*ABRAHAM/ABRAM COOK/COOKE
The Will of Abraham Cook.
Wilkes Marriage Bonds.
Cooks of Early Rowan and Surry, NC County
http://home.nc.rr.com/rwbaird/cook/earlyrowanandsurry.htm
New Garden Quakers
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/a/l/Elke-A-Hall/GENE0001-0019.html
*LORENZO DOW SANDERS
Indian Fighter, fought in the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Prison guard at the military disciplinary barracks in Fort Leavenworth.
*JAMES SANDERS & PHOEBE RECTOR
Iowa Farmer. Justice of the Peace.
*WILLIAM KERR "WK" SANDERS
The History of Billtown - Bryan - Briant- Bryant, Indiana.
Civil War Veteran. County Assessor.
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ABRAHAM COOKS Will
ABRAHAM COOK died in Wilkes County in 1801.
His Will is recorded as follows:
"November Term 1801 -
..In the name of God, Amen,
I ABRAHAM COOK of Wilkes County in the State of North Carolina being weak of body but
of sound sense and memory do make this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following
that is to say first I lend unto my wife ELIZABETH COOK all my estate during her widowhood and after
the death or marriage of my said Wife my will is that my whole Estate be equally divided between
Larkin COOK, Isaac COOK. Richard COOK, Aaron COOK, and Wiot COOK and AMEY COOK
...lastly I nominate and appoint Randal MABERY Executor of this my last Will and Testament hereby
revoking all other wills by me heretofore made and do make and constitute this as last Will and Testament
in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 26th day of July 1800...
Signed: ABRAHAM COOK (SEAL)...
Teste: Joseph BROWN, Lenard SALE...
November Term 1801
Duly proven in open court by the oaths of Joseph BROWN and Lenard SALE..
Teste: Wm. B. LENOIR, C.C." (Wilkes Will book 2, page 57).
WILKES MARRIAGE BONDS (compiled by LDS) 127
ABRAHAM COOK married 17 July 1781 Elizabeth CASS,
Randall MABRY, bondsman (page 55);
AMEY COOK married ll August 1802 ABEDNEGO SANDERS,
Richard COOK, bondsman (page 217),
Aaron COOK married 11 March 1807 Patsy DENNEY,
Richard COOK. bondsman (page 55);
Richard COOK married 8 November 1806 Rhoda GILREATH,
James MARTIN, bondsman (page 13, Second Series; typescripts)
17 Jul 1781
(Wilkes NC MB)
ABRAHAM COOK m ELIZABETH CASS, Randall MABRY, bondsman
(Wilkes Marriage Bonds, Second Series, LDS)
26 Jul 1801 - Nov 1801 (Wilkes WB2:57)
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Father: William Cook
Marriage 1 Elizabeth Cass
b: 1760 ·
Married: 17 JUL 1781 in Wilkes, North Carolina
Children:
1. Larkin Cook b:
2. Isaac Cook b:
3. Richard Cook b: in Wilkes Co., North Carolina
4. Wyatt Cook b:
5. Aaron Cook b:
6. Amy Cook b: ABT 1789 in Wilkes Co or Guilford County, North Carolina.
7. Nancy Cook? Note: If there was a Nancy she was never mentioned in Abraham's will? M. Tuli
James and Phoebe (Rector) Sanders
HISTORY AND NOTES FOR JAMES SANDERS & PHOEBE RECTOR
Source: Larry King, Rector Records, Library of Congress, Biographical History of Page County, Iowa, (Chicago: Lewis & Dunbar, Publishers, 1890), 1922 History of Jay County, Indiana, by Dr. Jay, History of the Town of Hawleyville and Nebraska Township, Page County, Iowa, Before 1973, Dorothy Edwards, 10630 Ventris Ave., Garfield, AR 72732 on 25 March 1998.
