Robert and Susannah Cooke Monument

Robert and Susannah Cooke Monument

Robert  Cooke Susannah  Watson
Location:
Cooke Graveyard, White Co., TN
When:
April 24, 2001

Description:

  Robert Cooke Esqr.
Born March the 28th
the year 1752
      & 
  departed this life
  November 12th 1841
Age 89 years 7 months
A revolutionary soldier
with Washington at
Valley Forge in A.D. 1777
  A Faithful public officer
  A social companion
  An affectionate husband
  A kind neighbor
  A tender parent
  An honest man
In life by all respected
In death by all lamented
Near ninety years upon this
earth.
This good man has trod
in peace he drew his latest
breath
And yeilds his soul to God

Susannah Cooke
departed this life in
May the 12th A.D. 1823
Age 63 years & 24 days
  A loving wife
  A tender mother
  A pattern of piety
  A friend to the poor
Her ways were ways of
pleasantness
And all her paths were peace

(above inscriptions taken from
original head and footstones)
  Erected 1952 by descendants
   Estes Kefauver
   Nancy Kefauver Tooshee
   Bailey Bockman
   Myrtle Bockman Eastland

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Collection: Tennessee Cemeteries - Cooke Cemetery

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