James Benjamin Cook

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Husband to Mary Ann Tucker and Father of many Children.

on Ansestry.com there is an U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914 about James B Cooke. and an 1860 Census that puts him in Fillmore, Millard, Utah Territory, United States.

About 1860 Mary married James Benjamin Cook. James had served in the United States Army from 1848 to 1858. He was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Apparently he was not a member of the Church. They had five or six children. Benjamin James was born April 8, 1861, and married Hannah Marie Borreson. Anna Rosetta was born April 6, 1862, and married Franklin Richard Hitchcock. Alexander was born about 1865 and died about 1866. Roselia (Rosilia or Rozelia or Adelia) was born July 2, 1866, and died October 6, 1881, and is buried in the Fillmore Cemetery beside her mother Mary Ann, in the Loren Kenney grave block. She died of Inflamation a little more than 7 months after her mother died, at age 15. A record states that Mary had a daughter named Fedelia born about 1867 and died about 1882. All the children were born in Deseret, Millard County, Utah, except her last son John Henry Cook, born October 9, 1869, in Fillmore, Utah. By 1870 Mary's husband James Benjamin Cook had left her, and had gone to live in Meadow Valley, Lincoln, Nevada, where he was in the 1870 Census, and listed as James Cook, Laborer, born Pennsylvania. Mary was also in the 1870 Census in Fillmore, Utah. In the census Mary was living in one house with her son James Bailey, and Mary Deseret Kenney living in the next house with the Cook children and her own baby listed as 1 year old Charles Loren Cook, but later when Mary Deseret married Peter Christian Borreson, this son became Charles Loren Borreson. The Cook children listed at this time were Benjamin 9, Anna R. 6, Roselia P. 3 and John age 1. When the census was taken Mary Ann was probably working to support her family, so that her daughter Mary Deseret had to give the information, and probably because she couldn't remember her mother's age, she gave an approximate age, which 40 sounds like, because it is neither Mary Ann's real age or her older age. Probably most descendants think that Adelia and Fedelia Cook were names for Roselia, while others think Adelia and Fedelia could have been twins or even triplets.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jun 24 2020, 20:05:56 UTC