Wife of Artemas Cook and mother of infant son Ray Glen Cook
Cleveland Plain Dealer Feb 18, 1940
Mrs Frances Cook, 97, mother-in-law of Charles A Throop, head of C A Throop wholesale women's wear dealers here, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs Freda G Throop, Alder Ave, East Cleveland.
Mrs Cook, a native of Ann Arbor, Mi, had lived here since 1914.
As a child she assisted her father, John Christman, in the operation of a unit of the famed underground railroad of pre-Civil War days. She often told how she used to feed fleeing slaves hidden in the basement of her father's house near Ann Arbor.
Cleveland Plain Dealer Feb 18, 1940
Mrs Frances Cook, 97, mother-in-law of Charles A Throop, head of C A Throop wholesale women's wear dealers here, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs Freda G Throop, Alder Ave, East Cleveland.
Mrs Cook, a native of Ann Arbor, Mi, had lived here since 1914.
As a child she assisted her father, John Christman, in the operation of a unit of the famed underground railroad of pre-Civil War days. She often told how she used to feed fleeing slaves hidden in the basement of her father's house near Ann Arbor.
Wife of Artemas Cook and mother of infant son Ray Glen Cook
Cleveland Plain Dealer Feb 18, 1940
Mrs Frances Cook, 97, mother-in-law of Charles A Throop, head of C A Throop wholesale women's wear dealers here, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs Freda G Throop, Alder Ave, East Cleveland.
Mrs Cook, a native of Ann Arbor, Mi, had lived here since 1914.
As a child she assisted her father, John Christman, in the operation of a unit of the famed underground railroad of pre-Civil War days. She often told how she used to feed fleeing slaves hidden in the basement of her father's house near Ann Arbor.
Cleveland Plain Dealer Feb 18, 1940
Mrs Frances Cook, 97, mother-in-law of Charles A Throop, head of C A Throop wholesale women's wear dealers here, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs Freda G Throop, Alder Ave, East Cleveland.
Mrs Cook, a native of Ann Arbor, Mi, had lived here since 1914.
As a child she assisted her father, John Christman, in the operation of a unit of the famed underground railroad of pre-Civil War days. She often told how she used to feed fleeing slaves hidden in the basement of her father's house near Ann Arbor.
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