24 PHOEBE9 RECTOR (DANIEL8, DANIEL7, ANNA CATHERINE6 FISCHBACK, AGNES5 HAEGER, JOHANN HENRICH4, HENRICH3, JOHANN2, GERHARDT1 HUEGER)
was born September 23, 1820 in Clark County, Ohio 98.
She died June 9, 1897 in Page County, Iowa 98.
She married JAMES3 SANDERS, on January 23, 1840 in New Burlington, Delaware County, Indiana 99,100,
son of ABEDNEGO2 SANDERS and AMY COOK.
JAMES3 SANDERS
was born August 8,1818 in Rockcastle County, Kentucky 101,102,103,
He died April 23, 1905 in Page County, Iowa104,105.
Notes for PHOEBE9 RECTOR:
Source: Larry King, Rector Records, 1986. p14, 5-36.
Library of Congress No. CS71.R3 1986.
This family ["Phoebe" Rector & James Sanders] lived in Delaware County, IN, Miami Co., OH, Jay Co., IN, and finally
Page Co., IA. See also children 6-60, 6-61, 6-62, 6-491."
Religion: Methodist.
1870 US Federal Census Record: History of the Town of Hawleyville and Nebraska Township, Page County, Iowa,
(Before 1973), 23, "Sanders, James, 52, Farmer; Phoebe, 50, wife; Mary, 20, dau.; John, 17, son,
Farm-Hand; Alvin, 12, son; Jerry, 9, son; Clare, 8, son." 1880
US Federal Census Records: History of the Town of Hawleyville and Nebraska Township, Page County, Iowa, (Before 1973), 71,
"Sanders, James, 61, Farmer; Phoebe, 59, wife; Dennis, 22, son; Jerry, 20, son; Crow, Hattie, 18, Grand-daughter."
Note that Alvin in 1870 census is identified as Dennis in the 1880 census. 1890
Source: Biographical History of Page County, Iowa, (Chicago: Lewis & Dunbar, Publishers, 1890),
745-746: JAMES3 SAUNDERS [sic, "Sanders"], one of the representative farmers of Nebraska Township,
was born in Rockcastle County, Kentucky, August 8, 1818, and is the
son of Abednego and Amy (Cook) Saunders, natives of North Carolina.
There were thirteen children in the family, named as follows: Aaron, Wyatt, John M., deceased; Abednego,
deceased; Jane, deceased; James, Matilda, Caroline, Mary, Orinda, William, Elizabeth and Margaret.
When James was nine years old his parents removed to Wayne County, Indiana, where they rented a farm for one year,
and then removed to Delaware County, Indiana, locating on a farm. There the father died, May 7, 1835.
James remained at home, assisting with the farm work until he was [p746] twenty-two years of age.
He was married January 23, 1840, to Miss Phoebe Rector, a daughter of Daniel and Nancy (Garver) Rector.
She was born September 22, 1820, in Clarke County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Saunders are the parents of thirteen children:
Sarah Jane died when two years old, James S. died when three years old; Aaron died in the army at the
age of nineteen years; William, Nancy, wife of J. W. Cubbison; Daniel, Elizabeth, wife of John W. Wheat;
Emmaline Mary, wife of Charles Cole, Eliza Jane, wife of Abel Crow; (J. W. -John Wesley),
Dennis, (J. M.- Jeremia Marion), and Clara M., wife of Milton Cooper.
After his marriage, Mr. Saunders remained for a time in Delaware County, and then went to Ohio,
locating on a rented farm in Miami County; there he resided for seven years, when he returned to Delaware County,
Indiana, and purchased eighty acres of wild land, which he improved and cultivated for six years.
He disposed of this and bought a tract of eighty acres in the same county; for seven years he made this his home,
and then sold out and moved to Jay County, Indiana; he bought eighty acres and soon added another eighty acres,
making this his home for eight years. In 1869 he disposed of all his real estate and immigrated to Iowa.
It was in October of this year that his mother died, having made her home with his family for a number of years.
Upon reaching Iowa he located in Hawleyville, Page County, where he remained a short time before renting a
farm for the summer season; in the fall he purchased his present farm of eighty acres, which was slightly improved.
