces of it before; of course, I realized that there were events in the early 1890s which seemed…continue reading →

James A. Starr

Posted on March 9, 2019
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James A. & Margaret Sophia (DeLancey) Starr Today is the birthday of my 2nd Great Uncle James A. Starr. He would've been 144 today. There really isn't much in our note for him (except for his vitals), so I don't have any stories to tell about him. (I thought I…continue reading →

William Collins Benson

Posted on March 9, 2019
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William Collins Benson9 Mar 1791 to 10 Jun 1858(this is possibly his photo, although some say, since he died in 1858 it would have been too early for photos to have been taken) Today my 4th Great Grandfather William Collins Benson celebrates his 228th birthday. He began his life in…continue reading →

Where’s Grandpa?!

Posted on March 4, 2019
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Great Grandpa Thomas Rogers was born 1 Aug 1847 in England and died (of influenza it is said) on 15 Jan 1908 in The Delaware County Poor Farm in Delaware County Iowa. His family was notified after he was buried. They were told that he was buried in Earlville. His…continue reading →

Month: March 2019