Jarratt Walthall Cook

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In paperwork from a Chancery suit between Elizabeth Cook (Adm. of J. W. Cook, Sr.'s estate) and 2 sons-in-law, John Faulkner (m. Sarah H. Cook) & Elijah Wisdom (m. Mary Jackson Cook), a document dated 4/1842, I uncovered a previously unknown child of Jarrett Cook and his wife, Elizabeth Carter Cook, defendant in the chancery case.

Transcribed from the document dated 4/30/1842: The defendants, Elizabeth Cook &c lay protestation, not confessing or acknowledging the complainant's bill to be true in such sort, manner and form as the same matters are therein set forth, do demur thereto, and for cause of demurrer shew, that lay(?) complainant's own/are(?) shewing in their said bill, the said Jarret W. Cook is dead, and hath left children and heirs, some of whom it is alleged in said bill, have received advancement of property and money, yet have they not made all the heirs of s'd Jarret defendants and prayed process against them; but have omitted to make Henry Cook a defendant, who intermarried with ELIZABETH COOK, a daughter of said Jarret W. Cook, which Elizabeth has since died, leaving an infant child, likewise since dead; wherefore, and for many other errors and defects in the said bill, the said defendants do demure, and do humbly pray the judgment of this Honorable Court whether they shall be compell!
ed to make any other further answer thereto, and do also pray to be hence dismissed with their costs, &c. (Signed) A. Buckner & W. McCorkle, atts

State of Kentucky, Green County, Sct.; This day personally appeared before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for Green County, Elizabeth Cook, who being duly sworn deposed that the statements made in the within plea are true, so far as made of her own knowledge, and those made from the information of others, she believe to be true. Given under my hand this 30th day of April, 1842. (Signed) Isaac Gibbons, J.P.G.C (end of document)

Up till now I had no knowledge of this daughter. Now my question is: who is the HENRY COOK ELIZABETH COOK (dec'd d/o Jarrett) married? When/where did they marry? When/where did she & her child die? Jarrett Walthall Cook & his wife Elizabeth Carter Cook had a son named Henry D. F. Cook who married Charity Mouser, so I know he's not the husband of his sister, Elizabeth. Is the Henry Cook who married Elizabeth Cook a cousin? Is he related to the Henry Cook family who settled in the Blue Springs area?

Jarret & Elizabeth moved with [most] of their adult children from Halifax Co., VA in the early 1800s to Green Co., KY. Jarrett died as the result of an accident when a limb fell on him in prior to 3/1839. His coffin bill (for $6.00, "the p[r]ise of coffin", paid by E. Cook, Adm. of estate) was one of the receipts in the chancery suit packet that I have copies of and the coffin will is dated 9/21/1839, signed by A. Lile.

If anyone has marriage records for Barren and/or Adair counties (which are/were immediately adjacent to the Green Co. area where Jarrett's family lived), please look for a marriage (prior to 1842, probably about the 1820s) between an Elizabeth Cook & a Henry Cook for me. I'm more inclined to think this Elizabeth & Henry married in Halifax Co., VA, but would like to rule out the possibility of a KY marriage, first.

Any/all assistance with this "little bundle of joy" is greatly appreciated!

Be well & God bless,
Kate Beaugrand Cook
Minnesota
kbcook@cfaith.com
or
k.b.cook@worldnet.att.net

Jarratt married Elizabeth Carter 19 Jan 1800, Halifax County, Virginia. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard 'Gunsmith' dna Carter and Frances Walters) was born Abt 1778, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia; died 12 Sep 1857, Green County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet]

