Family Group Sheet for

Horace COOK and Mary Malvina WARD

  Husband: Horace COOK
  Born:    17 Oct 1810           	in:  Cobleskill, Schoharie, New York
  Married: 21 September 1843         	in:  Lancaster, Grant Co., Wisconsin
  Died:    28 June 1892               	in:  Sylvan, Richland Co., Wisconsin
  Father:   William COOK          Mother: Sarah CRANE
  Other Spouses: 

  Wife:    Mary Malvina WARD
  Born:    12 April 1820        	in:  Underhill, Chittenden, Vermont
  Died:    02 November 1895           	in:  Sylvan, Richland Co., Wisconsin
  Father:  Salmon WARD                  Mother: Susannah PROCTOR
  Other Spouses: 

  Name:    Judson Albert COOK
  Born:    30 May 1845                  in:  Lancaster, Grant Co., Wisconsin
  Married: 27 February 1866             in:  Sylvan, Richland Co., Wisconsin
  Died:    31 March 1928                in:  Richland Co., Wisconsin
  Spouse:  Alma Evaline DEAN

  Name:    William Clinton COOK
  Born:    14 November 1847             in:  
  Married:            	                in:  
  Died:    16 December 1864            	in:  Savannah, Georgia during Civil War
  Spouse:  

  Name:    Mary Louise COOK
  Born:    01 February 1850             in:  Lancaster, Grant Co., Wisconsin
  Married:          	                in:  
  Died:    22 February 22, 1895         in:  Sylvan, Richland Co., Wisconsin
  Spouse:  John SAVAGE

  Name:    Malinda Jane COOK
  Born:    28 February 1852            	in:  Lancaster, Grant Co., Wisconsin
  Married: 21 May 1870                  in:  Sylvan, Richland Co., Wisconsin
  Died:    17 March 1923            	in:  Ringsted, Emmet Co., Iowa
  Spouse:  James PRINGLE

  Name:    Horace Nelson COOK
  Born:    31 August 1856               in:  Lancaster, Grant Co., Wisconsin
  Married: Never Married           	in:  
  Died:    04 April 1938            	in:  Woodburn, Marion Co., Oregon
  Spouse:  

  Name:    Giles Edgar COOK
  Born:    13 February 1859             in:  Sylvan, Richland Co., Wisconsin
  Married: 06 July 1979                 in:  Sylvan, Richland Co., Wisconsin
  Died:    08 December 1882           	in:  Richland Co., Wisconsin
  Spouse:  Rosina E. BIRNS

  Name:    Helen Elvira COOK
  Born:    14 may 1861           	in:  Sylvan, Richland Co., Wisconsin
  Married: 27 march 1879          	in:  Richland Center, Richland Co., Wisconsin
  Died:    23 February 1943            	in:  Mound City, Linn Co., Kansas
  Spouses: Adam DAVIS

Notes:

1. The William Ward Genealogy, 1925 p.483
   Horace Cook. He was a farmer, and after marriage lived for a few years in Grant, Wis., then moving to Sylvan.
   
   
2. History of Richland county, WI, Chapter 8

The case of N H Sliter vs. Luke Dean and Giles Cook, which was tried at the April term of court in 1879, attracted considerable attention. Sliter was a Baptist preacher; a small, bright, dapper fellow of a sensitive, mercurial temperament, and a good speaker. He preached in the town of Sylvan, where he had a large congregation. One Sunday, in the fall of 1878, he made some remarks which a young man, who was in the audience, took offense at, and deemed personal. After the services were over, the young man walked up to the pulpit and threatened the preacher with bodily harm. Sliter shoved the young man back. The affair produced great excitement at the time; but for several months nothing was done regarding it. In the meantime the young man had left the State. Finally, at the end of this time, Luke Dean, who was an elder in the Church and a local preacher, prevailed upon Giles Cook to procure the arrest of Sliter upon the charge of the assault mentioned. Sliter was arrested in Richland Centre. He was taken before 'Squire Webb, of the town of Sylvan, and remained under arrest all day and part of the night awaiting trial, but the prosecution put in no appearance and the case was dismissed. Sliter then commenced this action against Luke Dean and Giles Cook, for malicious prosecution, to recover damages. The Church in Sylvan, where Dean was a member and also the Church at Richland Centre, where Sliter occasionally preached, were divided in sentiment over the affair. The trial in circuit court was had at the April term, 1879, and was an exciting one. The attorneys were Black & Burnham for Sliter, and Miner & Berryman and Ex-Judge Mills, for the defendant. After a full hearing the jury returned a verdict of $270 for Sliter. Mr. Sliter afterward abandoned the pulpit and began reading law. He now lives somewhere in the northern part of this State.

Sources:

1. Richland Co., Wisconsin Death Record, Horace Cook, #C-265
2. Richland Co., Wisconsin Death Record, Judson Albert Cook, #08-162
3. Richland Co., Wisconsin Death Record, Mary Louise Savage, #D-459
4. Richland Co., Wisconsin Death Record, Giles E Cook, #B-185
5. Brewer Library, Mss479, Obituary Edwin Cook, Rep & Obs 14 Dec 1882, pg. 8, typhoid fever...in the 24th year of his age.
6. Sugar Grove Cemetery: Cook, Horace East Side-Row 1 1810-1892