John
Stephen
Cook
Born in Mercer, Kentucky, United States
Ancestors 
Brother of
George William Cook, Mary Jemima (Cook) Taylor, Susan Belle Cook, Lucy Jane Cook, Strother Moses Cook Jr, Sarah Trueheart (Cook) Voris, Allen Thomas Cook, Julia Ann (Cook) Stone, Elizabeth Malevia (Cook) Littrell, Emma Dora Cook and James Stanley Cook
Died
at age 22
in Cobb County, Georgia, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 1 Sep 2014
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Biography
John Cook served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: Jan 1862
Mustered out: Aug 4 1864 (KIA)
Side: USA
Regiment(s): 11th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry
Enlisted: Jan 1862
Mustered out: Aug 4 1864 (KIA)
Side: USA
Regiment(s): 11th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry
John was born in 1842. He is the son of Strother Cook and Lucy Jenkins.
John Stephen Cook, born May 18,1842 and died August 4,1864. Was killed by a cannon ball or the bursting of a bomb shell near Atlanta, Georgia, 6 miles west. Buried there without a coffin till the 3rd day of August 1867 when his remains were interred and reburied at Marietta, Georgia about twenty miles north.
Burial Marietta National Cemetery, Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, USA - He was reinterred at the Marietta National Cemetery in Marietta, GA after its opening in 1866 during a 3-year project to relocate Union soldiers to this military cemetery.[1]. He is on the interment records located at the cemetery.
Sources
Military Service - Civil War Union [1]
- "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M65X-PFJ : 9 November 2014), Strother Cook, Mercer county, part of, Mercer, Kentucky, United States; citing family 74, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
- "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZBH-C94 : 30 December 2015), Strother Cooke, 1860.
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Category has 20th Kentucky Infantry, as does NPS reference
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