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Lemuel Cooke

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Lemuel Cooke Veteran

Birth
Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Death
25 Nov 1839 (aged 77)
Lewiston, Niagara County, New York, USA
Burial
Lewiston, Niagara County, New York, USA GPS-Latitude: 43.1704822, Longitude: -79.0407809
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Lemuel Cooke was the son of Col. Isaac and Martha (Cook) Cooke. He was the husband of Elizabeth "Betsey) (Bates) Cooke.

Bailey, Frederic William
Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800, 1896, Page 63
Wallingford
Lemuel Cooke & Betsey Bates
December 20, 1784

Lossing, Benson John
Lossing's War of 1812: Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812, 1869, Chapter XIX
Events on the Niagara Frontier
"The river at Lewiston, at the foot of the lower rapids, is always a sheet of violent eddies, the middle current running about four miles an hour. To prevent confusion and disaster, experienced boatmen were procured."
"In the early hour in the evening of October 1812, Mr. Cooke, a citizen of Lewiston, had assumed the direction of the boats from Fort Niagara to Lewiston and provided men to man them."

Connecticut, Hale Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934.
Lemuel Cook
Born abt. 1762
Died: Lewiston
Age: 77
Lemuel Cooke was the son of Col. Isaac and Martha (Cook) Cooke. He was the husband of Elizabeth "Betsey) (Bates) Cooke.

Bailey, Frederic William
Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800, 1896, Page 63
Wallingford
Lemuel Cooke & Betsey Bates
December 20, 1784

Lossing, Benson John
Lossing's War of 1812: Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812, 1869, Chapter XIX
Events on the Niagara Frontier
"The river at Lewiston, at the foot of the lower rapids, is always a sheet of violent eddies, the middle current running about four miles an hour. To prevent confusion and disaster, experienced boatmen were procured."
"In the early hour in the evening of October 1812, Mr. Cooke, a citizen of Lewiston, had assumed the direction of the boats from Fort Niagara to Lewiston and provided men to man them."

Connecticut, Hale Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934.
Lemuel Cook
Born abt. 1762
Died: Lewiston
Age: 77

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In Memory Of
Lemuel Cook
who died
Nov 24th, 1839
in the 79th year
of his age



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