It’s Family Time~The Samuel Calvin Cook Family

Samuel Calvin Cook, born 6 Nov 1837 in Wilcox County was the son of Daniel Cook, Jr.  and Martha Warren Norwood.

Samuel received his education in private school in Wilcox County and entered Howard College in 1856. He received his bachelor of arts degree in 1859. Then he began his study of law which was interrupted by the Civil War.

On 11 Mar 1861, he married Mary Harrell Gullette in Mobile, Alabama. Mary Harrell Gullette, was the daughter of George Samuel and Elizabeth Cornell (McPherson) Gullette, of Rock West, Alabama. Her parents were early settlers of the State and very notable.

Samuel served throughout the war, survived and returned to Wilcox County taking up his study of law and becoming a prominent lawyer in the State.  

Samuel Calvin Cook and Mary Harrell Gullett had the following children:  

i. Daniel Gullett Cook was born on 24 Jul 1868 in Wilcox County, Alabama; died in 1944 at the age of 76.
ii. Jesse McPherson Cook was born on 29 Jul 1870 in Wilcox County, Alabama.
iii. Sallie Gullett Cook was born on 27 Mar 1872 in Wilcox County, Alabama.
iv. Georgia Frank Cook was born on 31 Mar 1874 in Wilcox County, Alabama.
v. Mary Norwood Cook was born on 26 Nov 1875 in Wilcox County, Alabama.
vi. Willie M. Cook was born on 11 Mar 1877 in Wilcox County, Alabama.
vii. Bessie Fee Cook was born on 25 Jun 1879 in Wilcox County, Alabama.
viii. Maggie Austill Cook was born in Dec 1880 in Wilcox County, Alabama; died on 25 Sep 1916 at the age of 35 in Baldwin County, Alabama.
ix. Samuel Calvin Cook Jr., born 27 Nov 1882, Wilcox County, Alabama; married Mabel Cooper, 7 May 1912, Elmore County, Alabama; died 26 Sep 1953, Wetumpka, Elmore, Alabama.
x. Jerry Gullett "Jesse" Cook was born on 11 Jul 1884 in Wilcox County, Alabama.
xi. Robert Eades Cook was born on 23 Feb 1887 in Wilcox County, Alabama.
xii. Ruth Cook was born on Apr 1887 in Wilcox County, Alabama.
xiii. Carrie C. Cook was born on Jan 1888 in Wilcox County, Alabama.
xiv. Joe Norwood Cook was born on 21 Jul 1892 in Wilcox County, Alabama.


Samuel Calvin Cook died 8 June 1904 at the age of 66. Mary Harrell Gullett Cook died 15 February 1925. Both are buried in the Cook Cemetery, Wilcox County, Alabama.

Samuel Calvin Cook is my 2nd Cousin 5 times removed.







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[1] Hon. Joel Campbell DuBose, Notable Men of Alabama:: Personal and Genealogical, Volume 2 (Atlanta, Georgia: Southern Historical Association, 1904), pages 405-407.
[2] 1880 U. S. Census, Wilcox County, Alabama, population schedule, Canton, Wilcox, Alabama, enumeration district (ED) 196, Page: 475A(stamped); Line 34, Dwelling 114; Family 114, Household of Sam COOK; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com : viewed 19 December 2018); citing National Archives Microfilm T9_0035.
[3] 1900 U. S. Census, Wilcox County, Alabama, population schedule, Blacks Bluff, Wilcox, Alabama, enumeration district (ED) 0134, Page: 1/303(stamped); Line 67, Dwelling 317, Family 319, Household of Samuel C. COOK; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com : viewed 19 December 2019); citing National Archives Microfilm T623.
[4] Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 19 December 2019); Memorial page for Samuel Calvin Cook; (6 November 1837–8 June 1904); Find a Grave memorial # 97815864, Citing Cook Cemetery; Wilcox County, Alabama, USA.
[5] Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 19 December 2019); Memorial page for Mary Harrel Gullett Cook; (31 Jul 1846-15 frb 1925); Find a Grave memorial # 97815911, Citing Cook Cemetery; Wilcox County, Alabama, USA.