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COOK, Henry Freeman

COOK, Henry Freeman

Male 1815 - 1881  (66 years)

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    Cook: Henry Freeman Cook
    Cook: Henry Freeman Cook

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    Cook: Henry Freeman Cook and Sophronia Strobridge
    Cook: Henry Freeman Cook and Sophronia Strobridge
    Cook: Henry Freeman Cook
    Cook: Henry Freeman Cook
    A well documented and complete history compiled by The Cook Family Association and provided by Ronald S. Cook

  • Name COOK, Henry Freeman 
    Born 12 Jan 1815  Homer, Cortland, New York Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 14 Apr 1881  Cedar Fort, Utah, Ut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Apr 1882  Cedar Fort Cemet, Cedar Fort, Utah, Ut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • PROPERTY
      Nauvoo : Block 8 Lot 4
    • See history on OurCookFamily.org
    • Cook, Henry Freeman (son of William and Lucy Chapman Bassett) born 12 January 1815, came to Utah 1852 with the Warren Snow Co. He married Sophronia Strowbridge 9 April 1837 daughter of George and Abigail Lull Strowbridge, who was born 14 of March 1813 and came to Utah with husband and their children John B.,James, Hanna, Mary Jane, Charles, William, and George. Harriet Ann and the twins Jenett and Marette were born in Utah. The family home was in Council Blufffs Iowa.
      Bishop of Cedar Valley Ward from 1861 to 1881- Died in 1881

      CEDAR VALLEY WARD, Lehi Stake, Utah Co, Utah consists of the Latter-Day Saints residing in the north end of Cedar Valley, which is a fine but poorly watered valley extending north and south for 22 miles; it is 7 miles wide. Cedar Valley comprises the west part of Utah County and is separated from the Utah Valley proper on the east by a low range of mountains, and from Rush Valley in Tooele County on the west by another low range of mountains. Cedar Fort and Fairfield are the only settlements in the valley and they are both small. As water is very scarce, dry farming has been tried quite successfully. Cedar Fort is situated in the north end of the valley, 40 miles by nearest road southwest of Salt Lake City and 15 miles southwest of Lehi. Most of the people in the north end of Cedar Valley reside in Cedar Fort.
      Cedar Valley was first settled by Latter-Day Saints in October, 1852, when Alfred Bell and others located a settlement in the north end of the valley, which was called Cedar Fort. In 1853 other settlers moved in and on April 3, 1853, the saints who had located at Cedar Fort were organized into a ward called Cedar Fort Ward, with Allen Weeks as Bishop. Because of Indian troubles, the settlement was temporarily broken up three times, but a stone fort, 133 feet square, with walls ten feet high and four feet thick, was built in 1855. At that time the Church membership of the little settlement was 115 souls. Through scarcity of water the settlers in Cedar Valley have had a hard struggle to live, but the settlement nevertheless has survived all difficulties. Bishop Weeks presided until 1876, when he was succeeded by Henry F. Cook, who in 1882 was succeeded by Eli Bennett, who in 1906 was suceeded by William Cook, who in 1911 was suceeded by James E Garn, who in 1917 was suceeded by Orson E. Hacking, who in 1922 was suceeded by Jacob L. Hales, who presided Dec. 31, 1930; on that date the ward had 179 members, including 35 children.

    Person ID I1235  Our Generations Ancestors
    Last Modified 15 Jun 2009 

    Father COOK, William,   b. 6 Sep 1780, , Ma Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Nov 1840, Comstock, Kalamazoo, Mi Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 60 years) 
    Mother CHAPMAN, Lucy,   b. 5 May 1787, Hancock, Berkshire, Ma Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Oct 1857, Cedar Fort, Utah, Ut Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years) 
    Married 19 Dec 1805  , Ma Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F617  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 STROBRIDGE, Sophronia,   b. 14 Mar 1813, Solon, Cortland, Ny Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Jul 1909, Cedar Fort, Utah, Ut Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 96 years) 
    Married 9 Apr 1837  , Ny Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. COOK, John,   b. 22 May 1838, Comstock, Kalamazoo, Mi Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Feb 1904, Cedar Fort, Utah, Ut Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years)
     2. COOK, James (Henry),   b. 14 Jan 1840, Comstock, Kalamaoo, Mi Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1903, Cardston, Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 62 years)
     3. COOK, Mary Jane,   b. 2 Jan 1843/1844, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Mi Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 May 1895, Dingle, Bear Lake, Id Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 51 years)
     4. COOK, Hannah,   b. 22 Jan 1845, Comstock, Kalamazoo, Mi Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Apr 1926, Cokeville, Lincoln, Wy Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years)
     5. COOK, Charles,   b. 21 Feb 1846, Nauvoo, Hancock, Il Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Sep 1846  (Age 0 years)
     6. COOK, William,   b. 19 Oct 1847, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Ia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Nov 1934, Cedar Fort, Utah, Ut Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 87 years)
     7. COOK, George,   b. 20 Mar 1850, Council Bluff, Pottawattanie, Ia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Nov 1916, Dingle, Bear Lake, Id Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years)
     8. COOK, Harriet Ann,   b. 20 May 1853, Big Cottonwood, S-Lk, Ut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Mar 1854  (Age 0 years)
     9. COOK, Jenette (Twin),   b. 17 Mar 1856, Cedar Fort, Utah, Ut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Oct 1947  (Age 91 years)
    +10. COOK, Marette (Twin),   b. 17 Mar 1856, Cedar Forte, Utah, Ut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 May 1931, Lago, Caribou, Id Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 75 years)  [Birth]
    Family ID F940  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 ROCKER, Julia Ann,   b. 19 May 1828, Lower Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Jan 1891, Cedar Fort, Utah, Ut Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 62 years) 
    Married 12 Mar 1857  Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Ut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F616  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart