The COOK Family of South Carolina

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First Generation

HENRY COOK (d. by 1800)

Parents: Unknown

Henry Cook probably died by 1800, when Susanna Cook headed a household in Abbeville. [Ref] He is said to have married Margaret Susanna Lightfoot. [Ref] She is said to have been a German immigrant, who came to South Carolina in 1774, at age 10. [Ref] Susanna was born in 1764 and died on 11 Apr 1847, age 83, at the home of Curtis G. Beeson. [Ref] Susanna married second Henry Clark of Abbeville District, SC in 1804. [Ref]

Henry was a German immigrant. [Ref]

Henry Cook headed a household in Orangeburg, South Carolina in 1790 consisting of one free white male over 16 [himself], two free white males under 16 [his two sons], five free white females [his wife and four daughters] and a slave. [Ref] He moved to Hard Labor Creek in the Abbeville District, SC. [Ref]

A Susannah Cook headed a household in Abbeville in 1800 consisting of herself and five children: two boys between ten and fifteen and a boy and girl, each under ten. [Ref]

The origins of Margaret Susanna Lightfoot are unknown; indeed, all that is really known is that Henry Cook of Abbeville had a wife named Susanna. Some of her descendants have made heroic attempts at linking our Margaret Susannah Lightfoot to the Lightfoot family of Virginia, but there appears to be no evidence whatsoever to support this and such a link seems unlikely, to say the least.

Inventory was taken on the estate of Henry Cook, late of Abbeville, deceased on 13 Oct 1801. It amounted to $5,559.00. The administratrix was Susanna Cook. The estate was sold on 9 Nov 1801 for $4,983.00 and buyers included Susanna Cook, Polly Clark and others. Susanna Cook, Frederick Knob and Philip Stiefel appear to have posted a bond of $5,000. [Ref]

Margaret Susanna Lightfoot signed her husband's estate papers with her mark. [Ref]

Children of Henry Cook and Margaret Susanna Lightfoot:

1. Philip Cook died in 1844 at the home of his son John in Mississippi. [Ref] He married first Mary Irwin about 1810. [Ref] He married second Susan Rankin. [Ref] He married third Peggy Rush. [Ref] Philip had a large family. [Ref]
2. John Cook moved to Mississippi and had no children. [Ref]
3. Elizabeth Cook was born in Aug 1793. She died on 8 Aug 1863 in Keener, Alabama. She married David Sibert.
4. Susanna Cook married Unknown Moschette. [Ref]
5. Mary Cook married Unknown Peebles or Peeples. [Ref]
6. Rachel Cook married Unknown Irwin or Erwin. [Ref has a question mark after Rachel's name.]

Children of Margaret Susanna Lightfoot and Henry Clark:

1. Martha Clark was born on 31 Mar 1805. [Ref] She died on 12 Aug 1863. [Ref] She married Curtis Grubb Beeson on 29 Jul 1822 in St. Clair co., AL. [Ref]

Second Generation

ELIZABETH COOK (1793 – 1863)

Parents: Henry Cook and Margaret Susannah Lightfoot

Elizabeth Cook was born in Aug 1793. [Ref says 1783, but this is crossed out and 1793 is written in.] She died on 8 Aug 1863 in Keener, Etowah, Alabama. [Ref says 11 Jul, but this is crossed out and 8 Aug is written in.] She is buried in the Duck Springs cemetery, Etowah, Alabama. [Ref] She married David Sibert on 29 Nov 1820. [Ref]

Her gravestone says: ELIZABETH SIBERT/WIFE OF DAVID SIBERT/DIED AUG. 8, 1863/
AGED 80 YEARS [Ref]

Elizabeth’s birth date is unclear; census ages vary and the date suggested by her tombstone is too late to be consistent with the ages of her children.

Photo of grave: April Lynn (Wood) James Holdridge

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