Lydia Roberts (1828 - 1865)

Born 28 Nov 1828 in Green, Kentucky, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Aaron Cook — married 28 Dec 1842 in Buchanan, Missouri, United States

Died 19 Mar 1865 at age 36 in Jefferson, Kansas, United States

INDEPENDENT: OSKALOOSA, KANSAS, SATURDAY, April 29, 1865, page2: Horse Stealing. During the latter part of the winter J. P. Barnes, one of our County Commissioners, had a fine horse stolen. Mr. Barnes is one of our best and truest citizens. One month subsequent to the stealing of his horse, the thieves took one from Mrs. Cook, widow of the late Aaron Cook, who was so brutally killed while in the service of his country by the bushwhackers. Mrs. C. was left in her deep bereavement with a large family of children, a good portion of them helpless,to look after. But this was no bar to the acts of the marauders. They stole her most valuable mare, mate to the one which the rebels got when her husband was killed. Thus did these monsters steal from the widow of a man who had sacrificed his life upon the altar of his country, and under circumstances which add a hundred fold to the turpitude of the crime, and demonstrate that no condition in which a family is placed will stay their work of lawless plunder. They will steal from the widow and her fatherless children and hence from any one who has the kind of properly they want.

Death

Death:

Date: 19 MAR 1865

Note: Died. On Sunday the 19th inst., Mrs Lydia COOK, widow of the late Aaron COOK of Rock Creek township, aged 38 years.

The deceased leaves a family of small children, the youngest an infant. The husband, is will be remembered, was killed by the rebels while out with the militia and now the wife and mother is taken from the family of small children, who are thus left desolate. Heaven pity and protect them.

Extracted from The Oskaloosa Independent, Saturday, March 25, 1865 by James Laird

Source: #S28

The daughter, Sarah, is shown in the 1880 Federal Census as living with her maternal grandparents. She is 16 years old.

User ID

User ID: 95FB16D388620D42B7DBCAF2383082E3CDDC

Burial

Date: MAR 1865

Place: Cook Family Cemetery, Jefferson County, Kansas

Sources

1. 1850 Federal Census: Year: 1850; Census Place: Center, Buchanan, Missouri; Roll: M432_393; Page: 72A; Image: 149

2. 1860 Federal Census: Year: 1860; Census Place: Rock Creek, Jefferson, Kansas Territory; Roll: M653_349; Page: 404; Family History Library Film: 803349

3. Missouri, Marriage Records, 1805-2002:https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/113752812/person/420122624577/facts

4. Probate Case Files (Estates), Ca. 1858-1917 ; Indexes, Ca. 1860-1960; Author: Kansas. Probate Court (Jefferson County); Probate Place: Jefferson, Kansas: Kansas, Wills and Probate Records, 1803-1987, Ancestry.com

5. https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=25489817&ref=acom