Floyd Cooke, Civil War Veteran (USA)

VETERAN: American Civil War Peytona Home Guard for the Union Army

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Floyd Cook, son of William and Catherine (Stewart) Cooke, was born 9 January 1820, in what is now Wyoming Co., WV. His grandfathers, John Cooke and Ralph Stewart, were both Revolutionary War soldiers, and both were among the first settlers of Wyoming Co..

Floyd Cook married 1) about 1838 Mary Walker, born 1820 in North Carolina, a daughter of William and Nancy (Browning) Walker. After their marriage Floyd and Mary lived on the family land in what is now Oceana where their first four children were born. They acquired the land on the mountain and moved there before the formation of Boone Co. in 1847.

Following Mary's death in 1861, Floyd was married a second time on 5 January 1864 in Kanawha Co. to Eliza Coon, born 1822 in Mercer Co.. Eliza had married 1) George, son of Adam and Hannah (Meadows) Coon.

Through the fourteen children, born over a thirty year period, Floyd Cook left well over a hundred grandchildren in Boone Co.. There was not perhaps another settler who left as many descendants.

• The third and fourth generations after John Cooke dropped the English e from the name.

He settled on Cook Mountain in the head of Pond Fork, at an early date . He m. lst Mary, daughter of William & Nancy (Browning) Walker; 2nd Eliza, widow of George Coon. Several of his sons served in the Union Army during the Civil War.

From the Boone Co., WV History, 1990 Boone Co. Genealogical Society, Inc.

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On the morning of the 17th, Capt. Pate's company of Mounted Rangers as sailed the entrenched camp of Unionist, over fifty strong, at a place called Pond Fork, on Little Coal River, in Boone Co., Va. The Unionist s made no resistance, with the exception of firing one gun, and took t o their heels for safety. The Rangers captured seventeen of the number - three of whom were subsequently released, and the remaining fourteen are now in Richmond. These fellows are said to be the party who burned the Boone Court-house, and have been committing various depredations in the Co..

There is evidence that some of the entrenched men were members of the Peytona Home Guards, and were at Boone Court House during the fighting , but there is no evidence that any of them actually applied the torch es to the building. In fact, one pensioner mentioned the Home Guards h ad removed their records from the courthouse before it was destroyed.

After the skirmish was over at the entrenchment on Pond Fork, Captain Pate 's company of Mounted Rangers caught and arrested some of the men and accused them of treason against the Confederate States. Some were arrested the next day when they regrouped at Amos Workman's. In all there were 17 arrested, but only 14 of them were taken to Richmond.

Among those arrested were; William Workman; Floyd and George Cook; Floyd, Simeon, Jackson, and Irvin Jarrell, and Harrison Wall.

Three of the Jarrells, Simeon, Jackson and Irvin died in Libby Prison during their confinement. Floyd and George Cook were held in the Richmond prison for 18 months b efore being released in February 1863. They returned home to Boone Co . and found their home destroyed. Mary (Walker) Cook, Floyd 's wife (G eorge's mother), died September 21, 1861, her death no doubt caused by her husband's arrest and the destruction of their home.

While confined in the Richmond prison, they were examined by the commissioner that represented the area in the Virginia Legislature. He filed the following report:

The neighborhood is an unsound one. A company was formed there that placed obstructions in the road and fortified themselves; attempted to take possession of mountain passes on the head of Pond Fork of Little Coal River, the most direct route to East Tennessee; and threatened to burn the town of Oceana. I think the men ought not be discharged, but if on further inquiry the evidence of Pack and others can be obtained they should be brought to trial in the Confederate States Court at Wythe , or in the Co. of Wyoming, Virginia.

Submitted by: Janet Barker Hager

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Floyd Cooke
BIRTH
9 Jan 1820
Giles County, Virginia, USA
DEATH
20 Aug 1898 (aged 78)
Bald Knob, Boone County, West Virginia, USA
BURIAL
Cook Cemetery
Boone County, West Virginia

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Son of WILLIAM DOBY COOKE and CATHERINE STEWART

Married 1: MARY CATHERINE WALKER (d/o William H. Walker and Nancy Browning)

Married 2: ELIZA STOVER (d/o Obediah Stover and Mary 'Massea' Stanley).

Children of Floyd & Mary Catherine:
1. Nancy; 2. William Chapman; 3. George W; 4.Paris Pemberton; 5. James Madison; 6. Elliott H.; 7. Clark (Twin) 8. Lewis (Twin); 9. Elizabeth; 10. Ward; 11. Catherine; 12.Alonzo.

Children of Floyd & Eliza Stover:
1. Launa T.; 2. Malissa; 3. Sherman.

∼VETERAN: American Civil War
Peytona Home Guard for the Union Army

Son of
William Doby Cooke, Sr & Catherine Stewart

Husband of

1. 1 Mary Catherine Walker m. 1838
2. 2 Eliza Stover m. 1864

Father of
1. Nancy Cook b. 1839
2. William Chapman Cook b. 1840
3. George W. Cook b. 1843
4. Nancy Cook b. 1844
5. Pemberton Cook b. 1845
6. James Madison Cook b. 1846
7. Elliott H. Cook b. 1849
8. Lewis (Twin) Cook b. 1851
9. Clark (Twin) Cook b. 1851
10 Elizabeth Cook b. 1853
11 Ward Cook b. 1854
12 Catherine (Katy) Cook b. 1858
13 George Cook b. 1861
14 Alonzo Cook
15 Laura Towtee Cook b. 1865
16 Malissa Cook b. 1868
17 Sherman Cook b. 1870
18 Burton Cook

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