He has made all the improvements necessary to a well ordered farm, has a comfortable house, an orchard of an acre
and a half, bearing fruit, and ten acres timber. Politically he is identified with the Republican party; he is the present
Justice of the Peace, filling the office to the general satisfaction of the public. Mr. and Mrs. Saunders are members
of the township Methodist Episcopal Church, in which they take a deep interest, and to which they contribute very
liberally of their means."
Death: 1922 History of Jay County, Indiana, by Dr. Jay, p126:
"On September 12, 1868, John M. Wheat was united in marriage to Elizabeth Sanders, who was born in the neighboring county of Delaware, but was reared in Jay county, a daughter of James and Phoebe Sanders, the former of whom was the owner of an eighty acre farm in Wayne township. James Sanders and his wife later moved to Page county, Iowa, where their last days were spent."
Burial: History of the Town of Hawleyville and Nebraska Township, Page County, Iowa, Before 1973, 95,
"SANDERS, James. 8 August 1818 - 23 April 1905. Row 12 East Section.
SANDERS, Phoebe. 23 September 1820 - 9 June 1897. Row 12 East Section."
Photograph supplied by Dorothy Edwards, 10630 Ventris Ave., Garfield, AR 72732 on 25 March 1998
shows that the gravestones read "SANDERS James Sanders Aug. 8, 1818 Apr. 23, 1905
Pheobe [sic] Sanders Sept 23, 1820 June 9, 1897," and that to the left of the stone is a small marker that reads "Mother."
More About PHOEBE RECTOR:
Burial: Unknown, Hawleyville Cemetery, Hawleyville, Page County, Iowa106
Notes for JAMES SANDERS: Death certificate of daughter Elizabeth Ann Sanders Wheat recorded in Jay County,
Indiana August 1909 in Book H-6, Page 20 states her father's name as James Sanders.
More About JAMES SANDERS:
Burial: Unknown, Hawleyville Cemetery, Hawleyville, Page County, Iowa106
More About JAMES SANDERS and PHOEBE RECTOR:
Marriage: 23 January 1840, New Burlington, Delaware County, Indiana107,108
William Kerr "WK" Sanders
HISTORY AND NOTES FOR WILLIAM KERR "WK" SANDERS
BILLTOWN - BRYAN - BRIANT- BRYANT
Bryant is located in the very center of Section 17 of Bearcreek Township, Jay County, Indiana.
Its beginning came in 1871 with the construction of the Cincinnati, Richmond and Fort Wayne
Railroad, later known as Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway Company.
The Town was first referred to as BILLTOWN because of the cornering of land at the center point
by four men named Bill-William Kerr Sanders at the northwest, William Carson at the northeast,
William D. McCellan at the southeast, and William Riley Gillum at the southwest.
The town was plotted on December 8, 1871 by Alex W. Pingry, Deputy Surveyor of Jay County.
The original plot showed approximately 20 blocks, and split rather diagonally by a railway.
The plot was acknowledged on December 28, 1871 by the four landowners and named BRYAN,
after the Irishman who worked as construction foreman on the railroad.
The name BRYAN was recorded on January 5, 1872 at 2:00 a.m. by F.M. McLaughlin,
Recorder of Jay County, Indiana. However, the railroad company did not favor the name and instead
placed the name BRIANT on the station. When a post office was established, the U.S. Government
changed the name to BRYANT, but for sometime the neighborhood with regard for the four Williams,
called their town "Billtown." ...
CIVIL WAR VET IS CALLED BY DEATH
DEC. 29,1930
Source: As copied from the Commercial Review, Portland, Indiana.
W. K. Sanders, 86, Former Assessor, Dies This Morning.
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William Kerr Sanders, former county assessor and Civil war veteran, died at 4:15 o'clock
this morning at his home on Floral avenue, death being due to a stroke of paralysis last
Wednesday afternoon from which he failed to recover. He had not regained consciousness
since the stroke.
