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Death of Mrs. Cook. Mrs. Abigail Cook died at her residence on Main street last Fri day night after a long illness. Dur ing her illness she was tenderly cared for by her daughter Mrs. Robinson. Mrs. Cook was born in the state of Vermont in 1808,and was therefore 85 years old. Her maiden name was Barrett and she was one of a family of eight children who all lived to be quite old, only one brother, now living at South Bend, Ind., surviving. About fifteen years ago the entire family met at Con esus lake and spent the day, the oldest member having then passed the ninetieth Milestone. Mrs. Cook and her husband came to Dansville in 1850 and five years later Mr. Cook died. During the war her youngest son, William, a member of the First New York Dragoons, was killed in the battle of the Wild erness and buried where he fell. In 1880 she buried her oldest daugh ter, and there are now living but two children,O. H. Cook of Nunda and Mrs.“ Robinson.“ For many years Mrs. Cook was engaged in the ‘millinery business in company with her daughter., The funeral was held at the Baptist church Tuesday after noon, the deceased having been, a member of that church, Rev. H H. Thomas officiating. From the sermon by Rov. H. H.Thomas. Mrs. Abigail Barrett Cook was born in Vermont March 22, 1808. She was the fourth in a family of thirteen children, eight of whom laved the good old age. Mrs. Cook came when a child of ten, with her parents, to Groveland, seventy-five ears ago. In 18— she married Mr. Pav one Cook, and in 1849 came to Danasville when the old canal was doing a large bus iness. She settled upon Jefferson Street, then the business street of the place, where Mrs. Cook started a millinery store. She is the oldest milliner in Dansville, having been in business forty-fours years, thirty-four years of that time in Mr. Fo ley's building, called The Trader's Block, where she died. Her husband, in 1855, made arrangements to move to Monroe county, but was taken sick after his plans were all made, and did in five days, Jan. 21, 1855. She was thus in middle life left with a family of children to bring up, and very little of this world's goods to do it with. With great perseverance, labor and tact did she rear her little family, a loving, happy band — Mr. Orrin Cook, a hardware merchant of Nutida, and Mrs. Mauryn A. Robinson, now a milliner in Dansville, are the only two of her children who survive her. She has enjoyed good health, until about two years ago, when she had the grippe, which finally settled in rheumna tium, and for two years she had been a great sufferer, death releasing her from pain March 31et, 1803, at the age of eighty, five years and nine days. Her religious life was one of unfaltering trust in Jesus, as her Savior, and during her sickn ess sh “longed to die and go home. She with her husband were among the constituent members of the Dansville Baptist church, deaceon M. R. Marcell alone surviving, of that little band who forty-two years ago, organized the present Baptist church She was a staunch Baptist, and faithful in her church life and work to commend her Savior to her children who now believe she was happy. They will remember her as their loving, tender and faithful mother She was a good friend and neighbor. Her daughter, Mrs. Robinson, and Nellie, her grand daughter, have been unsparing in their gentle, loving care of her- she lacked for nothing. In regard to her father’s family, I clip from the Democrat and ¢hronicle of June 18, 1879, the following notice, which is in teresting. ‘‘A notable family gathering. The descendants of John and Susanna Barrett, who, some fixty years ago, lived at the head of Conesus Iake, are this week holding a camp meeting near the old home stead, which will continue over the Sab bath. On Sunday a memorial summon will be preached by one of the grand-daugh ters, Mrs. Emmi Malloy of Indiana, the temperance evangelist, who has lately re turned from England to be present at this family gathering. [She is today, fourteen years later, still an earnest Gospel Tem perates worker in the state of Washing ton.] There are represented at this gathering, eight children, forty-nine grand children, sixty-nine great-grandchildren and six great-great-grand children, as well as other numerous relatives. The aggre gate ages are 1028 years. ‘The oldest mem ber of the family is Mrs. Sally Dean of Brighton, Michigan, who, notwithstand ing her eighty-two years, came into Roch ester on Tuesday morning as smart as a girl of twenty. Her meeting with one sister, Mrs. Cook, whom she had not seen for forty-three years, was most painfully affecting. ‘The states of Indiana, Michi gan, District of Columbia, and New York, are represented. ‘The youngest represen tative is little Nellie Hobinson aged five years. A pamphlet giving the family his tory from the Mayflower, will shortly be published. ‘The longevity of the family may be accounted for by the fact that they are a strictly tamperate family, none of the original members being tainted with either spirituas liquora or tobacco. There will be three services at these grounds next Sabbath , preaching morning and evening, and an experience meeting at three o'clock.in the afternoon, to which the public generally are invited. There are about three hundred expected during the week. Forty-three were already on the ground Wednesday,”
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Dansville Express
Dansville, New York, US
Thu, Apr 06, 1893
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