Descendants of Thomas Cook, Sr.
Generation
No. 1
THOMAS COOK , SR..
He married (unknown).
Child of THOMAS COOK and
is:
Notes
for MARY JANE COOK:
Mary Jane Cook, daughter
of Thomas and Mary Lynch Cook, married James KP Futrell on 1-22-1873 in
Stewart County. James KP Futrell was born in the Laura Furnace vicinity
of Trigg County in 1848, to Winborn and Susan Downs Futrell, Susan
Downs being the daughter of Benjamin (1790-1853) and Elizabeth Downs (1796-1870).
Winborn and Susan Downs Futrell were married 9-21-1847 in Trigg County
and settled near the Cumberland River where he furnished firewood
for boats traveling the river, as well as his own boats.
The family lived in a log
house overlooking the river which was still standing when the TVA moved
everyone out of the area, but, restoring the log house, which in later
years burned. James KP Futrell and Mary Jane Cook Futrell lived a short
distance from his parents' home in their two rooms with side room, tin
roofed house and, it was here that as the result of a barn roofing accident
that James KP Futrell died in late March, 1884, nine weeks before the birth
of his son, William (Will) Futrell. LBL cemetery researcher lists
James KP Futrell in Hanes Cemetery, Trigg County, along with his
parents and grandprents, no markers. Mary Jane died in Murray, Ky. at the
home of her youngest son William (Will) Futrell in November, 1937. She
is buried in Barnett Cemetery near Pottertown, Ky, double marker
also bearing the name of her second husband, Nathan H Rushing (1845-1899).
(Source: The Cook Family History,by Geneva Gross)
Children of MARY COOK and NATHAN RUSHING are: