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© Carnegie Herald Carnegie, Oklahoma Wednesday, January 31, 1853 ~ December 13, 1934 Eliza Jane Hymers worked for Hamilton Kipp whose wife had died leaving him with five young children. Eliza and Hamilton married, and had six more children, two of whom died quite young. After Hamilton's death, Eliza married Henry Albert Cook. She brought with her perhaps two of her stepchildren, as well as her own four children. Henry Albert first wife had died, leaving him with five children. When Eliza and Henry married, there would likely have been as many as eleven or even twelve children coming into that marriage, followed by two more born to Henry and Eliza! Eliza Jane lived with her son Olten and his wife Vera Murphy after their marriage, and helped care for the first four of their children until her death, when the oldest of the for children was eleven years old. She had a hand in helping to raise some 20 children over the years! |
© Crews Funeral Home Apache, Caddo CO, Oklahoma February 1976 August 30, 1888 ~ February 1976 APACHE -- Funeral for Emma F. Cook, 87, will be at 2 p.m. today in the Crews Funeral Home Chapel, Rev. Terry Campbell, pastor of the First Christian Church, Cyril, and Rev. F. A. Crouch, Apache minister, will officiate. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery. Mrs. Cook died Saturday in a Cyril nursing home. She was born August 30, 1888 in Brock, Neb. She moved to the Broxton area with her parents in 1901. After graduating from high school she taught in several rural schools in the Apache-Broxton area then married Dr. Albert Love. He died Feb. 20, 1911. She then worked as a telephone operator both here and in Anadarko until she married Allie H. Cook here March 11, 1914. He died March 14, 1963. She was a member of the Eastern Star for 47 years, and was also a member of the Apache Study Club, the Flower Club, the WCTU, and the First Christian Church and the Ladies Aid Society there. Survivors include a son, Ted, Warren, Texas, four daughters, Mrs. Alberta Dodge,Ind, Mrs. Helen Hill and Mrs. Ruth Sawyer, both of Apache, and Mrs. Betty Reed, Cyril; one brother, George Gabus, Downsville, N.Y.; 11 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. |
© Crews Funeral Home Apache, Caddo CO, Oklahoma November 1973 March 18, 1896 ~ November 17, 1973 APACHE, OKLAHOMA -- Funeral services for Oklahoma pioneer Olten Hymers Cook, 77, who died Saturday in Blackwell, Oklahoma, after an extended illness, were to be held at 2 p.m. today [November 20, 1973], in the First Christian Church in Apache. Oklahoma. Rev. Howard Davis, president of Midwest Christian College, Oklahoma City, was to officiate. Burial was to be in Fairview Cemetery under the direction of Crews Funeral Home. Born March 18, 1896 near Enid, Cook came to Lawton at the opening of the territory. In 1905, he moved to Broxton. On February 22, 1922, he married Vera Helen Murphy in Apache and they lived in Broxton where he farmed until he retired and moved to Blackwell in 1971. He was a member of the Mount Zion Christian Church in Apache, and a past member of the Broxton school board. Survivors include his widow of the home, three daughters and four sons, 23 grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. |
Newkirk, Oklahoma July 1994 February 6, 1905 ~ July 14, 1994 Vera Helen Murphy married Olten Hymers Cook on 22 Feb 1922. To this union were born eight children. One child, Ruby Cook, died in infancy. Vera passed away in the Newkirk Nursing Home, Newkirk, Kay, Oklahoma. The death certificate indicates cause of death as cerebral vascular accident. Many of her grandchildren remember the hot rolls that she often baked. She also sometimes made her special surprise cookies -- two sugar cookies pressed together with a dollop of her homemade jelly in the middle, then baked. What a wondrously sweet smell filled the house!! |
