From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 686.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


WILLIAM COOKE

William Cooke, a successful and well-known farmer of Limestone, 
Marshall county, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, March 1, 1832.  He 
is the son of William Cooke, a native of Pennsylvania, a farmer and a 
soldier in the war of 1812, who was killed at the age of forty-eight 
years by the falling of a tree.  At that time he was one of the 
commissioners of Belmont county, Ohio.  He was twice married, first 
to Rebecca Moore, by whom he had two children: James, of Nebraska, 
and Barbra, residents of New Athens, Harrison county, Ohio.  After 
the death of their mother he was married to Ruth Anderson, and they 
had nine children: Nancy, Melila J., Alexander M., William, 
Elizabeth, John, Ruth A., and two who died in infancy.  The mother of 
these children is still living at ninety years of age, and resides 
with her youngest daughter in Zanesville, Ohio.  The subject of this 
mention has devoted his life to farming, and has been quite 
successful.  He is a member of the United Presbyterian church, and in 
politics is republican.  April 28, 1853, he was married to Margaret 
J., daughter of Joseph and Sidney Lyons, of Belmont county, Ohio, and 
four children have been born to them: Joseph C., who married Adeline 
Hammond; William F., who married Rebecca Dorsey; Ross Emmet and 
Sidney B., wife of John Rogerson.  The mother of these died September 
8, 1888, at the age of fifty-seven years.  Ross Emmet Cooke was 
married to Nancy Ellen Allen, and they reside in Limestone, their 
union having been blessed with one child, Louella.  Mrs. Emmet Cooke 
is a daughter of Richard Allen, deceased, in his lifetime one of the 
leading farmers and stock dealers in the county.  He was born in 
July, 1816, in Ohio county, and in early manhood was married to 
Lydia, daughter of Daniel and Jane Cunningham, of Marshall county.  
To this union were born two children:  Mary Jane, who married George 
Koontz, and Nancy Ellen.
 

(Linda Fluharty)