Born in Shenandoah County, Virginia United States
Ancestors 
Son of John Cooke
and Nellie (Pemberton) Cooke
Husband of
Catherine (Stewart) Shannon
— married
16 Aug 1806 in Giles County, Virginia
Descendants 
Father of
Pemberton (Cooke) Cook, John Logan (Cooke) Cook, James Cooke Esq, William Newton Cook Jr, Thomas Munsey Cooke, Mitchell Cooke, Floyd Cooke, Richard Madison Cook, Elliot Cooke, Paris Cooke, Nellie Cooke, Lucinda (Cooke) Canterbury and Julina Cooke
Died
at age 69
in Hatcher, Wyoming County, Virginia, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 22 Apr 2011
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Biography
- Founder of the town of Oceana, Wyoming Co, West Virginia
- Husband of Catherine Stewart (daughter of Ralph Stewart & Mary Clay)
- Settled on land lying between the McDonald Plantation and what is now the town Oceana.
Father of
- 1. Pemberton Cooke
- 2. Floyd Cooke
- 3. Richard Madison Cooke
- 4. William Newsom Cooke
- 5. John Logan Cooke
- 6. James Cooke, Esq.
- 7. Thomas Muncy Cooke
- 8. Mitchell Cooke
Parents:
- John Cooke (1752 - 1832)
- Nellie Goodall Pemberton Cooke (1756 - 1812)
Spouse:
- Catherine Stewart Cooke (1784 - 1881)
Children:
- Pemberton Cook (1807 - 1885)*
- William Newton Cooke (1814 - 1862)*
- Mitchell Cook (1818 - 1902)*
- Richard Madison Cook (1822 - 1904)*
- George Pearis Cook (1826 - 1880)*
- Nellie Catherine Cooke Roach (1828 - 1910)*
- Find A Grave Memorial# 8446420,
- Burial: Cook Cemetery, Oceana, Wyoming County, West Virginia, USA
- Burial: Delilah Methodist Church Cemetery, Wyoming County, West Virginia, USA
Note: William Cooke is buried beside Delilah Methodist Church with his father John Cooke and those are the only two graves in the Delilah cemetery. All the other graves were moved in the 1940's when the church expanded.
Sources
William Newton Cook Sr.
BIRTH 4 Jun 1784 Montgomery, Fayette County, West Virginia, USA
DEATH 10 Aug 1853 (aged 69) Oceana, Wyoming County, West Virginia, USA
BURIAL Delilah Methodist Church Cemetery, Wyoming County, West Virginia, USA
MEMORIAL ID 8446420
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:
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~6.25%
Cathy (Cook) Sepko
:
AncestryDNA
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~3.12%
Mike Hartley :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member MH
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~3.12%
Bob Hartley :
AncestryDNA
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~1.56%
Dianna Morgan :
23andMe
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~1.56%
Jessicca Daigle :
23andMe, GEDmatch XL3930050 [compare], yourDNAportal JES91929b43
+
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch XL3930050 [compare], yourDNAportal JES91929b43, Ancestry member Jdaiglemar
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~1.56%
Carol Avery :
AncestryDNA
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~1.56%
Lisa Acord :
AncestryDNA
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~1.56%
Betty (Pettry) Pack :
MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch H955491 [compare]
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~0.78%
Donna-Sue Calhoun :
23andMe, GEDmatch M222551 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch M222551 [compare], Ancestry member donnasueh1
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~0.78%
Glenn Cook :
23andMe
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Donetta (Adams) Pack :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member lilliansgirl47
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~0.78%
~6.25%
Sandra (Wright) Stepp :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Melissa (Massey) Zawisa :
AncestryDNA
+
MyHeritage DNA
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