© Whitt Funeral Home Duncan, Oklahoma June 2018 James Loyd Cook April 3, 1945 ~ June 3, 2018 James Loyd Cook, Formerly of Cyril, OK Was born April 3, 1945 on the family farm south of Cyril to Earl and Myrtle May [Harper] Cook. He passed away June 3, 2018 in Chickasha, OK at the age of 73. James, or JL, as his friends called him, graduated from Cyril High School and later graduated from OSU with an Associate's Degree in Journalism. He worked for the Cyril News as a type setter, and then later went to work as an industrial electrician for Merimont Corporation then Delta Faucet. He owned the Cyril Bar for several years and then became a self-professed "horse trader." A member of the Cyril Round-Up Club, he provided horse stock for the rodeo. JL also belonged to the NRA and the OK Scuba Divers. He was also a member of the First Baptist Church of Cyril. He is survived by: 1 son, and his wife - William and Jamie Cook Springfield, MO, 1 daughter and her wife - Lisa and Jennifer Cook Colorado, Springs, CO, 4 grandchildren - Ashlee and husband, JR Hoyt; Lauren and husband, Sean Hendrix; Ethan Cook, Hannah and husband, Jeremy McCormick, 6 step-grandchildren, 2 great-grandchildren - Ian Hoyt, Ellie McCormick, 6 step-great-grandchildren and one more on the way. He was preceded in death by: His parents, 3 brothers - T.L. Anderson, R.D. Anderson, E.W. Cook, 1 sister - Mary Lee Vasser. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, June 6th at 10:00 A.M. at the First Baptist Church with Kip Ackley, pastor of Calvary Temple, officiating and assisted by Phil Hill. Burial will follow in Fairview Cemetery in Apache under the direction of Cyril Funeral Home. Source: Whitt Funeral Services |
© Crews Funeral Home Apache, Caddo CO, Oklahoma Maech 1963 September 16, 1891 ~ March 14, 1963 Funeral services were conducted at the First Christian Church of Apache at 10 a.m Saturday, March 16, for Allie Harrison Cook, a prominent retired farmer in the Broxton and Apache areas. Rev. Jay Lee Scott, pastor, officiated, with burial in Fairview Cemetery under the direction of Crews Funeral Home. Masonic graveside rites were conducted. Cook died early Thursday morning, March 14. He was born Sept. 16, 1892, at Valley Center, Michigan. He came to Enid with his parents in 1893, and later moved to Lawton, in 1902. In 1907, he moved to the Broxton community. He was married to Emma Gabus, March 11, 1914, at Anadarko, and they moved to their present home north of Apache in 1910. He was a charter member of Mt. Zion Christian Church of Broxton, where he served as an an elder and a deacon. A member of the Apache Masonic Lodge, he also was a past member of the school board and a past member of the Farmers Union board. Survivors include his wife of the home; one son, Ted Cook, of Warren, Texas; four daughters, Mrs. Alberta Dodge of Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa, Mrs. Helen Hill and Mrs. Ruth Sawyer, both of Apache, and Mrs. Betty Redd, of Cyril; 11 grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. Two children preceded him in death. Other survivors include one brother, Ollie Cook, of Oklahom City, and two sisters, Mrs. C.C. Isley of Topeka, Kansas, and Mrs. Mary Chadsey of Chilliwhack, British Columbia, Canada. |
© Carnegie Herald Carnegie, Oklahoma Wednesday, June 10, 1959 August 14, 1942 ~ June 9, 1959 Cyril Youth Is Killed In Pickup Accident Monday Earl William Cook, route 1, Cyril, was fatally injured in a highway accident Monday afternoon when the pickup truck he was driving left the highway and overturned in a ditch west of Cyril. He died in a Lawton hospital. The accident occurred about 7 p.m. Monday. The driver was the 16-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Cook of Cyril. The youth was rushed to a Cyril hospital but was later transferred to a hospital in Lawton. A highway patrolman investigating the accident said the pickup apparently went off the highway on the right shoulder, cut back across the highway and overturned in a ditch on the left side of the road. Young Cook was thrown from the truck cab. Two other youth, the victim's brother, James, 14, and Patsy Newberry, 16, suffered only minor scratches in the accident. |
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