Benjamin grew up on a farm in Union County, NC and became a farmer himself. Just before the Civil War, he married Martha Jeannette McCorkle and took up farming on her father's land in the Zion section of Lancaster County, S.C. He enlisted in the War with his brother, John Cook on March 23, 1863, two years after the birth of his first son and only 13 days before the birth of his second son. He was present or accounted for until reported captured at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, May 12, 1864. Private B.F. Cook....Company K, 12th Infantry Regiment. Benjamin was one of three brothers (and possibly four) killed in the Civil War.
Father to Martha H. Cook b.1859,
James Harper "Harp" Cook & Benjamin Franklin Cook Jr.
Brother to John G. Cook; William C. Cook; James Madison Cook; A.J. Cook; George W. Cook & Mary A. Cook.
Father to Martha H. Cook b.1859,
James Harper "Harp" Cook & Benjamin Franklin Cook Jr.
Brother to John G. Cook; William C. Cook; James Madison Cook; A.J. Cook; George W. Cook & Mary A. Cook.
Benjamin grew up on a farm in Union County, NC and became a farmer himself. Just before the Civil War, he married Martha Jeannette McCorkle and took up farming on her father's land in the Zion section of Lancaster County, S.C. He enlisted in the War with his brother, John Cook on March 23, 1863, two years after the birth of his first son and only 13 days before the birth of his second son. He was present or accounted for until reported captured at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, May 12, 1864. Private B.F. Cook....Company K, 12th Infantry Regiment. Benjamin was one of three brothers (and possibly four) killed in the Civil War.
Father to Martha H. Cook b.1859,
James Harper "Harp" Cook & Benjamin Franklin Cook Jr.
Brother to John G. Cook; William C. Cook; James Madison Cook; A.J. Cook; George W. Cook & Mary A. Cook.
Father to Martha H. Cook b.1859,
James Harper "Harp" Cook & Benjamin Franklin Cook Jr.
Brother to John G. Cook; William C. Cook; James Madison Cook; A.J. Cook; George W. Cook & Mary A. Cook.
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