Mr. Sanders was on e of Jay County's best known and highly respected citizens.
He was born April 10, 1842 in Delaware county, the son of James and
Phoebe (Rector) Sanders, residing there for a number of years before
moving to Jay county and then to Portland about 30 years ago.
He was soon after elected county assessor, in which capacity he served for six years.
His activity before his residence in Portland and Jay County was varied.
In August of 1862 he enlisted with the Union forces, being with Company E,
89th Indiana Infantry.
He was taken captive by the Southern forces September 17, 1862 at the battle of
Munfordville, Ky., and later was paroled and returned to the Union army.
On April 30, 1862, Mr. Sanders was transferred to the marine fleet where he
participated in the siege of Vicksburg, the Red river expedition under General Banks,
and several other engagements. He received an honorable discharge February 22,1865.
After the Civil war Mr. Sanders located in Bearcreek Township and assisted in laying
out the town of Bryant.
The deceased was married three times, the first January 1, 1866 to Sarah Perry,
who died August 6, 1908; the second, October 26, 1910, to Ella Brown,
who died June 23, 1927, and the third, June 9, 1928, to Leorie B. Chapman, who survives.
Survivors, other than the widow, are the following children, Mrs. Elmer Myers,
Jackson township, Mrs. Leon Stults, Morley, Michigan, Mrs. Charles Shirk, Portland,
James P. Sanders, Portland, three brothers and three sisters also survive, they being;
Dan, Dennis and Jerry Sanders, all of Iowa; Mrs. Eliza Crowe, of Michigan,
Mrs. Clara Cooper, of Iowa, and Mrs. C.R. Cole, of Florida, along with 22 grandchildren,
26 great grandchildren and four step grandchildren and four step sons the latter of Muncie.
HISTORY AND NOTES FOR LORENZO DOW SANDERS
Source: Larry Sanders, a direct descendant of Lorenzo Dow Sanders (JOHN3, WYATT2, ABEDNEGO1)
Lorenzo was a prison guard at the military disciplinary barracks in Fort Leavenworth.
Below as copied from Larry Sanders newspaper article.
AN INDIANA FIGHTER DIES AT AGE 88
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Lorenzo Dow Sanders Served In Army 14 Years
-The Services Tomorrow-
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Lorenzo Dow Sanders, 88 1010 Kickapoo street, died at his home last night after an extended illness. He was born at Paris, Illinois,
September 12, 1851. He had been a resident of this community for 56 years, coming here in 1883. Mr. Sanders served in the Indian wars as a young man, having enlisted in the Seventh U.S. Infantry in 1878. He remained in the army for 14 years, during which time he served at many of the western frontier garrisons. He saw active service against the Sioux Indians near the mouth of the Musselshell river in 1879.
In 1883 Mr. Sanders was transferred from the regular army to the provost guard at Fort Leavenworth military prison and served with the prison
and quartermaster corps until his retirement in 1927. He went with the Pershing expedition in Old Mexico in 1916, as a wagonmaster.
Mr. Sanders was active in lodge circles here. He was a member of Hancock Lodge 311, A. F. and A. M. at Fort Leavenworth, for 39 years
and had been a member of the I. O. O. F. lodge here for more than 50 years. Mr. Sanders was married to Miss Ruth Whitmore here
January 1, 1854. Mrs. Sanders died November 25, 1916. He is survived by five daughters Clara, Rose, Mildred, and Dorothy Sanders, all of the home address, and Mrs. Marion Oliver, Fort Worth, Texas; one son, L. D. Sanders Jr., San Antonio, Texas; four grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock at St. Paul's Episcopal church. The Rev. James C. Hofmann, rector, will officiate. Internment will be in the National cemetery, Fort Leavenworth, with full military honors. Members of Hancock Lodge 311, A. F. and A. M. will conduct graveside services. The body was taken this morning from the Davis funeral church to the home, where it will remain until the hour of services.
