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We would be greatly appreciate any information you have that could help us complete this branch of our family tree, dates that pertain would help, names of grandparents their children, aunts, uncles, cousins, niece, nephew, brothers and sisters.  Certificates of birth, marriage and death are helpful and family bibles may contain important information.


Monroe Cook, 
 
Is said to have been the wealthiest of the nine brothers.  He was an entrepreneur who owned several more acres than his brothers and also ran a grits and syrup mill.

His Wife: Betty Plump Cook

His Children:  Mary Jane Paul, Charles Cook.

 

Mary Jane Paul
May 06, 1888 - February 15, 1982
 
 
Mary Jane Paul, 93, died Monday afternoon at St. Francis Hospital February 15, 1982.  She was born May 6, 1888, at Eutaw, Alabama, dauthter of Monroe and Betty Plump Cook.  She married Percy Paul in 1905 in Alabama.  He died in August, 1972.
 
Survivors include five daughters, Mrs. Leona Smith and Mrs. Sarah Ramsey, both of Indiana.,  Mrs. Arlene Tillman, Mrs. Charlotte Frost and Mrs. Louise Miller five sons, Percy Paul Jr. of, Miss., James Paul of Ind., Milton Paul of Ind., and John Harris and Frank Harris, both of Ill.; a brother, Charles Cook of Tuscaloosa, Ala.; and 34 grandchildren, 51 great-grandchildren and nine great-great-grandchildren, a host of nieces, nephews, and friends.
 


Leona Smith
 



Sarah Ramsey

 


 
Arlene Tillman
 
Charlotte Frost
 

Her Husband:

Her Children:  Rodney Frost

 


Louise Miller
 


Percy Paul Jr.
 


James Paul
 
 


Milton Paul
 

John Harris

Charles Cook
 
 
 
 
 
 
Notebook:
 
05/13/00
 

Hell-o,I'm Rodney Frost from Waterloo,Iowa. My Mother is Mrs. Charlotte

Frost,Grandmother is Mary Jane(Cook)Paul,Great Grandfather is Monroe Cook.

 

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Who We Are In Pictures

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Marquette Cook (Army Basic Training)