Born in Richmond, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Simeon Cook
and Rachel (Holman) Cook
Sister of
Caroline (Cook) Buffum [half], Candace (Cook) Aldrich [half], Caleb Cook [half], Elmina (Barrus) Ball [half], Holman Barrus [half], George Cook and Simeon Cook
Wife of
Joseph Brown Smead
— married
16 Nov 1842 in Westminster, Windham, Vermont, United States
[children unknown]
Died
at age 77
in Brattleboro, Windham, Vermont, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 28 Aug 2019
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Biography
Rachel Malvina Cook was born in Richmond, New Hampshire in 1823, the daughter of Simeon Cook and Rachel Holman.
She married Joseph Brown Smead on 16 Nov 1842 in Westminster, Vermont. She died in 1900 at Brattleboro, Vermont and is buried at the Mount Caesar Cemetery, Swanzey, NH.
Sources
- "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V89M-QF9 : 14 April 2020), Joseph B Smead and R Malvina Cook, 1842
- "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFDZ-ZBN : 11 November 2020), Rachel Smead in entry for J B Smead, 1860
- "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDQZ-RR9 : 2 January 2021), Malvina Smead in entry for Jos B Smead, 1870.
- "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHFW-RB5 : 14 August 2017), Rachel M Smead in household of Joseph B Smead, Fitchburg, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district ED 877, sheet 592C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,567.
- "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XF4T-6V3 : 14 April 2020), Rachel M. Smead, 1900
- Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com), memorial page for Rachel Malvina Cook Smead (30 Jun 1823–24 Sep 1900), Find a Grave Memorial no. 167854434, citing Mount Caesar Cemetery, Swanzey, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, USA
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