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MONROE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: COOK Family
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
SSpradling@aol.com
September 20, 1999
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A History of Monroe County, West Virginia
Oren F. Morton, B. Lit.
Staunton, VA
The McClure Company, Inc.
1916
p. 329-330
COOK Family
We find mention of Valentine Cook as Felty Koch, which is indicative of
German birth or ancestry, but we are told that he and Jacob were sons of John
Hamilton Cook, of London, cousin to the celebrated Captain Cook. They came
about 1770 to the J. Johnson place just below Greenville and built Cook's
fort. His wife was Rachel Bofman (Baughman?) and he died in 1797. The widow
went with 11cr sons, Henry and David, to Kentucky. Valentine, Jr., and Jacob
were both ministers, and the latter died on the family homestead in 1844. His
sister, Christiana, married Philip Hammond, the scout Valentine, Sr., had
several adventures with the Indians, and was several times taken by them.
Rev. Valentine Cook, Jr., who settled in Kentucky, is mentioned in Chapter
XXXII.
C. of Jacob (Rachel): Riley' B.-Ward-Jacob A-Lewis G.-Carolina-Sarah-John
H.-Lorenzo D. (Ann Vawter, 1831). The family has long been extinct here in
the male line.
One William Cook, several of whose children married into the Dubois family,
of Wolf Creek, died about 1825. An Isaac had a license to build a gristtnill
on Laurel in 1813.
William G. (1800-1888) was a son of John and his wife Lucy Gray Cook, of
Prince Edward. He graduated from Hampden-Sidney Callege and in 1833 from the
Baltimore School of Medicine. After practicing his profession in Clarkesville
and in Chesterfield county, he came to Union in 1840, but some 11 years
later he moved to Sweet Springs. In 1836 he married Mary E9 daughter of
Jesse Wherry, of Manchester. She died in 1863, aged 55. Of the 10 children
of Dr. and MrL Cook, 8 lived to adult age, their names being as follows:
Anna H. (s)-John H. (b. 1838) (Julia A. Baker, 1864)-Mary E. (Robert E.
Jordan, of Fluvanna Co.)-Alfred W. (Martha E. Carter, 1866)-Harriet G.
(Andrew A. Kean, 1868)-William F. (Alfarette Wickline, Blanche Carter)-James
R (Clarissa B. Settle, 1872)-Margaretta C. (John P. Wickline, 1874).
C. of John H.-Walter J. (Ella Dransfield, 1894)-Randolph G. (Anna
F. Dransfield, 1892)-William E. (Sue M. Kingsberry, 1906)-John F.
-Florence G. (Lee Walker, 1893). John H. has been a veteran teacher and
served a term as county superintendent W. 3. is deputy sheriff, W. F. a
physician, and 3. F. a graduate of Roanoke College and Crazier Theological
Seminary, is a minister of the Baptist church.
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