Mae Lillie Beeker ^{1 2 3 4 5 6}

   Another name for Mae was Mae Beeker.⁶

   FamilySearch ID: L8BR-PYV.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1900 in Steele Township, Rowan, NC. ^{3 7} The 1900 census recorded Samuel Beeker, farmer, 71, born Jul 1829, living with wife Ellen J., 69, Sep 1831; grandson Freddie, farm laborer, 14, Sep 1885; grandson Samuel P., 9, Jan 1890; grandson John S. Gornelison, farm laborer, 20, May 1880; servant Nancy Beaver, cook, widowed, 45, May 1855; and sister-in-law Sarah Halman, widowed, 66, May 1834. Samuel and Ellen were married for 50 years and she had birthed 7 children, 3 alive in 1900. Everyone and their parents were born in North Carolina.

Next door is John Beeker, farmer, 32, Mar 1868, with wife Nannie, 31, Apr 1869; daughters Corrie, 8, Nov 1891; May L, 6, Nov 1893; Ola, 4, Nov 1895; and Hallie, 1, Mar 1899. Everyone and their parents were born in North Carolina.

2. Census in 1910 in Atwell Township, Rowan, NC. ⁸ The 1910 census recorded living on Mill Bridge Road: John Becker [indexed wrong due to poor handwriting], laborer, odd jobs, 43, with wife Nannie, 42; May Lillie, 16; Ola, 13; Halley, 11; Mamie, 8; Ethel, 5; and Mitchel, 2. Everyone and their parents were born in North Carolina. John and Nannie were married for 19 years and she had birthed 7 children, all alive in 1910.

3. Census in 1920 in Durham, Durham, NC. ⁹ The 1920 census recorded at 311 Rigsbee Avenue 3 Beeker sisters boarding in the home of Benjamin Styron, general collector, 62, and his wife Jennie A., 50: May L. Beeker, laborer in tobacco factory, 24, single; Mamie Beeker, laborer in tobacco factory, 18, single; and Ethel Beeker, 15, single.

4. Census in 1950 in Winston-Salem, Forsyth, NC. ¹⁰ The 1950 census recorded at 122 South Marshall Street: Raymond C. Cook, barber in own barber shop, 53, living with wife Mae L., beauty operator in own beauty shop, 56; Mae's sister Ethel Davis, clerk typist for veteran's administration, 45; Ethel's son William F. Davis, automobile salesman, 24; and Mae and Ethel's father, John H. Beeker, widowed, 82. Everyone was born in North Carolina.

5. Residence: 1515 Lynwood Ave., Winston-Salem, NC on 21 Mar 1982 in Winston-Salem, Forsyth, NC. ⁶

6. Obituary: Winston-Salem Journal: Deaths: COOK, Mae Lillie, 105, of Winston-Salem, the wife of the late Raymond C. Cook. On 2 Feb 1999 in Winston-Salem, Forsyth, NC. ¹¹

Mae married Roy William Cook on 5 Jun 1920 in Durham, Durham, NC.¹ (Roy William Cook was born on 24 Oct 1892 in Concord, Cabarrus, NC,¹² died on 3 Apr 1925 in Winston-Salem, Forsyth, NC ^{5 13} and was buried on 5 Apr 1925 in Winston-Salem: Salem Cemetery, Forsyth, NC ^{5 13}.)

Mae next married Raymond Caldwell Cook, son of George R. Cook and Mary Fink, on 5 Aug 1933 in , Forsyth, NC.² (Raymond Caldwell Cook was born on 6 Oct 1896 in Concord, Cabarrus, NC,⁶ died on 21 Mar 1982 in Winston-Salem, Forsyth, NC ⁶ and was buried on 23 Mar 1982 in Winston-Salem: Salem Cemetery, Forsyth, NC ⁶.)