SOURCE: Columbia Times; Columbia, Boone Co., Missouri; Sun., Feb. 28, 1915, p. 4, column 4:
"The funeral for Miss Cora Cook, who died Friday morning at 8:10 o'clock, at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James T. Cook, near Rocheport, after a short illness of peritonitis, was preached yesterday afternoon by Rev. A.W. Pasley at the Valley Springs church, near Midway, in the presence of a large concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends." (mistake--she died at Ed Cook's house)
SOURCE: Columbia Times; Columbia, Boone Co., Missouri; Valley Springs Item; March 6, 1915, column 2; p. 2;
"Died at the home of her Uncle Ed Cook of near Rocheport, Friday, February 26, Miss Cora Cook, age 24 years. Miss Cook was visiting her Uncle and helping him care for his motherless children when she was taken very seriously ill of peritonitis only living 9 days. Miss Cora was born near Dripping Springs, May 16, 1890. In her early childhood her father purchased his father's (the late Ephraim Cook's) farm near Hickory Grove. Here the family lived several years. After selling this farm the family moved to a farm bought near Woodlandville. It was here that Miss Cora gave her life to Christ at the age of 20 and united with the Methodist church at that place. Many friends and relatives from each place and also here attended her funeral which was preached by Rev. Pasley at Valley Springs Church Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m., after which she was laid to rest in the cemetery of that place." "Mrs. Stella Cook Helwig and husband of Kansas City attended the funeral of her niece at Valley Springs Saturday afternoon."
SOURCE: Columbia Times; Columbia, Boone Co., Missouri; Sun., Feb. 28, 1915, p. 4, column 4:
"The funeral for Miss Cora Cook, who died Friday morning at 8:10 o'clock, at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James T. Cook, near Rocheport, after a short illness of peritonitis, was preached yesterday afternoon by Rev. A.W. Pasley at the Valley Springs church, near Midway, in the presence of a large concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends." (mistake--she died at Ed Cook's house)
SOURCE: Columbia Times; Columbia, Boone Co., Missouri; Valley Springs Item; March 6, 1915, column 2; p. 2;
"Died at the home of her Uncle Ed Cook of near Rocheport, Friday, February 26, Miss Cora Cook, age 24 years. Miss Cook was visiting her Uncle and helping him care for his motherless children when she was taken very seriously ill of peritonitis only living 9 days. Miss Cora was born near Dripping Springs, May 16, 1890. In her early childhood her father purchased his father's (the late Ephraim Cook's) farm near Hickory Grove. Here the family lived several years. After selling this farm the family moved to a farm bought near Woodlandville. It was here that Miss Cora gave her life to Christ at the age of 20 and united with the Methodist church at that place. Many friends and relatives from each place and also here attended her funeral which was preached by Rev. Pasley at Valley Springs Church Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m., after which she was laid to rest in the cemetery of that place." "Mrs. Stella Cook Helwig and husband of Kansas City attended the funeral of her niece at Valley Springs Saturday afternoon."
Gravesite Details
Cora never married.
