Stephen Cook Sr.
(Abt 1767-)
Mary Ayers
(Abt 1768-)
John Beecher Sr.
(1760-1819)
Mary Ann Albrecht
(1762-1834)
Stephen Beecher Cook
(1797-1874)
Lydia Beecher
(1805-1885)
Martha Matilda "Mattie" Cook
(1843-1901)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Thomas Norris Jr.

2. James Thompson Hedges

Martha Matilda "Mattie" Cook 2 3

  • Born: 24 Feb 1843, Carlisle, Cumberland, PA 2 3
  • Marriage (1): Thomas Norris Jr. on 7 Jul 1863 in Lexington, Fayette, KY 1
  • Marriage (2): James Thompson Hedges
  • Died: 3 Jul 1901, Lexington, Fayette, KY at age 58 2 3 4
  • Buried: 4 Jul 1901, Cynthiana: Battle Grove Cemetery, Harrison, KY 2 3

   FamilySearch ID: KP3G-QVB.

  Birth Notes:

She was born "near Carlisle."

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Moved: 1847, , Clarke, VA. 5

2. Census in 1850 in , Clarke, VA. 6 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.

3. Census in 1860 in Carlisle, Cumberland, PA. 7 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.

4. Census in 1870 in Cynthiana, Harrison, KY. 8 The 1870 census recorded Jacob Wolford, liquor dealer, 27, living with wife Josephine, 24; and daughter Mary D., 1. The parents were born in Pennsylvania and Mary in Kentucky.
Also in their home is Josephine's sister, Martha (Cook) Norris, 27, born in Pennsylvania, with her husband Thos. Norris, painter, 32, and their son Frank, 6, both born in Kentucky.
Two others: domestic servant, John Berry, 8, born in Kentucky.
Thos. Norris, painter, 32.

5. Obituary: The Bourbon News on 5 Jul 1901 in Paris, Bourbon, KY, United States. 4 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 Jr., son of Thomas Norris Sr. and Margaret "Maggie" Berry, on 7 Jul 1863 in Lexington, Fayette, KY.1 (Thomas Norris Jr. was born in 1837 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, died on 31 Aug 1895 in Lexington, Fayette, KY 9 and was buried on 1 Sep 1895 in Lexington: Lexington Cemetery, Fayette, KY 9.)


Martha next married James Thompson Hedges. (James Thompson Hedges was born on 24 Jun 1845 in , Harrison, KY,3 died on 3 Feb 1914 in Lexington, Fayette, KY 3 and was buried on 6 Feb 1914 in Cynthiana: Battle Grove Cemetery, Harrison, KY 3.)

Sources

1 FamilySearch.org, Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q28D-8LJC.

2 McAdams, Mrs. Harry Kennett: compiler and publisher. Sections of Beecher Genealogy compiled with aid of direct descendent Dr. A.C. Beecher in Philadelphia, Kentucky Pioneer and Court Records: Abstracts of Early Wills, Deeds and Marriages from Court Houses and records of Old Bibles, Churches, Grave Yards, and Cemeteries. Copied by American War Mothers. (Keystone Printery, Lexington, KY. 1929.), Page 314.

3 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137722122.

4 "The Bourbon News (Paris, KY)," 5 Jul 1901, page 3. Obituary of Mrs. James Hedges.

5 Perrin, William Henry, editor, History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky (O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.), Page 619, biography of James A. Cook b. 1830 York Co. PA.

6 1850 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M88Y-26Q Stephen B Cook, Clarke county, Clarke, Virginia, United States; citing family 486, NARA microfilm publication M432.

7 1860 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MXPC-HQ1 Stephen B Cook, Carlisle West Ward, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States; citing "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population," Fold3.com; p. 15, household ID 93.

8 1870 United States Census, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXW4-MCS.

9 Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, KY), 31 Aug 1895, page 4.


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