ABRAM F. COOK assisted his father on the home place until twenty-three years old and then started in to make a separate set of improvements on the farm, and after his mother's death purchased the homestead, which he still owns and were he resides. At the age of twenty-three, also, Mr. Cook married MISS MARIA L. PATTERSON, a daughter of JACOB and ROSE ANN (CARLTON) PATTERSON, and a niece of MINER PATTERSON, whose life sketch will be found on another page of this work; Mrs. Cook was born on a farm where the Paris schoolhouse now stands; she and her husband were school-mates and reared almost together from childhood. To their happy union have been born three children, viz: FRANK J., who is abstracter in the county register's office, and resides in Grand Rapids. He had served as deputy register for two years, and for two years worked in the county treasurer's office. BYRON L., the second child, was for six years in the commission house of Mosley & Stevens, Grand Rapids, where he attained an admirable record, being held in greatest respect by all his associates. He died July 26, 1898, at the age of thirty-three years. He was a remarkably bright and industrious young man, whose friends were numbered by the score. FRED A., the third child, is the able assistant of his father on the home farm. Mr. and Mrs. Cook are members of the Church of Christ at Cascade, of which he is one of the official board, and in politics is a republican, yet he is not at all demonstrative or aggressive in his political manifestations.
Jacob Patterson, father of Mrs. Cook, died at the age of sixty-two years, and his wife at the age of seventy-eight. The latter was born in Washtenaw county, where she was married and was the mother of one child when they came to live in Kent county, where the last four years of her life were passed at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Cook. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Patterson were eight in number, all of whom are still living excepting FRANK, who died at the age of thirty-five years. The survivors are SARAH, of Fremont county, Iowa, and wife of NELSON HENRY; RILLA, married to EDWIN BAILEY, of Paris, Mich. JAMES of Oklahoma; MARIA (MRS. COOK); CLARA, wife of H. H. HENSHAW, of Chicago, Ill.; HEWITT, a mail-carrier, of Grand Rapids, and BERT, a boot and shoe dealer, of the same city.
THE CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS AND KENT COUNTY, MICH., UP TO DATE (Illustrated), A.W. Bowen & Co., 1900, Pgs. 614-615 (Excerpt of the Biographical Sketch of ABRAM F. COOK)
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The funeral of MRS. A.F. COOK was held at the village church Tuesday June 30, Rev.J.G. Wilson preaching an excellent sermon, and burial was made in Oakdale [Oak Grove] cemetery in Paris township. Mrs. Cook was the mother of three sons, FRANK J. of Grand Rapids, FRED recently of Boyne City and BYRON who died after reaching manhood. Frank and Fred, with the husband and father, are left to mourn the loss of a faithful wife and mother.
Mrs. H. Gallord [Gaylord] Holt of Grand Rapids visited her sister Mrs. E.R. Johnson who is still quite ill, and attended the funeral of MRS. A.F. COOK.
THE LOWELL LEDGER, Lowell, Mich., Thurs., July 9, 1908, Pg. 9, Col. 4, Items 1-2 (Cascade.)
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ABRAM F. COOK assisted his father on the home place until twenty-three years old and then started in to make a separate set of improvements on the farm, and after his mother's death purchased the homestead, which he still owns and were he resides. At the age of twenty-three, also, Mr. Cook married MISS MARIA L. PATTERSON, a daughter of JACOB and ROSE ANN (CARLTON) PATTERSON, and a niece of MINER PATTERSON, whose life sketch will be found on another page of this work; Mrs. Cook was born on a farm where the Paris schoolhouse now stands; she and her husband were school-mates and reared almost together from childhood. To their happy union have been born three children, viz: FRANK J., who is abstracter in the county register's office, and resides in Grand Rapids. He had served as deputy register for two years, and for two years worked in the county treasurer's office. BYRON L., the second child, was for six years in the commission house of Mosley & Stevens, Grand Rapids, where he attained an admirable record, being held in greatest respect by all his associates. He died July 26, 1898, at the age of thirty-three years. He was a remarkably bright and industrious young man, whose friends were numbered by the score. FRED A., the third child, is the able assistant of his father on the home farm. Mr. and Mrs. Cook are members of the Church of Christ at Cascade, of which he is one of the official board, and in politics is a republican, yet he is not at all demonstrative or aggressive in his political manifestations.
Jacob Patterson, father of Mrs. Cook, died at the age of sixty-two years, and his wife at the age of seventy-eight. The latter was born in Washtenaw county, where she was married and was the mother of one child when they came to live in Kent county, where the last four years of her life were passed at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Cook. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Patterson were eight in number, all of whom are still living excepting FRANK, who died at the age of thirty-five years. The survivors are SARAH, of Fremont county, Iowa, and wife of NELSON HENRY; RILLA, married to EDWIN BAILEY, of Paris, Mich. JAMES of Oklahoma; MARIA (MRS. COOK); CLARA, wife of H. H. HENSHAW, of Chicago, Ill.; HEWITT, a mail-carrier, of Grand Rapids, and BERT, a boot and shoe dealer, of the same city.
THE CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS AND KENT COUNTY, MICH., UP TO DATE (Illustrated), A.W. Bowen & Co., 1900, Pgs. 614-615 (Excerpt of the Biographical Sketch of ABRAM F. COOK)
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The funeral of MRS. A.F. COOK was held at the village church Tuesday June 30, Rev.J.G. Wilson preaching an excellent sermon, and burial was made in Oakdale [Oak Grove] cemetery in Paris township. Mrs. Cook was the mother of three sons, FRANK J. of Grand Rapids, FRED recently of Boyne City and BYRON who died after reaching manhood. Frank and Fred, with the husband and father, are left to mourn the loss of a faithful wife and mother.
Mrs. H. Gallord [Gaylord] Holt of Grand Rapids visited her sister Mrs. E.R. Johnson who is still quite ill, and attended the funeral of MRS. A.F. COOK.
THE LOWELL LEDGER, Lowell, Mich., Thurs., July 9, 1908, Pg. 9, Col. 4, Items 1-2 (Cascade.)
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