Born: 15 May 1784 Culpeper Co., VA

Died: 31 Jan 1830 McMinn Co., TN Conasauga Baptist Church Cemetery; McMinn Co, TN (

Parents

Father: Robert Cooke f: John Cooke    gf: Robert Cooke    gm: Sarah Fielding m: Elizabeth Burch

Mother: Susannah Watson

Siblings

Mary Cooke   +George Pirtle         Susanah Pirtle         Nancy Pirtle         Charity Pirtle         Sarah Pirtle         Charlotte Pirtle         George W. Pirtle         William G. Pirtle         Lucinda Pirtle         Robert Cooke Pirtle	James Watson Cooke   +Mary Riddle         Samuel Cooke         Felix M. Ellison Cooke         John Flemming Cooke         Robert Meriman Cooke         Benjamin Franklin Cooke         James Watson Cooke         Hezekiah Gardner Cooke         Randolph Cooke         Ellison Cooke	Sarah L. Cooke   +William Goodgion         Mary A. M. Goodgion         Nancy Susan Goodgion         James Watson Goodgion         Alexander William Goodgion
John Oliver Cooke   +Susannah Morgan         William Brantley Cooke         Elizabeth Cooke         Augustine M. Cooke         Melinda Cooke         Medianna A. Cooke         Wilford Watson Cooke         Robert Marshall Cooke         Patrick Henry Cooke         Felix G. Cooke	Hezekiah Gardner Cooke   +Mary Head         Robert Jasper Cooke         John Spaulding Cooke         William Wilson Cooke         Richard Watson Cooke         Nancy Cooke	Richard Fielding Cooke   +Margaret Cox         Attaline Layne Cooke         Minerva Payne Cooke         Watson McSwain Cooke         Louisa Cooke         Dorinda Cooke         Rebecca Zenira Cooke         Calvin Whitley Cooke         Boliver Houston Cooke         Harriett Newell Cooke
Margaret Cooke   +James Huddleston	Alexander Cooke   +Lettie Cornelius         Elizabeth Cooke         William Cooke         Ausborn Cooke         Mahalath Cooke         Austin Cooke         Marinda Cooke         Lucinda Cooke   +Mary S. Dean         Dorcus Cooke         Nancy Cooke         Robert Cooke         Stephen Cooke         Lettice Cooke	Elias Green Cooke   +Martha Bazel Prater         William Prater Cooke         Hulda Cooke         Parmelia Cooke         Susannah Cooke         Martha Matilda Cooke         Mary Caroline Cooke         Clarissa Cooke         Robert Washington Cooke         Elias Middleton Cooke         John L. Cooke         Joseph H. Cooke         Elizabeth Cooke   +Willa Ann Moore unknown
Elizabeth Cooke   +Moses Byers         Osborn Washington Byers         Elias Harrison Byers         Malinda Byers         Oliver Perry Byers         Andrew Nelson Byers         Alexander Watson Byers         Emily Byers         Leonidus Byers         Algernon Sidney "Sidney" Byers         Richard Fielding Byers         William Jasper Byers	Nancy Cooke   +Sebird Smith Rhea         Spartan Fielding Rhea         Mariah Rhea         Betsy Marinda Rhea         Susan Cook Rhea         Robert Perry Rhea         Ransom Huston Rhea         Amanda Miscilla Rhea         William Rhea         Marcus L. Rhea         Permilia Helen Rhea         Moses Clayton Rhea         Sebert M. Rhea         Louisa J. Rhea	Susannah Cooke

Family

Wife: Mary Cantrell f: Thomas Cantrell m: Elizabeth Norris    gf: Thomas Norris

Married: 1804 Greenville District, SC

Children

Robert Fielding Cooke   +Charlotte Kimbrough	Hezekiah Cantrell Cooke   +Mary Woods	Nancy Watson Cooke   +Daniel Thompson
Eliza Cooke   +Henry Cooper   +Duke Whitman Kimbrough	George Washington Cooke   +Sarah Jane Gilbreath	Clarissa Cooke   +Thomas Cooper
Elmira Cooke   +James Cooper	James Burch Cooke   +Penelope McGermott	Attaline Cooke   +James Carson
Sarah Miranda Cooke   +Caleb R. Hoyt	Susannah Cooke   +John D. Chattin	John Augustine Cooke

Photo Archive

Cooke Family Record (2 of 4)	Deed: Robert Cook, Heirs to Isham Cook et al	State Senator Richard Fielding Cooke
State Senator William Henry Cooke

General Sources

1. Charles Leonard Papers
   TSLA Mf #1421 Reel #2 - Robert Cook, Family bible of Richard F. Cooke
   He lived on the Saluda River in South Carolina
   They were buried in the Cooke Graveyard on Conasauga Creek in McMinn Co., TN
   He was one of the commissioners and the surveyor who established and laid out the town of Athens, TN, the county seat of McMinn Co.
   
2. The Cantrill - Cantrell Genealogy
   Page 98
   1093. iii. Mary, b Dec. 13, 1784, in South Carolina; m. William Henry
   Cooke, in 1804. He was b. May 15, 1784, in Culpepper county,
   Va., and was a son of Robert and Susannah Watson Cooke.
   Robert Cooke was in the Revolutionary War and served under
   Washington at Valley Forge; d. Nov. 12, 1841, at the age of
   eighty-nine years.
   
   William Henry cooke was deputy surveyor in Spartanbury
   county, S.C., in 1807. In 1820 he moved with his family to
   McMinn county, Tenn., where he purchased a large tract of
   land in the Hiwassee district, on the Conesuaga. One of his
   descendants writes:
     "It is over eighty years since William and Mary
   Cantrll Cooke came to their new home in Tennessee. The
   country was new and they reached the end of their long, tire-
   some journey just at nightfall. It was raining; there was no
   house to receive them and a temporary shelter was hastily
   erected. Beneath that, wrapped in quilts, with her babe in he
   arms, all through that dark, rainy night, sat Mary Cantrell
   Cooke weaping, so dreary and lonely seemed the prospect.
   Nevertheless she was a woman of strong mind and great capa-
   bilities. Her husband was an upright and enterprising citizen,
   but she was the poetent factor in the training of her children:
   one of their sons became a noted lawyer and judge; another a
   Baptist minister; another an excellent physician, and still
   another, one of the most influential citizens in the section in
   which he lived. She was founder and promoter of the Conesauga
   Baptist church. The hill where the family spent their first
   night in Tennessee was afterward given as a burial spot for his
   kindred by William H. Cooke: his wife was the first to be laid
   there, and one week later he was placed by her side. Now many
   of the descendants of the first, second and third generation are
   sleeping there."
   
3. James R. Blanks
   
   • Burial: Conasauga Baptist Church Cemetery; McMinn Co, TN (Cooke Cemetery)
     
   • Census 1: 1830, McMinn Co, TN; Page 190; 110120101-032100101
     
   • Census 2: 1840, McMinn Co, TN; Page 134; 00102001-00120001
     
   • Location: 1820, Moved to McMinn Co, TN
     
   • died October 09, 1848 in McMinn Co, TN