Cook/Massie

FATHER

Francis Marion COOK
b : 14 November 1831 in Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA
d : 29 April 1863 in Chenoa, McLean, Illinois, USA
i : May 1863 in Payne Cemetery, Pike Township, Livingston, Illinois, USA

MOTHER

Susan R. MASSIE
b : about 1842 in Ohio, USA
d : 1890 in Streator, La Salle, Illinois, USA

MARRIAGE

16 February 1860 in Chenoa, McLean, Illinois, USA

CHILDREN

  1. William Evert COOK
    b : 13 February 1861 in Chenoa, Livingston, Illinois, USA
    d : 10 September 1939 in Hynes, Los Angeles, California, USA
    i : September 1939 in Park Lawn Cemetery, Hynes, Los Angeles, California, USA

  2. James Benjamin COOK
    b : 1 April 1862 in Magnolia, Putnam, Illinois, USA
    d : 2 April 1936 in Streator, La Salle, Illinois, USA
    i : April 1936 in Riverview Cemetery, Streator, La Salle, Illinois, USA

NOTES

Francis Marion Cook enlisted in the Union Army at Magnolia, Illinois, on 13 August 1862. He was discharged 20 April 1963 at Holmes Farm, Louisiana, for the disability of chronic diarrhoea contracted at Vicksburg where he was hospitalised on 17 January 1863. He arrived at Chenoa, Illinois, on 28 April 1863 and died the next day. The pension for the children was not approved until 6 January 1874 and amounted to $8 per month.

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