Cook Family Documents

 

(if anyone has corrections or additions to my descriptions of the photos, PLEASE let me know!)

 

Photos:

 

EK & Susie Cook & all the kids...

Portrait of E.K. Cook as a young man

E.K. (Eulexis Kelly) Cook & his wife Susan (Susie) Young Cook in a formal portrait,

EK and Susie Cook, a little older, posing at the farm and in another pose at the farm

Two pictures of Susie Cook, one on the porch

A later photo of Susie, in her coat ready to go out

Susie Cook and Sammy

Susie Cook with her daughter Rita on the porch at the farm in Tenn

Susie Cook with George McClain (?) & Rita

This is Susie Cook in WV

Susie Cook with Rita's son Will Kelly McClain in WV in 1936

Susie Cook with Leenie in WV

Susie Cook with Joe Cook's daughters Sue Fields and Joanne,
taken out back behind the house on Wiltshire Blvd in Huntington

Susie Cook with a young JWC

Sam Cook, his new wife, and Lila Cook in Tenn

Aileen and Lexeen Cook, the twins, on a horse and with some dogs

8 Cook children: but which ones?
Probably Mamie in back, holding one of the twins (Leen or Lex)
and Maria and Lila on the left, then the three boys--
Norman, Sam, and Joe, and the other twin (Leen or Lex)...

One of the Cook girls with a favorite horse: is it Lila???(Another and another of her and the horse.)

Maria and Lila Cook as girls

Leenie, Lexie and Jim Cook as kids

Maria, Leenie, Lexie and Jim Cook as kids

Nice portraits of Aileen Cook as a young woman--and another one and another one and yet one more.

Aileen Cook on a 1938 trip (and one more photo) traveling with other ladies
(who? where are they? maybe NY?)

Aileen and Lexeen with a young JWC

JW Cook looking dashing

Lexeen with a young Susan Cook at Piedmont

Lila Cook with a suitor, Mr Goodbar (by a tree, and on the stairs and another).

Lila Cook with her horse

Norman on a hunting trip in NC, and Uncle "Nunc" out hunting some more...

I think this is Norman in Tenn

Norman with Joe's wife Claude

Maria Cook as a young woman, and another portrait of Maria

Nice portrait of a young JA Cook, another nice portrait

Russell Cook as a boy, and Russell reading to another Cook kid

Will Kelly McClain and his kids, Martin and Meredith

Will Kelly McClain with Elizabeth Cook, JWC, and part of Jim Cook's face in 1944

The Cook Family in Huntington, circa 1967:
left to right are Bill Ireson?, Aileen, Maria, ???, Lila, Rita?, Mamie and Lexeen...

More Cook Ladies on the town circa 1967:
1. Aileen, Lexeen, Sue Burr Cook?, and Maria Cook
2. Maria, Lexeen, ???, Aileen Cook
3. Lexeen, Aileen and Maria Cook at Wiltshire Blvd
4. Lexeen and Aileen on the porch at Wiltshire Blvd
5. Lila (seated), ???, Lexeen, Aileen, Maria Cook

 

Misc Photos...who are these people?

Who is this fellow? Any guesses?

A mysterious couple...do you know who they are?

A man in front of a house (who? where?)

"Johnson and our mule" (Joe Cook's son on the farm in TN)

Two cows (Cook farm in TN?)

Two young boys on a horse with a donkey

A little boy put up on a horse (who is the woman? the child?)

Two boys on a bike

A girl and a lamb...joe daughter?

 

Some Cook Places....

Three photos of the Cook farm house in Martha, TN, another, and another

The Martha, Wilson Co TN gravesite of E.K. & Susie Cook, taken in 1993

A random photo of an outhouse--but where was this fine structure located?

A big photo of the old Cook Hardware Store in Huntington WV (takes a minute to load)

This is the 322 S Englewood where James & Lib Cook resided in Huntington from 1949, taken in 1958

An early picture of the grand 2110 Wiltshire Bld in Huntington, where the Cook clan lived

 

Misc:

E.K. Cook newspaper death notices

copy of Samuel Young's will, written 1902

photo of Martha J Young's tombstone, "wife of Samuel Young" 1830-1887