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Submitted: 6/1/21 • Approved: 6/1/21 • Last Updated: 6/4/21 • R1376747-G0-S3
July 30, 1842 - May 4, 1927
*Obituary
Fayetteville Democrat
Thursday, May 5, 1927
COOK, Martha Elizabeth - Mrs. M.E. Cook Succumbs; Buried Thursday, 4 P.M. - Mrs. Martha Elizabeth Cook, wife of the late H.H. Cook, passed away Wednesday night at her home just west of the city limits following an attack of bronchial pneumonia.
Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at the Cumberland Presbyterian (the Little Brick Church) at four o'clock. Interment was in the Mount Comfort Cemetery, Rev. G.L.M. Pond officiated. Pallbearers were Steve Bates, J.E. Dowell, V.J. Ptak, Frank Prince, J.B. Hembree and H.J. Pond.
Mrs. Cook was born July 30, 1842, in Alabama. She was married about 47 years ago to H.H. Cook, who died in 1908. The family moved to Fayetteville in 1901.
Mrs. Cook is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Earle Bates of this city and Mrs. Evaline Finley of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, also by three sons, Ira Cook of Fayetteville; Albert Thompson of Ola, Arkansas and Bedford Thompson of Billings, Montana. Besides these there are a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Mrs. Cook would have been 85 years old had she lived until her next birthday.
All the children except Mr. Thompson of Montana were here for the funeral.
Contributed on 6/1/21 by judyfrog
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