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I have updates for you for Zimri Cook and his wife Lydia (Pegg) Cook

Zimri Cook, son of Thomas Cook and Mary Mills

born 13 February 1786

died 27 November 1856

Source: Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy: Zimry Cook listed as child of Thomas and Mary Cook and showing his birthdate, father's death date - Deep River Monthly Meeting, Vol. 1, page 779.

US and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 shows marriage of Lydia Pegg to Zimri Cook

...Contributed by Robyn Manzini, Oct 23, 2009

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The land on which Earlham College is located, in Richmond, Indiana was the farm of Zimri Cook. The school was built in 1847.

Zimri Cook's farm is now part of the Earlham College campus; he sold it to Indiana Yearly Meeting in 1833. He was the son of Thomas and Mary (Mills) Cook, born in Guilford Co., NC, 2-13-1786 and died in Hamilton Co., Ind., 10-27-1856. He married Lydia Pegg. They are buried in what was originally the burying ground for the Richland Meeting. It's now called Carmel Cemetery.

-- Thomas D. Hamm Archivist & Associate Professor of History - Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana

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The southern part of the new yearly meeting farm had been entered from the United States government in 1806 by Samuel McKinley, who sold it to Valentine Pegg in 1813 for $700. Pegg had a daughter Lydia who married Zimri Cook, and in 1819 Pegg sold the farm to his son-in-law for $1,550. Zimri Cook deeded it to Indiana Yearly Meeting on December 6, 1833, for $3,000 in the names of the trustees appointed by the Meeting for Sufferings: John Maxwell, Thomas Evans, Charles Moffit, James Pegg, and John Pool.

-- Earlham, The Story of the College 1847-1962, Page 34, Opal Thornburg, Earlham College Press, 1963

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