Martha Matilda Cook ^{1 2}

   FamilySearch ID: KP3G-QVB.

  Birth Notes:

She was born "near Carlisle."

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1850 in , Clarke, VA. ⁴ The 1850 census recorded Stephen B. Cook, 53, living with wife Lydia, 45; Cyrus B., 27; James A., 19; William, 15; Ann E., 11; Lewis P., 9; Martha, 7; and Elizabeth, 4. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. They were living in the 12th District in Clarke county.

2. Census in 1860 in Carlisle, Cumberland, PA. ⁵ The 1860 census recorded Stephen B. Cook, 63, living with wife Lydia, 55; Ann, 22; Martha, 17; and Elizabeth, 15. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania.

3. Obituary: The Bourbon News on 5 Jul 1901 in Paris, Bourbon, KY, United States. ³ Mrs. James Hedges, of Cynthiana passed away at the Good Samaritan Hospital, Lexington, Wednesday afternoon after a lingering illness. She was the wife of James Hedges, who conducts the largest dry goods house in Cynthiana. She was fifty-seven years of age, and leaves her husband and daughter-in-law, Mrs. Mattie Morris.
Mrs. Hedges was well known in this city, where she bad often visited friends and relatives.

Martha married Thomas Norris.

Martha next married James Thompson Hedges. (James Thompson Hedges was born in 1845 in , Harrison, KY,² died in 1914 ² and was buried on 26 May 1877 in Cynthiana: Battle Grove Cemetery, Harrison, KY ².)