1. John B. Cook was born Est 1801, Pittsylvania County, Virginia; died Yes, date unknown, Kentucky.

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From Lunenburg County, Virginia Deed Book 13, 1777-1784, abstracted by June Banks Evans, Bryn Ffyliaid Publications, New Orleans, LA, 1991, pages 79-80:
Page 406, 24 Nov. 1781. HENRY BLAGRAVE [V] and wife ELIZABETH to Henry Cook, all of Lunenburg Co., exchange of said Cook?s part of 4 negroes in estate of HENRY BLAGRAVE [IV] decd., for 400 acres in Lunenburg Co. on west side of Meherring, adjoining Wm. Glen, Sylvanus Walker, Edwd. Jordan?s former lines on path from Juniper Creek to where said Cook lives, new line eastward to branch. Signed: HENRY BLAGRAVE, ELIZABETH BLAGRAVE. Witnesses: Nath. Dacus, Bryan Lester jr., William Glenn. Recorded: 13 Dec. 1781. ELIZABETH, wife of BLAGRAVE, relinquished dower right.
From Lunenburg County, Virginia Deed Book 13, 1777-1784, abstracted by June Banks Evans, Bryn Ffyliaid Publications, New Orleans, LA, 1991, page 83:

Page 428, 24 Nov. 1781. HENRY BLAGRAVE [V] to Henry Cook, Francine Cook, John Cook jr., Dosha Cook, Edmund Cook, and Mary Cook, all of Lunenburg Co., exchange of their part of BLAGRAVES's deceased father's estate for 6 Negroes: James, Mary, Lewis, Julius, Jeffry, and Silvia. Recorded: 11 July 1782.

Name:
This John Cook, probably brother to Harmon

John married Elizabeth Walthall 13 Mar 1777, Lunenburg Co., Virginia. Elizabeth was born Aft 1736, Chesterfield Co., Va; died 1828, Halifax Co., Virginia. [Group Sheet]

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Jarrett Walthall Cook is out of Unity Cook's line; his mother Elizabeth Walthall b. ABt 1737 in Chesterfield Co., VA d 1828 in Halifax Co., VA m March 13 1777 in Lunenburg Co., VA is the second wife of John Cook, the father of Unity who married Robert Carter. John Cook married first Mary Blagrave about 1759 in Virginia.
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Jarrett Walthall Cook is out of Unity Cook's line; his mother Elizabeth Walthall b. ABt 1737 in Chesterfield Co., VA d 1828 in Halifax Co., VA m March 13 1777 in Lunenburg Co., VA is the second wife of John Cook, the father of Unity who married Robert Carter. John Cook married first Mary Blagrave about 1759 in Virginia.
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Harmon married Susannah Ramsey 4 Feb 1786, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia. Susannah (daughter of Thomas Ramsey, Sr. and Frances, Mrs. Thomas Ramsey) was born Abt 1764, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia Colony; died Bef 1805, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. [Group Sheet]

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Married:
Married by Rev. David Bass

Harmon married Mary Agness Ann Turk. Mary was born 1732, Pittsylvania County, Virginia; died Yes, date unknown, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. [Group Sheet]

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Rudolph Rorer and Elizabeth Rorer, twins, were born in 1797 on Sunday, 8th day of October, under
the planet LUNA. He apparently owned slaves. In the Pittsylvania County, VA death records there is a record of a slave named Eliza Rorer, owned by Rudolph, who died of cancer at age 39 in June 1861. Rorer's Harpen Creek Mill Rudolph Rorer received title to this forty-one acres as a gift. The Rorers were millers and Abraham Sr. and Abraham Jr. both owned sawmills in the county. The elder was a son-in-law of Harmon Cook, who owned at least two mills. Cook built one of these on Tomahawk Creek, and the other he bought from George Jefferson on Turkey Cock Creek.

Thomas married Frances, Mrs. Thomas Ramsey. Frances, was born 6 Jun 1740, Pittsylvania County, Virginia; died 6 Apr 1806, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. [Group Sheet]

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Married:
Other Children:
George M. Ramsey, Abt 1754-1851
Charity Ramsey, Abt 1762-2 Jul 1826
Isaac/Isiah Ramsey Abt 1765
John Ramsey Abt 1772
Noten Ramsey Abt 1780-1852
Lavinia Ramsey Abt 1780-Bef 1837
Anna Ramsey Abt 1782-Bef 1837
Sarah Ramsey 'Sallie' Abt 1782-Aft 1860
William Newman, 1783-1843
Elizabeth 'Betsy' Abt 1787